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Star Player Orhan Ates Wins Bracelet In GGPoker WSOP 2020 Series

Shining as a popular brand in the field of casino gaming, GGPoker has announced Orhan Ates from Turkey as the undisputed star winner of Event 60: $525 NL Hold ’em Bounty 6-Max in the ongoing globally-acclaimed WSOP 2020 Online Bracelet Series of the platform. The final table match ended up in a fierce battle between Orhan and Tobias Schwecht, who gave a stiff competition to the ultimate winner. The news was circulated in the gaming media via an official Twitter post stating:

According to the report, Orhan created history by winning the first WSOP bracelet for his country. He took away a combined pool of $180,177.51 in bounties by defeating his competitor. The field had a whopping 3,170 entries that helped in accumulating a whopping prize pool of $1,585,000 worth. The runner-up Tobias Schwecht summed up his tournament with a prize of $98,105.16. Interestingly, Orhan’s victory can be seen as pretty exciting as he knocked down players from nine different countries to claim his bracelet. This shows how popular and diverse the scope of WSOP and GGPoker is across global boundaries.

Talking about Orhan’s other accomplishments on GGPoker, the Turkey-based player grabbed 26th rank in Event #44: $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed, which was later won by Kristen Bicknell for her third win. In the live WSOP tournament, he landed on the High Roller’s final table in the 2019 WSOP International Circuit in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Orhan ended up at the 14th spot in the Main event in 2019 itself.

The Final Table Results of Event #60 of WSOP Series

Rank Name of the Player Total Prize
1 Orhan Ates $180,177
2 Tobias Schwecht $98,015
3 Tomas Jozonis $61,410
4 Alexandre Reard $56,475
5 Caique Sanches $51,300
6 Gaurav Sood $28,540
7 Augusto Hagen $27,686
8 Jeff Hakim $17,715
9 Arsens Sakanjans $14,855

The next event scheduled for WSOP 2020 Bracelet Series is Event #61: $300 Monster Stack NLHE 6-Handed. It is likely to attract attention from some of the best poker players making it a must-watch for all the gaming lovers of the GGPoker WSOP series.

Edna Boykin

Edna Boykin started her career as a financial news writer. And, she was withal active in stock trading. From the commencement of her vocation, she is passionate about online poker games. As she likes to play poker and roulette, she knows the casino industry exhaustively. She recently joined Times of Casino as a news writer. She regularly contributes in-depth breaking stories and news updates of the casino industry.

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