Phil Mighall Triumphs in the WPTWOC Main Event ($1,550,298)
Phil Mighall secured by far the largest prize of his career when he took down the $10,300 buy-in WPT World Online Championships Main Event at partypoker for a massive $1,550,298.
The British superstar came out on top of a 1,011-strong field to bank his first seven-figure haul, entry to the next WPT Tournament of Champions, and a place in the exclusive Champions Club.
WPTWOC Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil Mighall | United Kingdom | $1,550,298* |
| 2 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands | $1,396,968* |
| 3 | Damian Salas | Argentina | $814,663 |
| 4 | Blaz Zerjav | Slovenia | $552,006 |
| 5 | Victor Simionato | Brazil | $391,257 |
| 6 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | $277,014 |
| 7 | Bert Stevens | United Kingdom | $194,112 |
| 8 | Akseli Paalanen | Finland | $153,672 |
| 9 | Laszlo Molnar | Hungary | $127,386 |
*reflects a heads-up deal
Laszlo Molnar was the nine-handed final table��s first casualty quite early into proceedings. Molnar made a play with ace-jack which ultimately ran into, and lost to, the pocket jacks in the hand of Victor Simionato.
Finland��s Akseli Paalanen also busted at the hands of Simionato. Teun Mulder opened, Simionato three-bet before calling Paalanen��s four-bet shove. Paalanen��s suited ace-king lost a coinflip against Simionato��s red queens.
Urbanovich Crashes Out
Bert Stevens, better known as ��girafganger7�� busted in seventh-place before Team partypoker��s Dzmitry Urbanovich fell by the wayside in sixth when his ace-king lost to Mulder��s ace-queen courtesy of a queen on the flop.
Simionato��s luck ran out and he crashed and burned in fifth place for a $391,257 score. It was an incredible result considering the Brazilan qualified for the $10,300 buy-in Main Event from a $22 satellite entry. He made an ill-timed all-in river bluff only to discover Blaz Zerjav had improved to a straight on the last community card.
Zerjav was next to fall despite winning Simionato��s chips. He pushed all-in for 13 big blinds with pocket sixes and ran straight into Mighall��s pocket kings. No help arrived for Zerjav and the man who��d been in the top 10 chips for the entire tournament had to make do with the $552,006 fourth-place prize.
Start-of-the-day chip leader Damian Salas then lost a huge coinflip to send the tournament into the heads-up stage. Salas opened with pocket threes before calling off the rest of his stack when Mighall set him all-in with a pair of threes. Salas improved to a pair of kings on the flop, to two pair on the turn, but Mighall spiked a three on the river to resign Salas to a third-place exit.
Heads-Up Set; Both Players Are Millionaires!
Mighall held a 124,600,000 to 75,200,000 chip advantage going into heads-up but Mulder fought back and claimed the lead for himself. Mighall reclaimed the lead after passively playing king-queen and rivering trips, which were paid off by Mulder and his pocket sixes.
The final hand started with a raise from Mulder holding pocket aces and a three-bet with the lowly ten-seven from Mighall. Mulder called and flopped top set. Mighall fired a continuation bet and was called. The turn improved Mighall to an unlikely straight and he moved all-in, a bet that Mulder quickly called. The river was a brick, Mulder busted, and Mighall became the latest partypoker millionaire.
Three more WPTWOC champions will be crowned on September 17 when the $33, $320, and $3,200 Heads-Up Championships conclude.
A $25,500 buy-in High Roller Championship begins on September 19 with a trio of Turbo Championship events commencing on September 20. The series concludes with a huge $102,000 Super High Roller starting on September 23. As always, PokerNews will have recaps of the action from these incredible events.