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Finland's Kai Lehto took down the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Summer Showdown Main Event and walked away with €108,260.

Joshua McCully and Pedro Garagnani both won big High Rollers Week events on Monday at GGPoker.

H-03: $5,250 Bounty Hunters Main Event at 12:05 eastern time and Chris Moorman and Isaac Haxton build big early stacks. A couple hours after the tournament began, Haxton already had nearly 600,000 chips, about 200K more than his closest rival. However, he got into a massive spot against Thomas Muehloecker about 90 minutes before late registration ended, but his aces were cracked by Muehloeckers king-ten and Haxton never recovered. They cracked the guarantee about 30 minutes before the end ...

The second Progressive Knockout tournament of the 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Circuit will kick off at 1 p.m. EST (6 p.m. UTC) and a prize pool of $1,000,000 is guaranteed in Event #11: $1,050 Bounty Hunters Championship. One hour prior to the start, some 200 players have already signed up for the event and that number is certain to increase significantly. All players start with 25,000 in chips, which equals 125 big blinds for the first level at blinds of 100-200 and a ru...

Dexman1 Eliminated in 2nd Place Urmo Velvelt raised it up to 2.4 million and "Dexman1" responded with a three-bet to 9.6 million, which resulted in a call by Velvelt. The flop came turn. "Dexman1" now jammed for 29,439,456 and Velvelt beat them into the pot. "Dexman1": "Urmo Velvelt: "Dexman1" needed one of the two remaining nines in the deck and missed them on the river. For their runner-up finish, they take home $73,366 which includes $15,204 in bounties. Chip Counts

The Action of the Day If the opening minutes were any indication of things to come, they were spot on indeed. GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos had his queens cracked by king-queen in the very first hand and subsequently re-entered without having any major impact. Many others such as Aku Joentausta, Dara OKearney, Jack Salter, Daniel Dvoress, and Kenneth Smaron hit the rail much earlier than they were hoping for as the field raced towards the money bubble. During the frantic registration period, ...

Andrii Novak busted with a payout. Things slowed down a bit once they hit the final table, and they played nine handed for about 40 minutes before " Hessinator" was the first to exit for $24,420. Anton Wigg followed a few minutes later when his nines couldnt hold against overs, setting off a string of eliminations that had play four-handed within half an hour. Fifth Place Finisher Kristen Bicknell Action went four handed after Canadas Kristen Bicknell busted after losing most of her stack in ...

Andrii Novak busted with a payout. Things slowed down a bit once they hit the final table, and they played nine handed for about 40 minutes before " Hessinator" was the first to exit for $24,420. Anton Wigg followed a few minutes later when his nines couldnt hold against overs, setting off a string of eliminations that had play four-handed within half an hour. Fifth Place Finisher Kristen Bicknell Action went four handed after Canadas Kristen Bicknell busted after losing most of her stack in ...