Shoma “pp_syon” Ishikawa became Japan’s first-ever WSOP online bracelet winner when he took down the $525 Super Turbo Bounty 6-handed event at GGPoker on July 19.
Ishikawa came out on top of a 2,214-strong field to get his hands, or should that be wrists, on the first GGPoker-awarded WSOP bracelet of the summer and a combined prize worth almost $118,000.
The tournament played out under the watchful eyes of the PokerNews Live Reporting team who brought you blow by blow coverage of this historic event. You can check out the extensive coverage here, but we’ll leave you with the final table payouts:
| 1 | Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa | Japan | $35,225 | $82,425 | $117,650 |
| 2 | Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich | Argentina | $27,710 | $59,263 | $86,972 |
| 3 | Gary "STARDOG13" Johnson | Canada | $9,190 | $42,610 | $51,801 |
| 4 | Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz | Canada | $19,793 | $30,637 | $50,431 |
| 5 | Yulian "Ector" Bogdanov | Bulgaria | $12,649 | $22,028 | $34,677 |
| 6 | Tom "Pik00rs" Delaine | Malta | $4,387 | $15,839 | $20,225 |
| 7 | Ilya Anatsky | Belarus | $8,955 | $11,388 | $20,343 |
| 8 | Mulgyeol "waterwave" Kim | China | $6,842 | $8,188 | $15,030 |
| 9 | Dimitar "Mort" Yosifov | Bulgaria | $6,215 | $5,887 | $12,102 |
Some of the other big scores from GGPoker on July 19 included:
- Isaac Haxton – first-place in the High Rollers Short Deck $10K for $97,018
- Andras Nemeth – first-place in the High Rollers Blade PLO $10K for $91,508
- Leonardo “Babaehduro” Mattos – first-place in the WSOP Side Event: $400 Sunday Deepstack for $56,046
- “Astor” – first-place in the WSOP Side EVent : $300 Sunday Kick-off for $42,378
- “Lexandru” – first-place in the High Rollers FAST $500 for $19,981
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