WSOP Super Circuit Spring 2024 – Week 2
Week two of the 4th annual World Series of Poker Super Circuit, the world’s most prestigious poker tournament series, hosted by GGPoker; the world’s biggest poker room, has finished. Since our previous update, 8 more World Series of Poker rings (including 4 in the Ontario-exclusive events) have been awarded. While there are no events currently running their final day, there are a multitude of satellites and Day 1’s available to be played, including the start of Event #11: 6-Max No Limit Hold’em Championship – an $800 entry tournament for both Ontario, with a $100,000 guarantee, and the rest of the world with $1,000,000 guaranteed.
The first event to award a bracelet over the past week was World Series of Poker Super Circuit Event #7: Bounty No Limit Hold’em Championship. This $800 buy-in event attracted a total of 2,108 players and created a prize pool of $1,602,080, well over the $1,000,000 guarnatee. At the end of the final day of play, it was ‘MyChips39’ who won the event and earned $79,853.23 for the effort to go along with an additional $85,562.45 for bounties and the WSOP Ring.
The same event in Ontario, also with an $800 buy-in had a total of 260 players and created a prize pool of $197,600, nearly double the $100,000 guaranteed. When the last hand was dealt, it was ‘Huggo’ who won the event and earned $31,320.20, including $15,768.76 in bounties and the coveted WSOP Ring.
WSOP Circuit Ring Events
Event #8: BIG 500 PLO Bounty, the second event of the WSOP Super Circuit poker tournament series this past week, created a total prize pool of $666,900 on a $500 buy-in, well over the $500,000 guaranteed. A total of 1,404 players joined the festivities and the chase for a World Series of Poker Circuit Ring and the bounties. The tournament ended with the player ‘R Alexandre’ topping the pack, claiming the ring, the top prize of $29,958.71, and an additional $44,341.42 in bounties.
Event #8 in the Ontario version of the WSOP Super Circuit poker tournament series was just as exciting. A total of 190 players joined the hunt for this World Series of Poker Circuit Ring and created a total prize pool of 90,250 smashing the $60,000 guaranteed. The tournament ended with the player ‘Ice Cream 777’ as the last player standing, having earned $19,047.22, including $10,886.73 in bounties in addition to the ring.
Event #3 – This Week
The third event of the week in the official World Series of Poker Super Circuit series was event #9: Super GIANT No Limit Hold’em. Like many of the Ring events in this poker tournament series, this tournament guaranteed a $1,000,000 guarantee in addition to the coveted WSOP ring. The relatively low $365 buy-in was attractive to a multitude of players as 4,379 jumped at the chance to become the champion. Creating a prize pool of $1,486,451.55 and a top prize of $162,420.91. It took just over 30 hours, over 2 days of play, for ‘Mertseger’ to claim the victory in this championship event.
Meanwhile, in Ontario, the same event #9 guaranteed $125,000, due to the smaller player pool, in addition to the WSOP circuit ring. The Ontario market, although smaller, still managed to attract 558 players creating a prize pool of $189,413.10. As play wound down at the end of Day 2, it was ‘HiRollinRasta’ that found themselves atop the pile of players to claim the top prize of $31,211.55.
The End of the Weekend
The last event held over the past weekend for both Ontario and the rest of the world was Event #10: MILLION$ Mini Main Event. Dozens of day 1’s littered the past weeks as players jumped at every opportunity to join this $1,500,000 guaranteed tournament on very reasonably priced $50 buy in. The rest of the world version of this tournament ended it’s day 1’s with 47,013 entrants and a total prize pool of $2,162,598, an incredible amount from the inexpensive buy-in. Day 2 began on Monday and played down to the final table as the 5,459 players who made the money began the battle for the World Series of Poker Super Circuit ring and top prize of $148,064.62. The final table of this event began at 18:00 UTC on Tuesday, March 19th with the final 9 taking their chip stacks, ranging from 8.1BB to 158BB to the table one last time knowing they are guaranteed to go home with at least $10,271.83 – quite the return on a $50 investment.
The Ontario version of this event, while not as big – none of the Ontario tournaments are – still proceeded to exceed the $100,000 guarantee, attracting 3.854 players with the same buy-in, creating a prize pool of $177.284. The final day played out in just over 6.5 hours with ‘Bikes!’ taking the top prize of $21,511.18.
Coming Next $10,000,000 Guaranteed
Not including the rings from events #10 (not the Ontario one which was completed) and #11, there are still 7 more events for both Ontario and the Rest of the World to play. That means 14 more WSOP Rings are still up for grabs. Not to mention the massive guarantees ranging from $50,000 all the way to the massive $10,000,000. The Super Circuit MAIN EVENT (Event #18) has qualifiers and Day 1’s already running in every region so don’t miss out on your chance to join the Legends of the Game and be recorded in the annals of the World Series of Poker history.
