The 2024 WSOP Online
For six weeks in the late summer of 2024, the World Series of Poker moved online, and GGPoker gave away thirty-three gold bracelets doing it. The fifth annual WSOP Online ran from mid-August into the end of September, a full bracelet series played entirely on the felt of a laptop, with buy-ins that climbed from a few hundred dollars all the way to twenty-five thousand.
It ended up rewriting a record GGPoker already held.
The Biggest Prize Pool in Online Poker History
The centerpiece was the $5,000 Main Event, and it carried a $25,000,000 guarantee, already the boldest number in the online game. The players blew straight past it. A field of 6,146 entries built a prize pool of $29,193,500, the largest ever assembled for an online tournament, and the field built across seventeen starting flights, and after a final table that stretched deep into a second day, Moritz Dietrich emerged with the bracelet and $4,021,012. Both figures set records. GGPoker had broken its own Guinness mark, the one first set by the 2020 Main Event and topped again in 2023. Even a min-cash in the thing paid $10,081, and 620 players survived to a second day just to be in the conversation.
The Seven-Figure Club
The Main Event held the biggest pool, but not the biggest winner’s check. That belonged to the series closer, the $10,300 GGMillion$ High Rollers, where Spain’s Sergio Aido turned a 1,433-entry field into $1,935,575, holding off Serbia’s Jovan Kenjic heads-up. Russia’s Roman Emelyanov took third for $1,151,601, so the series’ final table alone minted three seven-figure scores on the way out.
Behind him came a parade of million-dollar scores. ‘Pavels Spirins’ won the $400 Colossus and its $4.9 million pool for $1,736,809. Mexico’s Dennis Volz took the $1,500 Millionaire Maker for $1,287,142.95, beating a field of nearly 5,000. In the $25,000 GGMillion$ Super High Rollers, ‘forzaitalia’ banked $1,122,201, holding off a final table that included two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer and Bryn Kenney. Even a 119-runner PLOSSUS made a millionaire of Montenegro’s Stanimir Kolev, who won $1,037,483.
The Million-Dollar Envelope
The wildest story, as usual, came cheap. The $215 Mystery Millions drew 43,993 players and a $10.3 million pool, and its top mystery bounty was worth a flat $1,000,000. It did not go to the winner. It went to ‘zipflzwigga’, who busted in 2,896th place, good for $245.05 in prize money, and opened the seven-figure envelope on the way out the door. Austria’s Vlad Darie won the tournament itself for $623,718.51, which felt like a footnote by comparison.
Familiar Names, and Thirty-Three Flags
The bracelets scattered across the map. The very first of the series went to Malaysia’s ‘Lemonw’, who turned the $500 Kick-Off into close to $170,000 once the bounties were counted. Bryn Kenney picked one up early in the $2,100 Bounty NLH Championship, and Sweden’s Simon Mattsson, a former WSOP Online Main Event champion, added another in a $2,100 six-max for $328,149. Latvia’s R Cekalins won the $300 Gladiators and its 11,630-strong field, Canada’s Michael Khan took the Flip and Go, and Brazil’s Rui Ferreira claimed a Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller. The series ran its own Bracelet Race, scoring every top-three finish by nation, and Germany came out on top with four wins, ahead of the Russian Federation and Israel. The top ten countries split $1,000,000 in national freerolls for their trouble.
Every Discipline, and Every Stake
What set the online series apart was its range. A player could buy in for $100 and chase a bracelet in the Flip and Go, or put up $25,000 for the GGMillion$ Super High Rollers, with a gold bracelet waiting at every stop in between. The formats ran well past No-Limit Hold’em, too. China’s ‘Huang Wenjie’ won the $10,000 Heads Up Championship for $366,892, Israel’s ‘karma tova’ took the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship for $317,941, and Poland’s Oliver Weis navigated a 92-runner Short Deck field for his. Five-Card Omaha, Double Chance, Ultra Deepstack, Turbo: if there was a way to deal a hand, the WSOP Online found a bracelet to hang on it. That breadth is the whole point of a bracelet series, and running it online let GGPoker stage the full spread in six weeks instead of six.
Every Bracelet Winner
All thirty-three gold bracelets, in order:
| # | Event | Buy-in | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WSOP Kick-Off [Bounty] | $500 | 3,369 | ‘Lemonw’ | $74,467 (+$94,540 bounty) |
| 2 | Gladiators of Poker | $300 | 11,630 | R Cekalins | $409,886.44 |
| 3 | Bounty NLH Championship | $2,100 | – | Bryn Kenney | $94,635 (+$131,422 bounty) |
| 4 | Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha | $840 | 881 | ‘Uncapped’ | $44,979 (+$64,583 bounty) |
| 5 | Ladies NLH Championship | $500 | 186 | ‘RoThorlay_’ | $16,512.63 |
| 6 | MONSTER STACK NLH | $1,500 | 1,016 | ‘TiananmenSquare’ | $263,716.93 |
| 7 | Mystery Millions | $215 | 43,993 | Vlad Darie | $623,718.51 (top bounty $1,000,000) |
| 8 | Turbo NLH Championship | $2,500 | 623 | ‘AmassTeRoK’ | $219,233.45 |
| 9 | Bounty No-Limit Hold’em | $320 | 3,610 | ‘Maestro_10’ | $51,467 (+$55,737 bounty) |
| 10 | 5-Card Pot-Limit Omaha | $1,000 | 709 | ‘Hakuna@Matata’ | $103,674.89 |
| 11 | FLIP & GO NLH | $100 | 7,346 | Michael Khan | $165,549.73 |
| 12 | Mini Main Event | $500 | – | Shane Gillis | $574,199.42 |
| 13 | 6-Handed NLH Championship | $5,000 | 478 | ‘SpicySausage’ | $381,367.27 |
| 14 | THE BIG Bounty NLH | $500 | 2,784 | ‘fakesuperuser’ | $63,243 (+$68,387 bounty) |
| 15 | Ultra Deepstack NLH | $800 | 1,635 | ‘JohanC-14’ | $156,230.48 |
| 16 | Beat the Pros Bounty | $215 | 7,708 | ‘IcePokerGuild’ | $65,218 (+$52,384 bounty) |
| 17 | MILLIONAIRE MAKER | $1,500 | 4,934 | Dennis Volz | $1,287,142.95 |
| 18 | Short Deck Championship | $5,000 | 92 | Oliver Weis | $113,950.34 |
| 19 | LUCKY SEVENS Bounty 7-Max | $777 | 2,116 | ‘Eurofold’ | $87,216 (+$72,112 bounty) |
| 20 | DOUBLE CHANCE NLH 2-Stack | $1,000 | 1,288 | Eder Campana | $160,051.04 |
| 21 | GGMasters HR Freezeout | $1,500 | 1,408 | ‘JunoSunny’ | $325,546.51 |
| 22 | COLOSSUS | $400 | 1,842 | ‘Pavels Spirins’ | $1,736,809 |
| 23 | PLOSSUS | ~$400 | 119 | Stanimir Kolev | $1,037,483 (+$1,500 bounty) |
| 24 | Pot-Limit Omaha Championship | $10,000 | 157 | ‘karma tova’ | $317,941.30 |
| 25 | Superstack Turbo Bounty | $525 | 2,911 | ‘Durdy’ | $129,787.03 (incl. bounties) |
| 26 | Heads Up NLH Championship | $10,000 | 128 | ‘Huang Wenjie’ | $366,892.80 |
| 27 | Mystery Bounty PLO | $1,050 | 1,069 | ‘anipantra’ | $81,026 (+$29,140 bounty) |
| 28 | WSOP Online Main Event | $5,000 | 6,146 | Moritz Dietrich | $4,021,012 |
| 29 | GGMillion$ Super High Rollers | $25,000 | 230 | ‘forzaitalia’ | $1,122,201.84 |
| 30 | 6-Handed Bounty NLH | $2,100 | 1,230 | Simon Mattsson | $328,149.90 (incl. bounties) |
| 31 | Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller | $5,000 | 280 | Rui Ferreira | $245,482.95 |
| 32 | The Closer Turbo Bounty | $1,500 | 2,159 | Paul Hong | $359,144.89 (incl. bounties) |
| 33 | GGMillion$ High Rollers | $10,300 | 1,433 | Sergio Aido | $1,935,575 |
Thirty-three bracelets, a record prize pool, and a fresh high-water mark for what an online tournament can be. And GGPoker was not finished for the year. Six weeks later it would haul the bracelets to the Bahamas for WSOP Paradise and a $50 million guarantee. The felt keeps getting bigger.
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About the Author: Shawn Altbaum has been writing and editing in the online gaming industry since 2007, reporting live from the WSOP Main Event and conducting interviews with professional players. An active poker player, he combines industry expertise with firsthand knowledge of the games he covers. He currently serves as Global Head of Copywriting at NSUS Group, overseeing brand voice and content strategy across GGPoker and GGVegas.
