Linus Loeliger is the 2020 Poker Masters Online Main Event champion, an accolade that came with an enormous $1,097,250 prize! It was an incredible result for one of the game’s most highly rated poker tournament players. Linus Loeliger, on a high after taking down the £25,000 Six-Max Turbo for £690,000, won another £594,000 by navigating his way to third place, setting up a mouth-watering one-on-one clash between Team partypoker pro Jason Koon and British star Charlie Carrel.

Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger is considered to be one of the most successful online poker players in Sweden. It is unknown how much exactly he has won in his entire career. Just last year, he has won more than $1 million online and still going strong. Linus Loeliger was the biggest earner of the Poker Masters Online Series ($1.5m), and he hasn’t done too poorly in this one. The Swiss star ended the series with $833,532 in gross profit, with $520,000 earned after he defeated Martirosian in the heads-up phase of Event #26: $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?

Linus Loeliger is the 2020 Poker Masters Online Main Event champion, an accolade that came with an enormous $1,097,250 prize! It was an incredible result for one of the game’s most highly rated poker tournament players. Here’s how things went down.

Poker Masters #29: $2M Gtd NLHE 8-Max Main Event

The Poker Masters Main Event commanded a $51,000 buy-in but that didn’t prevent 77-players taking part. This crowd created a $3,850,000 prize pool that was almost double the advertised $2 million guarantee.

Only the final 10 players got their hands on a slice of this juicy prize pool. One of our own, Sam Trickett, fell short of the money, busting in 13th place. The unfortunate bubble boy was Lebanon’s Karim Khayat whose 11th place exit locked up at least $154,000 for the 10 surviving players.

Vicent Bosca Ramon and Conor Beresford were the players who won this sum, Beresford’s exit setting a ridiculously tough final table.

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Australian star Kahle Burns was the first finalists to bust. The Aussie got his hands on $163,625. David Peters and Finland’s Elias Talvitie were the next two casualties. They padded their partypoker bankrolls with $182,875 and $211,750 respectively.

Fifth-place and $269,500 went to Ole Schemion and he was joined on the sidelines by Steve O’Dwyer who collected $346,500.

Any of the final three players would have been a worthy champion. Each of that trio was also guaranteed to take home more than half a million dollars.

Three became two when Chris Kruk crashed out in third for $519,750. This set up a heads-up battle between Giuseppe Iadisernia and Linus Loeliger. Almost $350,000 was the difference between first and second-place prize money, but the superstars didn’t let that faze them.

A lack of a deal meant Iadisernia scooped $750,750 when he fell in second-place, which left Loeliger to turn his initial investment into the tournament’s only seven-figure prize, namely $1,097,250.

Poker Masters #30: $500K Gtd NLHE 6-Max

The final event of the Poker masters online was another guarantee buster. Some 146 players ponied up $10,300 to smash the $500,000 guarantee by almost $1 million!

Eighteen spots were paid, with Team partypoker’s Isaac Haxton falling in 22nd place and narrowly missing out on a score. Niklas Astedt finished in 20th with Daniel Dvoress helping himself to the unwanted title of bubble boy.

Places 13-18 all secured $26,789. Among those collecting this sum were Steve O’Dwyer, Connor Drinan, Chris Hunichen, and Ben Heath. Poker Central’s own Dan Shak won $31,390 for his 12th place exit, with 2019 WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan falling in 10th for $31,390 too.

Mark Radoja, Samuel Vousden, and Pascal Lefrancois all crashed out to leave only six players in the hunt for the $367,782 top prize.

Those six became five when Chris Kruk busted. Russia’s Artur Martirosian ran out of steam in fifth place and walked away with $91,250, the final five-figure prize of the event.

Mustapha Kanit collected a cool $124,100 for his fourth-place exit, before Lebanon’s Mark Demirijan busted in third for $175,200.

Heads-up saw Alexandros Kolonias and Jason McConnon fight it out for the lion’s share of the prize pool. Kolonias already had a Poker Masters title to his name and won another by sweeping aside his opponent. Kolonias banked $367,782 with McConnon winning $248,200.

Kolonias Wins Poker Masters Online Chamionship

Everyone who cashed in a Poker Masters online event was awarded leaderboard points in addition to prize money. The player who earned the most points secure an additional $50,000 payment plus the famous Poker Masters purple jacket.

Kolonias’ victory in the final event locked up these extra prizes. The Greek star cashed 11 times, including two victories, and won $1,266,296. These awesome results netted Kolonias 1,191 points.

Artur Martirosian finished in second-place with 1,048 points, with Linus Loeliger being the third-place finisher on 1,037, the only other player to finish with more than 1,000 points.

That concludes the Poker Masters Online, which was supported brilliantly by the game’s high stakes gurus. Some $35.4 million was awarded during the festival with 124 different players cashing at least once!

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The Poker Masters Online Poker Championship kicked off on April 12th and ran until yesterday. The partypoker and Poker Central hosted the online poker tournamentsand saw the final hand being played on Sunday as Linus Loeliger took down the $51,000 Main Event while Greek pro player Alexandros Kolonias won the final event of the 30 day series and topped the leaderboard to take home the coveted Purple Jacket along with a $50,000 cash prize!

The Main Event received a total of 77 entries and created a prize pool of $3.85 million. With 10 places paid, Linus Loeliger took down the first place prize of $1.09 million after winning the final heads-up battle against Giuseppe Ladisernia. The $1 million addition to his bankroll makes him 2nd in the all time Switzerland money list with over $1.84 million in live earnings. He earned a total of 658 points on the leaderboard as well.

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Here is The List of The Top 10:

1. Linus Loeliger – $1,097,250
2. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $750,750
3. Christopher Kruk – $519,750
4. Steve O’Dwyer – $346,500
5. Ole Schemion – $269,500
6. Elias Talvitie – $211,750
7. David Peters – $182,875
8. Kahle Burns – $163,625
9. Conor Beresford – $154,00

The Purple Jacket is awarded to the player who tops the leaderboard after the final event. Alexandros Kolonias was 4th in the leaderboard standings until he shipped the 500k GTD event and came out on top in a field of 146 entries. He won the first place prize of $367,000 and earned top spot on the leaderboard as well for the coveted Purple Jacket and an extra $50,000!

Top 10 Leaderboard:

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1. Alexandros Kolonias – $367,782.76
2. Jason McConnon – $248,200
3. Mark Demirjian – $175,200
4. Mustapha Kanit – $124,100
5. Artur Martirosian – $91,250
6. Christopher Kruk – $60,590
7. Pascal Lefrancois – $45,990
8. Samuel Vousden – $45,990
9. Mark Radoja – $45,990
10. Hossein Ensan – $31,390

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Kolonias had won 2 tournaments, finished 2nd once and in 3rd place twice! He also cashed in 11 times during the whole series. The man with 1,191 points on the leaderboard was very happy with his performance. He said,

“I am very proud of this win because I think I played the best poker I have ever played and the competition was really tough. The Purple Jacket is an important title and it feels about the same as winning the WSOP Europe Main Event last year, but that time I had some tears when I won, I was more emotional. I want to thank everyone that supported me, and partypoker Poker Central, PokerGO and everyone else that helped to organize these events.”

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