Conor Beresford Reels in Career-Best $728K Score and WSOPC Ring
This week��s Super MILLION$ at GGPoker was even more special than usual. GGPoker made the $10,300 buy-in high roller event part of the $100 million guaranteed WSOP Spring Online Circuit festival, which resulted in a larger than usual prize pool of $3,890,000 plus the winner got their hands on a coveted gold WSOPC ring.
British pro Conor Beresford is the man whose name is now written into poker��s history books. The man who we said to write off at your peril, in our Super MILLION$ final table preview article on March 29, came out on top and reeled in a career-best $728,028 score plus that all-important WSOPC ring. This is the second time Beresford, formerly ranked number one in the world for online poker tournaments, has scooped more than half a million dollars. He collected $611,134 in January 2020 when he finished second in a GGPoker Phased: 2020 Series Championship event.
Super MILLION$ Season 2 Episode 36 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conor Beresford | Thailand | $728,028 |
| 2 | Pablo Brito Silva | Brazil | $561,386 |
| 3 | nettley | Austria | $432,888 |
| 4 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | $333,802 |
| 5 | TTP_poker | Taiwan | $257,396 |
| 6 | Tyler "TheRayGuy" Cornell | Mexico | $198,479 |
| 7 | Christopher Frank | Austria | $153,048 |
| 8 | Tomi "BAAABUUSKIIII" Brouk | Finland | $118,016 |
| 9 | Costa Recorn | Malta | $91,003 |
Costa Recorn was the first player out of the door in a monster pot during the open level of the final table action. Tomi "BAAABUUSKIIII" Brouk open-shoved for 912,333 with pocket queens during the 50,000/100,000/12,500a level, and Record three-bet to 1,800,000, leaving himself only 46,524 behind; Recorn did this from the button with ace-queen. Beresford woke up in the small blind with ace-king and moved all-in. Recorn called off the micro stack he had behind. Brouk��s queens held on a jack-high board, but Beresford won the side bet to bust Recorn.
Brouk was the next casualty, failing to put Recorn��s chips to good use thanks to making an audacious river bluff, while Beresford made an incredible call. Brouk raised to 264,000 from the button with queen-eight of clubs, and Beresford defended his big blind with eight-seven. The five-deuce-nine flop was checked by both players, leading to the three of clubs on the turn, giving Brouk a flush draw. Beresford led for 233,640 and Brouk called. The river was an offsuit seven, giving Beresford a pair of sevens with an eight kicker. He bet 293,820 into the 1,175,280 pot only to see Brouk tank-shove for 1,431,859. Commentator Kevin Martin said Brouk��s shove did not make sense, and Beresford thought the same, eventually calling to send the Finn to the rail.
Blinds increased to 80,000/160,000/20,000a, and the action folded to "nettley" on the button. The Austrian making their Super MILLION$ debut, min-raised to 320,000 before quickly calling when Christopher Frank, in the big blind, three-bet all-in for 2,569,052 in total. Frank showed ace-seven but was in a world of pain against his opponent��s dominating ace-king. A seven on the flop propelled Frank into the lead but nettley caught a king on the river to redice the player count by one.
Next to fall was Tyler "TheRayGuy" Cornell who will have to wait to add a WSOPC ring to the bracelet he won last fall. He came unstuck during the 100,000/200,000/25,000a level when he three-bet all-in for 1,688,347 from the big blind after nettley opened to 459,999 on the button. nettley called and flipped over ace-queen, which was flipping against Cornell��s pocket sixes. Cornell got "Greesteined" with the ace of spades on the river.
Everyone was now guaranteed a quarter of a million dollars for their $10,300 investment. "TTP_poker" would not win any more than the $257,396 fifth-place prize because he crashed and burned during the 125,000/250,000/30,000a level. The Taiwanese player moved all-in for 2,158,408 from under the gun with ace-jack of diamonds and Pablo Brito Silva looked him up with ace-queen from the big blind. A jack on the turn looked to have doubled up the all-in player, but a queen on the river ended their hopes and dreams of a victory.
Fourth-place and more than $330,000 went to the only former Super MILLION$ champion at this final table, Brazilian superstar Yuri Dzivielevski. The Brazilian made an ill-timed move in a battle of the blinds with Beresford. Beresford raised three-times the big blind to 900,000 and snap-called when Dzivielevski three-bet all-in for 4,722,124 in total. Dzivielevski showed king-eight of spades, but Beresford held ace-king of diamonds. Beresford flopped an ace and Dzivielevski was drawing dead on the turn.
Heads-up was set when debutant nettley dusted off their stack in a relative cooler spot. Silva min-raised to 700,000 on the button with jack-eight, nettley jammed for 4,370,848 with ace-ten in the small blind, Beresford called with ace-king, which folded out Silva. Both players paired their kicker but nettley could not find a third ten, and busted in third for $432,888.
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Beresford went into heads-up trailing Silva by 18,516,944 to 20,383,056 chips and neither played could find a way to forge ahead of the other. However, momentum began shifting Beresford��s way and he eventually got his hands on all of Silva��s stack.
The final hand saw Silva raise with king-ten, and Beresford call with five-three of hearts. Silva paired his king on the flop but Beresford flopped a flush. Beresfod check-called a 400,000 bet leading to an ace on the turn. Beresford check-called a 1,400,000 bet from his Brazilian opponent. An offsuit seven on the river was greeted with another check from beresford. Silva tested the waters with a 2,400,000 bet into the 4,500,000 pot. Beresford ripped it in, and Silva tank called off his last 5,325,556 chips. Good game.
