{"id":4403,"date":"2021-01-19T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:53:36","slug":"lithuanias-paulius-plausinaitis-captures-wsop-circuit-online-main-event-for-1-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/lithuanias-paulius-plausinaitis-captures-wsop-circuit-online-main-event-for-1-2m","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Paulius Plausinaitis Captures WSOP Circuit Online ME for $1.2m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/paulius-plausinaitis.jpg\" alt=\"Paulius Plausinaitis\" title=\"Lithuania's Paulius Plausinaitis Captures WSOP Circuit Online Main Event for $1.2m\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/paulius-plausinaitis.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/paulius-plausinaitis-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">The <em>World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Online Main Event<\/em> is now over, with <a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/player.php?a=r&amp;n=384516\">Paulius Plausinaitis<\/a> being crowned as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian poker pro defeated \u201c<em><strong>turkey1<\/strong><\/em>\u201d heads-up to claim his first WSOP Circuit ring, alongside the top prize of $1,236,361. <\/p>\n<p>The WSOP Circuit Online Main Event was the flagship tournament of the <em>2020 GGPoker WSOP Winter Online Circuit<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It featured a buy-in of $1,700 and $10 million in guarantees. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament ended up awarding $10,327,925 in total prize money after attracting a massive field of 6,395 entries (including 974 re-entries), making it the largest event in Circuit history.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>StorasSushis<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTeqU5PrUa4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the blinds moving up quickly as soon as the final table started, the short stacks were put in a more difficult position. Eventually, it was \u201c<strong><em>BetAddict<\/em><\/strong>\u201d who became the first player to leave the table, after flipping with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/top-10-poker-hands\">poker hand<\/a> of ace-king suited against <strong>Artem Prostak<\/strong>\u2018s pocket jacks. The player from Israel took home $123,106 for finishing in ninth place.<\/p>\n<p>A player from China using the screen name \u201c<strong><em>DaiMing14139<\/em><\/strong>\u201d was also unable to advance further, having actively played just one hand before busting in eighth place for $164,165, courtesy of <strong>Joseph Cheong<\/strong>. The popular tournament crusher went on to eliminate Romanian pro <strong>Alexandru Papazian<\/strong>, after both players engaged in a battle of the blinds, ace-five versus pocket jacks. Papazian took home $218,917 for his seventh-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The next player to go was Prostak who had become the chip leader at one point, but failed to maintain his dominance. Prostak bid goodbye after \u201c<em><strong>turkey1<\/strong><\/em>\u201d flopped trips fives to beat his suited ace. The Belarusian settled for sixth place with $291,931 in winnings. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joni Jouhkimainen<\/strong> was among the short stack when the final action kicked off, but he managed to extend his tournament life a little bit further before his king-ten suited got crushed by Cheong\u2019s ace-king to send him to the rail in fifth place for $389,295. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"joseph-cheong-fails-to-secure-second-ring\">Joseph Cheong Fails to Secure Second Ring<\/h2>\n<p>Cheong continued his knockout streak, and his next victim was China\u2019s \u201c<strong><em>likeboy<\/em><\/strong>\u201d who finished fourth for $519,134. That elimination gave Cheong a narrow lead over Plausinaitis going into three-handed play, however his stack quickly dropped during the subsequent hands, with the bulk of it going to Plausinaitis. <\/p>\n<p>Cheong finally called it a day when his ace-four failed to hold against the queens of Plausinaitis, the latter turning a queen to claim the pot. Cheong\u2019s third-place finish earned him $692,276.<\/p>\n<p>Plausinaitis entered heads-up play with a significant lead over \u201c<em><strong>turkey1<\/strong><\/em>\u201c, but things went the other way around for the Lithuanian after his opponent doubled twice. He eventually regained his lead after winning a double up with queen high flush versus jack high flush. <\/p>\n<p>Plausinaitis never looked back from there and ultimately sealed the fate of \u201c<em><strong>turkey1<\/strong><\/em>\u201d with ace-ten suited against queen-nine suited. The runner-up took home a sizable $923,165.<\/p>\n<p>There are more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wsop-takes-circuit-series-online-and-releases-2021-schedule\">WSOP events scheduled for online in 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Online Main Event is now over, with Paulius Plausinaitis being crowned as the winner. The Lithuanian poker pro defeated \u201cturkey1\u201d heads-up to claim his first WSOP Circuit ring, alongside the top prize of $1,236,361. 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