2020 WSOP Online – GG Poker – Event 55 – Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla
Publish date: August 14, 2020
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla won Event #55: HK$8,000 NLHE Asia Championship of the 2020 WSOP Online at GG Poker.

It took nearly 13 hours of a field of 3,247 entries. But in the end, the player registered from Brazil emerged as the champion.

The event had a 1 million HKD was guaranteed which Only 479 players had survived their respective day 1. Due to the number of players the pot grew to HK$24,677,200 ($3,208,036). Tripling the initial guarantee.

Here is the final table list.

Event #55: HK$8,000 NLHE Asia Championship final table result.
Place Winner Country Prize (in HK$)
1 Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla Brazil 3,551,611 HKD
2 Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis Greece 2,531,708 HKD
3 Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia India 1,804,691 HKD
4 Alan “TheCockroach” Schein United States 1,286,442 HKD
5 Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng China 917,020 HKD
6 Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana India 653,684 HKD
7 Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs Latvia 465,967 HKD
8 Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas Lithuania 332,158 HKD
9 Ignacio “Curandero” Moron Spain 236,773 HKD

Final table Action

The final table started at Level 23 with blinds 200,000/400,000 and 40,000 ante.

Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla comes in as chip leader.

Player Country Chips
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla br 39,124,090
Alan “TheCockroach” Schein us 22,637,151
Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng CN 18,759,448
Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs lv 18,236,832
Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas lt 17,761,830
Ignacio “Curandero” Moron es 16,818,853
Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis gr 15,328,388
Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana IN 7,533,336
Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia IN 5,637,812

9th place – Ignacio “Curandero” Moron

Level 26 with blinds at 350,000/700,000 and 70,000 ante

3 levels have passed before a player was eliminated in the final table. blinds go up after every 40 hands.

Ignacio “Curandero” Moron raised to 2,178,853 with 350,000 behind
Alan “TheCockroach” Schein in the hijack position called. 

The Board {7-Spades}{3-Clubs}{2-Clubs} 

Moron moved “all in”
Schein called.

Ignacio “Curandero” Moron VS Alan “TheCockroach” Schein

Ignacio “Curandero” Moron: {a-Clubs}{j-Spades}
Alan “TheCockroach” Schein: {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts}

The Turn {10-Diamonds} 
The River{4-Hearts} 

8th place – Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas

Level 26 with blinds at 350,000/700,000 and 70,000 ante

Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas from the early position went “all-in” for 10,159,330
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla(Chip Leader) from the cutoff moved all-in.

Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas VS Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla

Vladas “Vladiator13” Tamasauskas: {a-Clubs}{k-Spades}
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla: {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}

The board {q-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{2-Spades} 

7th place – Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs

Level 27 with blinds at 400,000/800,000 with 80,000 ante

Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis went “all-in”
Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs calls

Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs VS Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis

Eduards “IlIlIlIliIIl” Kudrjavcevs: {10-Spades}{10-Clubs}
Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis: {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds}

The board {8-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{2-Spades}{5-Spades}{3-Hearts} 

6th place – Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana

Level 27 with blinds at 400,000/800,000 with 80,000 ante

Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana from under the gun +1 went “all in” for 5,816,672
Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia from the big blind called.

Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana VS Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia

Divanshu “d0rk21” Khurana: {a-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}
Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia: {k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}

The board {k-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{q-Spades}{3-Clubs}

5th place – Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng

Level 28 with blinds at 500,000/1,000,000 and 100,000 ante.

Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla from the cutoff raised to 2,000,000
Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng from the small blind reraised “all in” for 11,360,972
Assuncao Garla called.

 Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng VS Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla

Wenhao “pwhwin” Peng: {a-Clubs}{6-Clubs}
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla: {a-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}

The board {4-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{5-Diamonds}

4th place – Alan “TheCockroach” Schein

Level 28 with blinds at 500,000/1,000,000 and 100,000 ante.

Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis raise to 2 million
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla on the button calls
Alan “TheCockroach” Schein in the big blind calls.

The flop {k-Clubs}{q-Clubs}{6-Hearts} 

Schein check
Theologis check
Assuncao Garla bet 2.277 million
Schein min-raised
Theologis raise it back to 7.831 million.
Assuncao Garla folds
Schein went “all in”
Theolopgis calls.

Alan “TheCockroach” Schein VS Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis

Alan “TheCockroach” Schein: {k-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}
Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis: {q-Hearts}{q-Spades}

The turn and river {4-Clubs}{9-Spades} 

3rd place – Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia

Level 29 with blinds at 600,000/1,200,000 and 120,000 ante 

Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia from the button raise to 2.4 million
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla from the big blind raise to 6.6 million
Bhatia went “all in” for 21,780,380
Assuncao Garla called.

Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia VS Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla

Kunal “Alex_52” Bhatia: {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts}
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla: {a-Diamonds}{a-Hearts}

The board{8-Spades}{7-Clubs}{2-Spades}{k-Clubs}{7-Hearts}

Heads up

The heads up started Level 29 with blinds at 600,000/1,200,000 and 120,000 ante 

Players Country Chips
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla br 102,973,521
Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis gr 58,864,219

The final hand was dealt at Level 30 with blinds at 700,000/1,400,000 and 140,000 ante.

Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla went “all-in”
Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis called. (shorter stack)

Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis VS Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla

Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis: {2-Spades}{2-Clubs}
Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla: {q-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}

The board {q-Hearts}{10-Spades}{4-Hearts}{5-Spades}{10-Hearts} .

2nd place – Alexandros “THE Sheriff” Theologis

Champion – Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla

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