2020 WSOP Online – GG Poker – Event 43 – Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb
Publish date: August 4, 2020

Event #43: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em Championship is the first championship event of the 2020 WSOP online at GG poker.

130 players joined this event hoping to win the event. However, it is the mysterious Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb that won the event. 

Little is know about the mystery player. But winning such an event by beating short deck crusher Mikita Badziakouski heads up which took nearly 4 hours is a feat and we will definitely know more about this mysterious player soon.

Now here are the rest of the results.

Event 43 final table results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb Mexico $276,393
2 Mikita Badziakouski Belarus $210,249
3 Sergi Reixach United Kingdom $159,933
4 Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki Japan $121,659
5 Dan “oiltrader” Shak United States $92,545
6 Chi Zhang United Kingdom $70,397
7 Bjorn “wong1324” Li Hong Kong $53,550
8 Carl “Swetomir” Schrader Germany $40,735
9 Ami Barer Canada $30,987

Final table action

The final table started at Level at 30,000 ante.

Mikita Badziakouski comes in as the chip leader.

player country chips
Mikita Badziakouski by 9,364,087
Chi Zhang gb 6,678,624
Dan “oiltrader” Shak us 5,821,898
Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb MX 5,546,468
Bjorn “wong1324” Li au 5,474,920
Sergi Reixach gb 2,808,288
Carl “Swetomir” Schrader DE 1,433,436
Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki JP 1,148,336
Ami Barer ca 723,943

9th place – Ami Barer 

Ami Barer from the early position shoved “all-in”.
Yin nam bjorn “wong1324” Li calls

Yin nam bjorn “wong1324” Li: {a-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}
Ami Barer: {k-Spades}{j-Clubs}

Board: {q-Hearts}{a-Hearts}{7-Spades}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}

8th place – Carl “Swetomir” Schrader

Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb from under the gun raise to 270,000
Carl “Swetomir” Schrader from the button went “all-in” for 1,193,436
Gottlieb called.

Carl “Swetomir” Schrader: {a-Spades}{k-Spades}
Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb: {10-Hearts}{j-Hearts}

Board: {9-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}

7th place – Bjorn “wong1324” Li

Bjorn “wong1324” Li from early position went “all-in” for 1,756,631
Mikita Badziakouski from the middle called.

Mikita Badziakouski: {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}
Bjorn “wong1324” Li: {a-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}

Board: {k-Hearts}{a-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{6-Clubs}

6th place – Chi Zhang

Three players called before Chi Zhang checked the button.

The flop came {9-Clubs}{10-Spades}{8-Clubs} 

other players check action goes to Zhang
Zhang who bet 200,000.
Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb raised to 1,440,000
Zhang moved “all-in” for 2,466,458.
Gottlieb called.

Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb: {j-Hearts}{q-Hearts}
Chi Zhang: {j-Spades}{7-Spades}

Board: {9-Clubs}{10-Spades}{8-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{8-Hearts}

5th place – Dan “oiltrader” Shak

Dan “oiltrader” Shak from the middle position went “all-in” for 430,672
Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki from the button called.

Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki: {q-Clubs}{9-Hearts}
Dan “oiltrader” Shak: {k-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}

Board: {8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{7-Hearts}

4th place – Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki

Mikita Badziakouski checks,
Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki went “all-in”
Mikita called.

Mikita Badziakouski: {j-Spades}{9-Spades}
Nobuaki “Sasa JHR” Sasaki: {a-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}

Board: {9-Diamonds}{j-Hearts}{a-Spades}{8-Spades}{9-Hearts}

3rd place – Sergi Reixach

Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb from under the gun limped
Sergi Reixach raised to 360,000.
Gottlieb shoved for 5,929,628
Reixach called it off.

Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb: {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Sergi Reixach: {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}

Board: {6-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}

Heads-up

Heads up started at level 18 at 60,000 ante

Mikita Badziakouski by 32,567,064
Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb MX 6,432,936

It took almost 4 hours before the heads up finished. The chips went back and forth until final hand

Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb shoved preflop
Mikita Badziakouski called off for less.

Mikita Badziakouski: {k-Diamonds}{q-Spades}
Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb: {a-Spades}{10-Clubs}

Board: {7-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}

2nd place – Mikita Badziakouski

Champion – Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb

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