The 2024 World Series of Poker Online international series on GGPoker just crowned its main event champion. Moritz Dietrich overcame a field of 6,146 entries made across 17 flights, earning his first career bracelet and the top prize of $4,021,012.
The German-born player, now based of Austria, beat out a stacked final table on his way to securing the gold, with high-stakes online regulars like Benjamin ‘bencb’ Rolle (8th -$651,921), recent WSOP main event 10th-place finisher Diogo Coelho (5th – $1,421,478), and bracelet winners Isaac Baron (4th – $1,843,337) and Rui Ferreira (3rd – $2,390,418) all joining him among the final nine.
Baron’s elimination in fourth place was particularly brutal. He called all-in with pocket kings from the small blind facing a button shove from Evgenii Akimov, who was the chip leader. Baron flopped top set, but Akimov hit running cards to make an eight-high straight to score the knockout. Rolle reposted a video clip of the hand from GGPoker’s final table live stream on social media, highlighting the reactions from commentators Jeff Gross and Phil Laak.
$2,000,000 Equity Suck out?
At least he has a good bad beat story to tell.
Love the reaction
JeffGrossPoker</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilLaak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">PhilLaak @GGPoker pic.twitter.com/8cmAfJlTAw— bencb (@bencb789) September 24, 2024
Akimov then busted Ferreira in third place to take a sizable lead into heads-up play against Dietrich. A preflop coin flip early in the match went Dietrich’s way. He then overtake the lead when he made a straight to win a big pot off of Akimov’s two pair.
The final hand began with a limp from the button for Akimov with 9
5
. Dietrich checked with 8
2
and the flop came down K86. Dietrich checked and Akimov bet a single big blind. Dietrich called and the turn brought the 3. Another check from Dietrich prompted a shove of just over five big blinds from Akimov. Dietrich made the call with his second pair and the 3 paired the board the bring the tournament to a close. Akimov earned $3,099,896 as the runner-up.
Here is a look at the payouts from the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Moritz Dietrich | $4,021,012 |
| 2 | Evgenii Akimov | $3,099,896 |
| 3 | Rui Ferreira | $2,390,418 |
| 4 | Isaac Baron | $1,843,337 |
| 5 | Diogo Coelho | $1,421,478 |
| 6 | Ilya Anatski | $1,096,180 |
| 7 | Hai Pan | $845,342 |
| 8 | Benjamin Rolle | $651,921 |
| 9 | Audrius Stakelis | $502,771 |
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