Moritz Dietrich Wins WSOP Online Main Event for Biggest Ever Online Prize

With a final table featuring legendary players such as Isaac Baron, Benjamin Rolle and GG MILLION$ regular Ilya Anatski, this week’s GG MILLION$ was instead the chance for someone to become a WSOP Online Main Event winner on GGPoker – and in the process create poker history.

Records Tumble as WSOP Pushes the Envelope

There were 6,146 entries in the 2024 WSOP Online Main Evnt on GGPoker, with a prizepool of just over $29.1 million up for grabs to the players who finished in the money places. The action was called by the regular GG MILLION$ host Jeff Gross and all-time poker legend Phil Laak, with the final table of nine beginning with Russian professional Evgenii Akimov in the lead on 86 big blinds.

Behind Akimov, Portuguese pro Rui Ferreira (67BB), Austrian champion-in-waiting Dietrich (56BB), Belarussian Ilya Anatski (43BB) and the only American at the final table, Isaac Baron (33BB) were following with genuine hope of winning the $4m top prize. Others such as China’s Hai Pan (30BB), Lithuanian Audrius Stakelis (19BB), a second Portuguese challenger Diogo Coelho (16BB) and the German poker coach and online crusher Benjamin Rolle (14BB) all began the action with more to do.

Out first was the Lithuanian player Audrius Stakelis, who won $502,771 after losing when committed pre-flop with ace-king. Isaac Baron held pocket queens and a jack-high board saw Baron survive at the expense of Stakelis, who departed with over half a million dollars but no hope of winning the coveted WSOP bracelet.

Rolle-ing in the Deep

With eight left, the German poker coach and talented professional Benjamin Rolle was eliminated for $651,921. All-in with ace-queen, it was Baron once again who called with a pocket pair as this time nines were good enough to survive, especially after a flop of 9-8-6. Rolle never caught up and that was it for the German professional as he left the action and Baron took a huge chip lead.

Chinese player Hai Pan was taken out in seventh place for $845,342 soon after and when the Belarussian professional and serial GG MILLION$ final table player Ilya Anatski went next for just over a million dollars, the race to win the title was truly on. Anatski shoved with ace-jack of diamonds and Baron called with pocket deuces as a deuce on the turn confirmed the pot before the river card fell.

An all-Portuguese clash saw the field reduced to four. Diogo Coelho moved all-in from the big blind with a suited king-ten but was called by his countryman Rui Ferreira with pocket tens and they held with ease to end Coelho’s chances for a score of $1,421,478 as the resurgent Ferreira rocketed up the chipcounts.

Akimov Falls Late as Moritz Makes Miracle

While Ferreira had the bulk of the chips, others were battling to stay in his slipstream. Moritz Dietrich (85m) was closest at that stage, with Evgenii Akimov (65m) and Isaac Baron (45m) some way back, but Akimov in particular rose through the ranks over an extended period where no-one busted. Isaac Baron was short and shoved with pocket kings but was called by Akimov with six-four. A flop of K-J-7 kept Baron ahead but after a five on the turn, a miraculous eight on the river gave Akimov the straight and busted Baron for $1,843,337.

Rui Ferreira went next, cashing for $2,390,418 in third place and incredibly, it was to the same player holding the same hand. All-in with ace-king, Akimov’s six-four again started behind but the six was a spade and four more spades across the board gave the Russian a flush and sent the Portuguese player to the rail one place before the action went-heads-up.

With a 6:1 chip lead, Akimov was a big favorite to win but Moritz Dietrich used all his skills to battle to less of a deficit before his queen-ten made Broadway against the Russian’s rivered two-pair. That hand flipped the initial lead and Dietrich saw it out when he made a pivotal call on a flop with a king and an eight on board with just eight-deuce. He was right to do so, and as Akimov only bluffed with a gutshot on the turn, only had one street to pray for a seven or a nine to extend the event.

Instead, neither card came and Dietrich had the WSOP bracelet and $4,021,012 top prize as Akimov collected the $3,099,896 runner-up prize.

Watch all the action as it happened right here on GGPoker’s YouTube channel with Jeff Gross and Phil Laak: