Anton Wigg Takes Down Two Sunday Majors For More Than $90K

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Dec 14, 2020 5 min read

Sweden��s Anton Wigg is one of the best poker tournament players in the world. Wigg has almost won it all when it comes to poker, including a European Poker Tour title and more than $10 million during his long and illustrious career.

December 13 saw Wigg hit the tables for the Sunday grind and it worked out well for him thanks to taking down a pair of tournaments for combined scores in excess of $90,000.

The first of these victories came at GGPoker in the Sunday Special $125. A bumper field of 1,844 entrants created a $212,060 prize pool and Wigg locked up the lion��s share of the pot, namely $31,928.

Wigg defeated Brazil��s ��Kingtale�� heads-up to lock up the title, resigning the runner-up to a $22,758 consolation prize.

Wigg also finished as runner-up to Timothy Adams in the WSOPC Series: $1,500 Sunday High Rollers and received a $44,147 haul.

While Wigg��s victory was impressive, it wasn��t the biggest prize won at GGPoker on December 13. That honour went to Finland��s ��MKnaapinen�� who triumphed in the High Roller MILLION$.

The Finn struck a deal with ��zufo16�� when the 468-strong field had been whittled down to only two. The runner-up banked $228,682 as part of the deal with the champion padding their bankroll with $234,363.

Check out some of the highlights from GGPoker from December 13:

• Joao Vieira �C first-place in the GGMasters High Rollers $1,050 for $163,897
• Ole Schemion �C first-place in the High Rollers Blade Mulligan $5,250 for $93,217
• Severcity �C first-place in the GGMasters $150 for $84,468
• Bert Stevens �C first-place in the WSOPC High Rollers: $3,150 Blade Bounty King for $73,189*
• Michael Addamo �C first-place in the WSOPC High Rollers: $2,500 Blade Prime for $69,745
• Christian Rudolph �C first-place in the WSOPC High Rollers: $2,500 Blade Opener for $59,678
• Timothy Adams first-place in the WSOPC Series: $1,500 Sunday High Rollers for $59,091
• Why@ - first-place in the WSOPC Series: $315 Bounty King Circuit for $56,903*
• PUYA �C first-place in the WSOPC High Rollers: $2,500 Blade Mulligan for $54,840
• KennyKaarten �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $500 Sunday Fifty Stack for $54,532
• Kabuzzi �C first-place in the High Rollers Marathon $840 for $47,078
• Steve Austin �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $400 Sunday Forty Stack for $46,464
• LatinasDaddy �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $210 Bounty Hunters Main Event for $46,202*
• Kojaque �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $300 Sunday Marathon for $44,635
• Gergo Nagy �C first-place in the WSOPC High Rollers: $2,500 Blade PLO for $43,228
• Q6d6 �C first-place in the Sunday main Event $200 for $40,808
• archercard �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $200 Sunday Monster Stack for $39,679
• xBGx �C first-place in the High Rollers PLO Bounty $2,100 for $39,545*
• Alex Theologis �C first-place in the WSOP Series: $840 Sunday terminator for $36,857*
• allin donk �C first-place in the High Rollers Main Event $1,050 for $36,526
• Riddick Bowe �C first-place in the WSOPC Series; $300 Sunday triple Chance for $32,512
• Man14c �C first-place in the WSOPC Series: $1,050 Deepstack Bounty Turbo for $28,728*
• Davidi Kitai �C first-place in the WSCOPC Series: $800 The Closer HR for $21,897

*includes bounty payments

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$60K Score For Wigg at PokerStars

Wigg��s second impressive first-place finish came at PokerStars in the $1,050 Sunday High Roller 8-Max. This tournament regularly attracts some of the best players in the business and the December 13 edition certainly did that.

Any of the eight finalists would have made a worthy champion but it was Wigg who shone the brightest.

Netherlands�� ��Floesoe�� was the final table��s first casualty, a finish worth $8,007. Then came the demise of Team PokerStars�� Lex ��L.Veldhuis�� Veldhuis in seventh before Sergio ��zcedrick�� Aido and Sergei ��Futti18�� Koliakov fell by the wayside.

Joao ��Naza114�� Vieira, fresh from a huge victory at GGPoker, collected the $25,403 fourth-place prize before Thomas ��WushuTM�� Muehloecker��s exit in third-place, worth $33,903, left Wigg heads-up with Russian star ��CrazyLissy��.

Wigg got the job done and banked the $60,388 top prize, leaving his Russian opponent to reel in a $45,248 payout.

$1,050 Sunday High Roller Final Table Results

These are some of the other highlights from December 13 at PokerStars.

• ChipHunterTH �C first-place in the $215 Bounty Builder for $34,619*
• Murilo ��muka_gaming�� Ruiz �C first-place in the $109 Bounty Builder for $34,201*
• ezynow99 �C first-place in the $215 Bounty Builder for $33,708*
• amadeous92 �C first-place in the $109 Sunday Cooldown for $31,245*
• Andras ��probirs�� Nemeth �C first-place in the $1,050 Sunday Cooldown for $29,990*
• nilsef �C first-place in the $1,050 Sunday Supersonic for $21,362
• Felipe ��ultraviol3nt�� Olivieri �C first-place in the $215 Sunday Supersonic for $21,282
• darogio �C first-place in the $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $18,397
• Leqenden �C first-place in the $109 Sunday Kickoff for $15,128
• pycadasgalax �C first-place in the Hotter $109 for $11,139
• Gambler4444 �C first-place in the Bigger $109 for $7,651
• pxe11 �C first-place in the Hotter $109 PKO for $6,834*

*includes bounty payments

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Octopokes Wins The $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep

There��s action aplenty at 888poker right now thanks to the XL Winter Series being in full swing. The highlights from Sunday��s event will be recapped separately, which leaves us with two of 888poker��s biggest non-festival tournaments.

��Octopokes�� became the $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep champion after topping the 985-strong field in the $109 buy-in tournament. Octopokes netted $18,750 for finishing top of the pile, something achieved after beating fellow Brit ��woolinator�� heads-up. Woolinator won $13,500 for their second-place finish.

The other big victory was ��KwiacurVr6�� who is the $25,000 Sunday Challenge PKO champion. Victory weighed in at $2,521 plus $3,398 worth of bounties for a combined score worth $5,919.

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Gostisa Becomes High Roller Big Game Champion

Rok Gostisa added credit to claims he��s one of the best high roller tournament players in the world by adding the High Roller Big Game title to his long list of poker-related accomplishments.

Gostisa won this week��s event and secured a $77,076 payment. The victory wasn��t an easy task because the nine-handed final table was the home to some legitimate superstars.

Christian Rudolph and Rui Ferreira��s time at the finale table was short-lived and they were the first to bust. Cedric Schwaederle and Pascal Lefrancois joined them on the rail before Yuri Dzvielevski and Steve O��Dwyer crshed and burned; O��Dwyer won $29,027 for his demise in fourth-place.

Bruno Volkmann fell in third, which left Gostisa and Julian Stuer heads-up. The heads-up duo didn��t strike a deal, so Gostisa locked up $77,076 when he defeated Stuer, resigning the runner-up to the $55,486 second-place prize.

These partypoker players walked away with big scores at partypoker on December 13.

• SpankyMcfarland �C first-place in the $1,111 High Roller One Shot for $44,066
• Alessandro Giannelli �C first-place in the $530 Big Game for $38,040
• jsmackers �C first-place in the $320 The 300 for $27,296*
• Niklas Astedt �C first-place in the �1,050 IPM Omaha High Roller for �27,131
• tdlvechicknbn �C first-place in the $777 Magnificent 777 for $18,855*
• Mario Frittelli �C first-place in the $55 Mini Big Game for $17,988
• GIN SONIC �C first-place in the $109 Weekender for $17,809
• ZeFlopinho �C first-place in the $111 One Shot for $16,970
• TukTuk �C first-place in the $215 Warrior for $16,010*
• Goodgirlsxxx �C first-place in the $55 Gladiator for $14,244*

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