All of the winners and losers from the 2020 Poker Masters Online.

Alexandros Kolonias now has himself a brand new purple jacket and an additional $50,000 after winning the Poker Masters Online Championship. Taking the event online, PokerCentral partnered with partypoker on a 30-event schedule that had buy-ins ranging from $10,300 to $51,000 mirroring the live version of the Poker Masters.

The Poker Masters Online was the second full series to take advantage of partypoker’s real name functionality giving poker enthusiasts at home an easy way to track how the world’s best players did against each other in a high stakes online series.

More Than 250 Unique Players

There were a total of 258 unique players throughout the 30-event schedule. That group combined for 1,717 total unique entries and 849 re-entries. Each event gave players a maximum of three entries and there were 201 instances were a player fired three bullets in an event.

There were 35 players who played a minimum of 20 events and 76 who played just a single event. Jason McConnon was one of them and he ended up with the highest ROI of any player after finishing second in Event #30 ($10,300 Six Max NLHE) for a $248,200 score on a single entry. A high stakes cash game specialist, McConnon jokingly suggested a career change after his runner-up performance.

$35 Million in Prize Money

The Poker Masters Online was a big winner for partypoker and Poker Central. The total rake for the series was $912,300. Taking into consideration the $50,000 prize awarded to Kolonias for winning the Purple Jacket, the net for tournament organizers was $862,300 – more than any single player.

Players were allowed a maximum of three entries per event. The rake earned off of the initial entries was $619,600 and re-entries accounted for the remaining $292,700.

Taking the event online proved to be a boon to the field sizes. The 2019 Poker Masters had just 10 events, but average field sizes for 2020 were up across the board. There was an average of 93 players in $10,000 buy-in events compared to 57.6 in 2019, an increase of 61.5%. The $25,000 buy-in events saw an increase of 44.7% going from an average of 43.75 to 63.29 players. In both years the Championship event had a $50,000 buy-in and the year-over-year increase was the most dramatic going from 34 to 77 players – a 126.5% growth rate.

The total prize pools for all 30 events totaled $35,385,000, more than doubling the $16.5 million guaranteed. None of the events missed their respective guarantee and 14 tournaments had a prize pool exceeding $1 million.

Nothing But Net

While there were seven players who had at least $1 million in earnings, the highest net earner was Italy’s Dario Sammartino. Cashing in nine of the 22 events he played earned Sammartino an $823,625 net score.

PLAYERNET WINNINGS
Dario Sammartino$823,625.00
Linus Loeliger$743,318.24
Pascal Lefrancois$639,888.38
Alexandros Kolonias$589,997.90
Artur Martirosian$551,674.24

There were 32 players who had net earnings of $100,000 or more and 40 who had net losses of $100,000 or more. Of the 258 players who entered at least one Poker Masters event, 63 were net winners. There were 135 players who entered at least one event and cashed zero times.

Busiest of the Bunch

Jorryt Van Hoof was the only player to play all 30 events. The Dutch pro cashed in 10 of them for a net profit of $9,708.74.

PLAYEREVENTSWINNINGS
Jorryt Van Hoof30$9,708.74
Alex Foxen29$59,477.94
Ali Imsirovic28$282,396.60
Andras Nemeth28$113,224.14
Linus Loeliger28$743,318.24

The only event that Alex Foxen skipped was Event #2 ($10,300 Six Max PLO). Ali Imsirovic and Linus Loeliger each skipped a pair of PLO events. Imsirovic skipped Event #2 and Event #17 while Loeliger sat out Event #17 ($10,300 Six Max PLO) and Event #22 ($10,300 Six Max PLO). Andras Nemeth missed the opening two events of the series and then played every tournament from Event #3 onward.

Christian Rudolph played the most events of any player that was unable to pick up a single in-the-money result. Rudolph entered 10 events and never cashed. He only re-entered three of those 10 events for a total of 13 bullets fired.

PLAYEREVENTSENTRIES
Christian Rudolph1013
Chi Zhang915
Mikita Badziakouski913
Sergei Koliakov99
Jans Arends88
Markus Leikkonen88

Double Dippin’

There were six players who won two Poker Masters Online titles. The first to do it was Pauli Ayras who took down Event #6 ($10,300 Six Max PLO) and Event #19 ($25,500 Eight Max NLHE).

Of the 28 events that Loeliger entered, he cashed in only three of them but made the most of those cashes by picking up wins in Event #18 ($10,300 Six Max NLHE) and the Main Event ($51,000 NLHE). Sandwiched between those two results was a fifth-place finish in Event #27 ($25,500 Eight Max NLHE).

PLAYEREVENTS WONCASHESNET WINNINGS
Linus LoeligerEvent #18 & #293$743,318.24
Pascal LefrancoisEvent #9 & #236$639,888.38
Alexandros KoloniasEvent #7 & #3011$589,997.90
Pauli AyrasEvent #6 & #196$378,549.44
Mustapha KanitEvent #14 & #284$341,682.56
Ali ImsirovicEvent #24 & #279$282,396.60