Saturday was the calm before the storm at the World Poker Tour Online at partypoker with just four events playing down to a champion.
Luke Martinelli outlasted 253 other entries in Event #19 ($530 Turbo) to win the title and $25,895.30. Finishing one spot behind Martinelli earned Freek Scholten $18,796 while Norbert Szecsi took home $13,398.50 for coming in third place.
Mohamed Bachir Andolssi earned $8,652.15 for winning Event #19 Mini ($55 Turbo).
Saturday also the seventh WPT500 starting flight. Julio Fantin finished Day 1G with the biggest stack at 440,689. A total of 68 players advanced to Day 2 including Alex Fortin-Demers (408,580), Kevin MacPhee (330,663), Alexandr Trofimov (281,301), and Jaime Staples (270,972).
Note: results from Event #16 and Event #16 Mini were not made publically available.
WPT Online Event #19 Mini $55 Turbo
1,175 Entries
$58,750 Prize Pool
Mohamed Bachir Andolssi - $8,652.15
Andrea Panarese - $8,532.84
Rafael Roglio - $4,705.87
Carson Barton - $3,149.00
Marlon Singh - $2,232.50
Dzhem Yumer Yumer - $1,574.50
Evgeny Nekrasov - $1,104.50
Henrik Zeis - $740.25
WPT Online Event #19 $530 Turbo
254 Entries
$127,000 Prize Pool
Luke Martinelli - $25,895.30
Freek Scholten - $18,796.00
Norbert Szecsi - $13,398.50
Jimi Koponen - $9,906.00
Ognyan Dimov - $6,985.00
Anthony Spinella - $5,334.00
Thomas Boivin - $3,937.00
Roger Tondeur - $2,921.00
WPT Online WPT500 Day 1G
473 Entries
$236,500 Prize Pool
Top 10 Chip Counts
Julio Fantin - 440,869
Alex Fortin-Demers - 408,580
Kevin MacPhee - 330,663
Alexandr Trofimov - 281,301
James Staples - 270,972
Pedro Madeira - 248,984
Valerii Kutepov - 243,358
Jose Manuel Nadal - 223,099
Anton Morgenstern - 213,659
Pavel Savin - 209,238
