The largest prize in online history, an incredible $4,021,012, was won by Moritz Dietrich after he took down the WSOP Online International Main Event on GGPoker.
The $5,000 buy-in event smashed the $25,000,000 guarantee by attracting a whopping 6,146 entries across 17 starting flights, with the prize pool reaching $29,193,500 when all was said and done.
The German-born Dietrich, now based in Austria, was forced to overcome a stacked final table, which included WSOP bracelet winners Rui Ferreira (3rd – $2,390,418), Isaac Baron (4th – $1,843,337), 2024 WSOP Main Event 10th-place finisher Diogo Coelho (5th – $1,421,478), and famous poker coach Benjamin ‘bencb’ Rolle (8th – $651,921).
2024 WSOP Online International Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Nationality | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moritz Dietrich | Germany | $4,021,012 |
| 2 | Evgenii Akimov | Russia | $3,099,896 |
| 3 | Rui Ferreira | Portugal | $2,390,418 |
| 4 | Isaac Baron | USA | $1,843,337 |
| 5 | Diogo Coelho | Portugal | $1,421,478 |
| 6 | Ilya Anatski | Belarus | $1,096,180 |
| 7 | Hai Pan | China | $845,342 |
| 8 | Benjamin Rolle | Germany | $651,921 |
| 9 | Audrius Stakelis | Lithuania | $502,771 |
While Moritz’s score is now the largest in the history of online poker, this version of the WSOP Online International Main Event will be particularly remembered for one of the most brutal beats we’ve ever seen. In fact, in terms of raw equity, it’s surely the most cruel and most expensive in online poker history.
With just four players left, chip leader Evgenii Akimov jammed his 41 big blind stack (about 25 big blinds effective) from the button with 6-4 offsuit. This kind of move isn’t exactly unusual since the blinds each had a far bigger stack than Rui Ferreira, in the cutoff, who was sitting on less than six big blinds.
However, Isaac Baron woke up in the small blind with pocket kings and had an easy decision to get his 20 big blinds in there and go after the overall chip lead. Preflop, Baron was nearly an 84% favorite to win and it only got better as the flop ran out K-J-7 to give Baron top set and a 96.97% edge to win the hand.
While Baron looked more than set to trade stacks with Akimov, the five of clubs gave the Russian six outs with an open-ended straight draw, though Baron had the better club flush draw.
In an absolutely disgusting turn of events, the river brought the eight of spades to give Akimov the dream runner-runner straight to crush Baron’s dream and gave the Russian an insane lead of 62 big blinds to Dietrich’s 23.5 and Rui Ferreira’s 5.5.
Akimov would use the power of the 6-4 offsuit a second time a short time later to crack Rui Ferreira’s ace-king in similarly dramatic fashion. While Ferreira flopped top-two pair, Akimov would find running spades to make a highly-unlikely runner-runner flush and set up a heads-up showdown with Dietrich.
Unfortunately for Akimov, his magic run would end there. Despite going into heads-up play with a 6:1 chip lead, he would not close it out to win his first-career bracelet.
Instead, Dietrich would win a pair of massive all ins, holding on with pocket fives against ace king and making the nut straight on the river vs. a rivered top-two pair.
The German would close it out with Akimov limping 9-5 offsuit and Dietrich checking back 8-2 offsuit. The flop came K-8-6, giving Akimov a gutshot straight draw and a backdoor flush draw while Dietrich made second pair. Akimov would bet one big blind and Dietrich called.
On the offsuit 3 turn, Akimov shoved his final five blinds. With just 15 seconds in his time bank and a massive chip lead, Dietrich didn’t have long to make a decision and would flick in the call. He just needed to avoid a 9 and a 7 to win it all.
The river brought a second three, giving the Upswing Poker coach his first-career WSOP bracelet, having fallen just short at WSOP Europe last year in the €1,000 NLH Turbo Freezeout (3rd, €20,650).