Two years later, Bryan Piccioli was on the ropes with the same number of players remaining. Instead of ending up on the canvas like Negreanu, Piccioli scored a place with history with an iconic Main Event moment in this episode of Hand Histories on PokerGO. 2016 brought Piccioli nothing but despair. The chip leader at the start of Day 5. Bryan Piccioli, the rugged 28-year-old with a thick blackish-brownish beard enveloping his jawline, flashes on the screen. Light applause ripples through the room. It’s time for the World Series. Bryan Piccioli is a young American poker player who has seen success both online and in live tournaments. His internet poker exploits have certainly been more lucrative, but Piccioli is only in his early twenties and appears to have a long way to go before reaching his full potential.
Bryan 'PellePelle' Piccioli's poker resume includes $4.5 million in tournament cashes according to HendonMob, and he's also a former world No. 1 ranked player online.
Earlier this year, Piccioli dusted off the mouse for more online play and pocketed his first WSOP Circuit ring in Event #1: $200 No-Limit Hold'em Knockout during the February festival.
Piccioli also has a bracelet from a large-field event at WSOP Asia-Pacific back in 2013.
However, when it comes to WSOP success, he's undoubtedly best known for two Main Event runs. In 2017, Piccioli made the final table of the WSOP Main Event. There, he had a tough go of it on Day 9 and wound up with a sixth-place finish worth $1,675,000.
More recently, under the moniker 'smbdySUCKme,' he took a chip lead into the final day of the record-breaking GGPoker Main Event. With just 37 opponents left out of a field of 5,802, Piccioli had to stomach a 23rd-place finish as his solid stack melted away in rough back-to-back hands — first losing top two pair to a runner flush then having a standard button shove run into a bigger hand. Barstool sports penn national gaming.
Only time will tell if Piccioli can put together another deep WSOP Main Event run!
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The largest prize pool ever for an online poker tournament -- $27,559,500 -- will be at stake this week, as the main event of the World Series of Poker international series heads to the finish line.
Out of 5,802 buy-ins, 38 players have advanced to Saturday's final of the no-limit Texas hold 'em tournament. American Bryan Piccioli is the chip leader with 18,517,494 entering Saturday's final. Michael 'All Love' Kane of Scotland is in second with 15,907,969.
The top four players will win more than a $1 million, with the champion earning $3,905,686.
Brazilian soccer star Neymar and former heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe were among the participants.
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Kept out of Las Vegas by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Series of Poker moved online this summer. In July, it held a series of domestic events for U.S. players in New Jersey and Nevada, with Nahrain Tamero winning the main event.
The WSOP teamed with online poker platform GGPoker to offer the international series. Buy-ins for the international main event were $5,000, and players, who must be physically located in a jurisdiction that allows online poker, were allowed to enter a maximum of three times.
Paul Burke, head of public relations for GGPoker, said some American players had traveled to Mexico or Canada to participate in the record-breaking tournament.
'Players from all corners of the world have been logging in and playing,' Burke told ESPN. 'We gave players all over the world, who maybe would've had to save up for years and years to go to Vegas or maybe never would've made it [to] Vegas, the chance to play in it.'
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The first World Series of Poker was held in Las Vegas in 1970 and has since grown to the most prestigious poker tournament in the world. Last year's main event attracted 8,569 entries, generating an $80.5 million prize pool. This year's in-person tournament was slated to take place at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas but was postponed in April due to the pandemic, and has yet to be rescheduled.