The main event was narrowed to 38 players entering Saturday's final round. Tournament officials said some American participants relocated to Mexico or Canada to take part in the tournament. Players were allowed to buy in three times during the early rounds of the main event and were required to be physically located in a jurisdiction that allowed online poker. There were 5,802 entries into the $5,000 buy-in main event, creating a $27.6 million prize pool, the largest in online poker history. The international series was hosted on after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas to be postponed. American Tyler Rueger finished third, winning $1.9 million, and Thomas Ward took home $1.35 million for fourth. On the final hand, Madanzhiev flopped a straight and cracked the pocket aces of second-place finisher Wenling Gao of China, who won $2.7 million. Stoyan Madanzhiev of Bulgaria won $3.9 million, the largest prize in online poker history, by outlasting the field in the main event of the World Series of Poker international series Saturday night.
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