Simon Mattsson is the 2022 WSOP Online Main Event champion, after the super-talented poker tournament specialist put on a masterclass of a performance at the final table. Mattsson navigated his way to the final table as the chip leader before emerging victoriously, having left 4,983 opponents in his wake, and securing $2,793,574 of the $23,674,000 prize pool.
The man whose "C. Darwin2" alias strikes fear into opponents' hearts now has more than $27.6 million in online poker tournament winnings plus a rightful place in online poker's history books.
#33: $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event Final Table Results
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Simon Mattsson | Norway | $2,793,574 |
2 | Kannapong Thanarattrakul | Thailand | $2,094,884 |
3 | Feng Zhao | China | $1,570,941 |
4 | Samuel Vousden | Finland | $1,178,040 |
5 | Istvan Briski | Austria | $883,404 |
6 | Yanfei Chi | China | $662,459 |
7 | Jordan Spurlin | Canada | $496,774 |
8 | Oliver Sprason | United Kingdom | $372,529 |
9 | Tim Rutherford | Canada | $279,357 |
Tim Rutherford went into the final table as the shortest stack with only 11 big blinds at his disposal, and he was the first casualty of the night.