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It took only two hours on Day 3 of Event #39: $215 Mystery Bounty Main Event at the 2024 PokerNews Online Championship hosted by 888poker for Romania’s Razvan “RazvyB” Belea to top the eight-handed final table and claim the title of champion. He beat out a field of 1,627 runners to scoop a total of $27,654 from the overall $325,400 prize pool with $25,626 of that coming from his first place finish.

Brazilian “betsoares” was forced to settle for second place after failing to overcome a heads-up chip deficit while “dainuciuks” of Lithuania managed to secure a podium finish in third. That is especially impressive given they won their way into the tournament via a freeroll and were able to parlay that into a $16,980 payday.

You may recall that Belea has previously taken down some prestigious live events. In August 2021, Belea won the 888poker LIVE Bucharest Main Event for €50,000, and followed that up with victory in the 2023 European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris Main Event for €1,170,000. Belea’s name is now written into online poker’s history books as the inaugural champion of the PokerNews Online Championship Mystery Bounty Main Event.

Event #39: $215 Mystery Bounty Main Event Final Table Results

	Place	Player	Country	Prize (Including bounties)
	1	Razvan “RazvyB” Belea	Romania	$27,654
	2	“betsoares”	Brazil	$19,367
	3	“dainuciuks”	Lithuania	$16,980
	4	“bucurestean”	Romania	$26,105
	5	“AKGambit”	Germany	$8,423
	6	“scheeescheee”	Mexico	$19,500
	7	“aziz.Mancha”	Brazil	$5,515
	8	“EstorilBlue”	Lithuania	$3,809

Mystery Bounty Portion

Although the regular prize pool had big sums of money up for grabs, the largest single payout in the tournament stemmed from the mystery bounty portion, where the top bounty stood at $30,000. The individual fortunate enough to reel in that score was Brazil’s “Dangerzinn” before ultimately falling in 16th place for a $31,193 combined score.

Final Table Action

There was no runaway chip leader coming into the final table, nor was there an obvious short stack. Nevertheless, the quick blind structure quickly shook things up and it did not take long for “EstorilBlue” to become the first casualty of the day after they lost a flip against “AKGambit”, sending them out in eighth place. Soon after, “aziz.Mancha” fell in seventh place and was followed shortly by start of day big stack “scheeescheee” in sixth place when they could not connect with a suited jack-ten.

Despite rallying from a short stack early at the final table, “AKGambit” could not add to their initial momentum, losing a number of pots before committing their last chips drawing nearly dead against the jacks of “dainuciuks” to hit the rail in fifth place.

Belea flew under the radar for much of the first hour before catching an opportune hot streak that began with a flopped set of sixes to send “bucurestean” to the showers in fourth place. He continued to dominate three-handed play, but in the end, it was “betsoares” who dealt the final blow to “dainuciuks” by winning a flip to bring their opponent’s cinderella story to a premature end in 3rd place and set the stage for a heads-up showdown.

Belea began heads-up play with a slight advantage, and although there were several momentum shifts, in the end, he prevailed, first whittling “betsoares” down to a short stack before finishing them off holding a dominating nine-eight suited. “betsoares” was forced to settle for consolation honors while Belea claimed the victory in Event #39: $215 Mystery Bounty Main Event at the 2024 PokerNews Online Championship hosted by 888poker.

Full PokerNews Online Championship Results

Expand the table below to discover which 888poker players excelled during the inaugural PokerNews Online Championship. The series paid out $1,190,234 across its events, a superb result for everyone involved.

Event	Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
#1 – Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$11	1,733	$17,330	mAteus.dAne	$1,931*
#2 – Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$55	850	$42,500	brainiac1	$4,334*
#3 – Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$109	1,118	$120,000	yriy3	$15,389*
#4 – Opening Event Mystery Bounty	$22	795	$15,900	KovalevEvgen	$1,827*
#5 – Opening Event High Roller	$525	92	$46,000	dariotoma	$11,334
#6 – PKO Mini	$11	1,111	$11,110	GemeValter	$1,884*
#7 – PKO Mid	$33	497	$14,910	jetskii	$2,232*
#8 – PKO	$55	283	$14,150	Sosiska	$2,372*
#9 – PKO	$109	169	$16,900	michel.mica	$3,526*
#10 – PKO 6-Max Mini	$11	928	$10,000	Fishmir	$1,323*
#11 – PKO 6-Max High Roller	$320	58	$17,400	ingeruRO14	$5,690*
#12 – PKO 6-Max Mid	$55	262	$13,100	888BIDO	$3,068*
#13 – PKO 6-Max	$109	135	$13,500	algsxr	$3,231*
#14 – Deep Stack Mini	$8.80	748	$5,984	smoky011$927
#15 – Deep Stack Mid	$33	428	$12,840	Motik_13	$2,348
#16 – Deep Stack	$109	129	$12,900	MikeyW94	$2,999
#17 – Super KO Mini	$11	1,147	$11,470	sumyfish	$903*
#18 – Super KO High Roller	$320	63	$18,900	pincha73	$3,846*
#19 – Super KO	$109	186	$18,600	Nowitzki_41	$2,724*
#20 – SNAP PKO 6-Max	$16.50	143	$2,145	shaormastyle	$509*
#21 – Mystery Bounty 6-Max Mini	$11	1,334	$13,340	Trabuca	$1,529*
#22 – Mystery Bounty 6-Max Micro	$5.50	1,052	$5,260	Bazinga888	$529*
#23 – Mystery Bounty 6-Max Mid	$22	690	$13,800	paitaon	$2,059*
#24 – Mystery Bounty 6-Max	$109	192	$19,200	betsoares	$3,658*
#25 – Cut to the Chase	11	168	$2,000	DOPABR	$448
#26 – DeepStack PKO Mini	$11	1,145	$11,450	Marcothx	$1,614*
#27 – DeepStack PKO Mid	$55	348	$17,400	r1zzy	$3,196*
#28 – PLO Mystery Bounty	$11	198	$2,000	Johnmylove	$556*
#29 – DeepStack PKO	$109	169	$16,900	lovelydonk	$4,183*
#30 – Mystery Bounty Mini	$11	1,886	$18,860	vadimkobets	$1,747*
#31 – Mystery Bounty	$55	824	$41,200	AAbestAAdo	$4,800*
#32 – Mystery Bounty Mid	$22	932	$18,640	Nazar4ik51	$1,867*
#33 – PKO Rumble	$109	349	$34,900	cups951	$8,176*
#34 – PKO Rumble High Roller	$525	67	$40,000	casual_win	$10,268*
#35 – Big Shot Mini	$16.50	648	$10,000	dd6111	$1,633
#36 – Big Shot Mid	$55	247	$12,350	Competencia	$2,503
#37 – Big Shot	$109	179	$17,900	amormori	$4,013
#38 – Mystery Bounty Mini Main Event	$25	3,085	$70,955	bagedag	$6,805
#39 - Mystery Bounty Main Event	$215	1,627	$325,400	RazvyB	$27,654
#40 - Closing Event PKO Mini	$11	1,019	$10,190	Pirombas	$1,174*
#41 - Closing Event PKO High Roller	$320	74	$22,200	VL1fish3BV	$6,908*
#42 - Closing Event PKO Mid	$55	283	$14,150	Alysson1994	$3,341*
#43 - Closing Event PKO	$109	165	$16,500	cups951	$3,512*

*includes bounty payments

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