$30M Gtd KO Series Day 4: Leonard and Gross With Deep Runs

Day 4 of the $30 million guaranteed KO Series saw two members of Team partypoker navigate their way to final tables of high roller events. Patrick Leonard and Jeff Gross may have fallen short, but they padded their bankrolls nicely.

Sixteen players became KO Series champions and banked a large percentage of the $1,496,996 prize money. We have now paid out more than $10.2 million and there are still 207 events on the schedule!

Events completed: 76

Events remaining: 207

Prize money awarded: $10,296,740

$30M Gtd KO Series Day 4 Recap

KO Series #17-HR: $300K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6

Buy-in: $1,050

Entries: 288

Prize pool: $300,000

ITM: 36

The KO Series #17-HR: $300K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 saw play start on eight-handed tabes before switching to six-max. It was a format that obviously suited Team partypoker’s Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard as he bulldozed his way to a third-place finish.

Leonard is the world’s second-best online poker tournament player, according to PocketFives. Leonard won a $17,879 prize boosted by $5,606 worth of bounty payments.

Earlier at the final table, recent KO Series champion “GimmeHummus” busted in sixth-place for more than $10,000 and they were followed to the rail by “Flatador” and “ShipAndDate” who banked $12,416 and $15,513 respectively.

Then came the exit of Leonard, which set up a heads-up encounter between “MeisterYoda” and “MasterOfPigeons”. It was the king of birds who came out on top, banking $24,802 from the main prize pool and $32,211 worth of bounties. Second-place was worth an impressive $24,722 and that was padded with $12,467 from the bounty prize pool.

Place | Player | Prize | Bounties
1 | MasterOfPigeons | $24,802 | $32,211
2 | MeisterYoda | $24,772 | $12,467
3 | Patrick_Leonard | $17,879 | $5,606
4 | ShipAndDate | $13,003 | $2,510
5 | Flatador | $8,939 | $3,477
6 | GimmeHummus | $6,501 | $3,770

KO Series #18-HR: $40K Gtd PLO 6-Max

Buy-in: $530

Entries: 113

Prize pool: $57,912

ITM: 18

Team Online’s Jeff “JeffGross” Gross navigated his way to the final table of KO Series #18-HR: $40K Gtd PLO 6-Max. Gross, who had earlier made a royal flush, fell in sixth-place for $1,320 and $1,968 worth of bounty payments.

“daborreguer” followed Gross to the rail and netted a combined $2,447. Then “C Nugs” whose fourth-place finish saw them win $4,574 busted. Third-place and $5,424 went to “LOL-Donkaments” a name that doffs the cap to Barry Greenstein on the TV show High Stakes Poker.

“SonOfDad” found themselves heads-up for their third KO Series title of the festival but they had to make do with second-place this time around because “ChimneyBarrel” emerged victoriously. SonOfDad won a combined prize worth $9,440 with our champion scooping $13,745.

Place | Player | Prize | Bounties
1 | ChimneyBarrel | $5,411 | $8,334
2 | SonOfDad | $5,405 | $4,035
3 | LOL-Donkaments | $3,817 | $1,607
4 | C Nugs | $2,704 | $1,870
5 | daborreguer | $1,988 | $459
6 | JeffGross | $1,320 | $1,968

KO Series #16-HR: $200K Gtd 8-Max

Buy-in: $530

Entries: 406

Prize pool: $208,075

ITM: 56

The last event of today’s recap is the KO Series #16-HR: $200K Gtd 8-Max. This $530 buy-in tournament saw 406 players buy-in. It was “Baccarat” who won this tournament, securing a $15,262 top prize and $16,455 worth of bounties. This was Baccarat’s second title of the series.

Baccarat defeated ChimneyBarrel heads-up for the title. ChimneyBarrel won KO Series #18-HR: $40K Gtd PLO 6-Max Fast earlier in the night and recently outed himself as Finnish star Sami Kelopuro. The Finn added a total of $20,994 to their KO Series winnings total.

Everyone at the eight-handed final table won more than $2,200. KO Series champion “mostri” was the eighth-place finisher. “iplaypoker”, “Dhr.Dogsome” and another KO Series champion in the shape of “RiverOffice” joined them. The latter netting a combined prize worth $10,545.

“Sim_or_sins…” then exited in fourth-place and was joined as a spectator by “nevada3000” who banked a cool $10,464 plus $5,377.

Event | Champion | Total prize
KO Series #16-HR: $200K Gtd 8-Max | Baccarat | $31,707
KO Series #16-H: $150K Gtd 8-Max | Twitch_1g2pta | $20,582
KO Series #16-M: $50K Gtd 8-Max | whatsername | $7,277
KO Series #16-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max | GogetaPoker | $1,442
KO Series #17-HR: $300K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 | MasterOfPigeons | $57,013
KO Series #17-H: $200K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 | Super-Saiyajin | $32,263
KO Series #17-M: $100K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 | NL_WestShvejk | $10,149
KO Series #17-L: $25K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 | spiver | $2,603
KO Series #17-Mi: $5K Gtd Mix-Max 8-6 | lakapes | $579
KO Series #18-HR: $40K Gtd PLO 6-Max | ChimneyBarrel | $13,745
KO Series #18-H: $15K Gtd PLO 6-Max | player123. | $5,905
KO Series #18-L: $3K Gtd PLO 6-Max | daMelot0do | $961
KO Series #19-HR: $100K Gtd Mix-Max 6-4 Fast | Kronktheman | $24,891
KO Series #19-H: $100K Gtd Mix-Max 6-4 Fast | Crazy_Bet01 | $13,729
KO Series #19-M: $50K Gtd Mix-Max 6-4 Fast | freestylee | $6,108
KO Series #19-L: $10K Gtd Mix-Max 6-4 Fast | PedroGomes | $1,214

$30M Gtd KO Series Day 5 Schedule

Day 5 takes place on Thursday 12th September. Twenty more events kick off that have $1,968,500 worth of guaranteed prize pools to play for.

Win your way into the biggest events by playing out $5 KO Series SPINS. There are many satellites that start at only $0.22 too. More details of those satellites can be found here.

Time (CET) | Event | Buy-in
18:00 | KO Series #20-HR: $250K Gtd 8-Max | $530
18:00 | KO Series #20-H: $200K Gtd 8-Max | $109
18:00 | KO Series #20-M: $50K Gtd 8-Max | $33
18:00 | KO Series #20-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max | $5.50
20:00 | KO Series #21-HR: $500K Gtd 8-Max | $1,050
20:00 | KO Series #21-H: $250K Gtd 8-Max | $320
20:00 | KO Series #21-M: $100K Gtd 8-Max | $55
20:00 | KO Series #21-L: $25K Gtd 8-Max | $11
20:00 | KO Series #21-Mi: $5K Gtd 8-Max | $2.20
20:30 | KO Series #22-HR: $75K Gtd PLO 6-Max | $530
20:30 | KO Series #22-H: $40K Gtd PLO 6-Max | $109
20:30 | KO Series #22-M: $10K Gtd PLO 6-Max | $109
20:30 | KO Series #22-L: $2.5K Gtd PLO 6-Max | $11
22:00 | KO Series #23-HR: $200K Gtd 8-Max Fast | $530
22:00 | KO Series #23-H: $100K Gtd 8-Max Fast | $109
22:00 | KO Series #23-M: $50K Gtd 8-Max Fast | $33
22:00 | KO Series #23-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max Fast | $5.50
22:00 | KO Series #24-HR: $100K Gtd 8-Max Turbo | $530

Check Out All The Champions

Have you won a KO Series event or are just curious to see who has been crowned a champion. Whichever it is, click this link to check out all of our KO Series champions so far.