The end of Level 15 marked the close of registration. Day 2 of the $50K GTD NLH 6-Max Main Event attracted 305 entries and created a $64,314 prize pool. That will be paid out to the top 36 finishers with a min-cash being worth $578.82 and the eventual winner walking away with a $14,792.36 top prize.
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $14,792.36 |
| 2 | $8,682.39 |
| 3 | $6,560.02 |
| 4 | $4,501.98 |
| 5 | $3,344.32 |
| 6 | $2,636.87 |
| 7 | $2,025.89 |
| 8 | $1,479.22 |
| 9 | $1,189.80 |
| 10-12 | $964.71 |
| 13-18 | $771.76 |
| 19-24 | $707.45 |
| 25-30 | $643.14 |
| 31-36 | $578.82 |
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken is a partypoker US stud. If you don't know that name, you should as he's become on of the most accomplished players in these series.
In the last two series, Vanauken accomplished the incredible feat of capturing back-to-back titles not once, but twice.
In the July 6-12 series, he topped a 134-entry field to win Event #4: $15,000 GTD NLH for nearly $7,500, and then the next night bested 144 runners to win Event #5: $,7500 GTD Green Chip Bounty for $3,145. Then, at the end of July, he won the $320 buy-in Event #3: $15,000 GTD PKO Bounty for $6,393 and a day later emerged victorious in the $215 buy-in Event #4: $12,000 GTD PKO Bounty Boost for $5.691.
PokerNews recently had the chance to chat with Vanauken about his recent successes.
For the 43-year-old Vanauken, who is married with three kids ages 7, 10, and 19, he’s never really had a nine-to-five job. Instead, he fancies himself a real estate broker engaging in flips and investments while playing poker on the side of course.
“I first learned playing $4/$8 limit at Foxwoods in early 2000 and now play now $20/$40 and $30/$60 when I can find a game, or settle on $1/$2 or $2/$5 NLH," he said. "I have played the WSOP Main Event two times with no luck busting on Day 2 both times.”
Additionally, Vanauken grinds a decent amount on the virtual tables under the screen name “alwaysliquid,” which stems from the movie Wall Street when Gordon Gekko tells Bud Fox about how money never sleeps and you need to always be liquid.
“Since New Jersey went legal I play on Borgata and WSOP. I used to play PokerStars but had an issue with them over a year ago and have since boycotted them. I do very well on Borgata. I even shipped the Mega Thursday [not long ago] on my phone from an Applebee’s parking lot as I had no WiFi at home due to power outage.”
As for his recent successes on partypoker US, Vanauken was pleased but wanted to remain humble.
“I am humbled to be able to compete with all of the great players in New Jersey,” he said. “I’m proud that all of my studying and grinding has been producing favorable results in the past few years, taking me from an average breakeven player to a profitable one. At the same time, I try to maintain being humble with this great game and what it has provided for me and my family.”
For Vanauken, the scores rank up there among his proudest poker accomplishments, which includes beating a poker legend.
“In 2013, I beat Joe McKeehen for the Borgata Limit Championship,” Vanauken said. “I think that was the last limit event held at Borgata.”
Other highlights on his poker résumé include finishing sixth in the 2018 WSOP Circuit at Canada’s Playground Poker Club and finishing runner-up in a pair of WSOP Circuit online events back in March.
“So close to a ring but the two cashes of $35k and $20k within a few days definitely eased the quarantine pain,” Vanauken said.
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Also in Level 11 (10,000/20,000/2,500), Ted “roystalin” Ely raised all in for 202,500 and
Ted “roystalin” Ely: 
"A.Jackson1767": 
It was a flip but not after the 
flop game Ely a set. The 
turn kept "A.Jackson1767" drawing live to an open-ended straight draw, but it didn't come in as the 
bricked the river.
Ship the double to Ely!
In Level 11 (10,000/20,000/2,500), action folded around to "A.Jackson1767" in the small blind and they opted to move all in for 379,500, which "Borgatchga" called from the big.
"A.Jackson1767": 
"Borgatcha": 
"A.Jackson1767" was ahead and improved to a set on the 
flop. However, "Borgatcha" flopped an up-and-down straight draw, and it came in when the 
spiked on the turn.
"A.Jackson1767" needed to pair the board on the river to stay alive, and fortunately for them it happened when the 
peeled off to improve them to sixes full of fours.
In the latest edition of the PokerNews Podcast, Sarah Herring, Chad Holloway and Jeff Platt recap the latest 2020 World Series of Poker online bracelet event series from GGPoker.
They then welcome guest Frank Funaro, an up-and-coming East Coast grinder who recently finished runner-up in the 2020 WSOP High Roller and won a partypoker US Online Network tournament.
Other topics covered include the chances of the WSOP Europe happening, why a player union likely will never come together, Norman Chad's "Ooka Looka Challenge," and the recently announced 2020 PokerStars WCOOP schedule.
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