Andrey Kotelnikov has won the World Poker Tour World Online Championships Mix-Max Championship, earning himself the $488,508 top prize, as well as a ticket into the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions, a Hublot Classic Fusion Titanium watch and, of course, his name on the newly re-christened Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup. 

In the latest hugely popular online version of the WPT’s events hosted on partypoker, there were 989 players in with a chance, and a huge number of those players qualified for the event via satellites which have proved very popular. By the time the field was trimmed to a seven-handed final table, it wasn’t the Russian Kotelnikov who was chip leader, that honour instead falling to Ukrainian player Oleg Vasylchenko, who sat behind 23.5 million chips to Kotelnikov’s 12.5 million.

Those chipcounts would change, obviously, but they weren’t the only ones. British player Stuart Guite came into play as the shortest stack with just 5.7 million to his name, but he would eventually finish runner-up for over $350,000 with a very strong performance.

WPT Champions Club member Oleg Vasylchenko didn’t hold onto his lead, but Guite doubled-up to put himself back into contention, while Canada’s Jerry Wong busted in 7th place for $69,300 when his ace-ten couldn’t overtake Stuart Guite’s pocket queens.