Brazilian players collected a string of large scores on GGPoker at the start of November. The biggest, reported by PokerNews Brasil, was a one-two finish by Ciro Gomes and Breno Bertalia in the $3,000 Super High Roller of the APT Online, worth $359,615 combined.

Gomes, of Samba Team, won the title and $203,046, plus a $10,000 package to the APT Championship in Macau. Bertalia took second place and $156,569. The event drew 448 entries and paid out $1,276,800.

Sunday, November 1 brought more results. Pedro Padilha, also of Samba Team, finished second in the $1,500 Sunday High Rollers Main Event (240 entries) for $59,183. Belgium's Pieter Aerts won the heads-up and took $60,232. Guilherme "guizera_" Branco placed fifth in the $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event for $58,340, from a $1,532,500 prize pool and 3,065 entries. Pedro "AKgringoAK" Costa won the $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event, which had 20,624 entries, and received $57,085.

In the GGMasters finals on Monday, November 2, Jonathan "designed2win" Wolter was third in the $1,050 High Rollers for $79,240 (798 entries, $798,000 in prizes). Fellipe Drapichinski finished fifth for $44,560. In the $150 GGMasters (7,281 players), Vitor "BillionME" Dzivielevski placed fourth for $57,920, Daniel "swaaay" Mendonça fifth for $43,434 and Jean "Heinekiller" Marcel ninth for $13,735.

Outside that series, Bernardo Dias won the $25 PLO Ocean KO using the account "Futbol is LIFE!". He beat a field of 51,224 entries and earned $54,498.

Source: PokerNews Brasil

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