2021 World Series of Poker Online

The 2021 World Series of Poker Online was the second annual series of online poker tournaments organized by the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

2021 World Series of Poker Online
LocationOnline (WSOP.com and GGPoker)
DatesJuly 1-September 12
Champion
Aleksei Vandyshev

There were WSOP bracelet events held across two online sites, WSOP.com and GGPoker. The WSOP.com schedule began on July 1 for players located in New Jersey and Nevada and featured 33 events.[1]

In July, to mark the opening of WSOP.com to players in Pennsylvania, the WSOP announced an additional series of eight bracelet events that will run from August 8-15.[2]

The GGPoker portion of the schedule, for players outside the United States, ran from August 1-September 12. There were also 33 bracelet events, culminating in the $5,000 Main Event with a $20 million guaranteed prize pool.[3]

The live portion of the WSOP began at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on September 30.[4]

WSOP.com Schedule

Manig Loeser won his first bracelet in Event #2
Bryan Piccioli won his second bracelet in Event #12
David Peters won his third bracelet in Event #25
Chris Moorman won his second bracelet in Event #29

Source: [5]

Key: (bracelet number for 2021/bracelet number for career)

Nevada and New Jersey

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
1 $500 No Limit Hold'em The Big 500 Kick-Off 1,277 Jose Noboa (1/1) $105,161 Christopher Basile
2 $600 No Limit Hold'em Monsterstack 1,038 Manig Löser (1/1) $104,313 Mark Liedtke
3 $500 No Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack 950 Donnell Dais (1/1) $90,801 Mike Azzaro
4 $500 No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo 850 Jeffery Hoop (1/1) $73,861 Ryan Hohner
5 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max 459 Jeremiah Williams (1/1) $139,600 Chung You
6 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack 416 Tyler Denson (1/1) $175,700 Steven Kelly (0/1)
7 $777 No Limit Hold'em Lucky 7s 888 Michael Mercaldo (1/1) $123,574 James Anderson (0/1)
8 $888 No Limit Hold'em Crazy Eights 782 Carlos Welch (1/1) $124,369 Joon Kim (0/1)
9 $400 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max 1,217 Philip Beck (1/1) $81,534 Justin Wong
10 $333 No Limit Hold'em 1,517 Michael Leib (1/1) $81,645 Robert Aronowitz
11 $400 No Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack 1,417 Vijay Para (1/1) $86,210 Felix Vandeput
12 $500 No Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack 959 Bryan Piccioli (1/2) $83,332 Dan Sindelar
13 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 561 Ryan Leng (1/2) $108,654 Carmine Ciccone
14 $500 No Limit Hold'em 1,036 Gionni Demers (1/1) $90,023 David Williams (0/1)
15 $5,300 No Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout 188 Justin Saliba (1/1) $253,800 Jonathan Dokler (0/1)
16 $600 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 6-Handed 498 Allen Chang (1/2) $61,394 Edwin Roman
17 $400 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max 1,125 Justin Lapka (1/1) $75,371 Uke Dauti
18 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em North American Open 756 James Gilbert (1/1) $137,570 Landon Tice
19 $888 Pot Limit Omaha Crazy Eights 507 Martin Zamani (1/1) $92,598 Shawn Stroke
20 $3,200 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 312 Sang Lee (1/1) $241,768 Daniel Buzgon
21 $600 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed 551 Bradley Ruben (1/2) $69,148 Michael Holtz
22 $600 No Limit Hold'em Knockout 612 Anthony Kennedy (1/1) $46,796 Ryan Basile
23 $500 No Limit Hold'em Turbo 694 Ryan Hagerty (1/1) $67,207 Richard Liotta
24 $400 No Limit Hold'em Monsterstack 1,176 Byung Yoo (1/1) $77,475 Corey Paggeot
25 $7,777 No Limit Hold'em Lucky 7s High Roller 151 David Peters (1/3) $283,940 Charles Hook
26 $500 No Limit Hold'em The Big 500 Encore 1,118 Eric Van Auken (1/1) $93,627 Dominick Sarle
27 $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship 398 David Goldberg (1/1) $86,440 Todd Sladek
28 $3,200 No Limit Hold'em High Roller Championship 265 Daniel Lazrus (1/1) $205,347 Daniel Buzgon
29 $800 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max Turbo Deepstack Championship 623 Chris Moorman (1/2) $102,406 Matthew Hunt
30 $600 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max Championship 783 Mitchell Halverson (1/1) $84,057 Joshua Faris
31 $500 No Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 917 Brad Zusman (1/1) $79,683 Mark Ioli
32 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship 821 Drew O'Connell (1/1) $146,893 Jason Rivkin
33 $500 No Limit Hold'em Grand Finale 2,024 Dan Sindelar (1/1) $159,100 Stanley Lee

Pennsylvania

Shankar Pillai won his third bracelet in Event #3
# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
1 $500 No Limit Hold'em Keystone Kick Off 500 Mark Herm (1/1) $48,420 Meredith Minger
2 $500 No Limit Hold'em PKO 327 T.J. Carney (1/1) $27,593 Frederick Ferrell
3 $3,200 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 86 Shankar Pillai (1/3) $66,641 Brandon Hall
4 $400 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max 421 Dean Morrow (1/1) $35,480 Michael McNeil
5 $777 No Limit Hold'em Lucky 7s 226 Nicholas Lein (1/1) $40,325 Ben Gazzola
6 $400 No Limit Hold'em PKO 319 Thong Do (1/1) $22,214 Shawn Stroke
7 $600 No Limit Hold'em Monster Stack 288 Michael Lavin (1/1) $39,642 Matthew Boulden
8 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em PA Championship 311 Andrew Porter (1/1) $65,525 Mukul Pahuja

GGPoker Schedule

Hall of Famer Erik Seidel won Event #11 for his ninth bracelet
Former PCA champ Dominik Panka won his first bracelet in Event #28

Source:[6]

Key: (bracelet number for 2021/bracelet number for career)

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
1 $50 The Return No Limit Hold'em 30,810 Bartłomiej Świeboda (1/1) $161,111 Cuong Trinh
2 $1,111 Caesars Cares Charity Event 1,584 João Simão (1/1) $206,075 Espen Sandvik (0/1)
3 $2,500 Limit Hold'em Championship 180 Nicolò Molinelli (1/2) $88,461 Renan Bruschi
4 $800 Double Chance No Limit Hold'em 1,643 Thiago Macedo (1/1) $161,637 Andreas Nasman
5 $315 Bounty Deepstack No Limit Hold'em 2,989 Kacper Pyzara (1/1) $79,785 Evgeny Kochubey
6 $200 Flip & Go No Limit Hold'em 6,368 Georgios Sotiropoulos (1/2) $117,022 Yen-Liang Yao
7 $1,500 Millionaire Maker No Limit Hold'em 5,437 Eduardo Pires (1/1) $1,384,013 Lukas Hafner
8 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship 479 Daniel Smiljkovic (1/1) $423,426 Xuming Qi
9 $525 Superstack Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em 2,229 Lucio Lima (1/1) $91,205 Anson Tsang (0/2)
10 $400 Double Chance Pot Limit Omaha 975 Roland Czika (1/1) $55,369 Lei Yang
11 $10,000 Super Million$ High Roller 624 Erik Seidel (1/9) $977,842 Francisco Benítez
12 $1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em 5,894 Hinojas Jerome (1/1) $635,576 Felipe Ramos
13 $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship 267 Vincas Tamasauskas (1/1) $268,926 Ben Lakatos
14 $500 The Big 500 2,639 Renan Bruschi (1/1) $150,327 Alex Bilokur (0/1)
15 $10,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold'em Championship 161 Arthur Conan (1/1) $466,167 Aleksejs Ponakovs
16 $1,050 WSOP GGMasters High Roller 2,240 Samuel Vousden (1/1) $274,519 Qibing Wang
17 $400 Plossus 4,576 Gaby Livshitz (1/1) $152,165 Yuri Suvorov
18 $5,000 Short Deck Championship 144 Radmir Sadirov (1/1) $169,111 João Vieira (0/1)
19 $840 6-Handed Bounty No Limit Hold'em 2,053 Andrii Derzhypilskyi (1/1) $154,322 Luciano Hollanda
20 $1,500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold'em 1,080 Eduardo Rodrigues (1/1) $212,815 Dario Sammartino
21 $25,000 Super High Roller Championship 255 Alexandros Theologis (1/1) $1,212,033 Kahle Burns (0/2)
22 $400 Colossus 10,903 Armando D'Avanzo (1/1) $409,007 Kosuke Tajima
23 $600 Deepstack Championship No Limit Hold'em 2,820 Nuno Capucho (1/1) $190,274 Karolina Norvaisaite
24 $1,050 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha 896 Dmitry Yurasov (1/2) $92,711 Ami Barer
25 $777 Lucky Sevens No Limit Hold'em 2,014 David Jackson (1/1) $194,178 Dumitru Pora
26 $888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em 2,350 Alexandru Papazian (1/2) $241,128 Tal Noach
27 $5,000 Main Event Online Championship 4,092 Aleksei Vandyshev (1/1) $2,543,073 Edson Tsutsumi
28 $2,100 Bounty No Limit Hold'em Championship 1,064 Dominik Panka (1/1) $185,229 Fengdian Wang
29 $1,500 Fifty Stack No Limit Hold'em 1,308 Vlad Martynenko (1/1) $250,198 Faraz Jaka
30 $525 WSOP Beat the Pros 1,594 Jase Regina (1/1) $75,342 Stefan Atanasov
31 ¥815 WSOP Zodiac Autumn Festival 7,036 Henry Luo (1/1) $87,404 Martin Pochat
32 $210 WSOP Bounty Double Million$ 14,162 Ruslan Rishko (1/1) $194,096 Ales Lekse
33 $500 The Closer 7,103 Arnaud Enselme (1/1) $360,223 Kazuki Ikeuchi

Main Event

The $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on August 22 with the first of 27 starting flights. Players were able to re-enter a maximum of three times. Day 1 survivors returned on September 5 to play down to the final table.

The Main Event attracted 4,092 players, falling $563,000 short of the $20 million guaranteed prize pool. The final table was played on September 11, with the champion earning $2,543,073.

Joe Serock finished in 5th place
Final table
Name Number of chips
(percentage of total)
WSOP
Bracelets
WSOP
Cashes*
WSOP
Earnings*
Edson Tsutsumi 60,403,591 (24.8%) 0 3 $8,567
Aleksei Vandyshev 54,232,812 (22.2%) 0 1 $2,889
Joe Serock 45,567,634 (18.7%) 0 60 $942,761
Espen Jorstad 19,575,928 (8.0%) 0 15 $120,048
Christine Do 15,918,120 (6.5%) 0 24 $117,772
Nikita Kuznetsov 13,454,800 (5.5%) 0 7 $75,393
Dawid Smolka 13,154,945 (5.4%) 0 5 $35,051
Renan Meneguetti 12,581,552 (5.2%) 0 3 $8,491
Dimitrios Farmakoulis 9,067,144 (3.7%) 0 10 $38,196

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final table results
Place Name Prize
1st Aleksei Vandyshev $2,543,073
2nd Edson Tsutsumi $1,907,035
3rd Nikita Kuznetsov $1,430,074
4th Christine Do $1,072,405
5th Joe Serock $804,191
6th Espen Jorstad $603,058
7th Renan Meneguetti $452,229
8th Dawid Smolka $339,124
9th Dimitrios Farmakoulis $254,308

References

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