2021 World Series of Poker Online
Series of online poker tournaments
2021 World Series of Poker Online Location Online (WSOP.com and GGPoker) Dates July 1-September 12 Aleksei Vandyshev
The 2021 World Series of Poker Online was the second annual series of online poker tournaments organized by the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
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 Löser 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
Gabi 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 Jørstad
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 Jørstad
$603,058
7th
Renan Meneguetti
$452,229
8th
Dawid Smolka
$339,124
9th
Dimitrios Farmakoulis
$254,308
References
^ Nuwwarah, Mo (April 14, 2021). "WSOP Online Bracelet Schedule: 33 Bracelets in 32 Days, Starting July 1" . PokerNews.com. Retrieved April 14, 2021 .
^ Holloway, Chad (July 15, 2021). "WSOP Offering Bracelet Events to Pennsylvania Players August 8-15" . PokerNews.com. Retrieved July 16, 2021 .
^ Pitt, Matthew (July 20, 2021). "GGPoker Announces Full 33-Bracelet WSOP Online 2021 Schedule" . PokerNews.com. Retrieved July 20, 2021 .
^ Holloway, Chad (April 1, 2021). "Live WSOP at Rio Sept. 30-Nov. 23; Online & Europe Versions Also Return" . PokerNews.com. Retrieved April 1, 2021 .
^ Ryder, Chelsea (April 14, 2021). "WSOP.COM ANNOUNCES WSOP ONLINE 2021 DOMESTIC SCHEDULE" . WSOP.com. Retrieved April 14, 2021 .
^ "GGPoker WSOP schedule" . GGPoker. Retrieved July 20, 2021 .
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