2021 World Series of Poker Online

2021 World Series of Poker Online
Location	Online (WSOP.com and GGPoker)
Dates	July 1-September 12
Champion
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.

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.

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.

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

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

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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:

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

External links

• Official site
• GGPoker