2021 World Series of Poker

2021 World Series of Poker
2021 World Series of Poker
Location	Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	September 30 – November 23
Champion
	Koray Aldemir
	← 2020 2022 →

The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 52nd edition of the event. It took place from September 30 – November 23 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1]

A full schedule of 88 live events (plus 11 online events) was held after the 2020 WSOP was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on November 4, with the champion being determined on November 17.^[2]

New events included a $1,000 Flip and Go No Limit Hold'em Tournament, where each player was automatically all-in on the first hand and the winners of the hand will proceed into the money and a traditional tournament structure. There was also a Poker Hall of Famers Bounty tournament. Each member of the Poker Hall of Fame was invited to play as a freeroll and had a bounty placed on them, with the buy-in for other players $1,979 in honor of the Hall of Fame opening in 1979.^[3]

The WSOP also held another version of the World Series of Poker Online, which was first held in 2020, beginning on July 1.^[4]

Event schedule[edit]

Yuval Bronshtein won his second bracelet in Event #12

Ben Yu won his fourth bracelet in Event #56

Source:^[5]

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

	High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
	No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
	Online event.

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	$500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em	419	James Barnett (1/1)	$39,013	Jack Behrens	Results
2	$25,000 H.O.R.S.E.	78	Jesse Klein (1/1)	$552,182	Benny Glaser (0/3)	Results
3	$1,000 Covid-19 Relief No Limit Hold'em Charity Event	260	Jeremy Ausmus (1/2)	$48,687	Jesse Lonis	Results
4	$500 The Reunion No Limit Hold'em	12,973	Long Ma (1/1)	$514,604	Giuliano Lentini	Results
5	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	607	Connor Drinan (1/2)	$163,252	Travis Pearson	Results
6	$25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	135	Tyler Cornell (1/1)	$833,289	Michael Liang	Results
7	$1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed	307	Jaswinder Lally (1/1)	$97,915	Andrew "AJ" Kelsall (0/1)	Results
o1	WSOP.com $5,300 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout	156	Martin Zamani (2/2)	$210,600	Ankush Mandavia
o2	WSOP.com $500 No-Limit Hold'em BIG 500	742	Mark Herm (2/2)	$89,356	Steven Rivero
8	$600 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	4,527	Zhi Wu (1/1)	$281,604	Ari Mezrich	Results
9	$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	134	Ari Engel (1/2)	$317,076	Zachary Milchman	Results
10	$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	1,640	Michael Perrone (1/1)	$152,173	Pierre Calamusa	Results
11	$25,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship	57	Jason Koon (1/1)	$243,981	Gabor Szabo	Results
12	$1,500 Limit Hold'em	422	Yuval Bronshtein (1/2)	$124,374	Kevin Erickson	Results
13	$3,000 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em	720	Harvey Matthews (1/1)	$371,914	Gabriel Andrade	Results
14	$1,500 Seven Card Stud	261	Rafael Lebron (1/2)	$82,262	David Williams (0/1)	Results
15	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	1,450	Bradley Jansen (1/1)	$313,403	Jeremy Malod	Results
16	$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship	92	John Monnette (1/4)	$245,680	Nate Silver	Results
17	$1,500 Millionaire Maker No Limit Hold'em	5,326	Daniel Lazrus (2/2)	$1,000,000	Darryl Ronconi	Results
18	$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	253	Vladimir Peck (1/1)	$134,390	Venkata Tayi	Results
19	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	62	Anthony Zinno (1/3)	$182,872	James Chen (0/1)	Results
20	$1,000 Flip & Go No Limit Hold'em	1,240	Dejuante "DJ" Alexander (1/1)	$180,665	Jason Beck	Results
21	$1,500 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	641	Dylan Linde (1/1)	$170,269	Hernan Salazar	Results
o3	WSOP.com $400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	1,023	Pete Chen (1/1)	$82,560	Tzur Levy
22	$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	644	Lara Eisenberg (1/1)	$115,694	Debora Brooke	Results
23	$1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	484	Ryan Leng (2/3)	$137,969	Connor Drinan (1/2)	Results
24	$600 Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack	1,572	Michael Prendergast (1/1)	$127,348	Jeffrey Barnes	Results
25	$5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	578	Scott Ball (1/1)	$562,667	Galen Hall (0/1)	Results
26	$1,000 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em	1,358	Dalibor Dula (1/1)	$199,227	Cole Ferraro	Results
27	$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	594	Anthony Zinno (2/4)	$160,636	Randy Ohel (0/1)	Results
28	$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed	1,069	Dylan Weisman (1/1)	$166,461	Craig Chait	Results
29	$10,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em	66	Chance Kornuth (1/3)	$194,670	Chad Campbell	Results
30	$1,500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold'em	3,520	Michael Noori (1/1)	$610,347	Ryan Leng (2/3)	Results
31	$1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	272	Phil Hellmuth (1/16)	$84,951	Jake Schwartz	Results
32	$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.	282	Jim Collopy (1/2)	$173,823	Ahmed Mohamed	Results
33	$800 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	2,778	Ran Koller (1/1)	$269,478	Ran Ilani	Results
34	$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	285	David "Bakes" Baker (1/3)	$87,837	Peter Lynn	Results
o4	WSOP.com $888 PLO Crazy 8's	295	Ryan Stoker (1/1)	$95,338	Tony Sinishtaj
35	$500 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em	2,931	Anthony Koutsos (1/1)	$167,272	Charbel Kanterjian	Results
36	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	93	Adam Friedman (1/4)	$248,350	Phil Hellmuth (1/16)	Results
37	$1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	1,441	Karolis Sereika (1/1)	$195,310	Pedro Padilha	Results
38	$50,000 High Roller No Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	81	Michael Addamo (1/3)	$1,132,968	Justin Bonomo (0/3)	Results
39	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed	821	Josh Arieh (1/3)	$204,766	Tommy Le (0/1)	Results
40	$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	149	Kevin Gerhart (1/3)	$361,124	Marco Johnson (0/2)	Results
41	$2,500 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em	896	Carlos Chang (1/1)	$364,589	Brady Osterman	Results
42	$1,500 Razz	311	Bradley Ruben (2/3)	$99,188	Charles Sinn	Results
43	$1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em	3,991	Anthony Denove (1/1)	$446,983	David Guay	Results
44	$3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	162	Ryan Hansen (1/1)	$109,692	Kosei Ichinose	Results
45	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship	344	Tommy Le (1/2)	$746,477	Jordan Spurlin	Results
46	$800 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	2,053	Chad Norton (1/1)	$214,830	Steve Lemma	Results
47	$5,000 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	421	Alexandre Reard (1/1)	$428,694	Daniel Strelitz (0/1)	Results
o5	WSOP.com $1,000 Online Bracelet Championship	854	Kazuki Ikeuchi (1/1)	$152,797	Dennis Wilber
48	$1,500 Shootout No Limit Hold'em	800	Gershon Distenfeld (1/1)	$204,063	Johan Schumacher	Results
49	$10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	122	Farzad Bonyadi (1/4)	$297,051	Johannes Becker (0/1)	Results
50	$600 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack	1,569	Darrin Wright (1/1)	$127,219	Victor Paredes	Results
51	$3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	997	Brian Rast (1/5)	$474,102	John Gallaher	Results
52	$1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em Championship	5,404	Robert McMillan (1/1)	$561,060	Robert Davis	Results
53	$25,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha	212	Shaun Deeb (1/5)	$1,251,860	Ka Kwan Lau	Results
54	$2,500 Nine Game Mix 6-Handed	319	Nicholas Julia (1/1)	$168,608	Kristan Lord	Results
55	$400 Colossus No Limit Hold'em	9,399	Anatolii Zyrin (1/2)	$314,705	Michael Lee	Results
56	$10,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship	329	Ben Yu (1/4)	$721,453	Nikita Kuznetsov	Results
57	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	80	Brian Yoon (1/4)	$240,341	Danny Wong	Results
58	$1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'em	1,893	Jean-Luc Adam (1/1)	$255,623	Eugene Solomon	Results
59	$1,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'em	641	Mike Ruter (1/1) Sam Dighlawi (1/1)	$56,683 $56,683	Tomer Wolf David Lander	Results
60	$50,000 Poker Players Championship	63	Daniel Cates (1/1)	$954,020	Ryan Leng (2/3)	Results
o6	WSOP.com $666 Online Bracelet	1,029	John Ripnick (1/1)	$114,898	Matthew Gillingham
61	$600 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship	3,916	Cole Ferraro (1/1)	$252,491	Sami Rustim	Results
62	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	725	Kevin Gerhart (2/4)	$186,789	Dustin Dirksen	Results
63	$500 Salute to Warriors No Limit Hold'em	1,738	Eric Zhang (1/1)	$102,465	Guy Hadas	Results
64	$5,000 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha	579	Eelis Parssinen (1/1)	$545,616	Noah Bronstein	Results
65	$1,000 Mini Main Event No Limit Hold'em	3,823	Georgios Sotiropoulos (2/3)	$432,575	Wataru Miyashita	Results
66	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	194	Josh Arieh (2/4)	$484,791	Danny Chang	Results
o7	WSOP.com $3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 8 Max	434	Jacob Neff (1/1)	$318,889	Chad Eveslage
67	$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event	6,650	Koray Aldemir (1/1)	$8,000,000	George Holmes	Results
68	$1,111 Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em	3,797	Scott Ball (2/2)	$396,445	Michael Shanahan	Results
69	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	372	Jermaine Reid (1/1)	$113,459	Peder Berge	Results
70	$888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em	5,252	David Moses (1/1)	$888,888	Sejin Park (0/1)	Results
71	$1,500 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed	860	Mourad Amokrane (1/1)	$132,844	Matt Mamiya	Results
72	$1,500 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha	846	Motoyoshi Okamura (1/1)	$209,716	Rafael Mota	Results
73	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	144	Brian Hastings (1/5)	$352,958	Ian O'Hara	Results
74	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	212	Denis Strebkov (1/2)	$117,898	Jerry Wong	Results
o8	WSOP.com $7,777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em High Roller	183	Aleksejs Ponakovs (1/1)	$432,491	Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz
o9	WSOP.com $777 Lucky 7's No Limit Hold'em	732	Yuliyan Kolev (1/1)	$146,163	Tim Reilly
75	$1,500 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em	1,191	Chad Himmelspach (1/1)	$270,877	Stefan Reiser	Results
76	$10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	307	Romain Lewis (1/1)	$463,885	Aditya Agarwal	Results
77	$1,500 Fifty Stack No Limit Hold'em	1,501	Paulo Joanello (1/1)	$321,917	Toby Price	Results
78	$10,000 Razz Championship	109	Benny Glaser (1/4)	$274,693	Everett Carlton	Results
79	$1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No Limit Hold'em	468	Ole Schemion (1/1)	$172,499	Benjamin Underwood	Results
80	$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed	496	Robert Cowen (1/1)	$280,916	Robert Emmerson	Results
81	$800 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	1,921	Jason Wheeler (1/1)	$204,274	Julian Velasquez	Results
82	$250,000 Super High Roller No Limit Hold'em	33	Adrián Mateos (1/4)	$3,265,362	Ben Heath (0/1)	Results
83	$1,500 The Closer No Limit Hold'em	1,903	Leo Margets (1/1)	$376,850	Alex Kulev	Results
84	$50,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha	85	Jeremy Ausmus (2/3)	$1,188,918	Phil Hellmuth (1/16)	Results
85	$50,000 High Roller No Limit Hold'em	113	Mikita Badziakouski (1/1)	$1,462,043	Ren Lin	Results
86	$1,000 Super Turbo No Limit Hold'em	1,025	Michael McCauley (1/1)	$161,384	Andrew Wilson	Results
87	$100,000 High Roller No Limit Hold'em	64	Michael Addamo (2/4)	$1,958,569	Kevin Rabichow	Results
o10	WSOP.com $1,000 Mini Main Event (PA only)	171	David Eldridge (1/1)	$41,553	Zachary Weatherford
o11	WSOP.com $1,000 Mini Main Event	774	Daniel Turner (1/1)	$142,663	Dylan DeStefano
88	$5,000 No Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	531	Boris Kolev (1/1)	$511,184	Uri Reichenstein	Results

Player of the Year[edit]

Final standings as of November 23 (note: does not include events from the 2021 WSOP Online series or the 2021 WSOP Europe series):

Standings^[6]
Rank	Name	Points	Bracelets
1	Josh Arieh	4,194.59	2
2	Phil Hellmuth	3,720.01	1
3	Daniel Negreanu	3,531.03	0
4	Ben Yu	3,345.92	1
5	Jeremy Ausmus	3,272.57	2
6	Shaun Deeb	3,119.45	1
7	Ryan Leng	3,042.21	1
8	Dylan Linde	2,976.62	1
9	Koray Aldemir	2,911.73	1
10	Scott Ball	2,907.94	2

Main Event[edit]

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on November 4.

Performance of past champions[edit]

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Doyle Brunson	1976, 1977	2ABD
Tom McEvoy	1983	2ABD
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	1B
Phil Hellmuth	1989	3
Scotty Nguyen	1998	2CEF
Chris Moneymaker	2003	5 (260th)*
Greg Raymer	2004	1D
Joe Hachem	2005	3
Jerry Yang	2007	3
Ryan Riess	2013	2ABD
Martin Jacobson	2014	4 (844th)*
Joe McKeehen	2015	1D
Qui Nguyen	2016	5 (241st)*
Scott Blumstein	2017	3
Hossein Ensan	2019	2CEF
Damian Salas	2020	1A

*- Denotes player who finished in the money

Other notable high finishes[edit]

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
45th	Nick Petrangelo	$163,900
89th	Stephen Chidwick	$68,900

Final Table[edit]

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Koray Aldemir	140,000,000 (35.1%)	0	30	$3,040,322
George Holmes	83,700,000 (21.0%)	0	1	$50,855
Alejandro Lococo	46,800,000 (11.7%)	0	1	$3,654
Joshua Remitio	40,000,000 (10.0%)	0	0	$0
Jack Oliver	30,400,000 (7.6%)	0	2	$7,523
Özgür Seçilmiş	24,500,000 (6.1%)	0	6	$19,460
Henry Park	13,500,000 (3.4%)	0	22	$240,280
Chase Bianchi	12,100,000 (3.0%)	1	5	$334,932
Jareth East	8,300,000 (2.1%)	0	24	$132,503

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final Table results[edit]

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Koray Aldemir	$8,000,000
2nd	George Holmes	$4,300,000
3rd	Jack Oliver	$3,000,000
4th	Joshua Remitio	$2,300,000
5th	Özgür Seçilmiş	$1,800,000
6th	Henry Park	$1,400,000
7th	Alejandro Lococo	$1,225,000
8th	Jareth East	$1,100,000
9th	Chase Bianchi	$1,000,000

References[edit]

^ Ryder, Chelsea (April 1, 2021). "WORLD SERIES OF POKER ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR 2021". WSOP.com. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
^ Barnes, Jim (April 1, 2021). "World Series of Poker announces tentative dates for fall". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
^ Fast, Erik (June 15, 2021). "2021 World Series of Poker Schedule Announced". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved June 15, 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.
^ "2021 World Series of Poker schedule" (PDF). WSOP.com. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
^ "WSOP Player of the Year standings". WSOP.com.

External links[edit]

Official website

[1] Ryder, Chelsea (April 1, 2021). "WORLD SERIES OF POKER ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR 2021". WSOP.com. Retrieved April 1, 2021.

[2] Barnes, Jim (April 1, 2021). "World Series of Poker announces tentative dates for fall". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 1, 2021.

[3] Fast, Erik (June 15, 2021). "2021 World Series of Poker Schedule Announced". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved June 15, 2021.

[4] Holloway, Chad (April 1, 2021). "Live WSOP at Rio Sept. 30-Nov. 23; Online & Europe Versions Also Return". PokerNews.com. Retrieved April 1, 2021.

[5] "2021 World Series of Poker schedule" (PDF). WSOP.com. Retrieved June 15, 2021.

[6] "WSOP Player of the Year standings". WSOP.com.

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