The World Series of Poker is in full swing…online. United States players had their shot at 2021 WSOP gold bracelets from Nevada, New Jersey, and even Pennsylvania. All of those ran their course, the results of which we reported here:
US (Nevada and New Jersey): Events 1-19 resultsUS (Nevada and New Jersey): Events 20-33 resultsUS (Pennsylvania): Events 1-8
Meanwhile, international poker players have been competing on GGPoker and Natural8 – both sites on the GGNetwork – for 33 bracelets. That action officially started on August 1, though Event 1 flights started several days earlier. The series runs through mid-September, but approximately half of the events have concluded. This means we can provide a list of the results so far.
First Six International Bracelets
Event 1: $50 buy-in The Return NLHE = 30,810 entries, $1,417,260 prize pool ($1M GTD)--Bartlomiej “chester20o” Swieboda (Poland) won for $161,111Event 2: $1,111 buy-in Caesars Cares Charity NLHE = 1,584 entries, $1,759,824 prize pool--Joao Simao (Brazil) won for $206,075Event 3: $2,500 buy-in LHE Championship = 180 entries, $427,500 prize pool--Nicolo Molinelli (Malta) won for $88,461Event 4: $800 buy-in Double Chance NLHE = 1,643 entries, $1,248,680 prize pool--Thiago “IneedWasabi” Crema de Macedo (Brazil) won for $161,637Event 5: $315 buy-in NLHE Bounty Deepstack = 2,989 entries, $896,700 prize pool--Kacper Pyzara (Poland) won for $79,789Event 6: $200 buy-in NLHE Flip & Go = 6,368 entries, $1,209,920 prize pool ($1M GTD)--Georgios Sotiropoulos (Greece) won for $117,022
Event 12: $1K buy-in NLHE Double Stack = 5,894 entries, $5,599,300 prize pool ($4M GTD)--Hinojas “POLALIFE!” Jerome (Hong Kong) won for $635,576
Results to the Halfway Mark
Event 13: $5K buy-in PLO Championship = 267 entries, $1,268,250 prize pool--Vincas Tamasauskas (Lithuania) won for $268,926Event 14: $500 The Big 500 NLHE = 2,639 entries, $1,253,525 prize pool--Renan Bruschi (Brazil) won for $150,327Event 15: $10K buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship = 161 entries, $1,561,700 prize pool--winner tbd – delayed final tableEvent 16: $1,050 buy-in GGMasters NLHE High Roller Freezeout = 2,240 entries, $2.24M prize pool ($2M GTD)--Samuel Vousden (Finland) won for $274,519Event 17: $400 buy-in PLOssus Bounty = 4,576 entries, $1,738,880 prize pool ($1M GTD)--Gaby “kidrurim” Livshitz (Israel) won for $152,165
The final table for Event 15 is delayed until September 4. The weekend day provides the opportunity to semi-live stream the last of the heads-up matches on GGPoker.TV. Norman Chad and Lon McEachern will provide commentary. The winner will receive a WSOP bracelet, of course, and $466,167 in prize money.
Of course, the big news from the first half of the series was Erik Seidel’s bracelet win – his ninth. He is now tied with Johnny Moss, as they are the only two players in poker history with exactly nine WSOP wins. Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Phil Ivey each have 10 bracelets, while Phil Hellmuth reigns as the top bracelet winner in history to date with 15 of them.
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2021 WSOP US Online Totals
The 2021 WSOP events in the US market resulted in these numbers:
-Total number of unique players: 20,513-Total number of reentries: 9,099-Total number of entries: 29,612-Total number of payouts: 4,408-Total prize money awarded: $19,758,797
The numbers from the first half of the GGPoker series were difficult to find. The WSOP hasn’t been issuing any reports at all, only reflecting live reporting results from the PokerNews team. From that, we have the entries and prize pool tallies but not the breakdown of unique players and reentries. Luckily, Pokerfuse provided those numbers.
So, thus far, the WSOP 2021 Online on GGPoker has these numbers through 17 events:
-Total number of unique players: 51,394-Total number of reentries: 17,701-Total number of entries: 69,095-Total number of payouts: 6,079-Total prize money awarded: $38,178,414
