2021 WSOP Online on GGPoker Reaches Halfway Point

Last updated on August 25th, 2021

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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 results

US (Nevada and New Jersey): Events 20-33 results

US (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 $161,111
Event 2: $1,111 buy-in Caesars Cares Charity NLHE = 1,584 entries, $1,759,824 prize pool
–Joao Simao (Brazil) won for $206,075
Event 3: $2,500 buy-in LHE Championship = 180 entries, $427,500 prize pool
–Nicolo Molinelli (Malta) won for $88,461
Event 4: $800 buy-in Double Chance NLHE = 1,643 entries, $1,248,680 prize pool
–Thiago “IneedWasabi” Crema de Macedo (Brazil) won for $161,637
Event 5: $315 buy-in NLHE Bounty Deepstack = 2,989 entries, $896,700 prize pool
–Kacper Pyzara (Poland) won for $79,789
Event 6: $200 buy-in NLHE Flip & Go = 6,368 entries, $1,209,920 prize pool ($1M GTD)
–Georgios Sotiropoulos (Greece) won for $117,022

#WSOP Bracelet #6 went to Georgios Sotiropoulos. That's his second time winning a bracelet.
Lucky man! Very well played.#WSOPOnline #ThanksGG pic.twitter.com/s6YLBNL8jK
— GGPoker (@GGPoker) August 9, 2021

Next Six Bring It to a Dozen Winners

Event 7: $1,500 buy-in NLHE Millionaire Maker = 5,437 entries, $7,747,725 prize pool ($5M GTD)
–Eduardo Pires (Brazil) won for $1,384,013
Event 8: $5K buy-in NLHE 6-Handed Championship = 479 entries, $2,275,250 prize pool
–Daniel Smiljkovic (Germany) won for $423,426
Event 9: $525 buy-in NLHE Superstack Bounty Turbo = 2,229 entries, $1,114,500 prize pool
–Lucio “WizardOfAz” Lima (Brazil) won for $91,205
Event 10: $400 buy-in PLO Double Chance = 975 entries, $366,600 prize pool
–Roland “Quina Quen” Czika (Hungary) won for $55,369
Event 11: $10K buy-in Super MILLION$ High Roller = 624 entries, $6,052,800 prize pool ($5M GTD)
–Erik Seidel (USA/Canada) won for $977,842

Thanks everyone for the kind words, I’m totally thrilled! Really caught me by surprise because I’m so out of my element online. Hope I can sleep 🍾🏆
— Erik Seidel (@Erik_Seidel) August 17, 2021

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 $268,926
Event 14: $500 The Big 500 NLHE = 2,639 entries, $1,253,525 prize pool
–Renan Bruschi (Brazil) won for $150,327
Event 15: $10K buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship = 161 entries, $1,561,700 prize pool
–winner tbd – delayed final table
Event 16: $1,050 buy-in GGMasters NLHE High Roller Freezeout = 2,240 entries, $2.24M prize pool ($2M GTD)
–Samuel Vousden (Finland) won for $274,519
Event 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.

Mr. @Erik_Seidel claimed his NINTH @WSOP Bracelet yesterday on @GGPoker.
It was 29 YEARS after his first 🤯.
Check these stats 👇.#WSOPOnline #PokerGods pic.twitter.com/f3se6Sc6gT
— GGPoker (@GGPoker) August 18, 2021

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