WSOP Main Event Size Hits 4518 Players After Day 1D
Yesterday, as was the case on Saturday, the only bracelet event happening in the Rio Convention Center was the 2021 WSOP Main Event. It was the fourth of six starting flights for the $10K World Championship, and it brought in more players than the first three flights combined. It delivered in excitement and nostalgia, reminding players of pre-pandemic times, perhaps more than any other tournament thus far this year.
There was one other bracelet event happening…online. The WSOP website offered a high-stakes online event for players located in Nevada and New Jersey. It was a $3,200 High Roller with 8-max tables and two reentries possible. It drew a sizeable crowd and did award a bracelet in the pre-dawn hours of Monday.
The focus still remains on the Main Event, though. Today is the first day that many international players will be able to fly directly into the United States without quarantining in Canada or Mexico first, or without applying for a government exception to the regulations. Players did book their flights to arrive on November 8-9, which will be just in time to get into the Main.
Now, everyone waits to see how many poker players actually did it.
Meanwhile, let’s look at what happened yesterday.
Event 67: $10K buy-in WSOP Main Event
Day 1D of the Main Event played out on Sunday with a massive field more than doubling the entries from the first three flights. More than 1,900 players bagged chips on Sunday night, with Adedapo Ajayi bagging the most. However, he didn’t overtake Aleksandr Shevlyakov and his Day 1C stack that neared 400K.
| Event 67: Day 1D | $10K buy-in | NLHE World Championship (Main Event) |
| Starting stack: 60K | ||
| Levels: 120 minutes | ||
| Total entries (so far): | 4,518 | (523 + 845 + 600 + 2550) |
| Registration still open? | yes | |
| Total prize pool: | TBD | |
| Players paid: | TBD | |
| Minimum payout: | TBD | |
| Winner payout: | TBD | |
| Overall chip leader: | Aleksandr Shevlyakov (Russia) | |
| Total players remaining: | 3,331 | (348 + 611 + 433 + 1939) |
| Day 1A/B/D restart: | 11am Tues (Nov 9) | Top ten 1D chip counts: |
| Day 1C/1E/1F restart: | 11am Wed (Nov 10) | Adedapo Ajayi (USA) 340,900 |
| Day 1E start: | 11am Monday | Zachary Grech (USA) 318,400 |
| Wooram Cho (South Korea) 252,100 | ||
| David “Bakes” Baker (USA) 247,300 | ||
| Dan Shak (USA) 229,200 | ||
| Jill Sodafsky (USA) 224,500 | ||
| Alex Goulder (UK) 218,500 | ||
| Taylor Howard (USA) 214,200 | ||
| Ivan Galinec (Croatia) 211,300 | ||
| Mike Gao (USA) 210,000 |
Day 1D Main Event Highlights
More previous Main Event winners played on Sunday. As for those efforts, Greg Raymer (2004) didn’t make it through, nor did Joe McKeehen (2015).
One of the great things about the WSOP Main Event is the ability to highlight unique stories. One mixed recreational poker with the new US online poker market that now includes Pennsylvania, a very inexpensive online satellite turned $20 into a $10K Main Event seat. John Coyle is a teacher at a charter school in Philadelphia, and PokerNews talked to him about his experience. (He finished the day with 85,200 chips.
Hayley Hochstetler provided a little added incentive for potential Main Event winners by posting a picture of the newly-arrived bracelet.
https://twitter.com/hayleyocho/status/1457494305006764033?s=20
Finally, Jeff Platt was able to give the ultimate WSOP tour for the PokerGO livestream and for CBS Sports. In three tweets, he takes the viewers to all of the three major ballrooms hosting the World Series of Poker this year at the Rio, explaining what happens in each one.
Ok folks, let's take you around the Rio. A tour of THE MAIN at the @WSOP
Part 1: pic.twitter.com/b3AVYkAwiq
— Jeff Platt (@jeffplatt) November 8, 2021
Our final stop: THE AMAZON ROOM pic.twitter.com/wpmv8y3Ok5
— Jeff Platt (@jeffplatt) November 8, 2021
Event OB 7: $3,200 NLHE Online High Roller
This tournament online brought in a few hundred players and more than 100 reentries. It finished near dawn Las Vegas time – breakfast time in New Jersey – and showed a winner for whom we have no name. The WSOP will eventually provide one.
| Online OB Event 7 | $3,200 buy-in | NLHE High Roller (2x RE) |
| Total entries: | 434 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,319,360 | |
| Players paid: | 54 | |
| Minimum payout: | $6,200.99 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | “incel4life” (USA) $318,889.31 |
| 2nd place: | “allenprobed” (USA) $198,959.48 | |
| 3rd place: | “sobchak67” (USA) $134,574.72 | |
| 4th place: | “Nitbuster” (USA) $96,049.40 | |
| 5th place: | “GoneBananas” (USA) $65,308.32 | |
| 6th place: | “Cushty” (USA) $46,969.21 | |
| 7th place: | “Ekampen05” (USA) $34,435.29 | |
| 8th place: | “Gradushkata” (Russia) $25,859.45 |
