With the WSOP Main Event Championship underway, more bracelets were up for grabs. Greece’s Georgios Sotiropoulos snagged his third bracelet and second one this year with a victory in 2021 WSOP Event #65 $1,000 MINI Main Event. Sotiropoulos outlasted 3,821 runners to win $432,575 in the Mini Main. Eric Zhang won Event #63 $500 Salute to Warriors for a $102,465 score and his first bracelet.
The buzz inside the Rio Casino at the World Series of Poker surrounds the beginning of the prestigious Main Event, but there’s plenty of other action playing down to a winner with more bracelets at stake as the WSOP winds down with the last two weeks of action.
2021 WSOP Event #63 $500 Salute to Warriors attracted 1,738 players and a prize pool worth $782K. Only the top 261 places paid out. Among the familiar faces who cashed were Erik Cajelais, Teddy Tuil, Ben Moon, David Wood, Yueqi Wang, Johnny Tan, Jake Schwartz, Rosalie Petit, Brett Apter, Richard Cox, Pete Carini, and James Patterson.
The Salute to Warriors final table included Eric Zhang, Guy Hadas, Bradley Rogoff, Chulhan Choi, Mitch Garshofsky, Marty Zabib, Hlib Kovtunov, Christopher Corbo, and Anthony Mccurdy.
Eric Zhang and Guy Hadas jousted for the bracelet , but Zhang emerged the victor. First place in Event #63 paid out $102,465 to Zhang, plus the bling.
2021 WSOP Event #65 $1,000 MINI Main Event attracted 3,821 runners and a prize pool worth $3.4 million. Only the top 574 places paid out. Notables who went deep and cashed included Farrid Jattin, Fabian Gumz, Francois Pirault, Elvis Toomas, Brett Apter, Marle Cordeiro, Kevin O’Donnell, Ismael Bojang, Martin Jacobson, JeWook Oh, Philip Tom, John Smith, Sonny Franco, Pat Mahoney, Vinny Pahuja, Thomas Boivin, Sylvain Loosli, Nick Yunis, and Jeff Hakim.
The final table of nine in the Mini Main Event included Georgios Sotiropoulos, Wataru Miyashita, Jordan Meltzer, James Patterson, James Rubinski, Matthew Jewett, David Tuthill, James Morgan, and Erkut Yilmaz. Peter Cross bubbled the final table in tenth place.
Japan and Greece were heads up for the bling, when Wataru Miyashita and Georgios Sotiropoulos were the last […]
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