Karolis Sereika Karolis Sereika was crowned the winner of Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo at the 2021 World Series of Poker to win his first bracelet. The Lithuanian professional player defeated a 1441-player field including the formidable Brazilian Pedro Padilha in heads-up play to win the $195,310 top-prize and some bounties worth $500 each.
The Lithuanian grinder had a big rail behind him all night and could be heard throughout the Amazon room in every hand he was involved. His previous best finish was second in a $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em event in 2018 in which he cashed $159,969. Sereika has cashed for $302,858 lifetime with this being his biggest to date at $195,310.
“This is the first live Lithuanian WSOP bracelet so that means a lot to me and all Lithuanian players, I’m very happy and very excited. Just so many emotions, I really wanted it with all my heart.”
Sereika becomes the first Lithuanian live player to earn a WSOP bracelet, and perhaps as impressive, he eliminated all but one player from the final table. Three other Lithuanian players in Vincas Tamasauskas , Gediminas Uselis , and Vladas Burneikis have all won WSOP Online bracelets at GGPoker . Final Result Event #37: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty NLHE
1 Karolis Sereika Lithuania $195,310 2 Pedro Padilha Brazil $120,700 3 Lorenzo Adams United States $88,435 4 Pierre Calamusa France $65,494 5 Steve Buell United States $49,033 6 Alec Gould United States $37,114 7 Romuald Pycior United States $28,406 8 Alexander Norden Sweden $21,986 9 Wing Yam United States $17,211 A lot of familiar faces gave it a shot to win a bracelet in one day but most of them didn’t make it. Qui Nguyen , Greg Raymer , Kenny Hallaert , David “Chino” Rheem , and Maurice Hawkins all gave it a shot but failed to make the money in this event. Plenty of others did make the money as there were a total of 217 players that ended up winning a piece of the $1,923,735 prize pool.
Some of the fortunate players include Jason Stockfish (19th – $6,025), Jeonggyu Cho (47th […]
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