2021 World Series of Poker $2,500 buy-in no-limit holdem freezeout event, Carlos Chang overcame a field of 896 players to win the earning his first gold bracelet and the top prize of $364,589. Chang became just the third player from his home country of Taiwan to win a WSOP bracelet event, following in the footsteps of James Chen and Pete Chen, who won his first bracelet just a few weeks ago in the online $400 buy-in event.
In addition to the title and the money, Chang also took home a massive haul of 1,368 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year, but it alone was enough to catapult him into 103rd place in the overall standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
The final day of this event began with eight players remaining and Chang in the lead. Quang Ngo was the first to hit the rail, losing a preflop race to recent WSOP Online $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship winner Arthur Conan to fall in eighth place ($37,820). Gerald Cunniff followed soon after, with his A-2 offsuit failing to improve against the pocket fives of high-stakes tournament regular Sergi Reixach. Cunniff took home $49,179 as the seventh-place finisher.
Sung Joo Hyun was one of the hottest players on the live tournament circuit in the early months of 2021. The Korean poker pro and 2020 WSOPO bracelet winner kicked off the year by winning the WPT DeepStacks Venetian main event for $208,335. Roughly six weeks later he emerged victorious in the Wynn Spring Classic $3,500 championship event for another $323,409. he had made another three final tables outside of those two scores before putting together a deep run in this tournament. Hyun was ultimately knocked out in sixth place, with his pocket sixes losing a preflop race against the A-8 of Conan. An ace on the river sent Hyun home with $64,864.
Conan ended up being the next to be eliminated. He ran pocket sevens into the pocket nines of Adrien Delmas. Neither player improved and Conan took home […]
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