Scott Ball (left), Phil Hellmuth (center right), and Shaun Deeb (right) are all trying to chase down 2021 WSOP POY leader Josh Arieh (center left) with less than a week left in the series. With the World Series of Poker Main Event completed and a new World Champion in Koray Aldemir crowned , one of the last major awards of the series to be handed out this fall will be to the winner of the 2021 WSOP Player of the Year.
Headed into the last weekend of the 2021 schedule, there is plenty of drama left to be had as the final WSOP events to take place at the Rio all have the potential to shake up the leaderboard and provide a potential surprise ending to this year’s tightly-run race.
One person, looking for as little drama as possible is current POY frontrunner (and PocketFives’ own) Josh Arieh . After a series performance that includes two bracelet wins and a final table appearance in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, Arieh simply needs to hold in order to have his banner hanging in the halls of the new home of the WSOP when it moves to the Strip in the summer of 2022
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While a nearly 600 point lead is substantial, it’s by no means insurmountable. He understood this when, earlier in the week he announced on Twitter that he had to make his way back to Atlanta and that his WSOP was over – meaning that he wouldn’t have an opportunity to improve his position. But days later, circumstances changed for Arieh and he booked a flight back to Las Vegas in order to try and regain the heat had throughout most of the series and lock down a place in WSOP history.
One of those players Arieh needs to contend with is the 16-timer Phil Hellmuth who, after an in-the-money finish in the $777 WSOP Online event and a final table appearance in the $10K Razz Championship, has vaulted right back into the race. He currently sits in second […]
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