Georgios Sotiropoulos won his third WSOP bracelet Friday afternoon at the Rio. With a victory in the $1,000 mini main event , the Greek pro won a bracelet online, in Europe, and in Las Vegas.
Sotiropoulos defeated a huge field of 3,821 entries and Japan’s Wataru Miyashita heads-up to win $432,575, which was the second-largest score of his career behind only a runner-up finish in €5,300 no-limit hold’em event in 2013 at a European Poker Tour stop in Prague worth the equivalent of $957,180. With his most recent cash, he now has more than $3.4 million in career tournament earnings.
Friday’s victory was his second bracelet of 2021. He won his second career bracelet over the summer during the WSOP Online international series on GGPoker. He took down the $200 no-limit hold’em flip & go event for $117,022. His first bracelet came during the 2015 WSOP Europe in an €1,100 no-limit hold’em for $128,252.
“It’s an amazing achievement,” Sotiropoulos told WSOP live reporters about his third piece of WSOP gold. “I really love the World Series of Poker , Las Vegas, the tournaments, the people here. Everything excites me. Makes me come again and again, playing more and winning more. Feeling grateful.”
With an identical structure to the $10,000 main event, which kicked off Thursday afternoon, except for 30-minute levels instead of 120 minutes, the field actually reached the final table late on Day 2 and the nine-handed table was trimmed to just five before bagging up for the night.
Jordan Meltzer eliminated Erkut Yilmaz in ninth when he moved all in with A-5 and ran into Meltzer’s Q-Q. Yilmaz couldn’t spike a three-outer and was the final table’s first elimination.
A short-stacked James Morgan moved all in for his last 5.5 big blinds with 5-5 and was looked up by Miyashita’s K-7 in the small blind. Miyashita flopped top pair to win the race and eliminate Morgan in eighth.
Sotiropoulos entered the final table as one of the shorter stacks but doubled up early and then eliminated David Tuthill in seventh. Tuthill got his money in good with K-Q against Sotiropoulos’ K-10, but a […]
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