2021 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. The final table is set in the The field of 6,650 total entries has been narrowed, over the course of 12 consecutive days of action, down to just nine contenders for the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $8,000,000.
This year’s WSOP was billed as a ‘return to normal’ after 2020 saw the cancellation of the series in the summer, the introduction of the WSOP Online, and a one-off hybrid online and live main event. Much like the last standard main event held in 2019, this year features a final table headlined by an experienced German poker player with a sizable chip lead. In 2019 that man was Hossein Ensan, who went on to win it all. This year, 31-year-old high-stakes tournament regular Koray Aldmemir is the player to beat.
Aldemir will enter the final table with 140,000,000. That’s good for 175 big blinds when action resumes and represents roughly 35 percent of the total chips in play. In addition to the lead, Aldemir is also by far the most accomplished tournament player at the final table. The German-born pro, now living in Vienna, Austria, has more than $12.3 million in prior live tournament earnings, with multiple seven-figure scores under his belt and plenty of experience playing with massive amounts of money on the line. His largest payday came when he finished third in the $111,1111 buy-in One Drop High Roller at the series for more than $2.1 million.
Aldemir held the lead for much of day 7, but truly pulled away from the pack thanks to his elimination of Ark Onikul in 12th place ($470,000). With a board of Q987Q and more than 30 million already in the middle, Onikul checked with J2 for a rivered flush. Aldemir moved all-in with Q8 for a rivered full house and Onikul made the call for his last 26.3 million. Aldemir showed his queens full to rake in the massive pot and become the first and only player to surpass the 100 million mark on the leaderboard.
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