The 2021 World Poker Tour World Online Championships $5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event drew a sizable field of 1,177 entries, easily surpassing the $5 million guarantee to build a final prize pool of $5,895,000. In the end, the largest share of that money was awarded to Slovenia’s Rok Gostisa, who defeated three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner David Peters heads-up to secure the title and the top payday of $959,493.
This was Gostisa’s largest recorded tournament cash, blowing away the $40,970 he earned as the champion of a $1,100 buy-in preliminary event at the 2017 WPT Five Diamond Classic series at Bellagio.
Vlad Darie came into the final table as the chip leader, with Gostisa sitting in the middle of the pack. Joao Simao was the first to fall when his pocket jacks ran into the pocket queens of Peters. The Brazilian, who won his first bracelet earlier this year during the WSOP Online festival, earned $76,713 as the ninth-place finisher. Peters then won a preflop race with K-Q against the pocket eights of Rodrigo Sirichuk (8th – $97,472) to narrow the field to seven.
Darie soon established himself as the clear second-largest stack behind Peters, who had surged to the top of the counts with his early knockouts. Darie scored a double knockout, with his A9 besting the KQ of Manuel Fritz (7th – $123,182) and the AQ of Talal Shakerchi (6th – $156,421). Darie flopped the nut flush to leave his pair of opponents drawing dead.
Peters picked up pocket aces against the pocket kings of Philipp Hofbauer (5th – $202,734) to score the next elimination at the final table. Bruno Volkmann (4th – $296,185) also saw his run in this event ended by Peters. Volkmann shoved with a gutshot straight draw, holding J10 after a Q88 flop. Peters made the call with A8 for trip eights. Volkmann improved to a straight on the 9 turn, but the 9 on the river gave Peters a full house and the pot.
Peters took a sizable lead into three-handed play, with his 151,489,579 in chips being nearly three times as many as […]
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