Event #15: $10,000 Heads Up NLHE Championship [No Late Reg, 256 Cap]
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2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Events
Event #15: $10,000 Heads Up NLHE Championship [No Late Reg, 256 Cap]
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Players Info - Day 1
2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Events
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,561,700
Entries
161
Entries
161
Players Left
4
Earlier this week, the original cap of 128 players for the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online was reached for Event #15: $10,000 Heads Up NLH Championship, and it was decided to increase the maximum number of entrants to 256. This means that if there fewer players than the cap, some players will receive a bye into the next round.
Back in 2020, David Peters won Event #54: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship for $360,480 while GGPoker Ambassador Fedor Holz won Event #79: $25,000 Heads Up for $1,077,025. They both won their second WSOP bracelets with these victories. They've both entered the field again today so can either of them do it again?
The heads-up tournament will be the only one on GGPoker where every player will be playing with their real name showing on the software instead of possible nicknames. A tournament bracket is scheduled to be set about an hour in advance which will be posted once PokerNews receives this.
Anatoly Filatov, Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand Grospellier, Mikhail Shalamov, Andy Tsai, Felipe Ramos, Tsugunari Toma, and Dan Bilzerian are also representing the GGPoker brand while Friends of GG like Mario Mosboeck, Daniel Dvoress, Niklas Astedt, Roman Emelyanov, Manig Loeser, Rainer Kempe, Max Kruse, and Wiktor Malinowski are in the mix too.
When the players start their heads-up matches, they will get 100,000 to play with. The blinds have been reduced compared to last year as the level duration goes from 10 minutes each for the first six levels to 8 minutes for the next six to then last 6 minutes each until each match is over.
With shorter levels, the action will for sure be fast-paced and exciting and as the PokerNews live reporting team will be here from the first raise until the semi-finals have been reached, make sure to follow along to see who will get there in the end.
The tournament has just kicked off with 161 players in the field.
An overview of the current matches will be posted as soon as possible.
With no late registration, the payouts for Event #15 have been announced with 161 players generating a $1,561,700 prize pool.
A total of 16 players will get paid at least a min-cash of $31,078 with the eventual winner slated to win the $466,167 top prize and a WSOP gold bracelet. Here is a look at all of the payouts, which can also be found in the 'Payouts' tab within our coverage.
| Place | Prize |
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| 1 | $466,167 |
| 2 | $279,700 |
| 3-4 | $155,389 |
| 5-8 | $62,156 |
| 9-16 | $31,078 |
Blinds: 250/500
Luke Reeves raised to 1,250 from the button and Matthew Hyman three-bet to 3,750 for Reeves to respond with a four-bet to 10,500. Hyman took some time and then decided to shove for 96,675 which Reeves called with the slightly bigger stack.
Matthew Hyman: 
Luke Reeves: 
The board ran out 
for Reeves to hold with the aces to earn a spot with the others who had received a bye into the Round of 128.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Blinds: 250/500
Rahul Byrraju raised to 1,250 from the button and Rui Ferreira made the call.
The flop came 
, Ferreira check-raised the 1,250 continuation-bet of Byrraju to 4,550 and got called.
The turn was the 
and Ferreira took over the initiative and led out with a bet of 11,600 which Byrraju called.
The river completed the board with the 
and Ferreira barreled a bet of 27,718 into the pot. Byrraju shoved with the bigger stack and Ferreira called for the rest to see him double up with the 
for the wheel while Byrraju held the 
for two pair.
Byrraju was left with 2,500 and called when Ferreira raised on the button in the next hand.
Rahul Byrraju: 
Rui Ferreira: 
The board ran out 
for Ferreira to turn the pair of sixes to bust Byrraju.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Blinds: 250/500
Sorel Mizzi seemed to have lost the majority of his stack to Shan Huang already and was left with 4,250 which he shoved from the button and was called by Huang.
Sorel Mizzi: 
Shan Huang: 
The board ran out 
for Huang to flop trips immediately to earn his spot in the next round.
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- Eric Mattsson - Jun Obara
- Ottomar Ladva -Benjamin Tollerene
- Manig Loeser - Paulo Goncalves
- Mateusz Wozniak - Tsugunari Toma
- Wiktor Malinowski - Kosei Ichinose
- Bill Perkins - Ryan Otto
- Bertrand Grospellier - Daniyar Aubakirov
- Rainer Kempe - Justin Bonomo
- Murilo Milhomem - Yingui Li
- Daniel Negreanu - Xuming Qi
- Ranno Sootla - Affif Prado
- Sami Kelopuro - Alexey Zelentsov
- Vlad-Stefan Lache - Jareth East
- Morten Klein - Taisto Janter
- Galen Hall - Kyudam Kim
- David Yan - Bernard Larabi
- Fyodor Shatokhin - Giovanni Zanette
- Csaba Hegedus - Mark Herm
- Viktor Kudinov - Sechariah Quek
- Joakim Andersson - Ismet Toktas
- Joao Vieira - Igor Grigoriev
- Gergo Kozenkai - Leonid Yanovski
- Lev Gottlieb - Martijn Gerrits
- Francisco Benitez - Anton Morgenstern
- Zoltan Schmidt - Feng Chen
- Joao Simao - Mike Watson
- Wenjie Huang - Siarhei Shunkin
- Guillaume Nolet - Brunno Botteon
- Mateus De Moraes - Yuri Dzivielevski
- Mauricio Ferreira Pais - Blaz Zerjav
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Blinds: 400/800
Bertrand Grospellier raised to 1,600 from the button and Daniyar Aubakirov three-bet to 5,200. Grospellier four-bet to 15,600 for Aubakirov to five-bet jam for 65,525 which the GGPoker Ambassador called.
Daniyar Aubakirov:
Bertrand Grospellier: 
The board ran out 
for Grospellier to hold with the jacks to eliminate Aubakirov.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Blinds: 300/600
Mark Herm raised to 1,422 from the button and Csaba Hegedus defended.
The flop came , Hegedus check-raised the 939 continuation-bet of Herm to 4,500 for Herm to reraise to 8,061. Hegedus decided to shove for Herm to make the call for the 37,579 he still had left at that point.
Mark Herm:
Csaba Hegedus: 
Herm had flopped top pair but Hegedus had hit two pair.
The turn was the 
which didn't help Herm and neither did the for Herm to see this attempt at winning another WSOP bracelet come to an early end.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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