Level 6
: 150/300, 30 ante
Players are on a five-minute break.
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #28: $3,200 NLH High Roller Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Buy-in
$3,200
Prize Pool
$805,600
Entries
265
Level
32
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
6,000
Entries
265
Players Left
1
Level 6
: 150/300, 30 ante
Daniel "spicoli24" Sepiol has been a fixture on the Midwest poker circuits for a few years, spending much time on the felt on the Mid States Poker Tour, Heartland Poker Tour, and World Series of Poker Circuit, to name a few places the Indiana native has frequented. 2021 has served as a leaping pad for Sepiol to take a big step towards the next level, and his results leading up to the WSOP.com Online Bracelet Series speak for themselves.
Sepiol's first taste of success came in March during the 2021 MSPT Iowa Riverside $1,100 Main Event. Sepiol took down his first MSPT title, along with a career-high score of $162,781 for beating a field of 862 entrants. June was another lucrative month for Sepiol, as he earned $105,450 in a heads-up chop with Michael Newman in the Venetian Deep Stack Championship Series Event #45: $1,100 Ultimate Stack. He capped off his stellar month with a 45th-place finish in the Wynn Millions $10,000 NLH for $51,650.
Sepiol now sets his sights on the WSOP.com Online Bracelet Series, looking to continue his plethora of success in 2021. Will he continue the breakout year in his transition to the virtual felt? In today's High Roller Championship event, he sits just below starting stack, and we'll be keeping our eyes on his performances all summer long.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
23,615 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 30
Level 5
: 125/250, 25 ante
Action on the table folded around to the small blind where Patrick "Synesthesia" Eskandar got into a raising battle with Ryan "BitC0in" Riess from the big blind which saw Eskandar call a 8,900 five-bet.
The 
flop was checked by both players to the 
turn where Eskandar moved all-in for 17,222 and Riess snap-called.
Ryan "BitC0in" Riess: 
Patrick "Synesthesia" Eskandar: 
Eskandar was behind needing any jack, eight or six but the 
river secured Riess the pot and Eskandar re-entered the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
57,302 | |
|
|
25,000 |
Level 5
: 125/250, 25 ante
Last week, PokerNews had the pleasure to follow around Phil Hellmuth for a day as he competed in the 2021 WSOP Online in quest of his record-extending 16th gold bracelet..
The "Poker Brat" showed us his home away from home at the ARIA Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and puts in an online poker session on his tablet - not just in his suite, but also in the gym.
Level: 5
Blinds: 125/250
Ante: 25
Level 4
: 100/200, 20 ante
Thomas "HavanaClub" Boivin raised under the gun to 440 and then called the 1,880 three-bet "sfdv55555" put out from the small blind.
The 
flop saw "sfdv55555" continue for 2,060 and Boivin called bringing the 
turn.
Both players checked to the 
river where "sfdv55555" check-folded after Boivin jammed for 10,784.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
19,024
13,550
|
13,550 |
Level 4
: 100/200, 20 ante
Three players went to the flop on a 375 raised pot as it came the 
. The first player to act bet 400, Michael "mygame" Lavenburg called and Shannon "aulophobia" Shorr raised to 1,770, the first bettor folded and Lavenburg called.
The turn was the 
. Shorr bet 3,577 and was called again. The river was the 
. Shorr fired again for 7,792 and was called again.
Shorr had the 
for trips and collected the good pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
37,182 | |
|
10,160 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 20
Level 3
: 75/150, 15 ante
At the 2012 World Series of Poker, a shiny new product received its public unveiling. Players and fans the world over were introduced to a program with revolutionary potential. It could track the chip ebbs and flows of every player in a tournament while also serving as the back end operating system to run said tournament. It promised the ability to change the way poker tournaments were followed, with players and fans interacting at the stroke of a few keys.
That product was ChipTic. And it proved to be a colossal failure.
This is the two-part oral history of ChipTic, from those who experienced it first-hand and witnessed that failure — three former employees, two members of WSOP staff, and two poker media members who watched it implode.