Timothy Ryan Kelly Wins the WPTDeepStacks Online Main Event ($171,804); Jerry Ödeen Finishes as Runner-Up ($118,337)

Jerry Ödeen limped from the button for 1.4 million with , Timothy Ryan Kelly moved all in from the big blind with , and Ödeen called all in for 20.54 million.

The board came , and Timothy Ryan Kelly won the pot — and the WPTDeepStacks Online Main Event — with two pair, queens and fours, with a king kicker.

Jerry Ödeen finished as the runner-up, earning $118,337.

Timothy Ryan Kelly won the 2021 WPTDeepStacks Online Main Event, earning $171,804 and a trophy. Kelly also wins the largest share of the POY points in the WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year race.

Kelly had a final table that most players could only dream of, where every move seemed to work out for him. When he got it all in weak, he’d outflop his opponents to knock them out, and his aggressiveness paid off by getting his opponents to fold better hands in some pretty big spots. Kelly scored seven of the eight knockouts at the final table, most of them coming with the worst starting hand. But when it’s your day, it seems like nothing can stop you.

Congratulations to Timothy Ryan Kelly!

1st:  Timothy Ryan Kelly (Canada)  –  $171,804
2nd:  Jerry Ödeen (Sweden)  –  $118,337
3rd:  Felix Vincent Stephensen (Canada)  –  $81,359
4th:  Sven Joakim Andersson (Malta)  –  $53,197
5th:  Philipp Hofbauer (Austria)  –  $36,487
6th:  Thomas Hueber (Austria)  –  $28,206
7th:  Volodymyr Palamar (Ukraine)  –  $22,263
8th:  Michael Sklenička (Czech Republic)  –  $17,665
9th:  Simon Brändström (Sweden)  –  $13,953

Surprisingly, the top five finishers ended the day in the exact same order that they started. Volodymyr Palamar started the day as the short stack, but laddered up two spots to finish seventh, while Simon Brändström had the biggest fall, starting sixth in chips but busting ninth.