Welcome to the Final Table of the 2021 WPT Online Series WPT500 Knockout Event
May 25, 2021
The 2021 World Poker Tour Online Series in cooperation with partypoker is in full swing. Nearly four dozen tournaments have already determined a champion and the next winner to be crowned will follow in the WPT500 Knockout Event.
After the completion of all starting days which played down to 15% each and locked up a min-cash for all survivors, a total field of 2,054 entries emerged. The guaranteed prize pool of $2 million was surpassed and the top 307 finishers locked up a cash prize of $538.
On top of that, all contenders also earned further prizes for knocking out opponents along the way. The cash portion represents $514,125 in total whereas $512,875 in bounty prizes will have been awarded when the tournament has been completed.
After six hours and 45 minutes on Day 2, the nine-handed final table was set and that sent all remaining hopefuls on a break. They will return to their virtual seats at 9.05 pm CEST and play down to a champion.
Bulgaria’s Yulian Bogdanov leads the pack with more than 273 million in chips, good enough for 109 big blinds. He is followed by Caio Pessagno with 185 million in chips and former WSOP Main Event finalist Michiel Brummelhuis (pictured above) rounds up the podium with a stack of more than 144 million.
Another three well-known poker pros made the cut in Fabiano Kovalski (57.6 million), Jerry Wong (48.2 million), and Charles La Boissonniere (47.1 million).
Here is how the remaining nine players line up:
| Position | Player | Country | Bounty | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Yulian Bogdanov | Bulgaria | $9,393.07 | 273,438,567 | 109 |
| 2 | Caio Pessagno | Brazil | $5,455.08 | 185,042,562 | 74 |
| 3 | Michiel Brummelhuis | Netherlands | $6,121.10 | 144,257,498 | 58 |
| 4 | Manfred Hermann | Austria | $9,688.49 | 138,431,397 | 55 |
| 5 | Diogo Coelho | Portugal | $11,073.24 | 109,895,953 | 44 |
| 6 | Fabiano Kovalski | Brazil | $3,323.24 | 57,597,944 | 23 |
| 7 | Jerry Wong | United States | $1,828.12 | 48,226,309 | 19 |
| 8 | Charles La Boissonniere | Canada | $3,972.66 | 47,103,570 | 19 |
| 9 | Sebastian Hoyos Villegas | Mexico | $4,091.80 | 18,920,551 | 8 |
The action will resume at blinds of 1.2 million / 2.5 million with a running ante of 315,000. All levels will last 24 minutes each for the remainder of the tournament. All finalists have at least $6,064 in cash prizes locked up on top of their accumulated PKO bounty prizes and the top two finishers will take home more than $62,000 each.
The final table will be live-streamed with cards-up coverage and commentary on a 30-minute delay as of 3.35 pm EST on the WPT Twitch channel. Stay tuned to find out who will accumulate all the chips and become the latest WPT Online Series champion. The WPT.com live reporting team will provide updates for this final table from start to finish.
Jerry Wong
@WPT