Jun 1, 2021
The 2021 World Poker Tour Online Series is looking to crown another winner in one of the flagship events. Out of a field of 2,088 entries, only nine players remain to battle for the title in Event #24 WPT500. With a buy-in of $530, the tournament created a prize pool of $1,044,000 and partypoker Team Online’s Jaime Staples will aim to be the last man standing on his sponsoring site.
Staples will return with the shortest stack of just 61 million but is just one double up away from third place on the leaderboard. That one is topped by Sweden’s Simon Löfberg with a stack of almost 239 million, which represents 80 big blinds at blinds of 1.5M/3M.
Second in chips s Dutchman Teun Mulder with almost 190 million ahead of the UK’s David Afework (130.5 million). UK-based Spanish player Jon Ander Vallinas Santos has 37 big blinds at his disposal and sits in the middle of the pack. Several other players are in close proximity for the nine-handed final table.
All chip counts and big blinds of the finalists can be found below.
Position | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
1 | Simon Löfberg | Sweden | 238,748,314 | 80 |
2 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands | 189,788,173 | 63 |
3 | David Afework | United Kingdom | 130,520,198 | 44 |
4 | Jon Ander Vallinas Santos | United Kingdom | 112,179,481 | 37 |
5 | Sergei Koliakov | Russia | 87,632,019 | 29 |
6 | Lukas Hafner | Austria | 81,646,883 | 27 |
7 | Henning André | Sweden | 74,953,768 | 25 |
8 | Timo Borchmann | Germany | 66,466,261 | 22 |
9 | Jaime Staples | Canada | 61,034,378 | 20 |
The final table recommences at 8.05 PM BST in real-time and will be streamed with cards-up coverage commentary on a 30-minute delay. You can follow the action on the partypoker Twitch stream and the WPT.com team will also provide hand updates until a winner has been determined.
Remaining payouts:
1st place: $160,211
2nd place: $108,796
3rd place: $74,227
4th place: $49,225
5th place: $33,503
6th place: $25,558
7th place: $19,798
8th place: $15,704
9th place: $12,251