Daniel Smiljkovic Leads 79 Players Going into Day 2 of WCOOP 34-M: $2,100 NLHE

The first day of the WCOOP 34-M: $2,100 NLHE is in the books and 79 players will return for Day 2 to battle in the 2021 World Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars. The $1,000,000 guarantee attracted 614 entries to generate a $1,228,000 prize pool, with $214,339 available to the winner.

Germany’s Daniel "SmilleThHero" Smiljkovic finished a wild Day 1 as chip leader and 78 others will return on Monday August 30 to make a run at the final table. Other notable players to advance to Day 2 were Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis, Tauan "kylix42" Naves, and Arsenii "josef_shvejk" Karmatckii. Vanessa "Niffller" Kade and Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle survived the end of Day 1 with short stacks and they will return tomorrow to try and spin them up and take a shot at making Day 3.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1	Daniel "SmilleThHero" Smiljkovic	Germany	2,786,887
2	3DTemujin	Kazakhstan	2,530,062
3	Paulius "D3cor" Vaitiekunas	Lithuania	2,181,866
4	Mafews	United Kingdom	2,048,836
5	Znaso	Slovakia	2,001,692
6	Jerry "Perrymejsen" Odeen	Sweden	1,915,770
7	Jordan "bigbluffzinc" Drummond	Canada	1,884,906
8	iamivar	Sweden	1,845,770
9	Carlos "Carster" Chadha	United States	1,844,082
10	Tauan "kylix42" Naves	Brazil	1,822,176

Total			32,800,000
Average			415,190

The second day of the tournament will kick off on Monday August 30 at 5:05 GMT and will continue until there are nine players left for a final table. The third and final day will be August 31 at 5:05 GMT. The blinds will resume in Level 22 at 15,000/30,000/3750. Players are guaranteed at least $4,367 and there is $214,339 waiting up top.

Payouts

*Place	Prize*
1	$214,339
2	$156,650
3	$114,488
4	$83,673
5	$61,153
6	$44,694
7	$32,664
8	$23,873
9	$19,306
10-12	$15,613
13-15	$12,627
16-23	$10,212
24-31	$8,258
32-39	$6,679
40-55	$5,401
56-79	$4,368