Welcome to the final table of the WPT World Online Championships Main Event. From a starting field of 1,078 players, just nine remain all in with a chance of winning $959,493.
Leading the way is Romanian Champions Club member Vlad Darie who holds a commanding chip lead over David Peters.
Here are the final table chip counts.
RANK
PLAYER
COUNTRY
CHIP COUNT
BIG BLINDS
1
Vlad Darie
Austria
64,500,000
92
2
David Peters
Canada
43,500,000
62
3
Talal Shakerchi
United Kingdom
24,300,000
35
4
Rodrigo Sirichuk
Brazil
24,200,000
35
5
Rok Gostisa
Slovenia
21,000,000
30
6
Manuel Fritz
Austria
20,200,000
29
7
Bruno Volkmann
Brazil
18,600,000
27
8
Philipp Hofbauer
Austria
11,700,000
17
9
Joao Simao
Brazil
7,700,000
11
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Joao Simao shoved for 6.2 million from early position, and was called in the next position by David Peters. The remaining players all folded.
Joao Simao:
David Peters:
The board ran out and Simao became the first elimination of the final table, taking home $76,713 for his efforts. Meanwhile, Peters closed the gap to Darie at the top of the counts.
David Peters raised to 2.4 million. It folded to Rodrigo Sirichuk in the small blind who three-bet all in for 14.4 million. Bruno Volkmann folded his big blind and Peters called.
David Peters:
Rodrigo Sirichuk:
Sirichuk flopped an open-ended straight draw on the flop. The turn was the but the river gave Peters a pair, and sent Sirichuk to the rail.
Manuel Fritz raised to 3.48 million with 800k behind. Vlad Darie flat-called and Talal Shakerchi three-bet all in for 10.1 million. Fritz put the remaining chips in and Darie called putting two players at risk.
Vlad Darie:
Talal Shakerchi:
Manuel Fritz:
The flop was giving Darie the lock. The turn and river were irrelevant as Darie eliminated two players to close the gap between him and David Peters at the top of the counts. Fritz finishes in seventh place due to a smaller chipstack compared to Shakerchi, who finishes sixth.
Philipp Hofbauer raised to 2.4 million and David Peters three-bet to 7.2 million from the big blind. Hofbauer four-bet to 12 million and Peters flat-called.
The flop came . Hofbauer bet 5.5 million. Peters called.
The turn was the . With 36.4 million in the middle, Hofbauer shoved for 18.6 million and Peters called.
Philipp Hofbauer:
David Peters;
It was a massive set-up between the two, with Peters in pole position to take a stranglehold on the competition four-handed. The river was the and Hofbauer was eliminated.
David Peters opened to 3.1 million and Vlad Darie three-bet all inf or 27.5 million with .
Rok Gostisa woke up with in the big blind and moved all in, with Peters folding.
Gostisa flopped a set on the flop, and although Darie picked up a flush draw on the turn the river was the , and the start-of-day chip leader was eliminated in third place.
David Peters raised to 5 million and Rok Gostisa three-bet to 20 million. Peters called and the flop was .
Gostisa shoved and Peters snap-called for his last 69.9 million.
David Peters:
Rok Gostisa:
Peters had flopped a set and was up against the overpair of his opponent. The turn was the but the river the saw Gostisa river a two outer to make a higher set and eliminate Peters in second place.
Rok Gostisa overcame a heads-up deficit to defeat David Peters and win the 2021 WPT World Online Championships Main Event. He defeated a field of 1,179 players to win $959,493
Having dominated large portions of the final table, Peters held a commanding lead three-handed after the eliminations of Philipp Hofbauer and Bruno Volkmann in quick succession. However, Gostisa would bust start-of-day chip leader Vlad Darie in third, to remain in contention ahead of heads-up play.
Gostisa's courageous triple-barrel bluff saw him close the gap to Peters, and he would soon turn the tables, moving into a 2:1 chip lead of his own after a well-timed pot-sized bet. He closed out proceedings in spectacular fashion, rivering a two outer after Peters flopped a set, with the American forced to settle for second place and $660,482.
WPT World Online Championships Final Table Result
Place
Player
Country
Payout (USD)
1
Rok Gostisa
Slovenia
$959,493
2
David Peters
Canada
$660,482
3
Vlad Darie
Austria
$453,677
4
Bruno Volkmann
Brazil
$296,185
5
Philipp Hofbauer
Austria
$202,734
6
Talal Shakerchi
United Kingdom
$156,421
7
Manuel Fritz
Austria
$123,182
8
Rodrigo Sirichuk
Brazil
$97,472
9
Joao Simao
Brazil
$76,713
Final Table Recap
It was Vlad Darie who led the final nine players, but after eliminating partypoker Ambassador Joao Simao in ninth, and shoving on Rodrigo Sirichuk, it was David Peters who took over as the chip leader.
Peters would then eliminate Sirichuk to move above 100 million in chips. However, Darie then eliminated both Manuel Fritz and Talal Shakerchi in the same hand, flopping them both dead, to cut the deficit.
Philipp Hofbauer would double through Peters, but would run kings into the aces of the same opponent a short while later to bust.
Next it was Bruno Volkmann's turn to double, but again this proved to be the kiss of death as Peters sent him to the rail shortly afterwards. Peters had flopped trips, with Volkmann shoving with a gutshot straight draw. Despite completing his straight on the turn, the river paired the board, giving Peters a full house and eliminating the Brazilian.
Peters extended his lead three-handed, holding more than three times his opponents combined at one point, before Gostisa busted Darie to trim the gap. However, it was Peters who remained ahead by almost 2:1.
Heads-Up Play
The contest between the two of them began with a lively pot, with Gostisa bluffing with jack-high, betting flop and turn before shoving river. Peters held bottom pair - the best hand - but folded. This gave Gostisa momentum, moving into the chip lead after his pot-sized bet was called with both players holding two pair.
Gostisa was keen to press home his advantage, moving into a 2:1 chip lead of his own as Peters searched for a way back into the contest.
And he thought he'd found it, calling it off with top set against the overpair of Gostisa. However, the Slovenian rivered one of the last two tens in the deck to send Peters to the rail and add his name to the Mike Sexton Champions Cup.