Welcome to the Final Day of Event #27: $5,000 MAIN EVENT Online Championship
Welcome to the final day of Event #27: $5,000 MAIN EVENT Online Championship. After 4,092 entries over 27 starting days, the final nine players will compete in the biggest tournament of the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Events for a $2.5 million first prize from the guaranteed prize pool of $20 million.
Brazil’s Edson "CrownUpTsu" Tsutsumi Jr is the chip leader after a long Day 2 that saw 720 Day 1 survivors compete down to a final table. Aleksei "Ha KoJleHu" Vandyshev and Joe "assisup4rent" Serock round out a group of top three chip leaders that have have a significant chip advantage over the rest of the final table. All of today's action will be broadcast with commentary on GGPoker.tv.
Final Table Line-Up of Event #27: $5,000 MAIN EVENT Online Championship
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edson "CrownUpTsu" Tsutsumi Jr | Brazil | 60,403,591 | 101 |
| 2 | Aleksei "Ha KoJleHu" Vandyshev | Russia | 54,232,812 | 90 |
| 3 | Joe "assisup4rent" Serock | United States | 45,567,634 | 76 |
| 4 | Espen "COVFEFE-19" Jorstad | Norway | 19,575,928 | 33 |
| 5 | Christine "Yunaa" Do | Canada | 15,918,120 | 27 |
| 6 | Nikita "VSMPZD" Kuznetsov | Russia | 13,454,800 | 22 |
| 7 | Dawid Smolka | Poland | 13,154,945 | 22 |
| 8 | Renan "legal" Meneguetti | Brazil | 12,581,552 | 21 |
| 9 | Dimitrios Farmakoulis | Greece | 9,067,144 | 15 |
When the final table gets under way today at 5:00 p.m. GMT, blinds will be rolled back to Level 19, with 300,000/600,000 and a 75,000 ante, a GGPoker rule that ensures the average stack has at least 40 big blinds. Blinds will go up after a certain number of hands instead of every 30 minutes. All nine players are guaranteed a min-cash of at least $254,308.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $2,543,072 |
| 2 | $1,907,034 |
| 3 | $1,430,073 |
| 4 | $1,072,405 |
| 5 | $804,190 |
| 6 | $603,057 |
| 7 | $452,229 |
| 8 | $339,123 |
| 9 | $254,308 |
Be sure to keep it here as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action from Event #27: $5,000 MAIN EVENT Online Championship as it happens.
with no improvement for big slick and Farmakoulis was eliminated in ninth place.
and Do secured the double up with a full house on the turn.
and Smolka checked. Vandyshev bet 1,210,700 and Smolka check-jammed. Vandyshev made the call. 
made two pair for Vandyshev and Smolka was eliminated in eighth place.
and the straight draw couldn't come through to keep Meneguetto from being eliminated in seventh place.
river couldn't keep Jorstad in the tournament.
