Michael "njnj17" Leib Wins 2021 WSOP Online Event #10: $333 NLH ($81,645)
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online continued Saturday with Event #10: $333 No-Limit Hold'em, which drew 986 players who rebought 531 times. The 1,517-entry field resulted in a $455,100 prize pool, and after 11 hours of play, it was Michael "njnj17" Leib coming out on top to capture an $81,644.94 top prize and his first gold bracelet.
Leib’s win came four days after he made a deep run in Event #6: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em, which was good for $5,695. The win was far and away the biggest of Leib’s career as he has $27,797 in prior WSOP cashes and $14,865 in live earnings according to The Hendon Mob.
2021 WSOP Online Event 10 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael "njnj17" Leib | $81,645 |
| 2 | Robert "LuckyLuch11" Aronowitz | $50,562 |
| 3 | Richard "3ofspade" Bruner | $35,907 |
| 4 | Dan “oiltrader513” Shak | $25,850 |
| 5 | Michael "helionic" Dyer | $13,926 |
| 6 | Mijael “Diaper_money” Meza | $13,926 |
| 7 | Vinny “Vinnyj88” John | $10,467 |
| 8 | Michael “MMenz08816” Menzer | $7,919 |
| 9 | George "gkon86" Konstantoulakis | $6,098 |
The top 207 finishers made the money including Shannon "aulophobia" Shorr (12th - $4,733), Tyler “standupwiper” Burke (15th - $3,732), Sasha "foreal" Sabbaghian (19th - $2,412), Yueqi "anoob" Zhu (24th - $2,412), Event #8 champ Carlos “carloswelch” Welch (31st - $1,957), Tony “Panoramic” Dunst (42nd - $1,638), YK “LuckySpewy1” Kwon (58th - $1,183), John Allan “beastro” Hinds (62nd - $1,183), and Anthony “heheh” Zinno (98th - $728).
Final Table Action
Early on at the final table, George "gkon86" Konstantoulakis ran a bluff but got snapped off by Robert "LuckyLuch11" Aronowitz, and then Leib won a big pot with ace-queen against the pocket nines of Michael “MMenz08816” Menzer and eights of Vinny “Vinnyj88” John, who bowed out in eighth and seventh place respectively.
Mijael “Diaper_money” Meza exited out in sixth place when their ace-ten was outdrawn on the river by the queen-jack of Aronowitz, and then Michael “helionic” Dyer, who finished third in the 2018 WSOP Main Event for $3.75 million, ran ace-nine into Leib’s Big Slick to fall in fifth place.
Dan “oiltrader513” Shak exited in fourth place when his ace-six suited failed to overcome the pocket sevens of Leib, and then Aronowitz saw his queen-six hold against queen-four to dispatch Richard “3ofspade” Bruner in third place.
Heads-up play began with the final two players dead even in chips, but a set-over-two-pair hand benefitting Leib gave him a monster lead. Not long after, Aronowitz, a social studies teacher from New York playing from Borgata in Atlantic City, committed his short stack with a gutshot straight draw but failed to get there against middle pair.
The 2021 WSOP Online continues on Sunday with Event #11: $400 NLH Ultra Deepstack. PokerNews will be live reporting and streaming the action, so be sure to join us then.