2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events

Event #5: $1,000 NLH 8-Max
Day: 1
Event Info

2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
109
Prize
$139,600
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$648,700
Entries
459
Level Info
Level
37
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
16,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
459
Players Left
1

Big Slick Does the Trick for Gruneberg

Level 7 : 150/300, 30 ante
Zachary Gruneberg
Zachary Gruneberg

Hal "Zamees" Rotholz raised to 600 under the gun and called when Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg three-bet to 2,100 from the cutoff.

On the {k-Spades}{5-Clubs}{2-Spades} flop, Rotholz checked and Gruneberg bet 2,275. Rotholz check-raised to 5,800 and then called off for 16,698 after Gruneberg jammed.

Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg: {k-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}
Hal "Zamees" Rotholz: {7-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}

Both players had flopped a pair but Gruneberg's was best. Neither the {4-Diamonds} turn nor {4-Clubs} river changed a thing and Gruneberg was pushed the pot while Rotholz re-entered the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg
Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg
58,653
Hal "Zamees" Rotholz
Hal "Zamees" Rotholz
20,000

Tags: Zachary GrunebergHal Rotholz

Level: 7

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 30

Early Eliminations

Level 6 : 125/250, 25 ante
Player Chips Progress
Matthew "peepeepoopoo" Paoletti
Matthew "peepeepoopoo" Paoletti
Busted
Ashraf "ash1029" Chehata
Ashraf "ash1029" Chehata
Busted
Peter "fullytilted4" Christiansen
Peter "fullytilted4" Christiansen
Busted
James "richrdparker" Taylor
James "richrdparker" Taylor
Busted
Yonghui "pokermaster8" Jiang
Yonghui "pokermaster8" Jiang
Busted
Sunnyp09
Sunnyp09
Busted
bossplaya21
bossplaya21
Busted
Daveymcdave
Daveymcdave
Busted
Ccjudo76
Ccjudo76
Busted
Eyerjustfold
Eyerjustfold
Busted

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Level 6 : 125/250, 25 ante
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Level: 6

Blinds: 125/250

Ante: 25

Vaysman Flops Straight and Doubles

Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Lanny "ThePuritz" Vaysman called from the small blind and saw a flop with the big blind Ethan "Rampunts" Yau.

The flop came {10-Clubs}{k-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}. Yau bet 325, Vaysman check-raised to 999 and was called.

The turn was the {6-Spades}. Both players checked.

The river came the {2-Diamonds}. Vaysman bet, Yau raised, and Vaysman three-bet all in, which was called.

Vaysman showed the {q-Spades}{9-Diamonds} for flopped straight which bested the {k-Hearts}{10-Hearts} of Yau.

Player Chips Progress
Lanny "ThePuritz" Vaysman us
Lanny "ThePuritz" Vaysman
37,924 37,924
Ethan "Rampunts" Yau
Ethan "Rampunts" Yau
2,013

Tags: Ethan YauLAnny Vaysman

No Picinic for Goehring

Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante
Alan Goehring
Alan Goehring

Alan "GladiusIII" Goehring, who last summer won his first gold bracelet in an online event, raised to 400 from the cutoff and Dominic "Ry_Ty_Ly" Picinic called from the big blind.

Picinic check-called a bet of 450 on the {7-Diamonds}{q-Spades}{10-Spades} flop and then both players checked the {a-Hearts} turn.

When the {a-Spades} completed the board on the river, Picinic bet 1,200 and Goehring called.

Picinic rolled over the {a-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} for a full house and Goehring mucked, leaving himself just 756.

Alan Goehring hand
Alan Goehring hand
Player Chips Progress
Dominic "Ry_Ty_Ly" Picinic
Dominic "Ry_Ty_Ly" Picinic
26,185
Alan "GladiusIII" Goehring us
Alan "GladiusIII" Goehring
756

Tags: Alan GoehringDominic Picinic

Sorry, Not Sorry: New Jersey's Ryan Torgersen Discusses Incredible Bracelet Redemption

Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante
Ryan Torgersen
Ryan Torgersen

Last year on July 9th and 10th, the poker world witnessed New Jersey’s Ryan “im.sorry” Torgersen accomplish a truly incredible feat. First, he navigated his way through a 1,026-entry field in Event #9: $1,000 NLH 6-Max only to finish runner-up to Ron “MacDaddy15” McMillen, good for $116,379 prize money.

A day later in Event #10: $600 Monster Stack, Torgersen was back at it and topped a 2,074-entry field to win that tournament for $172,362 and a gold bracelet. In a 24-hour period, he won a $288,741 in prize money.

Little was known about poker’s latest breakout star, who was awarded Performance of the Week right on PokerNews.

The 30-year-old Torgersen grew up in Granby, Connecticut with his parents and younger sister.

“I do not have much work experience besides a few delivery jobs I had in my mid 20's before I got back into poker and moved to Jersey,” he said. “I spent a couple years in college studying economics but was spending too much time playing poker. I did not want to go to college in the first place, right after I graduated from high school, but I did it because it was expected of me.”

As it turned out, the education he’d use to capture WSOP gold came years earlier courtesy of his father, who taught him how to play poker.

“My dad taught me the rules of poker at a pretty young age before I found PokerStars during the poker boom,” Torgersen explained. “I taught myself, originally by spending hours watching all the top tournament players from the PocketFives and Pokerstars TLB every day, figuring out how they would play different stack sizes, then just put it into my own game and saw good results pretty quickly.”

He continued: “Back then, I thought I was the best in the game and knew all there was to know, but after years of experience and studying cash games/sims I realize there will always be so much more room to get better and I'll never know it all no matter how much I study.”

Check out Torgersen's full interview here.

Tags: Ryan Torgersen

Level: 5

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0