2021 World Series of Poker

Event #22: Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 3
Event Info

2021 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$115,694
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$573,160
Entries
644
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
17
Players Left
5

Welcome to Day 3 of Event #22: Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship

JJ Liu
JJ Liu

Mikiyo Aoki (1,674,000), JJ Liu (1,511,000), Crystal Marino (1,349,000), Cherish Andrews (1,200,000) and Lara Eisenberg (1,049,000) are leading the final 17 players in Event #22 Ladies No-Limit Holde’em Championship.

In 2014, Day 2 chip leader Mikiyo Aoki (1,674,000) placed 2nd in the $10,000 Ladies Championship No-Limit Hold’em event losing heads-up to Haixia Zhang for a cash prize of $94,500. This will be Aoki’s 3rd time cashing in the ladies’ event. Aoki has a total of nine World Series of Poker cashes amounting to $203,769. Aoki is attempting to best her second-place finish, capture the title, and win her first WSOP bracelet.

JJ Liu finished Day 2 of the ladies championship event second in chips (1,511,000) with 17 players remaining. Originally from Taiwan, she ranks second on their all-time money list. She is by far the most accomplished poker player left in the field with a total of $3,367,389 in lifetime earnings. She has had an impressive sixty-one WSOP cashes amounting to $606,500 in earnings. Her first WSOP cash was in 1996 where she finished 4th place in a $3,000 buy-in no-limit event for $32,565. Liu has consistently cashed in a WSOP event every single year from 2006 to 2021 in live or online tournaments.

She has had success playing almost every format and not just no-limit but also mixed games. Her largest WSOP cash was in 2010 in a $1,500 buy-in pot-limit hold’em event, where she finished in 3rd place for $86,512. She has had two deep runs in the WSOP Main Event. Liu’s biggest live cash to date was in 2007 when she finished second in a $10,000 buy-in WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event for $600,000. This will be her 4th cash in the ladies’ championship event. Liu is one day closer to her first WSOP gold bracelet.

There were a total of 644 entrants generating a prize pool of $573,160 with 97 players to cash. The remaining players are competing for a first-place prize of $115,6894 and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

Day 3 is scheduled to start today Oct. 13th at 12 p.m. local time. The play will begin on level 21 with the blinds at 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 big blind ante. They will play 60-minute levels until only five players remain. There will be a 15-minute break every two levels. A 60-minute dinner break will occur after level 26 (≈ 6:30 p.m.).

Today will undoubtedly be an epic battle between the fiercest women in poker so stay tuned to PokerNews for all the live updates from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino .

Tags: Cherish AndrewsHaixia ZhangLara EisenbergMikiyo Aoki