WSOP.com Event #5: No Limit Hold'em 8-Max

On Monday night, the 2021 WSOP Online continued with Event #5: $1,000 NLH 8-Max, a tournament that attracted 459 entries and offered up a $648,700 prize pool. It took nearly 10 hours of play for Jeremiah "freestylerr" Williams to emerge victorious to claim the bracelet and $139,600.24 first-place prize.

Williams has over $150,000 in career earnings according to The Hendon Mob, including most recently cashing in the Wynn Millions. He now has a WSOP bracelet to add to his collection, with plenty of time left during the WSOP Online to potentially snag another.

Event #5: $1,000 NLHE 8-Max Final Table Results

The top 90 players finished in the money including Orson "Pay_son" Young (13th - $5,644), Ryan "Protential" Laplante (18th - $4,606), Bob "bobeads" Mather (30th - $3,179), Chris "Robotbob47" Moorman (34th - $3,179), Anthony "heheh" Zinno (41st - $2,789), Michael "miguelfiesta" Lech (50th - $2,400), and Phil "Lumestackin" Hellmuth (67th - $2,011).

Hellmuth bowed out in Level 24 (5,000/10,000/1,000) when "Pickitup" raised to 20,000 from the cutoff. Hellmuth was down to about 2.5 big blinds in the small blind and raised all in to 24,720, the big blind folded and Francis "Pickitup" Sharp called. Hellmuth's ace-six was way out in front of ace-four, but "Pickitup" wound up making two pair to eliminate the "Poker Brat."

Final Table Action

Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski began the final table with a big chip lead and it didn't take long for the first elimination to occur. It happened when Kevin "vamonospest" Lutz got his short stack all in preflop with jack-nine but failed to get there against the ace-nine of Chung "Vegasbroke" You.

From there, You went on a tear eliminating the next three players including Kosakowski in a game-changing hand. The chips went in with the former holding an ace-high flush draw against the latter's set. The diamond flush came in and just like that Kosakowski was eliminated in fifth place.

Matt "RubberFist" Stout then ran ace-five into the aces of Williams to bust in fourth place before the short-stacked Joshua "zeal1906" Ray saw his king-five do down to the Big Slick of You.

Unfortunately for You, his momentum ended in heads-up play after he missed a straight draw and Williams doubled with a full house. The latter took over the chip lead and eventually closed it out after turning a straight against the two pair of You.

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Matt "RubberFist" Stout jammed from the small blind and was called by "freestylerr".

Stout ran smack dab into aces as his    was in dire straights vs the   .

The board did not spring anything miraculous as it came the       and Stout was gone in fourth place.

Jeremiah "freestylerr" Williams	4,988,304	3,931,592
Matt "RubberFist" Stout	0	-1,771,083

"Vegasbroke" raised to 160,000 under the gun. Adam "Shakusky" Richardson jammed all in from the small blind for just over 1 million and was called.

Richardson was at risk with the    vs the   .

The board ran out       to miss Richardson and he was eliminated.

Chung "Vegasbroke" You	4,220,698	1,852,446
Adam "Shakusky" Richardson	0	-1,306,446

Kevin "vamonospest" Lutz jammed all in for 458,872 from middle position and was called by "Vegasbroke" from the button.

Lutz held the    vs the    of "Vegasbroke".

The flop came    , the turn was the  , and the river was the   to end the chances of Lutz.

Chung "Vegasbroke" You	2,368,252	488,872
Kevin "vamonospest" Lutz	0	-476,872

With 1,467,700 in the pot and a board reading      , Austin "l8trgatorr" Peck bet 363,200 from the small blind only to have Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski raise all in. Peck had 1,422,446 back and called off only to discover the bad news.

Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski:   
Austin "l8trgatorr" Peck:   

Peck had a full house but it was no good as Kosakowski had quads to burst the final table bubble.

Austin "l8trgatorr" Peck

0

-1,982,543

Don "blonde2020" Himpele moved all in on the button for 735,120. Austin "l8trgatorr" Peck isolated and folded out the big and the cards were revealed.

Himpele had the    vs the   .

The flop hit Peck as it came the    . The turn was the   and the river the   and Himpele was gone.

Austin "l8trgatorr" Peck	1,982,543	635,120
Don "blonde2020" Himpele	0	-590,838

Chris "Pay_son" Staats moved all in for 608,675 under the fun and Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski called from the big blind.

Chris "Pay_son" Staats:   
Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski:   

It was a race but Staats was unable to catch up as the board ran out      .

Gary "phiI_ivey" Kosakowski	2,521,292	644,675
Chris "Pay_son" Staats	0	0