Eduardo Pires Wins 2021 World Series of Poker Online Millionaire Maker Event For $1.4 Million

The 2021 World Series of Poker Online $1,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em ‘Millionaire Maker’ occasion assured that the eventual champion would stroll away with no less than $1,000,000. The occasion attracted an enormous area of 5,437 whole entries by the point registration closed, blowing away the $5 million prize pool assure to see a complete of $7,747,725 up for grabs. As a outcome, Brazil’s Eduardo Pires walked away with a whopping $1,384,013 after defeating Lukas Hafner heads-up to safe the title and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

This was by far the most important rating of Pires’ profession. Prior to this win, he had not but recorded a six-figure money, not to mention a seven-figure payday just like the one he earned because the champion of this occasion.

The ultimate day of this occasion started with 953 gamers, with simply 653 of them in the end making the cash. By the time the ultimate desk was set, Pires was in second place on the leaderboard behind fellow Brazilian Tauan Naves. Oskar Prehm (ninth – $90,708) was the primary to fall, together with his A-4 failing to outrun the pocket fives of Naves. Tomas Jozonis (eighth – $127,521) adopted quickly after when his A2 bumped into the AOk of Victor Begara.

2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona most important occasion runner-up finisher Lachezar Petkov’s run on this match got here to an finish when his A-9 clashed with the A-J suited of Naves. Petkov flopped a 9 to take the lead, however Naves picked up the nut flush draw. The flip introduced a jack to return Naves to the lead, and the river modified nothing. Petkov took house $179,275 because the seventh-place finisher.

Pires had labored his approach into the lead heading throughout six-handed play. He scored his first knockout of the ultimate desk when he shoved Ok9 from the button right into a pair of quick stacks within the blinds. Victor Begara referred to as from the small blind with AOk and remained forward by the flip, however the 9 on the river gave Pires a profitable pair of nines. Begara was awarded $252,031 for his sixth-place exhibiting.

Paul Fisher misplaced an enormous pot with pocket kings in opposition to the 43 of Lukas Hafner, with the chips getting in on a 642 flop. Hafner improved to a straight on the 5 and Fisher was left on fumes. Hafner’s A-Ok held up in opposition to Fisher’s A-7 not lengthy after and Fisher was eradicated in fifth place ($354,317). Hafner scored the subsequent knockout as properly, together with his A-5 outrunning the A9 of Xiongbin Zhang in a preflop showdown. A 5 on the flop gave Hafner a lead he by no means relinquished and Zhang hit the digital rail in fourth place ($498,115).

Naves referred to as off his final 6.5 large blinds with Ok5 from the large blind. Pires had picked up 99 within the small blind. Pires flopped a set and light Naves’ outs for a gutshot straight to safe the pot. Naves was awarded $700,270 for his deep run on this occasion.

With that, Pires took the lead into heads-up play with Hafner. He rapidly prolonged that benefit to greater than 2:1 by choosing off a Hafner bluff with J10 on a ten5292. Hafner had picked up an open-ended straight draw on the flip with J8 however missed on the river.

In the ultimate hand, Pires limped in from the button with 85 and Hafner checked with 73. The flop got here down 762 and Hafner checked his high pair. Pires guess 3,500,000 together with his open-ended straight draw and Hafner check-raised to 11,600,000. Pires referred to as and the 4 on the flip gave him the nut straight. Hafner guess 19,691,000 and Pires flat referred to as. The 8 on the river prompted Hafner to examine. Pires moved all-in and Hafner referred to as off his final 11 or so large blinds together with his pair of sevens. Pires’ straight earned him the pot and the title, whereas Hafner cashed for $984,469 because the runner-up finisher.

Here is a have a look at the payouts awarded on the ultimate desk:

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