| # | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
| 63 | $500 | Event #63: SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em | 🇺🇸 Eric Zhang | $102,465 |
Event #63: SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em
Eric Zhang outlasted a field of 1,738 in the $500 event to take home $102,465. The player casually wrote his first live cash ever with a win, and a bracelet!
“I always loved poker but I only started playing a couple years ago, mainly cash games, not really tournaments.”, Zhang said. “But the WSOP is always a very special occasion and I took some time off work because I really wanted to come here. This is the very one event I planned of playing. It’s an affordable event, plus a great cause, and I’m going on vacation to Morocco and Europe right after.”
Elsewhere in the Rio
In the $1,000 event #65: MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em, five players remain from the original 3,821. Georgios Sotiropoulos leads the pack and will try to put his hands on the $432,575 top prize.
Twelve players will return for the end of the $10k Event #66: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. Danny Chang leads the debates with a decent advance on his opponents. Two players with a 2021 bracelet will have their chance to make a double: Anatolii Zyrin (4th) and Josh Arieh (5th) but all will battle fiercely for the $484,791 victory.
Mustapha Kanit took the chip lead in the $10k 2021 WSOP Main Event day 1A. Doyle Brunson also made a new appearance this year, his first in the Main Event since 2013, and he will move on to Day 2 with 151,000 in chips! Doyle last bracelet was in 2005 when he won a $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed.
Good luck if you’re playing today!
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