Koray Aldemir Leads Final 96 Players In 2021 World Series of Poker Main EventAll The Remaining Players Have Locked Up $59,000, But Only One Will Win The Bracelet and The $8 Million Top Prize |
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The 2021 World Series of Poker main event drew 6,650 entries, the tenth-largest turnout in the tournament’s history. From that sea of players, there are now just 96 remaining with a shot at the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $8,000,000.
Koray Aldemir ended day 5 of the $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em world championship with 14,325,000 for the largest stack in the room. The German high-stakes tournament player (pictured above) has more than $12.3 million in prior live tournament earnings under his belt. He won a key hand down the stretch after calling the all-in of Ognyan Dimov with a flush draw, straight draw, and a pair. Dimov was ahead when the money in on the turn, having flopped top set, but the rivered completed Aldemir’s flush to send the massive pot his way.
Other big stacks heading into day 6 include 2019 $25,000 buy-in PokerStars NL Hold’em Players Championship winner Ramon Colillas (12,000,000), 40-year-old Canadian investment advisor Jonathan Dwek (10,125,000), and 31-year-old Las Vegas cash game grinder Zachary McDiarmid (9,700,000). McDiarmid has played the main event four times prior to this year and had yet to record cash. Now he and the other remaining players have locked up at least $59,000, with a shot at millions in potential earnings.
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The next-largest stack belongs to 26-year-old poker pro Jesse Lonis, who now sits with 8,995,000 in his debut appearance in the big dance. Lonis was already having a breakout year on the tournament circuit, with eight final-table finishes and more than $600,000 in scores before buying into this event. Now he is among the leaders at the business end of the largest poker tournament in the world.
“It just feels like a dream, almost. I’m just kind of in the moment, and it’s like the emotions haven’t really hit me yet,” Lonis told Card Player on day 5. “I’m just trying to worry about the next hand, just worry about making the right decision and try to get to the end.”
Other notable players to survive day 5 included bracelet winner Chase Bianchi (7,065,000), three-time bracelet winner Chance Kornuth (5,920,000), bracelet winner Abhinav Iyer (5,850,000), bracelet winner Robert Mitchell (4,765,000), Jeremy Joseph (4,280,000), bracelet winner and 2019 Card Player Player of the Year award winner Stephen Chidwick (3,710,000), bracelet winner Tyler Cornell (3,065,000), nine-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Jeffrey Trudeau (2,780,000), bracelet winner Stephen Song (2,765,000), two-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (2,030,000), and two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo (1,000,000).
While 96 players remain, nearly 200 were eliminated on day 5. Among them was Salko Imsirovic, who earned $50,900 as the 100th-place finisher. If the name sounds familiar, it might be because his son Ali Imsirovic is currently the hottest player on the live tournament circuit, with 13 titles and 27 final-table finishes so far in 2021.
“He played this like little small card room, but he wouldn’t want me to gamble. So obviously your parents don’t want you to do something you’re 16 makes me want to do to be more. So, I kind of got into poker because he didn’t want me to. But he’s been playing way longer than I have, and he loves the game. He mostly just plays like $5 and $10 tournaments online, but I put him in the main event this year and it’s going amazing right now,” said Ali Imsirovic before his father was eliminated. When asked if he had given his father a lot of strategic guidance, Ali replied, “I’m mostly just letting him play his game. I gave him a few tips about how to adjust a bit, but he got here by himself, ya know? I don’t want to mess it up.”
The elder Imsirovic is a 59-year-old retired parking lot attendant. He owned a restaurant in Bosnia before leaving the country due to conflict in the area.
“He came here and worked hard at multiple jobs for his family, and now he is doing this,” said Ali, clearly overjoyed with his father’s impressive run.
There will be a new world champion crowned in this year’s main event, as the two prior winners that made it to day 5 were both eliminated within the first few hours of play. 2016 champion Qui Nguyen finished 241st for $38,600. Chris Moneymaker, whose win in 2003 was a major factor in the poker boom, was among the leaders on day 2 and day 3, but slid away from the top of the leaderboard on day 4. His run this year came to an end in 260th place ($38,600) when his A-J failed to win a race against the pocket sixes of Vladas Tamasauskas.
It wasn't meant to be..
We bust out of the @WSOP #MainEvent in 260th place.
We had an awesome run, it was lots of fun playing this special for me tournament once again. pic.twitter.com/gFY9pDAdsz— Chris Moneymaker (@CMONEYMAKER) November 13, 2021
Other notable players to hit the rail on day 5 included bracelet winner Matthew Waxman (287th – $38,600), two-time bracelet winner and Card Player columnist Steve Zolotow (283rd – $38,600), bracelet winner and high-stakes star Jason Koon (191st – $44,200), Matt Berkey (264th – $38,600), nine-time _WSOP Circuit) ring winner Daniel Lowery (255th – $38,600), bracelet winner Jonathan Aguiar(190th – $44,200), bracelet winner Ken Aldridge (169th – $44,200), recent super seniors event winner Jean-Luc Adam (147th – $50,900), bracelet winner James Gilbert (130th – $50,900), Aussie Millions champion Toby Lewis (112th – $50,900), bracelet winner Tristan Wade (111th – $50,900), and bracelet winner Cole Ferraro (109th – $50,900).
Day 6 is set to begin at noon local time on Sunday, Nov. 14 with blinds of 40,000-80,000 and a big blind ante of 80,000 for level 26.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts of the remaining 96 players:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Koray Aldemir | 14,325,000 |
| 2 | Ramon Colillas | 12,000,000 |
| 3 | Jonathan Dwek | 10,125,000 |
| 4 | Zachary Mcdiarmid | 9,700,000 |
| 5 | Jesse Lonis | 8,995,000 |
| 6 | Roongsak Griffeth | 8,925,000 |
| 7 | Andreas Kniep | 8,515,000 |
| 8 | Tonio Röder | 8,000,000 |
| 9 | Alejandro Lococo | 7,805,000 |
| 10 | Stephen Gerber | 7,700,000 |
| 11 | Jung Woo | 7,640,000 |
| 12 | Preston McEwen | 7,635,000 |
| 13 | Adam Walton | 7,610,000 |
| 14 | Chase Bianchi | 7,065,000 |
| 15 | Nicolas Vayssieres | 6,610,000 |
| 16 | David Cabrera | 6,500,000 |
| 17 | Matthew Jewett | 6,475,000 |
| 18 | Roman Hrabec | 6,320,000 |
| 19 | Jareth East | 6,275,000 |
| 20 | Heng Zhang | 6,050,000 |
| 21 | Chance Kornuth | 5,920,000 |
| 22 | Abhinav Iyer | 5,850,000 |
| 23 | Norbert Koh | 5,775,000 |
| 24 | Patrick Wall | 5,775,000 |
| 25 | Arkadi Onikoul | 5,655,000 |
| 26 | Lewis Spencer | 5,590,000 |
| 27 | Dragana Lim | 5,555,000 |
| 28 | Hye Park | 5,495,000 |
| 29 | Chris Vezzetti | 5,260,000 |
| 30 | Nicholas Rigby | 5,212,000 |
| 31 | Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | 4,920,000 |
| 32 | Denys Prydvor | 4,780,000 |
| 33 | Robert Mitchell | 4,765,000 |
| 34 | Glynn Beebe | 4,700,000 |
| 35 | Ronald Jensen | 4,680,000 |
| 36 | Daniel Swartz | 4,600,000 |
| 37 | Francis Cruz | 4,530,000 |
| 38 | Ronnie Abro | 4,450,000 |
| 39 | Philipe Pizzari Pinto | 4,320,000 |
| 40 | Jeremy Joseph | 4,280,000 |
| 41 | Joshua Remitio | 4,255,000 |
| 42 | Alex Goulder | 4,150,000 |
| 43 | Ugur Secilmis | 4,050,000 |
| 44 | Vasu Amarapu | 3,960,000 |
| 45 | Michael Nugent | 3,815,000 |
| 46 | Jacob Millstein | 3,810,000 |
| 47 | Stephen Chidwick | 3,710,000 |
| 48 | Breno Campelo | 3,490,000 |
| 49 | Josh Prager | 3,400,000 |
| 50 | Sean Ragozzini | 3,310,000 |
| 51 | Chris Dowling | 3,300,000 |
| 52 | Mikiya Kudo | 3,240,000 |
| 53 | George Holmes | 3,225,000 |
| 54 | Joshua Field | 3,175,000 |
| 55 | Christopher Trang | 3,135,000 |
| 56 | Bryan Pimlott | 3,080,000 |
| 57 | Ehsan Amiri | 3,070,000 |
| 58 | Tyler Cornell | 3,065,000 |
| 59 | Raul Manzanares | 2,945,000 |
| 60 | Shai Arbel | 2,880,000 |
| 61 | Alireza Amiri | 2,865,000 |
| 62 | Eliot Hudon | 2,835,000 |
| 63 | Yaniv Peretz (IL) | 2,810,000 |
| 64 | Jeffrey Trudeau | 2,780,000 |
| 65 | Stephen Song | 2,765,000 |
| 66 | David Coleman | 2,760,000 |
| 67 | Adrian State | 2,700,000 |
| 68 | John Morgan | 2,600,000 |
| 69 | Matija Dobric | 2,595,000 |
| 70 | Ryan Roeder | 2,205,000 |
| 71 | Jon Shoreman | 2,200,000 |
| 72 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 2,030,000 |
| 73 | Behrooz Jamshidi | 2,030,000 |
| 74 | Timothy Cramer | 1,930,000 |
| 75 | Roman Valerstein | 1,890,000 |
| 76 | Bryan Braswell | 1,850,000 |
| 77 | Robert Cowen | 1,840,000 |
| 78 | Asher Conniff | 1,825,000 |
| 79 | Jack Oliver | 1,565,000 |
| 80 | Frank Weigel | 1,515,000 |
| 81 | Ruslan Dykshteyn | 1,440,000 |
| 82 | Jason Osser | 1,435,000 |
| 83 | Mitchell Halverson | 1,360,000 |
| 84 | Gabriel Sack | 1,300,000 |
| 85 | Cody Wiegmann | 1,290,000 |
| 86 | Matthew Schulte | 1,245,000 |
| 87 | Daniel Sewnig | 1,200,000 |
| 88 | Nicolas Dumont | 1,175,000 |
| 89 | Brian Frasca | 1,135,000 |
| 90 | Chris Alafogiannis | 1,115,000 |
| 91 | Jake Toole | 1,100,000 |
| 92 | Nick Petrangelo | 1,000,000 |
| 93 | Fatima Nanji | 935,000 |
| 94 | Austin Lewis | 900,000 |
| 95 | Adam Duong | 680,000 |
| 96 | Niko Koop | 250,000 |
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