A Champion Will be Crowned in WCOOP-91-L Before the End of the Day; "pagan_junior" Leads Counts
Its time to crown a Main Event Champion in the PokerStars WCOOP 2021 WCOOP-91-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, NLHE Main Event]. Nine players are still alive for the final day of play, but by the end of today, only one will be left standing, hoisting the virtual trophy. The winner today will pocket almost $200,000, the biggest share of the $2,014,550 prize pool.
Almost a full third of the prize pool is still yet to be won. Players returning today are guaranteed at least $12,908, but they all have their sights set on the $193,654 up top. In total, there's $642,261 left to be won on the final table, with two $100,000+ prizes, and a third that is just a hair under that number.
The player with the best chance at the big prize today is "pagan_junior" of Sweden. They starts Day 4 with the biggest of two stacks over 200,000, with Denmark's "rickiolsen1988" as the other 200,000+ stack in second. The leader starts the day with a bit more than 80 big blinds, while #2 will play 72 to start.
The shortest stack belongs to Romanian "benea29". They won't even have 10 bigs to start the day, with the final table average sitting about 38 big blinds for the first level of Day 4.
WCOOP-91-L Final Table Start Stacks
| Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "luily021" | Russia | 59,556,084 | 19.85BB |
| 2 | "pr0_nl" | Russia | 77,266,054 | 25.76BB |
| 3 | "rickiolsen1988" | Denmark | 217,351,244 | 72.45BB |
| 4 | "/Chompiras/0" | Brazil | 67,621,738 | 22.54BB |
| 5 | "pagan_junior" | Sweden | 240,852,840 | 80.28BB |
| 6 | "Castanella" | Russia | 139,438,369 | 46.48BB |
| 7 | "sNap36484" | Belarus | 130,167,214 | 43.39BB |
| 8 | "benea29" | Romania | 27,443,266 | 9.15BB |
| 9 | "Tfete" | Poland | 47,579,171 | 15.86BB |
WCOOP-91-L Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $193,654 |
| 2 | $138,027 |
| 3 | $98,390 |
| 4 | $70,136 |
| 5 | $49,995 |
| 6 | $35,638 |
| 7 | $25,404 |
| 8 | $18,109 |
| 9 | $12,908 |
The massive prize pool, better than 33% above the guarantee, was composed of more than 40,000 total entries. There were 40,291 entries, made up from 24,368 unique players with 15,653 re-entries, with more than 12,600 returning for play on Day 2.
They played into the 5,663 paid spots on Day 2, and all the way down to 160 players remaining. "joaomarcello" from Brazil was the leader at the end of Day 2, but Day 3 was as far as they would get, falling in 49th place during Day 3 for a prize of $1,993. "pokerturo" from Austria was the final table bubble, ending their run in 10th place at the end of Day 3 for $9,201.
Action for the final day of play gets underway at 13:05 ET (17:05 GMT) with action still in Level 60. Blinds will be at 150,000/300,000 (37,500) for a few minutes before they move on to Level 61 with levels increasing every 20 minutes through Day 4.
Stay tuned here at PokerNews for all the final day action in WCOOP-91-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, NLHE Main Event], but also check out the PokerStars WCOOP 2021 Hub to get all the details on the WCOOP so far.