Here are the final table results and payouts: A 15-hour edited version of the Main Event will air on dates to be announced on CBS Sports Network. The final table played out Tuesday and Wednesday, airing nearly live (on slight delay to protect the identity of the players’ hole cards) on the PokerGO streaming service. Then I had to fight really hard to beat him.” A different kind of ‘November Nine’ I had the chip lead to start with and he grinded me down. He put us in spots, not only against me, but against the other players. “I didn’t expect that at first, but he played great.
“He was really, really tough,” Aldemir said afterward of Holmes. Aldemir spent nearly three minutes deliberating before calling and clinching the title with two pair. When the river delivered an offsuit nine, Aldemir checked and Holmes got greedy with his pair of kings, betting all-in for slightly more than the size of the pot. Aldemir bet, and Holmes made an almost automatic call. Holmes made a loose call with no pair, and then had the misfortune of picking up a real hand when the turn brought a king. Holding 10-7 of diamonds, Aldemir loved the 10-7-2 flop and check-raised Holmes’ K-Q. With stacks nearly even and both players nearly 100 big blinds deep, play on Wednesday night at the Rio Las Vegas could have gone on much longer than it did, but a series of missteps by Holmes and a tough but correct call by Aldemir ended it. Holmes overplayed his hand in the most literal sense possible and opened the door for Koray Aldemir to win his first bracelet, claim the $8 million first prize, and push his career earnings past $20 million.
Had George Holmes, the recreational player making a Cinderella run, prevailed, it would have been the kind of poker story that breaks through to the mainstream and inspires countless home-game players to start scouting out flights to Vegas for the next WSOP.īut it wasn’t to be. With 6,648 players eliminated, the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event came down to a 31-year-old poker pro from Germany with more than $12 million in prior tournament winnings who’d held the chip lead throughout most of the late stages of the tournament versus a 49-year-old amateur from Atlanta with one previous tournament cash to his name who was down to one big blind earlier in the competition.
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