Nuno "Albertov" Capucho Wins First Bracelet and $190,274 in Event #23
After a bit more than 4.5 hours of play on Day 2, Nuno "Albertov" Capucho is the last player with chips in Event #23: $600 Deepstack Championship of the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online. He made it through 2,820 entries from the Day 1 field, and the 49 returning players on Day 2 to win $190,274 and his first bracelet. That was the biggest share of the $1,607.400 prize pool, but the final table split almost half that with $703,716 for the final nine alone.
Capucho was on fire on the final table, eliminating every player save one. James "PHJ10" Carroll managed to eliminate start-of-day chip leader James Chen in 4th place, but then Carroll promptly fell to Capucho in 3rd to set up the heads-up play. Capucho certainly ran well, holding when he was ahead, and getting there when he wasn't, but he also picked his spots well.
Karolina "KarolinaNe" Norvaisaite put up a valiant fight heads-up. She came into the final phase at nearly a 3:1 deficit, and chipped up to almost 50 million, within striking distance of the lead. That was as far as she could get though, and when it got down to a race for all the chips at the end, it seemed inevitable that Capucho would bust the final player.
Event #23 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nuno "Albertov" Capucho | Portugal | $190,274 |
| 2 | Karolina "KarolinaNe" Norvaisaite | United Kingdom | $142,683 |
| 3 | James "PHJ10" Carroll | United States | $106,998 |
| 4 | James Chen | Taiwan | $80,237 |
| 5 | Bowen "lbwgooxdluck" Liu | China | $60,169 |
| 6 | Alves "thefifapro" Ferreira | Brazil | $45,120 |
| 7 | Ran "Pearblossom" Koller | Israel | $33,835 |
| 8 | Christopher "Canuck Clout" Doyle | Canada | $25,373 |
| 9 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | $19,027 |
GGPoker Team Brazil player Felipe Ramos looked like he might make a run for his first bracelet. He made a late day surge on Day 1 to bag a medium stack, and managed to turn that into a final table appearance. It was short-lived however, as Ramos was the first to fall victim to the Capucho final table steamroller.
That concludes another bracelet event in the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online. Click that link to get all the results and future coverage for the series as PokerNews is bringing you all the bracelet events.