WSOP Event #16: Limit Hold’em Championship

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Game:: Limit Hold'em Championship
Date:: Thursday, Oct 7, 3 PM
Buy-in:: $10,000
Starting Stack:: 60000
Level Duration:: 60 / 90 Min
Reigning Champion:: N/A
2021 Total Entries:: 92
2021 Prize Pool:: $857,900
2021 Winner:: John Monnette

Event #16 of the 2021 WSOP is the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship tournament. This high-roller event ran for three days starting on October 7. Players started the tournament with 60,000 chips and played 60-minute levels on Day 1 and 90-minute levels on Day 2 and Day 3.

It’s rare for a Limit Hold’em event to catch the attention of the poker world. But this time, three-time, FiveThirtyEight.com Creator Nate Silver and World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner John Monnette went heads-up for the win, sending social media buzzing. After their tense heads-up battle of two hours and 45 minutes, Monnette earned his fourth WSOP bracelet, plus the tournament’s top prize of $245,680.

Monnette’s win boosted his total live tournament earnings to over $3 million. The majority of that money came during WSOP events. The four-time bracelet winner has 72 career cashes in WSOP events, piling up an impressive prize money stack of $2,604,551. He won his three earlier bracelets in the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship in 2017 ($256,610), the $5,000 Seven Card Stud tournament in 2012 ($190,826), and the $2,500 8-Game Mix in 2011 ($278,144).

The $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship in 2019 drew 118 players and a prize pool of $1,109,200. Juha Helppi won his first career WSOP bracelet and the first-place prize of $306,622. The heads-up battle between Helppi and Mike Lancaster lasted for four hours before Helppi finally emerged victorious.

Read about the 2021 WSOP Event #16 winner here

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Rank	Player	Nationality	Prize
1	John Monnette	USA	+245680
2	Nate Silver	USA	+151842
3	Eric Kurtzman	USA	+108747
4	Terrence Chan	CAN	+79210
5	Jason Somerville	USA	+58697

Rank	Player	Nationality	Prize
1	John Monnette	USA	+245680
2	Nate Silver	USA	+151842
3	Eric Kurtzman	USA	+108747
4	Terrence Chan	CAN	+79210
5	Jason Somerville	USA	+58697
6	John Racener	USA	+44263
7	Scott Tuttle	USA	+33979
8	Christopher Chung	USA	+26561
9	Kevin Song	USA	+21149
10	Ray Dehkharghani	USA	+18506