WSOP Online $500 NLH Summer Saver victory for Zusman

On Friday night, the 2021 World Series of Poker Online Event #31: $500 NLH Summer Saver attracted 632 players who rebought 285 times.

The 917-entry field generated a $412,650 prize pool, and after 11 hours of play, it was Brad "1badcajun" Zusman coming out on top to win a $79,683 first-place prize and his first career gold bracelet.

Prior to the win, Zusman had seven WSOP-related cashes totaling $48,521 with his best prior WSOP cash being $17,135 for placing 941st in the 2019 WSOP Main Event.

After Puneeth "kimisraunchy" Modha had his set of aces cracked on the money bubble in 144th place, the in-the-money eliminations came at a steady pace which included WSOP bracelet winner Kathy "Luckygal" Liebert (132nd - $701), four-time WSOP bracelet winner Jeff "NedrudRelyt" Madsen (82nd - $867), WSOP bracelet winner Joseph "biueberry" Cheong (33rd - $1,857), Sang "youngkoi" Lee (13th - $3,466), and "shady_1" (10th - $4,374).

After a few final table doubles, Jason "TheBigGift" Gooch was finally able to drop the first player after he coolered David "dave419" Nodes with kings against queens.

The next two eliminations came in quick succession after Josh "YoelRomero" King won a with ace-queen against the king-ten of Jeremy "g00sebumps" Menard and "KerriP" lost a race holding a pair of fives to Mark "victb" Ioli holding Big Slick, bowing out in eighth and seventh place respectively.

Orson "borgatcha" Young exited in sixth place after his queen-ten was out-flopped by the nine-two of Gooch, and then Gooch ran his king-queen into Ioli's Big Slick to fall in fifth place.

Jeff "bortzork" Miller fell in fourth place when his king-six offsuit failed to overcome the pocket nines of Ioli, and then Ioli won another hand with Big Slick to dispatch King in third place.

Heads-up play began with the final two players dead even in chips, but Ioli fell sort and lost with a pair of ladies after Zusman turned an ace holding ace-jack.

Final Table Results
1 Brad "1badcajun" Zusman $79,683
2 Mark "victb" Ioli $49,270
3 Josh "YoelRomero" King $34,704
4 Jeff "bortzork" Miller $24,759
5 Jason "TheBigGift" Gooch $17,909
6 Orson "borgatcha" Young $13,122
7 "KerriP" $9,780
8 Jeremy "g00sebumps" Menard $7,386
9 David "dave419" Nodes $5,653

(Article courtesy of World Series of Poker)