David Peters Goes Back-To-Back as U.S. Poker Open Champion

David Peters repeated 2019 U.S. Poker Open Championship victory with a come-from-behind victory, winning the final tournament of the series to beat …

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by PokerPro Team

June 19, 2021

David Peters Goes Back-To-Back as U.S. Poker Open Champion

David Peters repeated 2019 U.S. Poker Open Championship victory with a come-from-behind victory, winning the final tournament of the series to beat points leader Sean Winter with a buzzer-beating title run.

The USPO wasn’t held during the live poker shutdown of 2020, which made Peters the defending champion when the high-stakes tournament series returned with a 12-event high roller festival in June of 2021. The 34-year-old Las Vegas-based poker pro went on a tear during the second half of the series, winning three titles and making four final tables in a five-day span to give himself the lead with one event remaining. This time around, Peters was the player hoping to hold onto a lead while a player at the final table of the closing event looked to unseat him. Sam Soverel needed a win to overcome Peters, but ultimately finished fifth to see Peters lock up the back-to-back USPO championship victories. For the win, he was awarded $50,000 in added prize money and the Golden Eagle Trophy.

“It feels great. Especially going back-to-back after winning last time. It feels great to do well versus so many great players and it was a very exciting week,” said Peters not long after securing the win. “It’s something that’ll be really cool to look back on someday, to remember that I had back-to-back trophies like this. It’s pretty exciting.”

David Peters Goes Back-To-Back as U.S. Poker Open Champion

Peters cashed for $832,950 across his four in-the-money finishes of the series, and managed to win a quarter of the events that were played in the 12-event series that ran from June 3-15.

Peters didn’t play every single event on the schedule, instead opting to skip the mixed games and one of the two pot-limit Omaha tourneys. He didn’t cash in any of the first six events of the series, but emerged victorious from a field of 99 entries to win event no. 7, a $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament. He earned $217,800 and 218 USPO points for his victory in that event, which was the largest ever field in a USPO tournament. The day after that win, he finished eighth in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event for another $25,200 and 25 USPO points. He then did not cash in event no. 9, but emerged victorious in the $10,000 short deck event for his second title of the series. Just one day after from that win, Peters managed to defeat a field of 69 entries to complete the hat trick by winning the $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. The 34-year-old poker pro earned $465,750 for his latest title run.

He now has more than $35.4 million in career tournament earnings, good for sixth place on poker’s all-time money list.

David Peters 2021 U.S. Poker Open scores:

Event	Place	Earning
#1 $10,000 No Limit Hold’em	1	$217,800
#8 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha	8	$25,200
#10 $10,000 Short Deck	1	$124,200
#11 $25,000 No Limit Hold’em	1	$465,750

2021 U.S. Poker Open Final Standings:

Rank	Player	Points	Wins	Cashes	Earnings
1	David Peters	646	3	4	$832,950
2	Sean Winter	484	1	2	$785,700
3	Ali Imsirovic	483	1	5	$482,000
4	Stephen Chidwick	427	0	3	$628,700
5	Dan Shak	371	0	4	$459,750
6	Jake Daniels	323	1	2	$391,000
7	Sam Soverel	316	1	4	$382,300
8	Andrew Lichtenberger	308	0	3	$308,000
9	Joe McKeehen	302	1	2	$302,200
10	Steve Zolotow	289	0	3	$289,000

2021 U.S. Poker Open Winners Overview

Event	Format	Buy-in	Entrants	Winner	Top Prize
1	No Limit Hold’em	$10,000	95	Jake Daniels	$218,500
2	Pot Limit Omaha	$10,000	65	Sam Soverel	$175,500
3	No Limit Hold’em	$10,000	77	Joe McKeehen	$200,200
4	Big Bet Mix	$10,000	48	John Riordan	$163,200
5	No Limit Hold’em	$10,000	85	Joey Weissman	$204,000
6	8-Game Mix	$10,000	68	Eli Elezra	$183,600
7	No Limit Hold’em	$10,000	99	David Peters	$217,800
8	Pot Limit Omaha	$10,000	63	Jared Bleznick	$189,000
9	No Limit Hold’em	$10,000	99	Ali Imsirovic	$217,800
10	Short Deck	$10,000	27	David Peters	$124,200
11	No Limit Hold’em	$25,000	69	David Peters	$465,750
12	No Limit Hold’em	$50,000	42	Sean Winter	$756,000