Statistical Notes Following MPT 2021 Event #2

Observations following another Virtual MPT, the second event of the 2021 season, played on Pokerstars.net on Sunday, April 18, 2021.

• With 13 players, this tied with three other events (including the last tournament, earlier this year) for the sixth largest field in MPT history
• Skiteacher became the 11th player to win more than one tournament in his MPT career
• With Ah8s on the last hand, Skiteacher was the third straight MPT champion to hold the Ah in their hand and the fourth player in the last five events to do so
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• Syrorange3042 finished in second place for the first time in his MPT career, becoming the 23rd different player to finish as runner-up at least once in an MPT event
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• Sass cashed in her third consecutive MPT event, the second time in her career she has done so and the 15th time any player has cashed in three straight events in which they played
• Bigfus extended her lead over RowanB for the most all-time cashes to two, becoming the first player to cash in 30 different events in her MPT career
• dukegal76 became the 17th different player to cash in at least three different MPT events
• Skiteacher moved past JTinLV into the top ten on the all-time points list
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• Skiteacher tied his third highest point total for a single event, earning 22 points for the second time in his career, marking the fourth time he has earned 20 or more points in a single event, one time more than any other player (Harv29, Sass, RowanB, and Syrorange3042 have each done so three times in their careers)
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• By eliminating three players Syrorange3042 moved into the top ten on the all-time knockout list
• Syrorange3042 also moved past TSS777 into second place on the list of highest average knockouts per event played
• Bigfus eliminating exactly three opponents in a tournament for only the second time in her long MPT career (though, she has knocked out more than three opponents in three other occasions)
• This was the first time since July, 2016 that Harv29 eliminated exactly one opponent in an event (though, he has knocked out multiple players in five other events during that time)
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• Viceroy busted on the bubble for the first time in his MPT career, becoming the 17th different player to do so
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• ru47suited became the 31st different player to finish in last place in at least one MPT event