In 2018, Viet Vo made his way through 753 other entrants in the World Poker Tour Choctaw event only to finish second to eventual champ Brady Holiman. On Tuesday, Vo was back at the same final table with the chip lead and just five other players standing between himself and some personal redemption.

The first ever World Series of Poker online bracelet event attracted 905 entrants, creating a prize pool of $859,000. The top 100 will finish in the money, with a top prize of almost $200,000 on the line.

The organizers of a nascent poker tour engaged in a practice that, while not necessarily against the rules or an all-out poker crime, was certainly off-putting to many poker players.