Patur might have entered the final table with a tournament-leading stack, but closing out the win came as no easy feat. Patur tops all-star final table for biggest career score Nearly 15 months after that start date, the tournament crowned Patur as its champion on Monday. The long-running live tournament began at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles on Feb. Poker Classic played out as the third of three WPT tournaments to finally finish up this week. This week saw a trio of WPT events from last spring finally resume at the Luxor.

side of the tour are paused after the final table is set, with play resumed at a later date at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas.ĬOVID-19 forced several WPT events to endure delays of more than a year. Per the World Poker Tour’s standard procedure, all tournaments on the U.S.

Patur entered final table play as the chip leader, bagging 6.32 million chips way back on March 4, 2020. The tournament hit the restart button at the six-handed final table, and Patur emerged from that lineup with the win and a $1,015,000 first-place prize. More than 14 months later, Patur finished the deal and pocketed the biggest payout of his poker career.ĭelayed by COVID-19 considerations for more than a year, the 2020 WPT L.A. Patur earns the biggest score of his poker career with the winīalakrishna Patur put in the work last March, navigating through a 490-entry field to clinch a spot at the final table of the 2020 WPT L.A.

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