The flop moved Cimbolas ahead and left Lau needing a reprieve from either the turn or river. Action folded to Cimbolas in the small blind and he moved all with before Ka Kwan Lau called all in with from the big blind. It took 63 hands over the next three hours before the next player was sent packing. The board ran out to eliminate De Silva in sixth place. Down to just 10 big blinds, De Silva moved all in from the button with and Patur called from the small blind with.

On the 30th hand, De Silva made his final stand. Upeshka De Silva came to the final table with the shortest remaining stack and wasn’t able to improve his standing through the first 29 hands of final table play. On Sunday, Veerab Zakarian took down the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open, another event that suffered an extended postponement. Poker Classic and walk away with his name on the WPT Champions Cup and $1,015,000 in his pockets.ĭue to the coronavirus pandemic, the final table was delayed from its original April 2020 date. For the second time in two days, the World Poker Tour crowned a new champion and for the second time in two attempts, Matas Cimbolas was relegated to the role of bridesmaid in one of the WPT’s most prestigious events.īalakrishna Patur eliminated Cimbolas, who finished runner-up to David Baker at the 2019 LAPC Main Event, to cap off a nine-hour final table to win the 2020 version of the L.A.

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