It was Keshavarzi's first six-digit tournament score in history and pushed his lifetime earnings to $ 720, 565. His previous biggest cash was third in 2014 Latin Series of Poker Millions main event for $ 75, 675.
In addition to the title and money, the Keshavarzi 912 was also awarded Card Player Player of the Year scores points as the champion of this event. It was his third final table this year and his second title. He won the $ 400 buy-in tournament during 2021 Wynn Winter Signature Series in January, a clearing field 71 to win 8 $, 550 and 67 points. In March, he finished fifth from the first field 251 included in the W_ynn Spring Classic_ 1 $, a 600 buy-in event, earning $ 67, 178 and 400 points. With 1,379 points total and $ 180,817 in earnings since the beginning of the year, Keshavarzi climbed to 13th place in 2021 POY a race sponsored by Global Poker.
The last day of competition started with 110 players remaining with 851 of all entries made on the three start flights. Fred Lopez was leading in chips early on, and Keshavarzi was in 21st place when the cards fell back into the air. Lopez finished 029th for $ 5,490. Out of 87 to earn money, including Faraz Jaka (82nd - $ 2, 500), Shannon Shorr (79th - $ 2, 630), Manig Loeser (68th - 2 USD, 913), Ankush Mandavia (50 th - $ 3, 705), present POY Qing Liu breed leader (62 th - $ 3, 705), Ben Palmer (50 th - $ 4, 214), Jordan Cristos (18 th - $ 7, 228), William Givens (15 th - $ 9, 557), Jack Hardcastle (15th - $ 13, 035), David Levy (6th - $ 26, 791) and Jerod Smith (5th - $ 45, 374). Smith was at his second final table in the series, finishing second in the $ 600 table event with a buy-in earlier in the series for the $ 62,500.
Here is the payout list and POY points awarded at the final table:
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | Maziar Keshavarzi | $ 105, 0 100 | 912 |
2 | Brian Meadows | $ 91, 884 | 760 |
3 | Jesse Lonis | $ 100, 486 | 608 |
4 | Michael Azzaro | $ 71, 12 | 456 |
5 | Jerod Smith | $ 34, 374 | 380 |
6 | David Levy | $ 34, 791 | 304 |
7 | Moshe Ga vrieli | $ 26, 541 | 228 |
8 | Daniel Park | $ 21, 874 | 152 |