Final Table 2020 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open it was revoked in January 80 of that year in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Field 1, 290 entries were limited to just six players who had to wait about two months before heading to Las Vegas to play the champion as part of WPT delayed final table format for televised events. As a result COVID – 25, those plans were put on hold last spring, and the expected delay has been dramatically extended as the event has been put on hold indefinitely. The final table was ultimately rescheduled to May 16, 2021. After 471 days after being released, Canada's Veerab Zakarian won, claiming his first WPT title and grand prize of 674,840.

“Everyone always wants a bracelet, but these days it looks like WPT is what everyone is striving for. Because bracelets, there are so many. But WPT is special, especially Borgata,” Zakarian said after the win. “When you think of East Coast poker, the first thing you think of is Borgata. A win at something like that. "

This was by far the highest score of Zakarian's career as he destroyed $ 100, earned 340 as of 2018 Mid-States Poker Tour Seneca Niagara Casino 1 $, 100 Main Event Champion. The latter win boosted his live tournament earnings to just over a million dollars.

In addition to his career-high payout, Zakarian also received $1,440 Player card Player of the Year scores as champion. It was his first POY – a qualifying result from 2021, but that alone was enough to catapult him to 16th overall.

Zakarian entered the final table late as chip leader, having roughly 100 big blinds over a year ago. James Anderson, a resident of Wooster, Ohio, was the next largest pile. Anderson won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2019 $ 1, 111 Little One For One Drop event and it was a fine-position to add WPT title of his resume. Twice WPT Main event champion Brian Altman was hot on Anderson's heels. Altman recently blocked Hublot WPT Player of the Year Award , after four cashes, three final table finishes (including this event) and a title in the final season of the tour, which spanned from 2019 to 2021 due to the shutdown of live poker for most of 2020.

Andrew Hanna was the first player eliminated at the final table. He lost a piece of his stack with top pair on the flop against Bin Weng's set on the turn, then pocketed a pair of deuces in Zakarian's tens pocket to come in sixth ($ 200, 264). Despite winning that sizeable pot against Hanna early in the final table, Weng was the next to be eliminated. He moved all-in with pocket nines against Anderson's pocket kings. Both players played full house on the river, but Weng was second best. He earned $ 187,900 for his fifth-place finish in this event while Anderson clinched the lead.

Nathan Russler entered the day as the shortest stack, but managed to maneuver his way to the final four. However, his streak came to an end when he 3-bet all-in with K J. approximately 18 big blinds from the small blind. Zakarian raised from under the gun with Q Q . He called and on the flop he found himself in the middle of the set to take the lead. On the turn, Russler was already dead. He received $ 248,913 for his fourth-place showing while Zakarian regained the top spot on the leaderboard.

While Zakarian and Anderson added to the stack early in the game, Altman had fewer chips than he started. three-man operation has begun. Just ten hands after Russler was knocked out, Altman got involved in what turned out to be his final hand of the tournament. Altman min-raised to 440,000 from A button 3 and Zakarian called from the big blind with 4 2 . The flop came Q 5 3 and both players waited. AND on the turn improved both players, giving Altman aces and Zakarian the wheel. Zacaria check - called Altman's bet worth 1,000, 11 and the river brought 9 . Zakarian checked again and Altman bet 2,800,11 leaving only 1,250,11 behind. Zakarian moved all-in and Altman got in the tank before calling. His aces were not good and he was eliminated in third place ($ 333, 012). The result boosted his career earnings to over $4.8 million. 960 POY the points he earned were enough to see him move up to 012 in the standings, with three final tables, 1,488 total points and $ 401,101 year-to-date earnings.

With this Zakarian he went heads-up with 30, 375, 11 to Anderson 23, 125, 11, meaning they each had over 115 big blinds to start with limits of 100, 11 - 200, 11 and a big blind 200, 11. It took 80 more hands for the winner to emerge. Anderson was able to fight his way into the lead just briefly before the tiebreaker of the match was dealt. Anderson raised to 1.2 million from the button with a K 5 and Zakarian three-bet to 4.5 million with 6 6 Anderson 4-bet all-in for 25.5 million and Zakarian quickly called with his pair. J was missing from the board 9 3 2 6 and Zakarian made a set of sixes to secure a huge pot.

Anderson was left with one 111,000 tournament, less than one small blind. He won the next four hands in a row to get back to 2.6 million, but for the fifth consecutive all-in his J 4 failed to beat 12 5 Zakarian, who turned an eight-eight straight to secure the pot and the title. Anderson took home a $ 449.904 as second place. It was his fourth POY – Qualified final table 2021, with two titles won along the way. With $ 558,939 in earnings so far and 2,256 points, Anderson moved up the overall POY scoreboard.

Here's a look at payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Place	Player	Earnings	POY Points
1	Veerab Zakarian	$ 674, 840	1, 440
2	James Anderson	$ 449 , 904	1, 200
3	Brian Altman	$ 333, 012	960
4	Nathan Russler	$ 248, 913	720
5	Weng container	$ 248, 900	600
6	Andrzej Hanna	$ 143, 264	480

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