The 2025 World Poker Tour Cyprus Prime Championship $1,100 no-limit maintain’em occasion soared previous its $1,000,000 assure, with 1,391 entries constructing a remaining prize pool of $1,349,270. After 5 beginning flights and two extra days of motion contained in the Chamada Status Lodge & On line casino, Omar Lakhdari was left because the final participant standing.
The Algerian-born participant, now primarily based in Morocco, secured $190,430 because the champion. This was the third-largest rating of Lakhdari’s event poker profession. He now has practically $2.1 million in whole earnings to his identify.
This win additionally got here with 960 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was Lakhdari’s second final-table end up to now, having positioned third in a World Collection of Poker Worldwide Circuit $620 buy-in occasion in Morocco for $23,811 and 280 factors. With 1,240 whole factors, Lakhdari now sits in 66th place within the 2025 POY standings offered by World Poker.
The highest 177 finishers earned a share of the prize pool on this occasion, with 5 figures or extra for the highest 19. Simply 9 gamers moved on to the ultimate day, with cards-up motion livestreamed by the WPT.
Turkey’s Atilla Saracoglu held the lead when playing cards received within the air, with Lakhdari sitting in third chip place to start out. It took a few hours for the primary knockout of the day to reach. Ilan Verdnikov received all-in with A
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main the ten8 of Saracoglu on a ten
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flop. The 5 on the flip saved Verdnikov forward, however the 10 on the top gave Saracoglu tens full and the pot. Verdnikov earned $18,800 because the ninth-place finisher.
Saracoglu was simply getting began. He went on to remove Baris Topuz (eighth – $24,000), Sencer Ozturk (seventh – $31,000), and Andras Balogh (sixth – $40,000) to keep up the lead heading into short-handed play.
Edgars Hauks’ (fifth – $53,000) run got here to an finish when his A-Okay clashed with the pocket aces of Joseph Haddad. The case ace got here out on the flop and Hauks was drawing useless by the flip.
Lakhdari gained a giant one with A-Okay in opposition to the A-Q suited of Saracoglu throughout four-handed motion to take the lead. He then scored his first knockout of the day with Q-10 besting the Okay-J of Fabian Rolli (4th – $70,000). Shortly after that, Joseph Haddad received all-in with OkayJ in opposition to the AQ of Lakhdari. The board got here down QQ6310 and Haddad was despatched to the rail in third place ($93,000).
Heads-up play started with 38,325,000 for Lakhdari and 17,200,000 within the stack of Saracoglu. He was in a position to prolong that lead even additional forward of the ultimate hand. Lakhdari picked up AOkay and min-raised to 1,000,000 on the button. Saracoglu known as from the massive blind with OkayQ and the flop got here down J105. Saracoglu check-shoved over a 5,000,000 guess from Lakhdari, who known as the rest together with his nut flush draw and gutshot straight draw. Saracoglu was behind together with his straight draw and located no assistance on both the three flip or 8 river. He was eradicated in second place, incomes $125,000 for his efforts.
Closing Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Omar Lakhdari
$190,430
960
2
Atilla Saracoglu
$125,000
800
3
Joseph Haddad
$93,000
640
4
Fabian Rolli
$70,000
480
5
Edgars Hauks
$53,000
400
6
Andras Balogh
$40,000
320
7
Sencer Ozturk
$31,000
240
8
Baris Topuz
$24,000
160
9
Ilan Verdnikov
$18,800
80
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