Alongside the ClubWPT Gold $5M Freeroll Finale and the 2025 McLaren GTS Prize Draw, poker motion on the World Poker Tour World Championships was in full swing with Day 1B of the WPT World Championship and the ultimate day of the WPT Girls Championship.
The Girls Championship shattered its $250,000 assure, amassing a powerful $470,450 prize pool from 485 entries. After a fiercely contested last desk, Tirza Sanders reigned supreme, defeating Jana De La Cerra heads-up to say the title and a $90,432 payday.
Sanders Pips De La Cerra to WPT Girls Championship Title
When the ultimate river card hit the felt, Tirza Sanders obtained to name herself the WPT Girls Champion. Sanders rose from the center of the pack on the ultimate desk all the best way to first place.
The highest 60 gamers made the cash after the bubble burst on Day 1. Notables who took a shot however failed to succeed in the paid locations included Princess Love, PokerStars ambassador Caitlin Comeskey, Poker Corridor of Famer J.J. Liu, Lara Eisenberg and the WPT’s Lynn Gilmartin.
Sanders entered Day 2 in forty first out of the 55 gamers that made it by way of the opening session and continued to hold in as extra opponents fell by the wayside.
The UK’s Sinead Davenport scored a double elimination that noticed Allyn Shulman and PokerNews Podcast Co-Host Kyna England bow out in twelfth and eleventh place, respectively. Sara Ralston then despatched Yordanos Mebrahtu on the ultimate desk bubble.
By this level, Sanders’ lowly stack of 95,000 had swelled to 1,450,000 (29 massive blinds) whereas Davenport was in pole place with 3,300,000 (66 massive blinds).
Ralston ousted Shannon Fahey in ninth and rallied to the highest of the counts as extra pots have been pushed in her path. Sanders survived two all-ins, together with a flip in opposition to Davenport to remain in competition forward of Camille Brown exiting in eight.
Sanders booked one other double in a three-way all-in that resulted in Mikiyo Aoki heading to the payout desk in seventh. Krisha Augerot was gone in sixth and Sanders made it four-handed after seeing off Jenny Ding. Sanders climbed to the highest of the chip leaderboard and additional entrenched her place when she despatched Ralston to the fallacious facet of the rail.
Sanders secured her spot in her heads-up showdown when she gained a race in opposition to Davenport. Sanders started with a close to 2:1 chip lead over Jana De La Cerra, however the latter confirmed coronary heart as she tried to battle again. De La Cerra diminished the hole on quite a few events, however Sanders’ foot by no means left the gasoline pedal.
De La Cerra was whittled down to 10 massive blinds, and her last chips went into the center with ace-nine. Sanders had king-queen and paired up on the runout to seal the victory. Sanders, a Tucson, Arizona native, boosted her profession dwell event earnings by greater than tenfold and she or he informed reporters after the win:
“It feels superb. It is unreal. I am completely satisfied to have my crew right here supporting me. I have been really having a tough yr, and so proper right here in December, to shut it out and have a successful yr feels superb.”
“I do not play very many Girls’s Occasions however all of them satisfied me to come back down right here, and so I believe I’ll be an everyday within the Girls Occasions to any extent further.”
WPT Girls Championship Last Desk Outcomes
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