The World Poker Tour wrapped up two championship occasion the previous couple of days, crowing champions on the WPT Prime Cyprus Championship and WPT Rolling Thunder.
Omar outlasts all of them
Omar Lakhdari received his second WPT title at WPT Prime Cyprus by outlasting a discipline of 1,391 entries throughout 5 beginning flights, which created a $1,349,270 prize pool.
First-place earned him $190,940. That features a $10,400 seat into the 2025 WPT World Championship that takes place in Las Vegas in December.
Lakhdari’s first WPT trophy got here in 2020 on the WPTDeepstakes occasion in Brussels. He received $101,387 for taking that down, and now has greater than $3.2 million in event cashes — good for Quantity One on the all-time cash listing for Algerians.
“I’m very glad to win. That is the second time I’ve received a WPT event and it’s my favourite event,” Lakhdari instructed the WPT after his victory. “I’m very glad, that is superb.”
The highest 177 finishers cashed a minimal $1,940.
Attila Saracoglu was the runner-up, which was good for $125,000. Joseph Haddad prize for third-place was $93,000. Fabian Rolli (fourth-place for $70,000), Edgars Hauks (fifth-place for $53,000), and Andras Balogh (sixth-place for $31,000) rounded out the ultimate desk.
Among the many notable names to money the WPT Prime Cyprus Championship have been 2022 WPTDeepStacks runner-up David Hu (sixteenth place – $11,500), 2025 WPT Cambodia Remaining Tableist Daniel Charlton (79th place – $3,500), 2023 WPT Prime Cambodia Champion Reiji Kono (108th place – $2,140), and 2024 WPT Prime Cyprus Champion Tudor Purice (136th place – $1,940).
Daniels king of Thunder
Successful his first WPT title is Shawn Daniels, who took down the $3,500 WPT Rolling Thunder headliner at Thunder Valley On line casino. Daniels received $218,600 and his title on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.
“To get my title on the cup could be very particular,” Daniels instructed WPT reporters. “It’s simply one thing meaning rather a lot and that I’ll bear in mind eternally.”
That’s fairly rattling cool.
It’s his second-largest rating, behind the $777,777 he received within the $777 occasion on the 2023 WSOP. He has three World Collection of Poker Circuit rings to associate with that bracelet.
Harvey Castro pushed his profession event earnings over the $1 million mark along with his runner-up end that paid $193,000. The Texas native received one other $193,600 in February, once more ending second in a $10,000 occasion on the PGT PokerGO Cup.
Eric Afriat was going for his fourth WPT title, however stalled in third for $122,000. He’ll quickly crest the $6 million lifetime tourney cashes mark.
Paul Richardson ($91,000), David Ha ($69,000), and Benjamin Primus ($53,000) rounded out the highest six.
The occasion attracted 404 entries who generated a $1,292,800 prize pool.
