On Saturday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 buy-in, $2 million GTD WPT Cyprus Championship subject stood at 641 entries with 297 of them returning for Day 2. Nevertheless, there was nonetheless two hours of late registration accessible, and through that point greater than 100 runners entered the sphere.
When official numbers have been revealed, the sphere had swelled to 775 entrants (283 entries of Day 1a, 173 on Day 1b, 185 on Day 1c, and 134 on Day 2), which meant the $2 million assure was handed as a $2,402,500 prize pool was up for grabs to the highest 97 finishers. The eventual winner of the match will take house a hefty $401,100 and have their identify etched on the Mike Sexton Champions Cup.
That’s significantly greater than the $310,000 gained by Alexander Lakhov 11 years earlier within the 2014 WPT Cyprus, the final time a foremost tour cease was hosted on the island nation.
After 10 ranges of play, simply 70 gamers survived, with Uladzimir Zhyharau and his stack of 1,700,000 main the pack. Others nonetheless in rivalry have been Onur Ozgur (905,000), WPT International Ambassador Romulo Dorea (725,000), Ray Qartomy (560,000), and Day 1a chip chief Aleksandr Pak (445,000).
Prime 10 Finish-of-Day Day 2 Chip Counts
Amongst these to fall properly earlier than the cash on Day 2 have been the aforementioned Lakhov, WPT Season 17 Participant of the 12 months Erkut Yilmaz, WPTDeepStacks champs Laurent Polito, Tommy Vedes, and Omar Lakhdari, ClubWPT Gold Ambassador Patrick “Egption” Tardif, WPT Prime Champions Stephen Tune and Fabian Gumz, Ren Lin, current PokerNews Podcast visitors Tony Dunst and Will Kassouf; in addition to Sinead Davenport.
Davenport was on the flawed finish of poker’s final cooler in Stage 14 (3,000/5,000/5,000) in a hand captured by the WPT Dwell Reporting Staff. A preflop elevating conflict noticed Davenport get her stack of roughly 210,000 all in preflop holding the Ok♦Ok♣ in opposition to Konstantin Generalov, who had her dominated with the A♠A♦. The board ran out an unhelpful 6♦6♣3♥Q♦2♣ and Davenport hit the rail.
The cash bubble hit in Stage 17 (5,000/10,000/10,000), and that’s when Yohan Rascar moved all in beneath the gun for his final 20,000 holding the A♣J♠ and was forward however in danger in opposition to the A♥6♥ of Miklos Zsuffa in center place. Sadly for Rascar, the board ran out 9♣7♥2♣6♦3♠ and Zsuffa paired as much as burst the bubble.
The remaining 97 gamers have been every assured $6,200 in prize cash, and after another stage, the sphere was whittled right down to 70 gamers. Amongst these to stroll away with a payday have been Stefan Aerts (94th – $6,200), Ioana Apostol (84th – $6,200), Joseph El Khoury (78th – $7,100), and Sergeiu Cornea (71st – $7,100).
The remaining 70 gamers are assured no less than $7,100 in prize cash, however everyone seems to be eyeing up a lot larger paydays.
Right here’s a have a look at the ultimate desk payouts:
2025 WPT Cyprus Remaining Desk Payouts
*First-place quantity consists of the winner’s $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
Day 3 will get underway at Midday native time on Sunday, with the plan to both play 10 extra ranges or right down to the ultimate desk, whichever comes first. PokerNews is on-site to supply content material, social media, and interviews, so you’ll want to verify again ceaselessly for all the newest from the WPT Cyprus!
2025 WPT Cyprus Remaining Schedule
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Chad Holloway
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