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 Prestige Hotel & Casino, Omar Lakhdari was left because the final participant standing.
The Algerian-born participant, now based mostly in Morocco, secured $190,430 because the champion. This was the third-largest rating of Lakhdari’s match poker profession. He now has almost $2.1 million in whole earnings to his identify.
This win additionally got here with 960 Card Player Player of the Year factors. This was Lakhdari’s second final-table end to this point, having positioned third in a World Series of Poker International 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 Global Poker.
The high 177 finishers earned a share of the prize pool on this occasion, with 5 figures or extra for the highest 19. Just 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 acquired within the air, with Lakhdari sitting in third chip place to begin. It took a few hours for the primary knockout of the day to reach. Ilan Verdnikov acquired 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 stored Verdnikov forward, however the 10 on the tip 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 eradicate 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 an enormous one with A-Okay towards 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 acquired all-in with OkayJ towards 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 capable of lengthen 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.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 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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