When you think of poker on the East Coast, the first thing you think of is Borgata. But the WPT is special, especially Borgata. Because the bracelets, there’s so many of them. He continued: “Everyone always wants the bracelet but these days it looks like the WPT is what everyone is chasing. “Most people, after the pandemic, they didn’t have anything to look forward to so I was glad to have something to look forward to.” You don’t know, you keep waiting for it,” Zakarian said after the win. “Waiting this long, you didn’t know what to expect. Toronto’s Veerab Zakarian, 25, began the final table as the chip leader and he rode it all the way to victory to capture a $674,840 top prize and etch his name on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions cup.
On Sunday, the final six players from a 1,290-entry field congregated at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas to play to a winner. The $3,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open final table was originally set to play out for April 1, 2020, but due to the pandemic, it was delayed for over a year.
