{"id":81522,"date":"2025-03-20T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=81522"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:58:08","slug":"omar-lakhdari-wins-wpt-prime-cyprus-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/omar-lakhdari-wins-wpt-prime-cyprus-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Lakhdari Wins WPT Prime Cyprus Championship ($190,430)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The WPT Prime Cyprus Championship surpassed all expectations, attracting 1,391 runners to generate a juicy $1,349,270 prize pool. Virtually everyone who knows how to play Texas Hold’em<\/a> in the region was there to battle for the top prize.<\/p>\n In the end, Algerian Omar Lakhdari was crowned the champion, taking home $190,430 and the coveted title.<\/p>\n For Lakhdari, it was the third-largest score of his career, which will take his career live tournament winnings<\/a> to over $3.4 million. Clearly, as Algeria’s all-time leader in tournament earnings, he’s an expert in poker tournament strategy<\/a>. Interestingly enough, he doesn’t play different poker games<\/a> besides Texas Hold’em, with all his career cashes coming in the two-card variant.<\/p>\n Only Lakhdari’s triumph in the 2023 PokerStars LIVE Belgian Poker Challenge Main Event ($224,330) and his 6th-place finish in the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Open ($208,025) have bested his latest run.<\/p>\n Lakhdari’s run didn’t come without its challenges, as he had to get past the likes of established Swiss tournament pro Fabian Rolli (4th, $70,000) and Hungarian wizard Andras Balogh (6th, $40,000) at the final table.<\/p>\n Lakhdari came into heads up play a little over a two-to-one favorite over tournament newcome Atilla Saracoglu. All the chips got in the middle on a juicy [invalid notations] against Saracoglu’s K<\/span>♥<\/span><\/span>Q<\/span>♥<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n Saracoglu bricked out as the board ran out 3<\/span>♣<\/span><\/span>8<\/span>♥<\/span><\/span><\/span> to give Lakhdari the win, the money, and the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The WPT Prime Cyprus Championship surpassed all expectations, attracting 1,391 runners to generate a juicy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":81523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","vebbtech_seo_disable_yoast":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_author":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_date":false,"vebbtech_seo_hide_factchecker":false,"vebbtech_seo_fact_check_enabled":false,"vebbtech_seo_post_reviewer":81,"vebbtech_seo_post_review_date":"2025-03-20T12:08","footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poker"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n