Dennis Blieden became the latest WPT L.A. Poker Classic champion last night after bulldozing his way through the six-handed final table. His terrific performance on the final day of the $10,000 Championship culminated in a heads-up battle against Toby Lewis, which lasted just two hands. Blieden collected $1 million, which included a $15,000 entry into. A total of 490 entries were made in 2020 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, creating a prize pool of $4,727,550. After five full days of tournament. Bobby Baldwin Classic. Casino: Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada Buy-in: $10,000 4-Day Event: May 20-23, 2018 Number of Entries: 162 Total Prize Pool: $1,555,200 Number of Payouts: 21.

A total of 490 entries were made in 2020 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, creating a prize pool of $4,727,550. After five full days of tournament action, the field has been narrowed down to just six players left to battle it out for the title and the top prize of $1,000,000.

A champion won’t be decided in this event for nearly a month, as the final table doesn’t resume until 4:00 p.m. on April 2 at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. This is the third delayed final table of 2020 for the WPT, which introduced the new approach to filming their tournaments for televised broadcast in early 2019. The players that have made these delayed final tables will all have their travel accommodations and hotel stays covered by the WPT.

The chip leader heading into the final table is Balakrishna Patur with 6,320,000, which will be good for 158 big blinds when play picks up with betting limits of 20,000-40,000 and a 40,000 big blind ante. The Canadian’s largest prior live score was for $113,020, which he earned as the 11th-place finisher in the 2019 European Poker Tour Barcelona main event. The final six are all guaranteed to cash for at least $185,330, which means that Patur is in fantastic shape to dramatically increase his career live tournament earnings.

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Matas Cimbolas will enter the final table in second chip position with 4,310,000 (108 big blinds). Cimbolas finished as the runner-up in this event in 2019, earning $646,930 for his strong showing in this event. The Lithuanian poker pro and 2014 partypoker WPT UK main event winner will have a chance to improve upon that finish when play resumes in April.

Hot on Cimbolas’ heels is two-time WPT champion James Carroll with 4,125,000 (103 big blinds). The 2014 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star and 2019 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown winner will be looking to become just the seventh player to win three or more main event titles on the tour.

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The next largest stack belongs to Ka Kwan Lau, whose 2,250,000 will represent 56 big blinds when cards are next in the air. The Spanish player has seven-figures in prior live tournament earnings, including $390,424 earned as the fourth-place finisher in the 2013 EPT Prague main event. Regardless of where he finishes from here on out, his payday in this event will be at least the second-largest of his career.

Scott Hempel enters the final table in fifth chip position with 1,670,000 (42 big blinds). This is by far the biggest score on the Canadian’s tournament resume, with his largest previous cash being for $20,411.

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Rounding out the final table is short stack Upeshka De Silva with 930,000 (23 big blinds). The Katy, TX resident is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, but will be looking for his first WPT title in this event.

Here is a look at chip counts of the final six players:

Player photo credits: Joe Giron / WPT.

Mike Leah must feel as if he has a home-ice advantage at the Fallsview Poker Classic. The Canadian poker pro from nearby Innisfil, Ontario has won a title at this series in three out of the last four years, each time in the $1,100 CAD preliminary event. In 2018 Leah took his dominance at the Fallsview Casino Resort to the $5,000 CADWorld Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a record turnout of 517 entries to win $451,821 CAD ($352,985 USD) and his very first WPT title.

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“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” Leah told WPT reporters after coming out on top. “Winning a WPT has been near the top of my goal list for a long time, especially getting so close almost exactly three years ago when I lost to Anthony Zinno heads up at LAPC, so I’ve been pretty hungry to get back here again since that. To do it here, where I’ve had so much success winning three tournaments already, is pretty cool,” Leah continued. “So close to home, in my home country, it’s a pretty special tournament to win.”

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In addition to the title and the money, Leah was also awarded 1,680 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. As a result, he has flown up the leaderboard, landing in seventh place in the standings.

Leah came into the final day of this event in third chip position with 20 players remaining. Leah scored some knockouts and double ups to stay in the mix as the field was narrowed down to seven. He then knocked out David Eldridge in seventh palce, getting all-in on a flop of 942 with the A8 up against Eldridge’s 94. The Q on the turn kept Eldridge ahead but the 2 on the river completed Leah’s flush draw, earning him the pot and sending Eldridge home with $57,429 USD.

From there he survived to heads-up play against Ryan Yu, who took just over a 2-to-1 lead into the final showdown. Despite that advantage, it took only eight hands for Leah to not only turn the tables but also seal the victory. Yu earned $301,217 CAD ($235,326 USD) as the runner-up.

Winner photo credit: WPT / Joe Giron.

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