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It ended up being an amateur who won the prestigious World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic! Sean Jazayeri went to the WPT Boot Camp with hopes of improving his game and maybe winning a $1,000 buy-in event. But things went really well for him and he decided to enter the Main Event for $10,000. After 5 days of play, he had made it to the final table with the biggest stack.

Read more » Sean Jazayeri Wins WPT LA Poker Classic ($1,370,240)

The World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic final table is finally set! It took 5 days of play to narrow down the field of 549 players to only 6 - the players below:

Seat 1.  Sean Jazayeri  -  4,380,000  (73 BBs)
Seat 2.  Jason Burt  -  835,000  (13 BBs)
Seat 3.  Dan Kelly  -  2,570,000  (42 BBs)
Seat 4.  Jason Somerville  -  840,000  (14 BBs)
Seat 5.  Noah Schwartz  -  3,835,000  (63 BBs)
Seat 6.  David Sands  -  4,010,000  (66 BBs)

The final table begins at 4:00 PT and there will be a live stream on WPT's website. The winner will take home amazing $1,370,240 and the second place pays $806k. But all the finalists are guaranteed to get at least $202,910 each - could easily be the first place prize in any major tournament.

It came to be the Hungarian Andras Koroknai who took home the WPT LA Poker classic. Andras Koroknai dominated the final table, and when it was time for heads-up, he had a lead with 13,450,000 against his final opponent Raymond Dolan's 1,450,000 stack. With blinds of 75,000 - 150,000 (25,000 ante) it was just a matter of time before Raymond was forced to move all in and try to double up before his stack would be gone. And as expected, it all came to an end straight away

Andras Koroknai moved all in from the button, and Raymond Dolan called with Q[c] 4[h]. Koroknai flipped over Q[h] 8[h].

FLOP: 10[h] 9[h] 4 [d]

Read more » Video: Andras Koroknai Wins the L.A. Poker Classic! ($1,788,040)