After topping a field of 489 runners, Darren Elias won the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic CA$5,000 Main Event last Friday to collect yet another WPT title as well as CA$449,484 in prize money.
Elias, a U.S. poker pro with close to $4.5 million in live earnings thanks to his lastest victory, is the fifth person in World Poker Tour history to have won three titles. The other 4 players to have won 3 or more WPT titles are Carlos Mortensen, Gus Hansen, Chino Rheem, Anthony Zinno.
"It was a good tournament," Elias told WPT. "I got dealt a lot of good hands in this one, a lot of big preflop hands. I kept getting aces and kings, I got pretty lucky to win. It was smooth sailing most of the way."
Final table payouts:
1st: Darren Elias - C$449,484 ($335,436)*
2nd: David Eldridge - C$300,982 ($224,613)
3rd: Jean-Christophe Ferreira - C$193,583 ($144,465)
4th: Andrew Chen - C$143,199 ($106,865)
5th: Manig Loeser - C$107,399 ($80,149)
6th: Abdull Hassan - C$86,184 ($64,316)
*First-place prize includes a seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.
