Armin Rezaei Wins the WPT500 Knockout 24 Mar

Armin Rezaei is a World Poker Tour champion after he has beaten a field of 2.601 players in the WPT500 Knockout event at partypoker and turned his $530 investment into a $139,970 payday.

What a win! Congrats to Armin Rezaei 🇲🇹 for winning the #WPT500 Knockout for $76,275 plus $63,696 in bounties 🥊🏆

Thank you to all who played on @partypoker🔶 pic.twitter.com/xTYu6t1x5z
— World Poker Tour (@WPT) March 23, 2021

The WPT #13: WPT500 Knockout ran from March 15 to 23 and on Tuesday the final table of 9 players was played out. Armin Rezaei was already the chip leader before the day started and was leading almost throughout final table. When heads-up started, he had a 2:1 lead over David Lopez Llacer. The lead was slowly extending and on the last hand of the tournament, he called a 10bb shove with AJ, hit his pair on the turn and became the champion. David Lopez Llacer won 101,523$ for second place.

The final table was streamed on partypoker's twitch channel with commentary by James Dempsey and Jeff Gross.

WPT500 Knockout Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize	Bounties
1	Armin Rezaei	Malta	$76,275	$63,695
2	David Lopez Llacer	United Kingdom	$76,143	$25,380
3	Gustavo Mastelotto	Brazil	$48,993	$5,398
4	Duff Charette	Canada	$32,193	$5,113
5	Benjamin Chalot	Hungary	$21,762	$6,691
6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	$16,518	$8,742
7	Jeroen Van Dijck	Netherlands	$11,928	$5,296
8	Robert Svedin	Sweden	$9,446	$7,360