Fabrod Nazari hit the nuts on the flop to win the WPT Cyprus tournament.

Fabrod Nazari won the WPT Cyprus Championship, earning £$368,900 and a WPT World Championship spot. He emerged victorious from a field of 520 entries, defeating Chadi Rizk.

After four days of exciting and intense poker tournaments, Fabrod Nazari has emerged victorious as the 2026 WPT Cyprus Championship winner. The $3,500 Main Event, held at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino, attracted 520 entries vying for a share of the $2 million prize pool.

With Cyprus's victory secured, Nazari won all the chips. Nazari can now call himself the World Poker Tour (WPT) champion forever, and his $368,900 first-place prize more than tripled his career record winnings to $474,991.

2026 WPT Cyprus Championship Final Table Results

*Also includes a $10,400 WPT World Championship slot

The tournament awards prizes to the top 65 players. Last year's fourth-place finisher, Elena Litviniuk, was the first player to be eliminated from the money pool, earning $7,700.

Other players who added WPT Cyprus tournament prize money to their resumes include Ray Qartomy (55th place, $9,000), Hossein Ensan (42nd place, $10,600), Manuel Fritz (23rd place, $17,800), Thomas Bichon (17th place, $21,200), Ran Azor (14th place, $25,000), Niko Koop (13th place, $25,000), and Bernardo Neves (7th place, $56,500).

Neves' elimination in seventh place brought Day 3 to a close, leaving only the official six-player final table to continue.

Mihai Trofim of Moldova (6,225,000) entered the final table with a chip lead, while Sergiu Cornea of Romania (1,325,000) was at the bottom.

2026 WPT Cyprus Championship Final Table Chip Count

According to WPT live updates, the first elimination of Day 4 occurred in hand 25 of the final table. With blinds at 100,000/200,000 and a big blind ante of 200,000, Weiran Pu raised from late position to 450,000 with pocket fives. Sami Ayyoub, after a long deliberation, 3-bet all-in for 1,325,000 with KQ spades, and Pu called.

The flop gave Pu a set, but also two spades. The turn gave him a pair, and Ayyoub drew dead. He went to the cashier to collect his sixth-place prize of $73,000.

Twenty-four more hands passed before the next elimination occurred. Cornea, with pocket sevens, raised from the cutoff to 2,000,000 at the 125,000/250,000 level, leaving him with only a few chips. Chadi Rizk went all-in from the small blind, and Cornea called. Rizk then revealed pocket queens, holding on to an Ace-high board. Cornea's efforts to recover from his precarious situation at the start of the final table came to an end.

Trofim, who started the day as chip leader, was the next player to watch his stack disappear. He was left with only 0.1 big blinds after losing to Nazari's KJ hearts in a coin flip with pocket twos. Trofim managed to climb to one big blind, but then lost to Pu's A-10 hearts with K-3, finishing in fourth place and earning a career-best $130,000 prize.

The three-way battle lasted 34 hands, with very few hands going to showdown. One hand resulted in Pu's elimination in third place with $175,000. Nazari called from the small blind with J-10 clubs, Pu checked with 9-4, and the dealer flopped JJ-9. Nazari led out with a 350,000 bet and called when Pu raised to 850,000.

Nazari checked when the 3 appeared on the turn. Pu went all in with 2,000,000, and Nazari called. Pu was already dead, and the 7 on the river was irrelevant.

This hand gave Nazari a 16,350,000 chip lead over Rizk at the start of heads-up play, compared to Rizk's 9,575,000. The first all-in occurred after Nazari successfully reduced Rizk's stack to 10 big blinds. Rizk went all-in with A-5 against Nazari's pocket tens. The pocket tens held the lead on the flop of JK-2 and improved to trips on the turn. However, the river's Q unexpectedly gave Rizk a Broadway straight, allowing him to double up.

Despite Rizk doubling up his chips, the tournament ended shortly afterward. Rizk limped on the button with K-5, Nazari raised with 6-5 hearts, and Rizk called. Nazari hit a 6-high straight on the flop and took a small lead. Rizk went all-in with a double-ended straight draw, and Nazari instantly called. Neither the turn nor the river changed the game, and Nazari became the 2026 WPT Cyprus champion.

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