The World Poker Tour’s Los Angeles Poker Classic has finally come to an end, and one player found themselves standing above the rest when all was said and done. Sean Jazayeri is one of the more seasoned vets in the poker game today, and he had a tough task at a final table that featured some of the most well-known up and comers out there today. When the day started, the other five players at the final table included David “Doc” Sands, who was just behind him in terms of chip stack size, Noah Schwartz, Dan Kelly, Jason Somerville, and Jason Burt. Somerville and Burt both had some work to do as they were the short stacks.
Both of them were not able to last though, as Somerville was sent home on the second hand, and Burt was sent home on the 12th hand. Jazayeri sent home Somerville, was the knockout of Burt came at the hands of Dan Kelly. This left four players to duke it out for the championship, and they played for quite a bit before anything else really happened. Jazayeri then made a raise under the gun, and was called by Kelly. Schwartz then pushed all in, which led to another all-in from Jazayeri, which couldn’t leave Schwartz feeling too great about his spot. Indeed he was way behind, as Jazayeri turned over Kings, which held up against the A-J of Schwartz.
So the three final players remaining were Jazayeri with the chip lead of 9.8 million to 4.6 for Kelly, and 2 million for Sands. Sand started working his way up though and eventually overtook Kelly. It wasn’t long after that though that he sent Kelly home in 3rd place, and set up a heads up match that actually had Sands as the chip leader to start the action. He even built his lead even larger (about 2 to 1) pretty quickly as well, but Jazayeri was able to turn it around in one big hand, when he was all-in with A-K against the Queens of Sands. Jazayeri hit his Ace, and held a nice lead at this point. Jazayeri got Sands all in, and was holding A-5 against the K-Q of Sands. Sands hit a King, but Jazayeri also paired his 5. The turn gave Sands a straight draw, but the river was another dreaded five to give Jazayeri the championship and the first place prize of over $1.3 million. Sands took home over $860k for his efforts as well.