Asher Conniff Wins 2015 World Poker Tour Championship At Borgata

For the second year running the World Poker Tour Championship was held at the Borgata Casino Hotel and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 2015 WPT Championship $15,000 no-limit hold’em main event drew a total of 239 entries and in the end Brooklyn poker pro Asher Conniff emerged victorious, earning $973,683 and 1,152 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win.

Conniff was fresh off a win in the $1 million guaranteed $560 buy-in kickoff event at the Borgata Spring Poker Open, which he took down less than two weeks before capturing the WPT Championship title. In that event he outlasted a field of 2,408 entries to win $203,231 and 540 POY points. As a result of title runs Conniff has climbed into 14th place in the overall Player of the Year race standings with 1,692 total points and $1,176,914 in year-to-date earnings.

According to the World Poker Tour’s reporters Conniff never intended to play the $15,000 buy-in main event. Under the screen name “misclick” on a regulated New Jersey poker site he accidentally registered for a satellite into the WPT Championship while attempting to play a weekly Sunday event with a similar buy-in. When he won a seat into the WPT championship he had to cancel a vacation he had planned with his family.

It all worked out for the best, though, as Conniff made his way through the field and came into the televised final table of six players in second chip position. He was up against several top players, including Ray Qartomy, three-time WPT winner and all-time WPT money leader Carlos Mortensen, former WPT champion Tony Dunst (who final tabled this same event last year) and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Yoon. Keven Stammen, who won this event in 2014, finished ninth for $69,549 this year, coming incredibly close to defending his title.

Also among the final six was Alexander Lakhov, who came into the final table as the chip leader. He and Conniff survived to heads-up play, with Conniff taking a more than a 3-to-1 chip lead into the final showdown, which lasted only 12 hands. On the final hand Lakhov moved all in for 1,655,000 with the 106 from the button and Conniff called with the AQ.

The board ran out 7524K to secure the pot for Conniff’s ace-high and send Lakhov to the rail as the runner up. For his impressive run he earned $573,770 and 960 POY points.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the televised final table:

Photo courtesy of World Poker Tour / Joe Giron.

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