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Fabrod Nazari has been crowned the 2026 WPT Cyprus Championship winner after four days of competition at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino. The $3,500 buy-in Main Event drew 520 entrants, creating a $2 million prize pool for the tournament.
Nazari’s victory earned him $368,900, along with a $10,400 seat into the WPT World Championship. The result more than tripled his previous career earnings, pushing his lifetime tournament winnings to $474,991.
The event paid out to the top 65 finishers, with Elena Litviniuk, last year’s fourth-place finisher, the first to cash after her elimination. Other notable min-cashers included Hossein Ensan, Manuel Fritz, and Ran Azor, while Bernardo Neves’ elimination in seventh place set up the six-handed final table.
Moldova’s Mihai Trofim entered the final day as chip leader, but he was eliminated in fourth place after losing key pots to Nazari and eventual runner-up Weiran Pu. Sami Ayyoub and Sergiu Cornea fell in sixth and fifth, respectively, before Pu’s third-place exit set up a heads-up clash between Nazari and Chadi Rizk.
Nazari carried a substantial chip lead into the final duel. Despite a dramatic double-up from Rizk after a river straight, Nazari sealed the win soon after when his flopped straight held against Rizk’s open-ended draw.
The triumph marks Nazari’s first WPT title and a career-best result on the tournament circuit.
