Phil Laak Final Tables Main Event At WSOP Circuit Commerce Casino

May 27, 2025
3 min read
Last updated May 28, 2025

The 2024/2025 season of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) is now over. The last festival ended over the weekend, tidying the schedule up just ahead of the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker.

The last festival of the season saw hundreds of poker players turn out to play at the WSOP Circuit Commerce Casino.

Among the competitors were players like Cindy Spier, who won her second ring after having won the Seniors event at the WSOP Circuit Pompano Beach back in February, and Jorge Alba, who won two rings at the Commerce, taking down the $600 H.O.R.S.E. event and the $400 Omaha 8-or-better event.

The Commerce also hosted the WSOP Tournament of Champions. Players who had won a WSOP title in the last year were invited to play the $1 million freeroll, which ultimately went to Kevin Li.

Main Event Action

Apart from the TOC, the next biggest draw of the festival was the $1,700 Main Event. This was the last of WSOPC main event of the season.

The honor of victory went to Artur Papazyan.

The Main Event was massive, drawing in 1,554 players across it’s multiple Day 1 flights. With so many entries, this event beat the $2 million guarantee by a handy margin as the total prize pool ended up being $2,354,306.

Papazyan had a tough final table to beat, including poker legend Phil Laak who came sixth and Adam Swan who came third.

“I don’t have too much experience with it, but I think I did pretty well,” Papazyan told WSOP.com after his win, speaking about the deep stack he held going into the final phases of the game. “It wasn’t easy. It was rocky. And I lost a bunch of all-ins, but eventually I got lucky there in the end!”

Papazyan was able to hang in there, going on to beat Luis Concha heads up for first place. Concha won $232,038 for second place.

WSOP Circuit WSOP Commerce Casino Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Artur Papazyan	$341,830
2	Luis Concha	$232,038
3	Adam Swan	$167,412
4	Nick Shkolnik	$122,215
5	Noel Rodriguez	$90,290
6	Phil Laak	$67,514
7	David Avina	$51,103
8	Yen Dang	$39,162
9	Paul Hizer	$30,389

That brings the 2024/2025 season of the WSOPC to an end. We’ll be back with more coverage when the Circuit returns.

You can check out the full results for the WSOP Circuit Commerce Casino below!

WSOP Circuit Commerce Casino Full Series Results

EVENT	ENTRIES	PRIZEPOOL	WINNER	PRIZE
WSOPC Event #1: $600 No-Limit Hold’em	1,368	$704,520	Maxim Lykov	$99,399
WSOPC Event #2: $400 Seniors Event	316	$104,280	Craig Paisley	$21,974
WSOPC Event #3: $600 No-Limit Hold’em	186	$95,790	Valentin Vornicu	$22,762
WSOPC Event #4: $400 No-Limit Hold’em – Monster Stack	1174	$384,120	Hattori Lopez	$57,079
WSOPC Event #5: $600 H.O.R.S.E.	85	$43,775	Jorge Alba	$12,402
WSOPC Event #6: $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em	263	$256,425	John Morgan Petro	$56,787
WSOPC Tournament of Champions	485	$1,000,000	Kevin Li	$200,000
WSOPC Event #7: $400 No-Limit Hold’em	494	$163,020	Cindy Spier	$30,449
WSOPC Event #8: $1,700 MAIN EVENT	1,554	$2,354,306	Artur Papazyan	$341,830
WSOPC Event #9: $400 No-Limit Hold’em	407	$134,310	Bart Timmer	$26,418
WSOPC Event #10: $400 No-Limit Hold’em	439	$144,870	Howard Mash	$28,006
WSOPC Event #11: $400 Pot-Limit Omaha	227	$74,910	Sterling Lopez	$17,193
WSOPC Event #12: $600 No-Limit Hold’em	384	$197,760	Joost Schippers	$37,363
WSOPC Event #13: $400 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better	164	$54,120	Jorge Alba	$13,266
WSOPC Event #14: $600 T.O.R.S.E.	81	$41,715	Matthew Kursar	$11,820
WSOPC Event #15: $2,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8-Max	94	$188,000	Michael Setera	$51,042
WSOPC Event #16: $600 ITM XL Bounty	217		Hao-Shan Huang	$18,325
WSOPC Event #17: $600 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max	186	$95,790	Tom Duong	$22,762
WSOPC Event #18: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack Closer	842	$336,800	Christopher Whittaker	$45,015