Ravi Raghavan Wins WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
US player Ravi Raghavan overcomes a short stack and a star-studded final table to win the $1.2 million prize. Plus, find out how you can win a signed Antonio Esfandiari T-shirt.
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With all the media focus on the man of the moment, Antonio Esfandiari, it was easy to forget that there were five other hungry players looking to take down the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic last night.
The hungriest of all it seems was Ravi Raghavan who came back from the shortest stack to capture the title and the $1,268,571 first prize.
Raghavan had been among the top chip stacks for the entire tournament and overcame one of the strongest fields ever assembled in a WPT event (Especially when you consider many of these elite players re-entered multiple times).
He eliminated long-time chip leader Antonio Esfandiari in 4th place before eventually defeating Shawn Buchanan heads-up for the title.
Competition time!
Our roving reporter Tobias '' Block managed to bag himself an official WPT T-shirt which has been signed by the man himself, Antonio Esfandiari. He will be giving it away at random to one person who posts in the comments box on the right.
So post away right now!
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Final Rankings
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | Ravi Raghavan | $1,268,571 | ||
| 2nd | Shawn Buchanan | $746,502 | ||
| 3rd | Thomas Winters | $483,031 | ||
| 4th | Antonio Esfandiari | $329,339 | ||
| 5th | Andrew Lichtenberger | $234,197 | ||
| 6th | Jeremy Kottler | $187,845 | ||
| Players: 1 (503) | Prize pool: $4,879,100 |
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