Anthony Zinno wins back to back WPT titles to complete WPT hat trick

Anthony Zinno managed to follow up his win at the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic ($302.235) in February with a win at the next stop, the WPT L.A. Poker Classic ($1.015.860). This was the third WPT win for the American pro and he joined Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen in the elite club of three-time WPT champions.

The L.A. Poker Classic is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the WPT circuit, this year 538 players paid the $10,000 buy-in, creating a prize pol of $5.164.800. The 6-handed final table started on Thursday with a strong line-up battling for the $1.015.860 first prize.

Mike ''goleafsgoeh'' Leah has live tournament earnings of $4.5 million and online winnings of $2.5 million, he started the chipcount second in chips, but Chris ''SLOPPYKLOD'' Klodnicki ($8 million live winnings, $2.5 million online) and two-time WPT winner Anthony Zinno were also in the finale. 

Zinno won his first WPT at the WPT Borgata in 2013 ($825.099) and won the C$5,000 buy-in Fallsview Poker Classic ($302.235).

Seat 1. Anthony Zinno - 1.475.000
Seat 2. Igor Yaroshevskyy - 5.225.000
Seat 3. Chris Klodnicki - 1.090.000
Seat 4. Peter Tran - 1.580.000
Seat 5. Peter Neff - 2.095.000
Seat 6. Mike Leah - 4.670.000

Tran was the first one to bust which meant that Mike Leah won the $10,000 Skrill last Longer bet. 72 players decided to participate in the promotion and pay the buy-in through Skrill and Leah got his $10,000 tournament buy-in back.

The next player to bust was Neff, he shoved all-in with 585,000 after Klodnicki raised to 130,000 from the cutoff during the (30k/60k-10k ante) blind level. Zinno 4bet shoved with 2 million from the big blind and Klodnicki folded.

Zinno's K-Q was dominated by Neff's A-Q but Zinno made a straight on the J-T-7-A-5 board.

The next player to bust was Yaroshevskyy, Leah raised to 2 million on the button during the (60k/120k-20k ante) blind level, Yaroshevskyy shoved all-in for 70,000 more. Leah called with K-8 suited, which was dominated by Yaroshevskyy's K-Q, but Leah improved to two pair on the A-7-7-8-J board.

During 3-handed play Zinno doubled up in a coinflip then busted Klodnicki in a 6-6 vs K-J preflop all-in.

Zinno started the heads-up with a 2 -1 chiplead. The heads-up lasted roughly one hour, in the last hand Leah min-raised to 400,000, Zinno re-raised to 825.000, Leah shoved for 3.95 million and Zinno snap-called.

Leah had A-3 and was in terrible shape against Zinno's A-A and managed to hold on the T-5-2-3-5 board.

With the win Zinno claimed his third WPT title and won back-to-back which only Marvin Rettenmaier and Darren Elias have achieved before.

Final table results:

1. Anthony Zinno - $1.015.860
2. Mike Leah - $701.350
3. Chris Klodnicki - $451.090
4. Igor Yaroshevskyy - $333.680
5. Peter Neff - $250.260
6. Peter Tran - $200.830