WPT Cyprus Final Table Set, Elena Litviniuk Seeks to Become 3rd Women to Win WPT Open Main Event

Chad Holloway PR & Media Manager

Aug 17, 2025 3 min read

2025 WPT Cyprus Final Table
2025 WPT Cyprus Final Table Payouts
2025 WPT Cyprus Remaining Schedule

The World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 buy-in, $2 million GTD WPT Cyprus Championship continued on Sunday at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino as 70 players from a 775-entry field return for Day 3 action and compete for a share of a $2,402,500 prize pool, well ahead of the $2 million guarantee.

By the end of the night, just seven players remained with Uladzimir Zhyharau best positioned to make a run at the $401,100 top prize as the chip leader with 9,450,000. On the other end of the spectrum is the short-stacked Elena Litviniuk (lead photo), who seeks to become just the third woman in WPT history to grace the Mike Sexton Champions Cup.

2025 WPT Cyprus Final Table

Seat	Player	Stack
Seat 1	James Mahone	6,175,000 (41 bb)
Seat 2	Ignacio Sole	4,775,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3	Ilia Kitsbabahvili	3,450,000 (23 bb)
Seat 4	Rafal Chmura	6,350,000 (42 bb)
Seat 5	Nikolai Zhadanov	4,925,000 (33 bb)
Seat 6	Elena Litviniuk	2,550,000 (17 bb)
Seat 7	Uladzimir Zhyharau	9,450,000 (63 bb)

Dozens of players fell by the wayside throughout the afternoon including Day 1b chip leader Mustafa Simsek (53rd - $9,900), Timothy Thorp (50th - $9,900), Ray Qartomy (47th - $11,800), Emil Wydra (37th - $14,000), and Club WPT Gold Ambassador Romulo Dorea (32nd - $14,000).

Day 1a chip leader Aleksandr Pak made a deep run but ultimately fell in 10th place. According to the WPT Live Updates, it happened in Level 28 (75,000/125,000/125,000) when Ignacio Sole moved all in from the button and Pak called off for 1.5 million from the big blind with the K♦Q♦.

He was ahead of Sole’s 10♥8♥, but not after the flop fell 10♣7♥2♦. Neither the 2♥ turn nor 8♣ river helped Pak and he took home $38,500 for his deep run.

The final nine players then combined to a single live-streamed final table, and after only seven hands of play Koray Korkmaz hit the rail after failing to win a raise with ace-king against Nikolai Zhadanov’s two red nines.

Two hands later, Rafal Chmura min-raised to 250,000 from the hijack and then moved all in for 3,725,000 after Tobias Garp had three-bet to 800,000 out of the big blind. Garp called off for 3,250,000 with the Q♠Q♦ and was ahead of Chmura’s A♣J♣. However, the board ran out A♠6♦2♥10♦7♦ and Garp was eliminated in eighth place for $49,000.

The final seven players played an additional dozen hands before bagging on Day 3. On Monday, those players will return at 1:00 p.m. local time for the Day 4 finale to play down to a winner.

Here’s a look at the remaining final table payouts:

2025 WPT Cyprus Final Table Payouts

Place	Prize
1st	$401,100*
2nd	$255,000
3rd	$190,000
4th	$142,000
5th	$107,000
6th	$82,000
7th	$63,000

_{*First-place amount includes the winner's $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.}

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2025 WPT Cyprus Remaining Schedule

*Date	Time	Event	GTD	Details*
Mon 18 Aug	12:00 pm	WPT Championship Final Table	$2,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool	60 min clock
Mon 18 Aug	3.00 pm	$7,500 + 500 Chamada Super High Roller Final Day	$300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool	30 min clock
Mon 18 Aug	5:00 pm	$1,000 + 100 Mystery Final Table Only	$75,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool	20k stack, 20 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg