The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the televised WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas both wrapped up in recent days, with two members of the PocketFives community taking home titles. We’ll start with the larger payday, $2.1 million, which went to Andrew luckychewy Lichtenberger (pictured) for taking down the Alpha8 event. In fact, it was the largest Alpha8 ever.

The tournament attracted 55 entries and generated a prize pool that passed $5.3 million. In the end, Lichtenberger took home his first career seven-figure tournament score and outlasted Tom Marchese heads-up. It was his third WPT final table and amazingly all three have come in Las Vegas; he added to a fifth place finish in the Season XI WPT Five Diamond and a fourth place run in the Season X WPT Five Diamond.

Lichtenberger has $2.1 million in online tournament cashes, highlighted by a $172,000 SCOOP victory in 2009. That came one year after final tabling the Sunday Million for $127,000. This year, “Chewy” final tabled SCOOP and WCOOP Cubed events for $126,000 total.

Marchese, meanwhile, took home $1.2 million after getting second place, his third seven-figure score of 2014. He finished third in a $100,000 Super High Roller event in Las Vegas in June for $1.4 million and won the Aria Super High Roller in September for $1.3 million. He is over $4 million in live tournament winnings this year alone and approaching $9 million all-time.

Here were the results of the Alpha8 Las Vegas event:

1st Place: Andrew luckychewyLichtenberger – $2,104,245
2nd Place: Tom Marchese – $1,240,965
3rd Place: Brian tsarrast Rast – $755,370
4th Place: Noah Schwartz – $539,550
5th Place: Jason Les – $431,630
6th Place: Bryn BrynKenney Kenney – $323,730

Mohsin chicagocards1Charania (pictured) won the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1.4 million and his second WPT title. Charania was down 4:1 in chips against Garrett gdub2003 Greer entering heads-up play and fell to just six big blinds before a wild comeback that saw him double up five times. Charania’s first WPT title came in the Season XII WPT Grand Prix de Paris, where he earned $449,000.

There were 586 entries in the Five Diamond, which meant a prize pool of $5.6 million. Here’s how the final six cashed out:

1st Place: Mohsin chicagocards1Charania – $1,477,890
2nd Place: Garrett gdub2003Greer – $869,683
3rd Place: Brett Shaffer – $562,736
4th Place: Ryan RJules12 Julius – $383,684
5th Place: Ryan Fee – $272,842
6th Place: Tobias Reinkemeier – $218,842

Congrats to Charania and Lichtenberger on their WPT titles!

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