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Maksim Sekretarev is the latest player to have his name inscribed on the Mike Sexton World Poker Tour Champions Cup. The 19-year-old Russian defeated a field of 251 total entries to take down the 2021 WPT Russia ₽245,000 ($3,229 USD) buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. He earned ₽11,996,600 ($160,694 USD) as the champion of the event. This was by far the largest live tournament cash of his career.
In addition to the title and the money, Sekretarev was also awarded 612 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his first POY-qualified final-table finish of the year, but it alone was sufficient to move him into 26th place in the 2021 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
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The final day began with just six players remaining from the field of 251 entries. Sekretarev bagged up the chip lead at the end of day 3 with 67 big blinds. Ravil Khamatgareev had the next largest stack with 58 big blinds to start, while the other four players all had 24 big blinds or fewer.
Sergey Bobrik was the first to fall when his 99 failed to hold up against the K6 of Sekretarev. A king on the flop gave Sekretarev a lead which he never relinquished and Bobrik was sent home with $33,183 USD.
Sekretarev earned his second knockout at the final table when his AQ beat out the KJ of Vanush Mnatsakanyan. Neither player improved by the river and ace-high was enough to secure the pot for Sekretarev. Mnatsakanyan settled for $43,530 USD as the fifth-place finisher. He kept his spree going by busting Vladimir Bozinovic. In a battle of the blinds, Bozinovic shoved from the small blind for 5.5 big blinds with KJ and Sekretarev called with K5 from the big blind. Sekretarev rivered a wheel to extend his lead even further. Bozinovic was awarded $57,942 USD for his fourth-place showing in this event.
With that Sekretarev grew his stack to over 6 million heading into three-handed action. There were plenty of swings in the early going, but the most impactful hand ended up being a preflop race between Ravil Khamatgareev and Sekretarev. The former called all-in with JJ and was flipping against the AQ of the latter. The board came down Q3298 and Sekretarev made a pair of queens to send Khamatgareev packing in third place ($78,232 USD).
Sekretarev held nearly a 4:1 lead over Andrey Volkov when heads-up play began. It didn’t take long for him to convert that lead into the victory. Just four hands into their final showdown, Volkov shoved from the big blind for around 25 big blinds with 108 after Sekretarev had limped in with KQ. Sekretarev made the call and the board ran out J633A. Volkov took home $107,135 for his runner-up finish.
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Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded on the final day:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Maxim Sekretarev | $160,694 | 612 |
| 2 | Andrey Volkov | $107,135 | 510 |
| 3 | Ravil Khamatgareev | $78,232 | 408 |
| 4 | Vladimir Bozinovic | $57,942 | 306 |
| 5 | Vanush Mnatsakanyan | $43,530 | 255 |
| 6 | Sergey Bobrik | $33,183 | 204 |
The 2020 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Championship is one of three WPT delayed final tables that are now set to play down to a winner more than a year after the final six players were initially decided. The WPT was scheduled to play out that event, along with the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open and the WPT L.A. Poker Classic over a three-day period from Mar. 31 through Apr. 2, 2020 at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but the tour was forced to postpone those final tables due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Card Player can now confirm that these three events, along with the final table of the upcoming 2021 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown will play to a conclusion this spring at a new venue: the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.
The 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship is now scheduled for Mar. 10, 2021. That means that the champion will be decided 422 days after the final six players bagged up their chips back on Jan. 13, 2020. The players were originally only meant to wait 11 weeks before playing down to a winner. Recent Galfond Challenge participant and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Chance Kornuth is the chip leader among the final six players.
The 2020 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open will now be the first of a series of three final tables played out from May 16-18. The 2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic will take place on May 17, while the 2021 WPTSHR Poker Showdown will conclude on May 18, just a few weeks after the final six are decided on Apr. 27, 2021.
“We want to make sure that not only are our partner casino… are ready to go, but also that we are making sure that our player safety and our staff safety is paramount,” said WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage when asked about the difficulties of this delayed final table situation in an interview with Card Player last year. “We are ready to go… as soon as things open up and hopefully, the players won’t have those travel restrictions at that time. We need to be very cognizant of that as well, to make sure that we can get everybody to those final tables and do it in a safe manner. So like I said, we’re ready to go as soon as things change and I believe that the players are as well. All the players that made the final tables in question have been paid out sixth-place money. I hope that those players are doing fine and that we can get cards back in the air as soon as it is safely possible.”
The change in venue for these final tables may be the result of a change in the ownership of the WPT which took place in January. The tour was sold by Allied Esports, which owns the HyperX Esports Arena, to Element Partners, LLC for a reported $78,250,000.
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Here is a look at the schedule for these upcoming delayed final tables:
| Event | Final Table Date |
| 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship | Mar. 10, 2021 |
| 2020 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open | May 16, 2021 |
| 2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic | May 17, 2021 |
| 2021 WPTSHR Poker Showdown | May 18, 2021 |
Photo credit: Joe Giron / WPT.
