WSOP Online 2020: Beauty Diva Melika Razavi From Iran Clinches Career-First Bracelet in Event #82 ($239,180)

The 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online series had a busy weekend schedule, and one of the events was Event #82: $1,050 Beat the Pros. The much-anticipated single day bounty event logged in a massive 2,024 entries, and it took more than 13 hours of uninterrupted action for a winner to emerge. Piercing her way through this vast field was beauty diva Melika “Melirazavii” Razavi (cover image) from Iran, who captured her maiden bracelet and a career-best $239,180.

Razavi was a successful model, having won Miss Global Iran and Miss Global Fitness titles in 2016. The Miss Power Woman 2017 is also a magician, a motivational speaker, and a social media icon with over 500K followers on Instagram. In 2019, Razavi had finished 17th in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event for €36,620.

Accomplished poker pro and a member of Goan Nuts at PSL Season 2, Dylan “mezcal” Linde, finished runner-up for $147,447.

Final Table Chip Counts

1. Peter “BIG CHI” Chien – 10,715,000
2. Andre “ubermensch1” Difelice – 8,844,000
3. Melika “Melirazavii” Razavi – 7,897,000
4. Leonid Yanovich – 5,289,000
5. Dylan “mezcal” Linde – 5,205,000
6. Martin Zamani – 4,868,000
7. Vadim “Danis_Love” Stoyanov – 3,965,000
8. Mike Leah – 2,446,000
9. Elio Fox – 1,366,903

Final Table Recap

Vadim “Danis_Love” Stoyanov had entered the FT with the seventh-largest stack but headed out first when his pocket eights couldn’t hold against Melika “Melirazavii” Razavi’s as the latter flopped a pair of kings.

The shortest stack of the FT, Elio Fox, managed to get a pay jump for his eighth-place exit.

Surprisingly, the start of the FT chip leader, Peter “BIG CHI” Chien, was out next in seventh place.

Mike Leah and Martin Zamani were the next players to depart in sixth and fifth place, respectively.

Within 15 minutes, short-stacked Leonid Yanovski ripped it in with and Andre “ubermensch1” Difelice looked him up holding . The board ran relegating Yanovski to the rail in fourth place.

Andre Difelice incidentally became the next casualty in the third spot setting up the heads-up finale between Razavi (26.56 Million) and Dylan “mezcal” Linde (24.03 Million).

On the final hand, a limped pot got the duo to the flop . Both checked through to the turn . Razavi bet, and Linde called to see the river card open the . Linde shoved with . Razavi made a snap check-call with for a full house to win the bracelet.

Final Table Results (USD)

1. Melika “Melirazavii” Razavi – $239,180
2. Dylan “mezcal” Linde – $147,447
3. Andre “ubermensch1” Difelice – $114,413
4. Leonid Yanovski – $66,056
5. Martin Zamani – $51,081
6. Mike Leah – $41,892
7. Peter “BIG CHI” Chien – $40,251
8. Elio Fox – $28,450
9. Vadim “Danis_Love” Stoyanov – $20,704

Content & Images Courtesy: WSOP.com and PokerNews.com

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