Reports from two WPTDeepStacks Main Event winners including Faraz Jaka winning in Black Hawk, and Nathan Tetart doing likewise in Deauville.

Faraz Jaka is the only player to win both World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year and WPTDeepStack (WPTDS) Main Event honours after taking down the WPTDS Main Event in the Golden Gates Casino & Poker Parlour in Black Hawk.

Jaka won the WPT Player of the Year title in Season VIII, and is a rarity, having done so without winning a WPT Main Event title. Despite amassing more than $6.3m playing live tournaments, his victory in the 251-entrant event is only his third on the live circuit and his first since 2014 when he won a $6,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller at WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg.

The lack of ticks in the ‘win’ column doesn’t mean that Jaka has been dragging his knuckles. In his post-match interview, Jaka told WPT reporters that he hasn’t played much in the past two years, but intends to change that starting right now.