Matthew Wantman dominates the final table of the World Poker Tour ARIA Summer Championship, beating Igor Kurganov, heads-up, to claim his first major title. 

The first time that Matthew Wantman made the final table of a World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event he was like footprints in the sand washed away by the sea.

Wantman’s sixth-place finish came at the 2016 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open, and it’s safe to say he’s exorcised any remaining demons after overcoming a 192-entrant field to win the ARIA Summer Championship.

It’s Wantman’s fourth live tournament win, and this one tops his previous personal best – a runner-up finish to Wenhao Ying in the Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship earning him $172,449 last winter.