Daniel Strelitz prevents Mike Sexton from winning a second World Poker Tour event with victory at the LA Poker Classic, and Dan Colman, Jake Schindler, and Rainer Kempe pick up wins in the ARIA High Roller series.

The poker heater bug has bitten Mike Sexton. The World Poker Tour (WPT) commentator and member of the Poker Hall of Fame finished fourth in the $10,000 buy-in WPT LA Poker Classic this past weekend.

Sexton, who won the C$3,850 buy-in WPT Montreal for $317,817 in November, earned $300,690 for his efforts and is now the primary challenger behind Benjamin Zamani in the race to be crowned the Season XV Player of the Year. Sexton trails Zamani by 500 points with plenty of events left until the season draws to a close.

Daniel Strelitz was the eventual winner. The former WPT Ones to Watch beat the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, Simeon Naydenov, in heads-up action to take the $1m first prize.