Pat Lyons has won the 2016 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $4,000 no-limit hold’em main event on the Bicycle Hotel & Casino, defeating a field of 687 entries to win his first WPT title and the first-place prize of $615,346.

The poker player from Hillsborough, California also earned 1,260 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his second title of 2016, having also won the Arizona State Poker Championship $1,100 main event for $241,700. He has climbed to 39th place within the overall POY standings on account of his two huge scores.

Lyons defeated Benjamin Zamani heads-up for the title. This was Zamani’s third WPT final table of the season, having finished second in both the 2015 WPT bestbet Jacksonville Bounty Scramble and the 2016 WPT Choctaw main event only a month ago.

Lyons came into the overall table in second chip position with six players remaining, but by the point he got heads-up with Zamani he held 14.6 million of the roughly 20.6 million chips in play. The 2 played only 18 hands and after all Lyons moved all-in preflop from the button and Zamani called with the A2. Lyons was ahead with the A8.

The board ran out 997J10 to present Lyons the straight and send Zamani to the rail in second place again. He took home $341,412 for his latest deep run at the tour.

Turnout for this event grew by 15.8 percent year-over-year, with 687 entries this year and 593 in 2015. This was the primary year that the development happened after the seven-story, 117,907 square-foot boutique luxury hotel addition opened on Dec. 1, 2015.

Here is a glance on the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table:

Place	Player	Earnings (USD)	POY Points
1	Pat Lyons	$615,346	1260
2	Benjamin Zamani	$341,412	1050
3	Upeshka De Silva	$198,720	840
4	Todd Peterson	$149,715	630
5	William Vo	$113,105	525
6	Rafael Oliveira	$85,760	420
7	Jeremy Kottler	$66,895	315
8	Garrett Greer	$52,190	210
9	David Pham	$39,940	105

Winners photo courtesy of WPT / Joe Giron.

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