The 2021 WPTDeepStacks Venetian $2,400 Main Event was the latest huge live poker event, with 1,512 entries generating a mouth-watering $3,288,600 prize pool. Albert Knafo defeated Steven Sarmiento heads-up to win the WPTDeepStacks trophy which came with a whopping $532,395 top prize and a $3,000 WPTDeepStacks Championship package that was added for the winner.
A few months ago, not too many people in the poker world had heard of Albert Knafo, who at that point in time only had a single entry for just $790 on his The Hendon Mob profile.
That all changed in a big way a month ago with Knafo finishing on the podium in the MSPT Venetian Event #41: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em for $177,695.