David Afework has won the WPT Online Series WPT500 for $160,211 after battling to victory on partypoker .
He defeated a final table featuring partypoker Ambassador Jaime Staples and Dutch player Teun Mulder. With his third-place finish, Staples more than doubled his previous career-best cash that came in the 2021 MILLIONS Online.
Staples was eliminated at the hands of Afework, flopping top two-pair only for his opponent to have flopped a flush. He took home $74,227.