When there’s a will, there’s a way,  and David Paredes, is living proof of that. He was runner- up in January, 2014, among 1,229 players at the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open ($ 499,549) and this weekend he improved his position after winning the main event for the  WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event, taking the trophy and a cash prize of $ 723,227.

The tournament, which took place at the  Atlantic City casino,  in New Jersey had 1,027 entrants for a $ 3,500 fee to create a  $ 3,287,427 pot.

The head to head started with Paredes down 2 to 1 against James Gilbert, nevertheless, after 18 hands David turned it around.

The final hand came when Gilbert limped, Paredes went up to 3x and his opponent went all in. David didn’t hesitate to pay with K K  while his rival was holding  J J,  the pair of jacks did not improve the community cards and so, Paredes was crowned the champion.

Final table payouts:

1°: David Paredes $ 723,227
2°: James Gilbert $ 434,598
3°: Joe Kuether $ 262,994
4°: Maurice Hawkins $ 220,258
5°: Jerry Payne $ 180,008
6°: Roman Valerstein $ 146,291

The WPT action does not stop and the Mayland Live WPT in the US is already on the way, while Europe is enjoying the National Viena WPT. If you want to know more about the World Poker Tour, you can click on this LINK

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