Main Event: Timely Two Pair for Juan Martinez as the Defending Champ Busts

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Players Remaining: 62/164

Juan Martinez

The board was dealt through the turn and it laid Kh9h6d2d.

With a big pot already built, Juan Martinez and defending Winter Poker Open Main Event champion David Bradshaw got the last of Martinez’s 89,800 chips in the middle. Martinez was good with 9s6c against Bradhshaw’s Kd5d, but needed to fade the river.

River: Tc

He faded the river indeed and a massive pot was sent the way Martinez. Bradshaw was crippled and busted soon after. Martinez, meanwhile, shot to the chip lead with 250,000.