Next came Michael Zimmer in eighth place, who had flown relatively under the radar the entire day until he got his stack in with ace-six against Sampson’s superior ace-jack and failed to improve. O’Donnell ended up making two pair on the turn which left Rodriguez drawing dead without a pair and was sent out in ninth place.

First to go at the final table was Alexander Rodriguez who lost several big pots in a row, mostly to Sampson, and then got it all in against Patterson and O’Donnell. When Kevin O’Donnell knocked out Tongzu Ding in 10th place, Patterson was still in the middle of the pack in fifth while Sampson and Darren Rabinowitz sat atop the counts. Although he started the day with only 26 big blinds, he used this as momentum to get things moving in his direction, but it really wasn't until a crucial pot when he knocked out Adam Dunkle in 11th place that he really started to gain traction. Meanwhile, on the other table, Patterson drew the first blood on the day by knocking out John Kenner by hitting an ace on the river to crack Kenner’s tens. He then later knocked out Deven Cannon in 13th when his king-jack trumped Cannon’s ace-nine by turning a gutshot straight.

The day began with 17 remaining contenders, and for a while, it looked as though Sampson was going to continue his hot streak as he claimed his first victim with Anubhav Jolly when he knocked him out in 16th place. RGPS Checkpoint Season Finale Final Table Results “Yeah, I finally win a tournament here and this motherf****r goes and wins one on the same day,” Patterson joked as he and Murray congratulated each other. It was a huge moment for Patterson, a World Poker Tour (WPT) champion, as he was the runner-up in this same event back in December, to none other than, you guessed it, the aforementioned Brett Murray-, who also took down the Rendezvous tournament on Monday for around a $28,000 score.

With the win, Patterson is now ranked second on the Thunder Valley Casino Resort all-time poker money list, trailing only to Brett Murray. The RunGood Checkpoint Season Finale began with an over-the-top kickoff of its second annual $1,000,000 guaranteed RGPS Main Event, a $2,500 buy-in tournament that attracted 477 entrants and offered up a $1,064,187 prize pool, and concluded with another celebration atmosphere as hometown hero Tyler Patterson ended the event with a comeback victory against Paul Sampson.Īfter a lengthy heads-up battle that lasted almost two hours, it was Patterson’s ace-eight taking down the tournament steamroller’s jack-three.

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