Dimas Martinez Jr. Beats Ritesh Patel To Win RunGood Poker Series Main Event ($104,524)

Dimas Martinez Jr. finished a runner-up in the inaugural RunGood Poker Series bestbet Jacksonville main event for $72,000 last year. Improving on his previous performance, he defeated 520 entries in the 2024 RGPS Destination RunGood Jacksonville $1,200 buy-in NLH main event, earning a career-high $104,524. Martinez now has nearly $260,000 in lifetime tournament earnings and moves into 170^th place on the POY leaderboard presented by Global Poker.

The tournament comfortably surpassed its $300,000 guarantee, collecting $540,800 in the final prize pool. The top 65 finishers shared the prizepool, with final table players banking five figures or more.

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Jerry Wade held the chip lead when the final table began, while Martinez sat in the middle of the pack. 2017 Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville winner Jared Reinstein came close to another title but eventually finished seventh ($13,257) after his pocket aces lost to a set of fours for Ritesh Patel.Patel continued his surge, scoring several more knockouts. After his pocket queens held against the A-3 of Bradley Beetz (4^th for $38,365) and his pocket nines outraced the A-J of Nikhil Sunku (3rd  for $51,429), Patel had massive chip lead with 12,505,000 to 3,110,000 for Martinez in the heads-up play.

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Martinez managed to move into the chip lead with an early double up and was still ahead by the time the final hand arose. On the final hand, all of the chips went in with his pocket queens leading the As 9c of Patel. The board ran out Jd 5d 2d Js 6s, giving the title to Martinez .Patel was awarded $69,681 as the runner-up.

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