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Niall Farrell Wins the WPT Caribbean Main Event for $335,000
- Updated: November 24, 2016
Niall Farrell is the latest British player to win a World Poker Tour Main Event after he topped a field of 323 entrants at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana to become the 2016 partypoker WPT Caribbean champion.
2016 WPT Caribbean Main Event Final Table Results
Farrell went into the six-handed final table with a 20 big blind stack, placing him fifth in terms of number of chips and only a single big blind more than the United Kingdom’s Stephen Woodhead. Farrell scored a double up through Colin Moffatt on the 17th hand of the final table action, his queen-jack flopping a jack to beat Moffatt’s pocket tens.
Seven hands later, Farrell sent Woodhead to the rail in sixth place. After raising to 105,000 from late position, Farrell called when Woodhead three-bet all in for 750,000 in total. Woodhead showed ace-ten and was in bad shape against Farrell’s dominating ace-jack. The board ran out eight-high, Farrell’s jack-kicker played and Woodhead headed for the exits.
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