Ren Lin Takes Down Texas Poker Open Main Event at Champions Club for $400k

For the second time since December, Ren Lin won a major poker tournament on Monday, this one the $3,300 buy-in Texas Poker Open Main Event for $400,000.

The tournament, which took place at Champions Club in Houston, attracted 735 entrants. Shaun Deeb represented 13 of them, which we covered on Sunday. Deeb bagged a big stack on Day 1f on the 13th try, and he did cash, taking 15th place for $27,000. But he actually lost money, approximately $15,000, due to firing more bullets than his payout covered.

Lin Takes it Down

Lin, who won the $50,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 at Wynn Las Vegas in December for $1,045,781, faced some difficult competition on Days 2 and 3 in the Texas Poker Open. For the high-stakes player to to claim that six-figure top prize, he needed to beat out some skilled opponents such as Ryan Riess, DJ Alexander, Isaac Kempton, and Jeremy Becker.

Texas Poker Open Main Event Final Table Results

Miguel Use was first to go at the final table with a $40,000 payday. Riess, the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, finished in eighth place for $52,000, followed by Tyler Brown (seventh for $66,000), PokerGO’s Brent Hanks (sixth for $83,000), Daniel Holmes (fifth for $103,000), Yunkyu Song (fourth for $133,000), and Jonathan Tamayo (third for $180,000).

That brought about heads up play between Lin, who had a slight chip advantage, and Daniel Moran. It took very little time to finish off the match. In fact, heads up play lasted just one hand thanks to a jacks versus 10’s cooler, and all the chips went into the middle preflop.

A jack hit on the flop, all but securing victory for Lin, whose hand held up on the turn and river. Moran received $275,000 for second place. The champion earned $400,000 for his performance, and now has over $11 million in lifetime live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob.

Updated Texas Poker Open Series Results