The progressive knockout system assigned $100 from each $235 buy-in to player bounties. With a fast blind structure and the bounties in play, the action was fast and aggressive, as expected. *John-Paul Portal won $3,800 in bounties in addition to the first-place prize. Choy takes home $5,111 for the runner-up finish. Portal got a nine on the flop and the pair held up, securing the championship. The final hand saw Choy go all in with ace-five offsuit, and Portal call with ten-eight of hearts. “I saw this tournament and I wanted to come out and play it,” Portal said. The win is just the second career cash for Portal, who hails from south Florida and plays poker as a hobby. Portal takes home a total payday of $8,911, with $5,111 coming as the first-place prize, along with $3,800 in progressive bounties. Portal outlasted a final table that included Timothy Guilford, last year’s defending champion in this event, and took the championship after besting second-place finisher Chris Choy in the heads-up battle from the Peppermill Resort in Reno, Nevada. John-Paul Portal scored the biggest tournament win of his career Monday night, taking down the $235 Progressive Knockout event at Run It Up Reno IX.
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