It took about 8 hours to play down from the 27 returning players to a winner on Day 2 of Event #3, and David Boyer rode a big stack pretty much the whole way. He came into the day 3rd in chips behind runner-up Garry Sandhu and 3rd-place Jimmy Lee, but in the end, he was the one with all the chips.
In the final hand, he limp-raised against Sandhu, and Sandhu shoved over the top. Boyer called it off, and it was roughly a coin flip between ace-five and jack-nine. Boyer turned his ace and that was all he needed to take down the title.
This is Boyer’s first live win, though he’s had a couple of final tables here on the PPT before. Today’s win is worth more than his previous lifetime earnings, according to Hendon Mob.
