William Hernández
The inaugural event of the schedule recorded a total of 581 entries, exceeding expectations and also its one million peso guaranteed prize pool, distributing a total of MXN$1.446.690 among its top 63 participants, ensuring a minimum cash of MXN$5.800.
The start of this iconic national festival, which visits northern territory for the first time in its history, had an excellent response from players, both local and from different parts of the Mexican Republic: Chihuahua, Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Baja California stood out with a strong presence, while not neglecting the other states.
Among the players who managed to make their way to the prized final table, José Herrera
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William Hernández waited relentlessly for each of the key moments that led him to triumph
After finding a way to secure one of the seats at the tournament’s prized final table, Hernández found a way to wait with extreme patience for the key moments that would define his path to total victory. He generated a particular dynamic with Bastida, with whom he would end up defining the final heads-up: at some point, he began to play deceptively, setting some traps, which led the Ethos student to make some key mistakes, such as that attempt to turn his failed flush draw into a bluff, which crashed against Hernández’s set of sixes that he put together with the turn and river playing in his favor consecutively.
With the chips flowing his way, he knew perfectly how to shift gears to become a pressure figure who now sought to take advantage of every hand with a different approach. He found fortune in his final confrontation against Jesús Patrón, where his Q J found a devastating flop that gave him a pair of queens and also a flush draw that completed on the turn, leaving his penultimate rival with no options.
The heads-up concluded relatively quickly; although Emiliano found fortune in a hand that doubled his stack at the beginning, the overwhelming advantage of the Guadalajara native materialized his triumph when the last hand was played seeing the flop J Q 5 without raising beforehand, and Bastida connected the top pair with his Q 3 while William chased the nut flush draw that completed on the river and, to his rival’s disbelief, ended up taking all his chips.
After an exciting conclusion to this initial event, William claimed the champion trophy and the MXN$334.000 assigned, while attention now shifts to the High Roller tournament, which offers a new stage to seek glory, and later the Main Event, which will also give much to talk about in the coming days
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PSOP Monterrey – Opener MXN$1M GTD
Buy-in: MXN$3.000
Entries: 581
Prize pool: MXN$1.446.690
Payout Table
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Hernandez | MXN$334.000 | |
| 2 | Emiliano Bastida | MXN$195.000 | |
| 3 | Jesús Patrón | MXN$123.000 | |
| 4 | Víctor de los Santos | MXN$100.000 | |
| 5 | Rubén Rodríguez | MXN$79.500 | |
| 6 | Arturo Alarcón | MXN$65.800 | |
| 7 | Carlos Estrada | MXN$52.800 | |
| 8 | José Herrera | MXN$39.800 |
