Aaron Johnson Wins WPT Prime Championship for $1,010,400

The $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Championship closing desk at Wynn Las Vegas on Saturday rapidly reached heads-up play earlier than an intense back-and-forth match ensued with Aaron Johnson popping out on high for $1,010,400 by way of a chop.

It took simply 29 palms to go from six gamers to the ultimate two. However it will take practically three hours longer earlier than Johnson completed off Fernando Martin Del Campo, each searching for their first-ever seven-figure match rating.

Fast Last Desk Till Heads-Up

Qing Liu, who practically received World Poker Tour occasions in consecutive days in March 2021, entered the ultimate desk with the chip lead. Not solely that, he was the one participant who had what could be thought-about a “large stack” with 61 large blinds.

But it surely took little time for the leaderboard to make an entire 180, and for gamers to bust. Uri Foox, 18 palms into the session, went all in for 12 large blinds with A♥8♦, solely to run into the bigger-stacked Martin Del Campo’s Ok♠Ok♣. The very best hand-held up, sending Foox dwelling in sixth place for $250,000.

Last Desk Outcomes

Tim Burden then moved all in just a few palms later for seven large blinds with 10♠10♣ and was properly forward of Martin Del Campo’s A♣8♥, however the board ran out 6♣5♦4♦Q♥7♥, giving Martin Del Campo a profitable straight and Burden a fifth place exit for $325,000.

Martin Del Campo would quickly after declare one other sufferer, Liu in fourth place for $430,000, when ace-king bested ace-queen. Safiya Umerova, the final lady standing, on the very subsequent hand, ran Ok♦10♠ into pocket aces and was out in third place for $575,000.

Johnson, regardless of eliminating Umerova, had an enormous chip drawback when heads-up play started. However the tides would rapidly flip when Johnson received practically all the first 10 palms of the match, one in all which was value round 30 large blinds. Swiftly, the chip counts had been practically similar.

The tides would quickly flip again the opposite means, with Martin Del Campo occurring a heater, taking down pot after pot. Earlier than lengthy, he was sitting on 60 large blinds and had a 3:1 chip lead. Johnson then hit a straight and practically doubled up in opposition to ace-high, which as soon as once more modified the complexity of the match.

Johnson then received two monster pots to show the back-and-forth match right into a lopsided affair. He completed off his opponent, practically three hours into the competition, by profitable a 60/40. Martin Del Campo, a Mexican poker participant who had lower than $20,000 in The Hendon Mob dwell match cashes earlier than the WPT Prime Championship started, acquired $942,480 for second place after a heads-up chop deal was reached.

Martin Del Campo had the gang behind him — and it was a boisterous rail. However Johnson, who now has over $3.5 million in profession cashes, had all of the chips ultimately.

The 2025 WPT World Championship competition at Wynn wraps on Sunday with the conclusion of the $10,400 WPT World Championship Important Occasion, the place Soheb Porbandarwala holds an enormous chip lead in his quest to turn out to be a two-time WPT champion and win over $2.5 million. Johnson, as a part of his title bundle, wins a seat into subsequent yr’s season-ending championship occasion.

*Pictures courtesy of the World Poker Tour.