David Shaw Wins Champions Club Texas Championship

The Champions Club Texas Championship concluded with David Shaw taking down the top prize of $9,000, being awarded the Champions Club Texas Player of the Year title, and earning a Dream Seat into the PGT $1,000,000 Championship.

Shaw has earned more than $1,270,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob, and his largest career score was a third-place finish in the Texas PLO Roundup $3,300 Main Event for $100,000. Winning the Champions Club Texas Championship will now see Shaw be among the PGT $1,000,000 Championship field as a Dream Seat winner, where he will begin the event with 100 big blinds and compete for the $500,000 first-place prize.

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The Champions Club Texas Championship would have 40 qualifiers combine following a year-long leaderboard broken into quarterly seasons. Every player was in the money, and when the final table of nine was set, it was Kevin Kendrick holding the chip lead over Thai Ha and Joshua Hale. After losing a three-way all-in, Caleb Shumard would be the first to fall when his pocket sixes ran into the pocket eights of Jeffrey Nowling. Travis Hendricks fell next when his king-queen failed to improve against Shaw's pocket sevens.

Hale made a move with jack-ten suited, but was called by Romain Boursier's ace-jack suited. Both players flopped a straight draw, but Boursier also flopped a flush draw and found another diamond on the turn to eliminate Hale in seventh. Shaw made aces-up to take the chip lead before he executed the double elimination of Ha and Nowling. Shaw held pocket queens and was in the lead against Nowling's pocket nines and Ha's ace-queen. Both an ace and a queen fell on the flop, but no second ace would fall for Ha, and just four players would remain, with Shaw holding half the chips in play.

Kevin Cavanaugh doubled Boursier up and then exited in third before a bad beat sent Kendrick to the rail. He was all-in with pocket sevens against Boursier's ace-jack, and although a seven landed on the flop, four clubs filled the board to give Boursier a flush. Shaw held the chip lead at the start of heads-up play with 4,165,000 in chips to the 3,450,000 in chips of Boursier. Shaw made a flush to move to a two-to-one lead, and all of a sudden, would extend that to nearly a seven-to-one lead. The final hand came when Bouriser was all-in with jack-five suited against the same suit as Shaw's ace-seven suited. The flop fell seven-high with two clubs, and when a third club landed on the turn to give both players a flush, Bouriser was eliminated in second place, and Shaw was crowned the champion.

Champions Club Texas Championship Final Table Results 

For more information on the Champions Club Texas Championship leaderboard, please visit championsclubtexas.com/leaderboard.

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