Dimas Martinez Jr. Wins RunGood Poker Series bestbet Jacksonville Main EventSouth Carolina Resident Bests 520-Entry Field In $1,200 Buy-In To Earn Career-High Score of $104,524 |
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In the spring of 2023, Dimas Martinez Jr. finished as the runner-up in the inaugural RunGood Poker Series bestbet Jacksonville main event for a career-best tournament score of nearly $72,000. Just shy of a year later, he managed to improve on that finish by coming away with the title. He topped a field of 520 entries in the 2024 RGPS Destination RunGood Jacksonville $1,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, earning $104,524 for a new top payday.
Martinez now has nearly $260,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, with the majority coming from his two deep runs in these RGPS events at bestbet Jacksonville.
In addition to the hardware and the money, Martinez also earned 840 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his first qualified score of 2024, but it alone was enough to shoot him up the standings and into 170th place on the POY leaderboard presented by Global Poker.
The strong turnout for this event saw the $300,000 guarantee easily surpassed. The top 65 finishers all earned a share of the $540,800 final prize pool, with five figures or more paid out to every player at the final table.
Jerry Wade held the chip lead when the last nine players converged onto a single table, while Martinez sat in the middle of the pack. 2017 Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville champion Jared Reinstein came close to another big title at this venue but eventually finished seventh ($13,257) when his pocket aces ran into a flopped set of fours for Ritesh Patel.
Patel continued to surge, scoring several more knockouts on the way to short-handed play. After his pocket queens held against the A-3 of Bradley Beetz (4th – $38,365) and his pocket nines outraced the A-J of Nikhil Sunku (3rd – $51,429), Patel held 12,505,000 to 3,110,000 for Martinez.
An early double-up kicked off Martinez’s push into the lead. He just edged ahead in time for the decisive pot of the tournament. All of the chips went in with his Q
Q
leading the A
9 of Patel. The board ran out J
52J6 to bring the event to a close. Patel was awarded $69,681 as the runner-up.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Dimas Martinez Jr. | $104,524 | 840 |
| 2 | Ritesh Patel | $69,681 | 700 |
| 3 | Nikhil Sunku | $51,429 | 560 |
| 4 | Bradley Beetz | $38,365 | 420 |
| 5 | Paul Chung | $28,932 | 350 |
| 6 | Jerry Wade | $22,058 | 280 |
| 7 | Thomas Burkett | $17,005 | 210 |
| 8 | Jared Reinstein | $13,257 | 140 |
| 9 | Corey Major | $10,452 | 70 |
Photo credit: RGPS / Matthew Berglund.
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