Hand #116: Daniel Weinman Wins the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open! ($892,433)

Photo:  Daniel Weinman smiles as the river card gives him the victory.

Daniel Weinman (pictured) moves all in, and Nathan Bjerno calls all in for 3,450,000 with . Weinman turns over , and Bjerno needs to improve to hope for a chop to stay alive.

The board comes — Bjerno pairs his four on the river, but the same card gives Weinman an eight-high straight to win the pot — and the WPT title.

Nathan Bjerno finishes as the runner-up, earning $524,964.

Daniel Weinman wins the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open, earning $892,433. Weinman also wins a WPT Champions Trophy, and his name will be inscribed on the one-and-only WPT Champions Cup, along with all previous WPT champions from the past 15 seasons of the World Poker Tour. Weinman’s prize money includes his $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

Congratulations to Daniel Weinman!

1st:  Daniel Weinman  –  $892,433*
2nd:  Nathan Bjerno  –  $524,964
3rd:  Tyler Kenney  –  $327,578
4th:  Jia Liu  –  $275,081
5th:  Richard Foster  –  $228,884
6th:  Nicholas Immekus  –  $184,787

* First-prize amount includes a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.