Season XIV Champion Profile: Jared Mahoney - Partypoker.net WPT Montreal

There are a couple of different mindsets a player can take when they come into a final table last in chips. Some choose to keep their expectations low and see if they can move up the payouts. Others like Jared Mahoney, decide to go for broke. Despite coming into the final table of the fall WPT in Montreal last in chips with a mere 21 big blinds compared to monster chip leader Brian Altman’s 141 big blinds, the Boston resident had no intentions of backing down.

“I definitely knew it was going to be extremely tough, it was a really tough table, but I knew from the beginning I was going to play for first place. I wasn’t going to play to move up the payouts,” Mahoney explained in his winner interview. At a final table that included three-time WPT final tablist Darryll Fish, a monster chip leader in Altman, and experienced pros Rainer Kemper and Carter Swidler, Mahoney did not back down and indeed played his way to first place and a CAD$453,122 payday. The final table was quite the roller coaster for all the players, Mahoney included, as double up after double up saw the chips shuffle around the table. Mahoney managed to be on the right side of his all-ins though, setting up a heads-up battle between himself and Fish with Mahoney holding only the slightest of chip leads.

The two players swapped that chip lead numerous times before the match culminated in an all-in preflop hand where Mahoney picked up ace-king to Fish’s smaller ace to end the tournament.

After taking down the CAD$3,850 tournament, which drew 697 entries, Mahoney was ready to celebrate, but not for long. “I’m gonna get right back on the grind. Celebrate for one night.”