30-year-old Derrick Rosenbarger has emerged victorious in the 2013 World Poker Tour partypoker.net Montreal $3,850 no-limit hold’em main event, topping a field of 862 entries to win his first major title, the $500,824 CAD ($517,049 USD) first-place prize and 1,368 Card Player Player of the Year points. Rosenbarger has been a pilot in the Air Force for eight years, residing in Clovis, New Mexico.
Rosenbarger entered the final table in fifth chip-position, but was able to make it to heads-up play with Mukul Pahuja, who held a toughly 2-to-1 chip lead. The heads-up battle lasted 64 hands, with plenty of back-and-forth. Rosenbarger had pulled out to a lead of 2-to-1 himself by the time the final hand arose.
Rosenbarger raised to 600,000 from the button and Pahuja shoved for roughly 7 million. Rosenbarger made the call with the Q
Q
and Pahuja flipped up his A4. The board ran out 9
3
642, securing the pot and the title for Rosenbarger and sending Pahuja to the rail in second place with
a payday of $340,928 CAD ($362,430 USD).
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Derrick Rosenbarger | $517,049 | 1,368 |
| 2 | Mukul Pahuja | $362,430 | 1,140 |
| 3 | Serge Cantin | $234,051 | 912 |
| 4 | Sylvain Siebert | $173,209 | 684 |
| 5 | Lily Kiletto | $129,543 | 570 |
| 6 | Alexandre Lavigne | $104,799 | 456 |
Photo courtesy of WPT / Joe Giron.
