"May $100,000 GTD:" 1st Place - Bodden ($22,582)

"May $100,000 GTD"
$150 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack
Level 34 (Blinds 200,000/400,000/50,000)
Total Entries: 1,169
Players Remaining: 1

"May $100,000 GTD" winner Jonathan Bodden (Miami, FL) $22,582

It wasn't quite a wire-to-wire performance, but it was about as close as a player can get, as Jonathan Bodden went from second in chips to start Day 2...to shipping the tournament.  Bodden trended upward from the moment the cards got in the air earlier this afternoon, and really didn't experience any rough patches throughout the day.

Once Jonathan cracked the pocket aces of Robert Tanner with A♥ 4♥ (flopping a flush), it almost seemed as if the starts were aligned for Bodden.  That was the pot of the tournament to that point...but that was until he'd be all-in a few levels later against Raminder Singh.  In a pot worth over 14,000,000, Bodden would flop a set with 10♠ 10♥ against the A♦ A♣ of Singh, grabbing the pot...and basically the tournament at that moment.

The $22,582 Bodden won for first place is the largest cash of his tournament career, and it brings his total earnings just shy of $75,000.  It's a great score just before the 2017 WSOP, a place where Bodden did some damage in the summer of 2014 (mostly in events outside of the Rio though).  Jonathan Bodden played with confidence throughout the entire day, and will surely bring that mindset out west as the biggest series of the year approaches.