In battling through a 6,420-player field, Toronto, Canada’s Max Greenwood put on a stirring display of poker before falling in 42nd place in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event. This wasn’t the first time that Greenwood has been to the rodeo that is the WSOP; it is, however, by far his deepest ever finish in the WSOP Main Event.

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Greenwood has been a part of the poker community since the mid-2000s, earning his first ever cash on the stage of the European Poker Tour. Finishing fourth in a €500 No Limit Hold’em preliminary event on the EPT Grand Final schedule in 2006, Greenwood backed that up two days later with a deep run in the €1,000 version. This gave Greenwood the impetus to build up a bankroll to take a run at the 2007 World Series of Poker, where he cashed three times in both No Limit and Pot Limit Hold’em.

Greenwood’s breakthrough came during the 2008 WSOP. Battling through a 2,508-player field, Greenwood earned a WSOP bracelet and his largest payday to date, $693,392.

Greenwood has earned 15 other WSOP cashes (including a 537th place finish in the 2011 WSOP Main Event, his previous best), seven cashes on the European Poker Tour, and two World Poker Tour cashes on his way to amassing over $1.9 million in total tournament poker earnings.

On his final hand of the 2015 WSOP Main Event, Greenwood called an opening bet from Andrew Moreno and, after a call on the button from Josh Beckley, saw a three-bet come from Patrick Chan.

Moreno released his hand, but Greenwood made his stand, pushing his final 2.4 million chips to the center. Beckley dropped from the fray, but Chan stuck around, turning up his pocket Aces to crush Greenwood’s pocket Jacks. An Ace on the flop virtually sealed the deal and, after a blank on the turn, Greenwood was left drawing dead and out of the tournament in 42nd place for a $164,086 payday.