Championship Warm Up ($600)

After a raising war preflop, Colombia’s Andres Fajardo gets his stack of 233,500 into the middle of the table against WPT Championship Runner-Up Rob Sherwood of England.

Fajardo shows A♦ Q♦ while Sherwood isn’t going anywhere with K♣ K♥ .

The subsequent runout goes: 5♠ 6♠ 7♠ 2♣ T♥ as Fajardo bids adieu to the competition. Sherwood, who has been steadily flying under the radar for the duration of the day, now has over 620,000 in chips and could be headed to a favorable position in Day 2.

In a battle of the blinds on a board of Q♠ 2♥ 8♣ 5♦ A♣ with the pot ballooning to 52,000, Andres Fajardo of Colombia bets 36,000 from the sb and gets the call from Germany’s Konstantin Held in the bb.

Fajardo shows Q♥ J♣ as Held mucks.

The Colombian, who just missed qualifying in Day 1A, now puts himself in a solid position to advance this time around.