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Carlos Chadha topped a 565-entry field to win the 2026 Borgata Summer Poker Open $2,700 Championship, earning $242,385. The Washington, D.C. pro entered the final table as an overwhelming chip leader and closed out the tournament in roughly three hours.
Chadha’s win pushed his career earnings past $3.5 million. He credited the title to years of dedicated study, including four years of tournament-focused work and sixteen months spent refining cash game strategy involving exploitative and deep-stack play.
The final table began at noon with seven players, Chadha holding nearly triple the stack of runner-up Maxwell Young. Early eliminations included WSOP bracelet winner Andrew Porter in seventh and Russ Dunlevy in sixth, the latter falling to Chadha’s flopped top two pair.
Young took over the chip lead briefly after flopping two pair against Chadha’s kings, later eliminating James Tedrow in fourth with a rivered straight. Nicholas Verderamo doubled twice before shoving into Chadha’s kings a third time, exiting in third.
Heads-up play lasted just eight hands. On the final hand, Chadha called an all-in river bet from Young with eight-four, making two pair to win the title after a lengthy tank.
Chadha, who recently finished 51st out of 9,200 entries in the WSOP Main Event, said the win validated years of grinding through difficult stretches in live tournament poker, calling the pursuit a costly but worthwhile passion.
