In January 2014, David Paredes navigated a field of 1,229 entrants to finish runner-up in the Season XII World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open for $499,549. A little more than a year and a half later, the Massachusetts native returned to Borgata for the 2015 WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event, which attracted 1,027 entrants and created a prize pool of $3,287,427.
Amazingly, Parades made another deep run, and this time he was able to close it out against a tough final table to capture the $723,227 first-place prize, the biggest cash of his career.