Justin Bonomo Exhibits Off Poker Expertise as Stay Winnings Method $60M Following PCA Title
Some folks consider that poker is nothing greater than a sport of luck that requires no talent to succeed. Strive telling that to Justin Bonomo, who now has nearly $60 million in dwell event winnings since his first dwell money 18 years in the past.
Poker professional Justin Bonomo exhibits off his newest trophy from the PokerStars Caribbean Journey. Bonomo has earned nearly $60 million in dwell occasions since his first money in 2005. (Picture: PokerStars)
Collaborating within the PokerStars Caribbean Journey (PCA), the place he bumped into hassle throughout the principle occasion, Bonomo redeemed himself within the $25K 8-Handed occasion. He took it down, including $574,529 to his financial institution on Sunday.
Bonomo, a four-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, is among the many poker elite. He was already the all-time cash chief earlier than his newest win, and the brand new cash will make it more difficult for anybody to catch up.
Chasing the Playing cards
Poker, particularly Texas Maintain’em, positively has a component of luck, however there may be additionally an amazing quantity of talent concerned. Even Bonomo acknowledges that it helps to get fortunate. Even so, he additionally understands the significance of understanding the best way to reply when the playing cards don’t cooperate.
The PCA $25K Excessive Curler attracted a variety of poker greats, together with Ike Haxton, Carlos Chadha, Stephen Chidwick, and extra. It was a veritable who’s who of poker’s biggest names.
140 gamers grabbed a seat for the event – a powerful depend for a sport with an costly buy-in and never an enormous following. One after the other, Chidwick and different excessive rollers fell till the final remaining 9 met on the desk.
Robust beats – pocket 9s over pocket 8s, A-Q over A-9 – would see the sector dwindle. Chadha made it to fourth for $286,950 earlier than he received combined up with Isaac Haxton. That left simply three gamers within the battle.
Nonetheless, there wouldn’t be a battle. The trio – Bonomo, Haxton, and Rui Ferreira – agreed to cut the pot and let a card flip decide who received the trophy. Bonomo received, with Ferreira and Haxton taking $664,820 and $491,550, respectively.
Bonomo confirmed his sportsmanship and modesty after the win. When requested by PokerNews why they agreed to deal, his response was concise and poignant.
Bonomo referred to Haxton, fifteenth on the All-Time Cash Record, as “presumably the best poker thoughts on the planet.” He additionally emphasised Ferreira, Portugal’s third-ranked participant, and his poker expertise as being in an elite class, as nicely.
On the record of winningest poker gamers, Bryn Kenney falls in second place with $57.2 million. After him is Daniel Negreanu, with $50.11 million. Bonomo has two years on Kenney, whose first money was in 2007, so the race is on.
Dwelling the Excessive-Curler Life
Bonomo, initially from Virginia, is not any stranger to taking over different excessive rollers. Final December, he took down the $10K Excessive Curler within the PokerGO Tour sequence. Two months earlier, he received back-to-back high-roller occasions on the World Poker Tour 5 Diamond Basic.
His all-time finest month got here in August 2019. He shortly ran via three occasions on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence in London for about $7.4 million. That was the results of first- and second-place finishes in two occasions, and a smaller money within the third with an exit in fifteenth place.
Nonetheless, the world’s main poker money-maker noticed his largest pot ever a yr earlier. He took down the $1M Large One for One Drop at that yr’s WSOP for $10 million.
Bonomo’s repeated successes on the felt has put him on the high of a number of lists. He leads the US All-Time Cash Record, the Virginia All-Time Cash Record, and the sport’s All-Time Cash Record.
As he continues to make deep runs in various kinds of occasions, Bonomo is exhibiting that there’s far more talent than luck required to play poker. His abilities, in addition to these of others, needs to be sufficient proof to help poker as one thing apart from playing.
