Jonathan Tamayo received the World Sequence of Poker’s (WSOP) Most important Occasion on Wednesday, together with its $10 million money prize, gold bracelet, and a lifetime of bragging rights.
Jonathan Tamayo will get proven the cash and his gold bracelet Wednesday night time in Las Vegas. (Picture: pokergo.com)
The 38-year-old poker professional from Humble, Texas bested Jordan Griff — a 30-year-old newbie from Scottsdale, Ariz. — after greater than three hours of heads-up play on the Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Griff started the day because the chip chief however the last hand of 65 noticed all the cash go in as Tamayo flopped two pair towards Griff’s high pair, snatching a Chris Moneymaker-level dream win from the information and analytics provide chain supervisor.
However $6 million for second place isn’t too shabby.
Earlier than his win, Tamayo had gathered $2.3 million in reside event cashes and simply over $1 million from on-line tournaments. The closest he beforehand got here to successful the Most important Occasion was in 2009, when he was eradicated in twenty first place for a payday of $352,832.
Sweden’s Niklas Astedt — the web poker professional generally known as Lena900 — got here into Day 10 with the tallest stack and the shortest odds of successful. But, owing to the unpredictable nature of the sport, he was eradicated in lower than an hour, holding high pair and a straight draw towards a set of nines held by Griff.
He walked away with $4 million.
The $10K WSOP Most important Occasion attracted a file 10,112 contenders, surpassing the earlier file of 10,043 set final 12 months.
