After two weeks of adrenaline-pumping motion, the 2024 World Sequence of Poker $10m000 no-limit maintain’em major occasion has lastly narrowed its file discipline of 10,112 entries right down to a single participant. Longtime poker professional Jonathan Tamayo emerged victorious with the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $10,000,000.
“Joe McKeehen advised me that this event’s unattainable to win. After which, when the sphere measurement is greater, you are feeling prefer it’s much more unattainable to win,” mentioned Tamayo after closing out the historic win. “However, you simply sit down on day 1, you’re similar to, ‘Okay, finally I’m going to bust this event. It’s not going to be fairly, I’m not going to really feel nice and also you’re going to go on together with your life and mentally put together your self for it.’ I simply can’t imagine I didn’t bust the principle occasion.”
The 38-year-old poker professional from Humble, Texas got here into this occasion with $2.3 million in prior event earnings from 187 prior recorded event cashes. Now he has greater than $12.3 million, and has added his title to the celebrated listing of world champions.
Becoming a member of him in that elite firm is his buddy Joe McKeehen, who helped current Tamayo together with his bracelet. The 2015 WSOP major occasion winner was on Tamayo’s rail down the stretch, working alongside four-time bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche.
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“Joe and Dom helped. In the event that they weren’t right here, I’d seemingly don’t win this event,” Tamayo mentioned in his chat with the collected media after profitable. “I is likely to be out eighth, I is likely to be out seventh… I would win this event, however a complete different bunch of fine issues would truly would’ve needed to occur for that to occur.”
This was Tamayo’s first bracelet, which he can add to his assortment of 4 WSOP Circuit rings. Previous to this win, his prime rating was a Twenty first-place end within the 2009 major occasion for $352,832. He additionally had one different top-100 exhibiting, inserting 78th in 2015.
“In the event you get one deep run, likelihood is that’s the one deep run,” mentioned Tamayo when requested about working deep on this occasion once more after that earlier shut name 15 years in the past. “I cant’ imagine I used to be capable of get two, to get a second likelihood, and really shut it.”
This was the second straight yr that an American participant has received poker’s world championship, with Tamayo following within the footsteps of 2023 winner Daniel Weinman. Previous to that there was a four-year stretch of worldwide champions that included Norway’s Espen Jorstad (2022), Germany’s Koray Aldemir (2021) and Hossein Ensan (2019), and Argentina’s Damian Salas (2020).
Tamayo got here into the ultimate day of this occasion in second chip place among the many final three contenders. There was nonetheless $20,000,000 in prize cash left to play for from the $94,041,600 prize pool that was constructed by the file turnout for this occasion.
Take a look at a recap of the primary day of ultimate desk motion HERE.
Niklas Astedt was the chip chief to start out the day. He discovered himself battling with start-of-day quick stack Jordan Griff typically within the early going.
Griff had simply edged Astedt out for the chip lead, transferring forward by a single 500,000 chip in time for one of many greatest clashes of the day. Astedt raised to eight,000,000 from the button with Ok
J
and Griff three-bet to twenty-eight,000,000 from the small blind. Adstedt known as and the flop got here down 10
93 to offer Griff center set. He wager 25,000 and Astedt known as together with his overcards and gutshot straight draw.
The flip introduced the J to offer Astedt prime pair to go together with his draw. Griff moved all-in, placing Astedt to the take a look at for his complete stack. Astedt went into the tank because the shove was counted down. After loads of consideration he made the decision for his remaining 159,000,000. Astedt known as and located himself in want of a queen on the river in an effort to hold his hopes alive. The river as an alternative introduced the Ok
and Griff’s three nines took down the pot.
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“Yeah, it’s a tricky one,” Astedt advised PokerGO sideline reporter Jeff Platt after hitting the rail. “I didn’t suppose he would essentially would shove like an over pair there, he ought to be trapping most of his good hand on the flip. [Sigh] I don’t know, man, that was a tricky one. He’s a little bit of a wild one and, , fairly prime heavy construction. I’m undecided nonetheless if I prefer it, but it surely’s a tricky one.”
Astedt earned $4,000,000 because the third-place finisher. The web event poker legend identified to many as ‘Lena900’ reportedly has greater than $48 million in event earnings on the web. With this deep run, he now has almost $7.9 million in reside scores as properly. The 33-year-old Swedish poker professional now sits in second place on his house nation’s cash listing, trailing solely 2014 WSOP major occasion champion Martin Jacobson’s $18.1 million.
On simply the second hand of heads-up play, Griff tried a triple barrel bluff that was finally picked off by Tamayo, who had flopped prime pair of aces with a six kicker. Tamayo went deep into the tank on the tip however finally known as to overhaul the chip lead.
Griff quickly discovered a double up of his personal, getting all-in on the flip with jacks and sixes main the pair of jacks with an ace kicker held by Tamayo. A protected river noticed the tables turned once more, with Griff taking a slight lead once more. Griff continued to increase his benefit, and had a shot at closing out the win when he received all-in with 77 racing in opposition to the Ok10 of Tamayo.
Almost all of the drama was drained from the scenario when the flop got here down QJ9 to offer Tamayo a king-high straight with a straight flush redraw. The 5 on the flip left Griff drawing useless, and the Ok river noticed Tamayo double again in entrance.
Griff doubled up with pocket sixes in opposition to Tamayo’s A8 to result in yet one more lead change. This lead was quick lived, although, as Tamayo doubled again to almost even with prime pair holding in opposition to center pair after the entire chips went in on the flop.
Tamayo was capable of get again out in entrance in time for the decisive hand of the event. With blinds of two,500,000-5,000,000 and a giant blind ante of 5,000,000, Tamayo raised to 12,500,000 from the button with 83. Griff known as with 96 and the flop got here down 983. Griff checked and Tamayo wager 10,000,000 together with his two pair. Griff check-raised to 40,000,000 with prime pair. Tamayo moved all-in and Griff known as off for 230,000,000 whole.
The flip was the A, which gave Griff some further outs. He may now catch an ace, 9, or six heading into the river to double up. The 5 rolled off on the tip as an alternative, locking up the pot and the title for Tamayo.
Griff earned $6,000,000 because the runner-up, blowing away his earlier prime rating of $18,104 for a final-table end in a WSOP Circuit occasion at Thunder Valley On line casino Resort final yr. The 30-year-old information and analytics provide chain supervisor for Meta got here near dwelling out the dream of each novice poker participant, however ended up falling one spot wanting hoisting the bracelet. The New Metropolis, New York native, now based mostly in Arizona, was enjoying in simply his third major occasion.
Tamayo drew lots of consideration from the poker world when he folded pocket queens to a single elevate late on day 8 with one knockout left earlier than the ultimate desk was set. When requested about ‘the haters’ and the dialogue across the hand, Tamayo mentioned, “Fold queens. Play 8-3 off.”
Along with securing the eight-figure prime prize and the bracelet, Tamayo additionally earned loads of rankings factors. The three,600 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors he was awarded have been sufficient to maneuver him into eleventh place within the 2024 POY standings offered by International Poker. This was his first title and second final-table end of the yr, having completed third within the inaugural PGT Texas Poker Open major occasion for $180,000 and 912 factors. He now sits with 4,512 whole factors.
Tamayo additionally earned 1,550 PokerGO Tour factors for the win. With 1,730 whole PGT factors, he now sits in second place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard, trailing solely Michael Rocco and his 1,835 factors.
Here’s a take a look at the total outcomes from the 2024 WSOP major occasion last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Jonathan Tamayo
$10,000,000
3600
1550
2
Jordan Griff
$6,000,000
3000
1350
3
Niklas Astedt
$4,000,000
2400
1250
4
Jason Sagle
$3,000,000
1800
1200
5
Boris Angelov
$2,500,000
1500
1175
6
Andres Gonzalez
$2,000,000
1200
1150
7
Brian Kim
$1,500,000
900
1125
8
Joseph Serock
$1,250,000
600
1100
9
Malo Latinois
$1,000,000
300
1100
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