Justin Bonomo raised to 1,000 with KsJc, and Dominik Nitsche reraised to 3,500 with Ac2c. Bonomo called, and the flop came down Ad10s6s. Both players checked, and the 8d hit the. This brought to light a bunch of other cheaters and Justin Bonomo was one of them. It turns out Justin had multiple accounts and was entering multi-table tournaments at both Party Poker and Poker Stars. During this raid by Party Poker they proved that Justin was a cheater and confiscated $100,000 from his account. Justin Bonomo has a chance to push his poker tournament earnings for 2018 to nearly $25 million if he wins the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Event #11: $1,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
Justin Bonomo finally achieved the recognition he has worked for by winning his first WSOP bracelet.
Ive played with John Racener twice in AC at Harrahs. 2006 he chopped the $5k circuit event for over $200k right after his 21st birthday, then went on to make nearly $500k in 2007. The second time I played with him was this past December in the same tournament, but this time h.
He came close in Event #5 with a second place finish in a field of 120, but winning Event #11 required him to work his way through a much larger field.
The 1,587 entries produced a prize pool of $2.1 million and a first place prize of almost $450,000.
Bonomo took the win after a heads up contest against Mike Sowers who was also looking for his first bracelet.
Sowers started the heads up phase with the chip lead, but after nineteen hands Bonomo drew level.
Sowers’ stack was devastated when Bonomo rivered a wheel straight, besting Sowers’ flopped two pair.
Although he managed to double up a few times before the end, his position was almost irrecoverable. Justin Bonomo could hardly believe it when he finally got the win.
Wow, I’m still in shock and already slightly drunk. Thank you so much to everyone that supported me!!!
— Justin Bonomo (@JustinBonomo) June 05, 2014With his $450k winnings plus $220k for second place in the 2-7 Triple Draw event, the 2014 WSOP has already proved to be a profitable world series for Bonomo.
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Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Eight players remain with Gregory Kolo the chip leader when play resumes today.
The 557 starters included Phil Ivey, who managed to make the money but failed to get much deeper.
The first exit from the final table was Phil Collins, who had the bad luck to hold queens against Kolo’s K-K. A third king on the flop ended all hope.
The money bubble burst while hand for hand play was in progress, so two players shared the 63rd place payout, getting $2.4k each.
Event #13: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship
A brutal final table line up faces chip leader Paul Volpe in the $10k 2-7 Draw championship event—he’s the only player left who hasn’t already won a WSOP bracelet.
His six remaining opponents are Jason Mercier (469,000), Daniel Negreanu (426,000), Brian Rast (390,000), Larry Wright (203,000), John Monnette (169,000) and Abe Mosseri (162,000).
Volpe goes into the day with a solid chip stack of 783,00 chips, but even so that field is about as tough as it gets.
As chip leaders at the beginning of the day, Jennifer Harman and John Juanda both failed to survive to the final table.
Although full of big names, the event mustered a comparatively small field of 87. First place money will be slightly over $250k.
Event #14: $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
The first Limit Omaha event of this year’s series went comfortably past the 1,000 player mark. 220 players remain from the opening field of 1,036.
Poker super stars still in with a shot include Phil Ivey, Eric Seidel and Greg Raymer.
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32-year-old American poker pro Justin Bonomo took down the $270K buy-in 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China after defeating a star-studded field.
One of the biggest high rollers of the year was concluded at the Babylon Casino in Macau yesterday - the $270K Macau championship is up there with the annual $300K Aria Super High Roller Bowl, although perhaps not quite on the level of the $1 million buy-in returning WSOP Big One for One Drop.
Justin Bonomo is hardly concerned with that at the moment, however - he scored the biggest cash of his career by far with this $4.8 million. What makes his achievement even more impressive if we look at some of the names among the total 75 entries.
The invite-only tourney featured Phil Ivey, Bryn Kenney, Ike Haxton, Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates and many more from poker’s all-time greats. They battled for the biggest piece of the $18,539,610 prize pool.
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With this result, Bonomo overtook - among others - Sam Trickett, John Juanda, Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth in total live tournament earnings - he jumped from the 14th position all the way up to the 6th on the all-time money list with $25.19 million.
Bonomo fought his way through a final table as tough as can be, finally getting down to heads-up against Patrik Antonius, having the chip lead.
In the last hand, Bonomo opened 57 of diamonds on the button, Antonious 3-bet with KT of hearts to almost 4 times his opponent’s initial raise, Bonomo called. The flop fell 8TJ, all diamonds- Although both players connected - especially Bonomo with his flopped flush - they both checked. On the 9h turn, Antonius checked again, Bonomo bet 40% pot (4.5 million into the 11 million chip pot), Antonius called. To the Finnish player’s demise, the Qs river gave him a straight. He led for 17 million, Bonomo shoved all-in after a little tanking, then Antonius called and saw the bad news.
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With that Bonomo took home the $4.8 million first prize while Antonius got $3.15 million for his second-place finish.
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The new champion reacted on Twitter as crisply as he could.
Super High Roller Bowl China Final Results:
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| 1 | Justin Bonomo | $4,820,299 |
| 2 | Patrik Antonius | $3,151,734 |
| 3 | Rainer Kempe | $2,039,357 |
| 4 | Dominik Nitsche | $1,668,565 |
| 5 | Bryn Kenney | $1,483,169 |
| 6 | Stephen Chidwick | $1,297,773 |
| 7 | David Peters | $1,112,377 |
| 8 | Isaac Haxton | $927,344 |
| 9 | Jason Koon | $741,875 |
| 10 | Daniel Cates | $741,875 |
| 11 | Dan Smith | $556,407 |