Poker news tagged with 'justin bonomo'

Two of the best poker pros in the game have battled heads-up just recently, and it's really interesting to watch and learn from them as they play a high-stakes match.

Read more » Poker Showdown: Phil Ivey versus Justin Bonomo

Tom Dwan explains in his own way what's wrong with playing Texas Hold'em live these days. In the interview he wishes to keep recreational players active in the game and shares his insights on what else is wrong with poker tournaments.

Read more » Why Tom Dwan Quit Playing Texas No-Limit Hold'em Live

The poker player who has made himself super busy during the first half of the year 2018 and has been reaping a lot of cash prizes and recognition for all his hard work is none other than Justin Bonomo, and now the latest achievement that he can potentially put under his name could be that he'll win a summer tournament that is worth $10 million in cash prize.

Read more » 2018 WSOP: Event #78: The Big One for One Drop - Justin Bonomo Leads Final 6

It really appears that Justin Bonomo is an unstoppable force in his quest to earn more money and to add another bracelet to his name in this year's WSOP events.

Read more » 2018 WSOP: Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship won by Justin Bonomo for $185,965

We're starting to think that Justin Bonomo is just yawning as he won yet another high roller event in just 4 days...

A mere few days has passed after Justin Bonomo shelled out five $25K buy-ins to win $350,000 in the Aria High Roller on May 31st, he shelled out yet again two more expensive buy-ins in the same edition on June 3rd, earning a sweet $310,500 in the end!

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins $310K and Second $25K Aria High Roller in 4 Days

Justin Bonomo came out on top in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl $300,000 buy-in NLHE event, outlasting a tough field of 48 players to claim the championship ring and take home the humongous first place prize of $5,000,000.

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $5,000,000

The very first ever Super High Roller Bowl China hosted by Macau Billionaire Poker in Macau had finished March 22, 2018 Thursday, and it was Justin Bonomo who emerged triumphant in this tournament and was awarded a sum of US$4,821,516!

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins $4.8 Million at 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China

The 2018 US Poker Open - Event #1 $10,000 NLHE has been taken down by American poker pro Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, earning him a massive $190,400 payday.

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins First Event at the US Poker Open

The second day of the $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl at ARIA in Las Vegas started with 44 runners and finished with 19 after several hours of play. Day 1 chip leader Byron Kaverman finished the day in second place with 2 million in chips while Justin Bonomo bagged up 2.6 million and the chip lead.

Read more » Justin Bonomo Leads Final 19 in $300k Super High Roller Bowl

Martin Kozolov became the 12th Australian national in history to win a bracelet after outlasting an extremely tough 294 player-field over three days of play in the $10,000 buy-in Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship! Kozolov topped a final table that included four former bracelet winners: David Kitai (3 wins), Justin Bonomo (1 win), Chris Ferguson (5 wins), and Nick Petrangelo (1 win).

Read more » 2016 WSOP: Aussie Tops Tough Field To Win $10K 6-Handed NLH Championship

Jonathan Dimming Wins Event #8: Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

The Millionaire Maker event ($1,500 buy-in) saw a record field of 7,977 entries that created a massive $10,768,950 prize pool! After 4 days of play, including the final table that lasted for 12 hours of play!, Jonathan Dimming from Buffalo, New York, had all the chips in play and received an incredible $1,319,587 along with his first gold bracelet.

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In 2013, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (played in Florida) $5,300 buy-in Main Event drew a massive 2,384 entries thanks to a successful multi-day re-entry format, plus, of course, a $10,000,000 guarantee!

At the end of it all, Blair Hinkle, a 27-year-old pro from Kansas City, Missouri, emerged victorious (Defeated Justin Bonomo heads-up) to lay hands on $1.7m in prize money from the total prize pool of $11.9m!

Read more » $10m Guarantee Main Event Returns in August...

After 56 hands of play at the Seminole Hard Rock Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event final table, Justin Bonomo and Blair Hinkle were the last men standing (just as many had predicted). The two American pros, who started the final table as chip leaders, battled it out for the next 167 hands...
Read more » Blair Hinkle Wins Seminole Hard Rock Open ($1,745,245)

After four days of play, the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event is set! Blair Hinkle, a WPT bracelet winner and a player with $1m+ tied up at Full Tilt Poker since Black Friday, leads the final 6 players with a stack of 22.8 million, and his closest opponent is Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo (more than $6 million in lifetime tournament earnings) with 18.5 million chips.

Read more » Hinkle and Bonomo Lead Final Table of Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open

With 74 players and 10 reloads, a total field size of 84 entries created a prize pool of €823,200, and the winner will get €288,000! At the end of day, 45 players remained with Brandon Barnes as the chip leader (211,700). Notables who also finished Day 1 with big stacks were Justin Bonomo (190k - on the left) & Luca Pagano (188k - on the right).

Here's a list of the 10 players who reloaded: Michael Tureniec, Joseph Cheong, McLean Karr, Joel Nordkvist, Eric Sfez, Steve O`Dwyer, Martin Jacobson, Jason Mercier, Martin Finger and Benjamin Spindler.

Top 10 Players at the end of Day 1
Brandon Barnes 211700
Pier Paola Ruscalla 199300
Justin Bonomo 190600
Kent Roed 188800
Luca Pagano 188600
Joseph Cheong 186200
Carlo Savinelli 175500
Igor Yaroshevskyy 165600
Joe Kuether 155300
Mikalai Pobal 150000

Play will resume at 3:00 Local time today and it's set to be a fantastic day of poker. We will be back with another update tomorrow morning!

The third Day of the EPT Sanremo main event is in the books. The day kicked off with 163 players and the player-field was narrowed down to 66 throughout the day. Day 2 chip leader Inge Forsmo, from Norway, will bring a stack of 1,021,000 chips to play today - about 160k more than his closest opponenets: Charly Maracchione, Angelo Recchia and Caremlo Vasta.

For those not familar with the names above, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Haxton, Justin Bonomo, David Vamplew (just to mention a few) are great, well-known players who made it through Day 3 and still have the chance of reaching the final table where a €800,000 first place prize is up for grabs.

Check back tomorrow for another update!

The second day of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris main event saw a field of 228 players. It was a very slow day, with nobody really willing to put their entire stack at risk. On the final 30-minute level, five or six players had about 100k each and battled for the top spot.

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Tonight the final table of the $100,000 buy-in WPT World Championship Super High Roller is being played. Relatively unknown Dan Perper tops the field with 3,415,00 chips. But apart from him there are many familiar faces on the final table. Just have a look at the final table lineup below and you understand what we mean.

Seat 1) Bill Klein, 620 000
Seat 2) John Juanda, 1 875 000
Seat 3) Tom Marchese, 2 235 000
Seat 4) Daniel Perper, 3 415 000
Seat 5) Justin Bonomo, 2 105 000
Seat 6) Andrew Robl, 3 355 000

The winner of the tournament will take home amazing $1,3 million, so it will defeinitly be a very thrilling final table to follow. We will return with an update as soon as a winner has been crowned.

Yesterday we wrote about Justin Bonomo and what a fantastic chance he had to take down his second EPT Monaco High Roller event as he carried a massive lead to the final table. But unfortunately nothing seemed to work for Bonomo on the final table and he fell short in bid for a second High Roller title after getting knocked out in 4th place by Daniel Negreanu.

Read more » EPT Monaco High Roller: Igor Kurganov defeated Daniel Negreanu heads-up

On April 25th, the American poker pro Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo took home the first-ever EPT Monaco Super High Roller for €1,640,000. Today he's playing the EPT Monaco High Roller final table as well! But he hasn't just made it to the final table with an average stack! No no! Bonomo has accumulated 2.2 million chips and has a massive lead and great chance of taking home another EPT Monaco event! What makes this even more impressive is that the Super High Roller and the High Roller events include many of the world's best players!

Read more » EPT Monaco High Roller: Justin Bonomo can write poker history today...

Yesterday we reported that Justin Bonomo, who had a huge lead when the final table begun, was playing against Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Tobias Reinkemeier for the title and a first prize of €1,640,000!

Bonomo had an enormous chip advantage at this point and it didn't take long before he had knocked out both ElkY and Reinkemeier (his toughest opponent on the final table, according to himself) and was the last man standing.

Read more » EPT Monaco: Justin Bonomo won the Super High Roller (€1,640,000)

The final table of the first-ever EPT Monaco Super High Roller was set last night with the following 8 players.

1) Justin Bonomo, 4 393 000
2) Tobias Reinkemeier, 1 682 000
3) Daniel Negreanu, 1 581 000
4) Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, 1 265 000
5) Masa Kagawa, 1 076 000
6) Jonathan Duhamel, 654 000
7) Patrik Antonius, 338 000
8) Eugene Katchalov, 262 000

Read more » LIVE: Justin Bonomo leads the Super High Roller in Monaco

Last week we wrote that Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo is about to leave the US for an island in the Mediterranean sea, Malta. Yesterday, Justin Bonomo commented on the move to Malta and how Black Friday has affected his life. For example: Bonomo said that he never considered a move before Black Friday and that he has a huge chunk of his bankroll stuck online.

Read more » U.S. Poker Pro on Black Friday: "the amount I have trapped online is six figures"