🏅 Top traders

Thanks everyone for playing along. Hope to see ya'll on the poker felt, down the line 🤠

Tamayo won and is a US pro!

Tamayo is NOT a pro, lol

Tamayo is a pro -- he plays for a living.

From his PGT profile,

Jonathan Tamayo has been in poker for many years, and now the 38-year-old professional player has reached poker’s pinnacle, the WSOP Main Event final table. Tamayo came into this event with $2,300,000 in live tournament earnings and several six-figure scores, but he’s never had a seven-figure score until now. Notably, Tamayo finished 21st in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for $352,000.

Tamayo credits the only tournament streets as the place where his game was forged. He’s spent a significant time playing at Turning Stone Casino during his time attending Cornell University, where he majored in hotel management."

On his LinkedIn, he lists himself as an independent gambling professional.

hmmm, okay fair

my sources misinformed me

thanks -- yes 'poker pro' is however he describes himself

what a comeback!

The last three remaining are aged 30 (Griff), 38 (Tamayo) and 33 (Astedt).

(Edit: Meant to put this comment on the other market...)

Resolving "Famous Player" as NO

We have a few known players
Joe Serock

Brian Kim

Niklas Astedt -- online crusher

Serock is most famous but he's not really famous. Needed Foxen to come in for that bet.

Final Table is set
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2024-wsop/event-81-10000-wsop-main-event/chips.htm

Resolving some markets.

Foxen is out https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2024-wsop/event-81-10000-wsop-main-event/chips.674240.htm

Sadly. Bluffed off her stack…

Down to 19 runners

https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/?aid=2&grid=5504&tid=23257&dayof=2325711&rr=-1

@Moscow25 can we get a ruling on who remaining would be considered a famous poker player?

Kristen Foxen is famous.

Most other players are not.

Probably Rast too at least

Rast is famous of course -- future hall of famer

What about Brandon Cantu

Cantu is famous -- and also out

How will "poker pro" be defined? E.g. would Qui Nguyen (previous WSOP Main Event winner) have qualified as a poker pro if this market were run in 2016? Will we be looking at Hendon Mobs or going by self-description (and/or press release description)?

There will be official biographies.

If the person has a job or is retired. Not a pro. Pro can me a local grinder or self described pro.

Dan Weinman was a pro.

Are we talking about the Main Event?

yes

Would you say that someone like Isaac Kempton counts as a famous player?

Who is that?