John Bonomo Poker
Justin the Player and Person
Justin Bonomo – Lifetime Earnings: $49,128,107 In 2018, Bonomo had the best poker tournament run in history, having won upwards of $25 million! He had incredible string of final table finishes and wins all over the world, from the Bahamas to Malta to Hong Kong and Las Vegas.
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Justin won hundreds of thousands of dollars before the age of 21. All the wins are well documented as well. While he may not be the best online poker player he is famous in the online community. Unfortunately Justin is famous for things other than his great poker play. There are some events people wish they could take back and Justin has a few he isn’t proud of.
Justin has since gone down the right path and even recently joined Team Bodog. (he quit the team in the beginning of 2010)
Just Who is Justin Bonomo?
Justin Bonomo started in the card games scenario by playing a game called Magic where he traveled around the world playing against players much older than him. Justin was born in 1985 and began playing poker when he was 16. He mostly played .5/1 games and dared to go bigger but usually lost. At the age of 18 he began to take the game much more seriously by reading books and visiting poker strategy forums.
He began his online poker quest at Party Poker where he quickly built a bankroll of $10,000 from about $200. He then built his bankroll even more by playing multiple tables at Party Poker’s $200 Sit n Go’s. By the age of 21 Justin was the youngest player to ever make it to a final table on the World Poker Tour which just so happened to be aired on Television. Besides poker Justins passions in life are music. He frequents alternative rock concerts and has been to over 100 of them.
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How He Makes Money
Justin is known for his canning ability to dominate Sit N Go poker at Party Poker where he used to have an account. We’ll get into the “used to” part in a minute. He is known at many forums as the 12 tabler. His normal game is playing eight $200+15 Sit n Go tables at a time. During his peak he visits the $1,000 Sit n Go’s and plays 8 at a time. He regularly tracks his stats and averages $40 profit per table he plays when at the $200 tables. He’s stated that he can make about $400 an hour playing these smaller tournaments.
The Cheating Scandal
It is best to explain the scenario in full to get a complete understanding of what happened to Justin before drawing any conclusions. Justin plays a lot of multitable tournaments at Party Poker and Poker Stars. During this period of time a guy named Josh Field aka JJProdigy and ABlackcar was caught for multi-table cheating at Party Poker. He was doing so by exploiting a bug in Party Poker’s software. By clicking the Party Poker icon rapidly it allowed players to open multiple accounts at once.
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. The amount was just about all the money he had won from the Big Sunday $600+40 Party Poker tournament the week before. Poker Stars investigated his account as well but found his winnings were legit in the Big Sunday tournament where he won $137,000.
The Apology
Justin has publicly apologized for what he did. He has stated on his website how wrong it was but he still does feel Party Poker over reacted to the whole situation. Many of his followers believe the entire situation was blown out of proportion while some are outraged about what he did.
Event Placings
| Tournament Event | Date | Winnings |
| World Poker Tour | 9/20/11 | $8,501 |
| Epic Poker League | 8/9/11 | $43,190 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/28/11 | $117,305 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/25/11 | $4,242 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/14/11 | $13,368 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/11/11 | $4,743 |
| World Poker Classic | 5/18/11 | $224,160 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/30/10 | $58,699 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/11/10 | $5,202 |
| Wynn Classic | 3/15/10 | $11,737 |
| North American Poker Tour | 1/5/10 | $28,000 |
| World Series of Poker | 7/3/09 | $25,027 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/30/09 | $11,296 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/28/09 | $2,690 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/20/09 | $2,890 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/12/09 | $4,871 |
| World Series of Poker | 5/28/09 | $413,165 |
| World Series of Poker Circuit | 4/27/09 | $227,692 |
| World Poker Classic | 4/14/09 | $53,970 |
| Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure | 1/8/09 | $31,600 |
| Dream Team Championship | 11/8/08 | $18,000 |
| World Poker Tour | 10/20/08 | $42,630 |
| World Poker Tour | 7/11/08 | $19,390 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/13/08 | $14,438 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/2/08 | $230,159 |
| World Series of Poker Circuit | 4/29/08 | $96,594 |
| Foxwoods Poker Classic | 4/2/08 | $13,595 |
| World Poker Tour | 1/27/08 | $135,243 |
| Caesars Palace Classic | 10/22/07 | $163,693 |
| World Series of Poker | 7/2/07 | $8,067 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/28/07 | $8,212 |
| World Series of Poker | 6/6/07 | $156,040 |
| Sunday Poker Stars Tournament | 12/11/05 | $137,000 |
| World Series of Poker | 4/28/07 | $40,973 |
| World Poker Tour | 4/21/07 | $77,350 |
| L.A. Poker Classic | 2/12/07 | $11,400 |
| World Poker Tour | 1/6/07 | $77,702 |
| World Poker Tour | 12/14/06 | $152,230 |
| World Poker Classic | 12/5/06 | $16,465 |
| Sunday Poker Stars Tournament | 12/11/05 | $137,000 |
| Sunday Party Poker Event $600+40 -Confiscated | 10/22/05 | $110,000 |
| Poker Stars Multitable | 8/29/05 | $19,000 |
| EuroPoker Tour | 2/15/05 | $40,815 |
| World Poker Tour | 1/05/05 | $15,600 |
Last Updated: January 24, 2012
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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.
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.
Events Still Running
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.
John Bonomo Poker Tournaments
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.
John Bonomo Poker Game
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.