2024 WSOP Main Event Final Table Profile: Jonathan Tamayo

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Jonathan Tamayo

Final Table Profile: Jonathan Tamayo

Seat:7
Chip Count:26,700,000
Big Blinds:17
Hometown:Las Vegas, Nevada
Twitter:@driverseati

Jonathan Tamayo's Poker Background

Jonathan Tamayo

With $2.3 million in career earnings and four WSOP Circuit rings — the most recent coming in March 2018 — Tamayo is no stranger to deep tournament runs. But this is even deeper than his run in the 2009 WSOP Main Event that saw him finish in a commendable 21st place for $352,832.

"It feels like it would never happen [again]," he told PokerNews "Because I feel like in my head, you get one shot in life at this and you never get it again. And now I have I have multiple — two shots inside the top 50.

"I don't think I even have a final table at a tournament here at the Series in over a decade. I think the $1,500 HORSE was the last one. And so I said, ok, it's hard. Maybe it never happens."

Tamayo had a front row seat to Joe McKeehen's Main Event victory, and his Twitter account even states 'Defensive Coordinator of the 2015 Main Event Champion', and he will now look to write his own chapter with the 2015 champion watching and supporting from the rail.

Jonathan Tamayo's Main Event Story

Having started on Day 2, Tamayo's Main Event journey took a setback on Day 4 with his stack almost halving to sit in the lower rungs of the chip counts.

However, a stellar Day 5 saw him 12x his stack to sit 37th in chips with 160 players remaining.

He's navigated all major hurdles so far and says he will be working with Dominik Nitsche and the aforementioned McKeehen on a plan for how to approach the final table and the 15 big blinds he will start with.

"We'll talk strategy, something that we can easily implement. You can't get too detailed, but it'll be pretty solid."

How Jonathan Tamayo Got to the Final Table

End of DayChipsRank
1d--
2d272,500311/2,068
3823,000141/1,524
4445,000387/464
55,430,00037/160
613,300,00019/59
718,400,00013/18
826,700,0007/9

Click on the name for an in-depth profile of each final table player:

2024 WSOP Main Event Final Table Seating

SeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Boris AngelovBulgaria52,900,00033
2Malo LatinoisFrance25,500,00016
3Brian KimUnited States94,600,00059
4Niklas AstedtSweden94,200,00059
5Joe SerockUnited States83,600,00052
6Jordan GriffUnited States143,700,00090
7Jonathan TamayoUnited States26,700,00017
8Andres GonzalezSpain18,300,00011
9Jason SagleCanada67,300,00042

2024 WSOP Main Event Final Table Payouts

PlacePrize
1$10,000,000
2$6,000,000
3$4,000,000
4$3,000,000
5$2,500,000
6$2,000,000
7$1,500,000
8$1,250,000
9$1,000,000
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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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