Jonathan Tamayo gets shown the money and his gold bracelet Wednesday night in Las Vegas. (Image: Louis Grasse\/PX Imagens via ZUMA Press Wire\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhile no one is suggesting that Tamayo outright cheated, the move is not considered particularly ethical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe issue is that poker is supposed to be an individual game, not a team game,\u201d explained the reddit account @myimportantthoughts. \u201cImagine you are on the final table and your rail is a couple of friends and family who are not in poker. They are not gonna be helping much.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cYour opponent has 3 pros at his rail and he is being given real time info\/sims based on the exact specific stack depths and any tendencies the pros pick up on you.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cDo you think that this is reasonable?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIndeed, PokerStars ambassador Sam Grafton, the fifth-highest earning English poker player of all-time, did not. He put it more bluntly on X\/Twitter: “Absolutely sucks and can’t be allowed.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThroughout the final table, video of the\u00a0proceedings show, Tamayo consulted with members of his rail who were typing into the laptop. <\/span><\/p>\nIn the past, WSOP have also sought advice from people their rails, but none has used a laptop so visibly. <\/span><\/p>\nWSOP organizers have so far issued no comment about the controversy, nor have they announced any impending inquiries into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The poker world has been gripped by controversy following Jonathan Tamayo\u2019s $10 million win at the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) Main Event on Wednesday. The 38-year-old poker pro from Humble, Texas defeated amateur Jordan Griff at the conclusion of a 10-day battle that drew 10,112 hopefuls to the Paris and Horseshoe in Las Vegas. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":325714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83771,14],"tags":[88640,91746,91744,91723,91748,81907,91745,91747,84092,81909],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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