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
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 Day | Chips | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1d | – | – |
| 2d | 272,500 | 311/2,068 |
| 3 | 823,000 | 141/1,524 |
| 4 | 445,000 | 387/464 |
| 5 | 5,430,000 | 37/160 |
| 6 | 13,300,000 | 19/59 |
| 7 | 18,400,000 | 13/18 |
| 8 | 26,700,000 | 7/9 |
Click on the name for an in-depth profile of each final table player:
2024 WSOP Main Event Final Table Seating
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boris Angelov | Bulgaria | 52,900,000 | 33 |
| 2 | Malo Latinois | France | 25,500,000 | 16 |
| 3 | Brian Kim | United States | 94,600,000 | 59 |
| 4 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | 94,200,000 | 59 |
| 5 | Joe Serock | United States | 83,600,000 | 52 |
| 6 | Jordan Griff | United States | 143,700,000 | 90 |
| 7 | Jonathan Tamayo | United States | 26,700,000 | 17 |
| 8 | Andres Gonzalez | Spain | 18,300,000 | 11 |
| 9 | Jason Sagle | Canada | 67,300,000 | 42 |
2024 WSOP Main Event Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 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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