Justin Bonomo

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Justin Bonomo
Justin Bonomo (2018)
Justin Bonomo (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth September 30, 1985
place of birth United StatesUnited States Fairfax
Nickname
ZeeJustinPokerStars
place of residence CanadaCanada Vancouver
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 10,000,000
Total prize money $ 49,128,105
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 52
Best main event 64th ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 13
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 4th
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: June 3, 2020

Justin Bonomo (born September 30, 1985 in Fairfax , Virginia ) is a professional American poker player .

Bonomo is considered one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned more than $ 49 million in live poker tournaments , making him the second most successful poker player by tournament prize money after Bryn Kenney . Bonomo started playing online poker and has been playing live poker since 2009. His first major successes were winning the super high roller tournament of the European Poker Tour 2012 in Monte-Carlo and winning a bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 in Las Vegas . In 2018 Bonomo won the Super High Roller Bowls in Macau and Las Vegas as well as the Big One for One Drop the WSOP in 2018 , three of the four most expensive poker tournaments of the year and secured in the Heads-Up Championship one another bracelet .

As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Bonomo was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Bonomo grew up in his native Fairfax , a suburb of Washington, DC . He started Magic: The Gathering at the age of eight, and began to travel the United States and Europe at the age of twelve to compete in trading card game tournaments. He studied for a semester at the University of Maryland at College Park . Bonomo later hosted his own radio show on PokerRoad.com with Daniel Negreanu , among others . Bonomo is polyamorous . He is an ambassador for the charity project Raising for Effective Giving , which is based on the principles of effective altruism and was launched by the poker players Liv Boeree , Igor Kurganow and Philipp Gruissem . Bonomo lives in Vancouver .

Poker career

On-line

As Bonomo was 16 years old, he watched his friend Brock Parker at online poker and began to be interested in the game. Bonomo dealt with poker books and made a deposit of several hundred US dollars at online poker rooms under the nickname ZeeJustin . There, after initially playing cash games, he specialized in no-limit sit-and-gos and was able to live off his winnings. In February 2006 he was banned from the PokerStars and partypoker platforms because he had illegally played with up to six accounts at the same time. In addition, more than $ 100,000 of his balance in the online poker rooms was confiscated. Bonomo then apologized and donated part of his profits. At the beginning of June 2020, he played the Super High Roller Bowl Online on the partypoker platform , which with a buy-in of 102,000 US dollars - together with the Super High Roller of the World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars in September 2016 - is the most expensive online game to date. Poker tournament. Bonomo prevailed against 49 other players and secured a prize of just under 1.8 million US dollars.

live

Career

2005–2011: beginnings

Bonomo began participating in prestigious live tournaments at the age of 19 and was able to place himself in the money for the first time in January 2005 at his first major live tournament, the main event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) in the Bahamas . In mid-February 2005, Bonomo reached the final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event in Deauville , becoming the first teenager to play at a live televised poker table. When he reached the age of 21, he was allowed to participate in live tournaments in the United States from September 2006. He secured his first major win in December 2006 at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas , where he finished seventh and won more than $ 150,000 in prize money. In June 2007 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and ended up in the money at three events. His by far the highest prize money of around 150,000 US dollars he received for fourth place in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In late October 2007, Bonomo finished fifth in the Caesars Palace Classic Championship event for more than $ 160,000.

Bonomo at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in December 2008

He cashed twice at the 2008 WSOP and finished second behind Erick Lindgren in a mixed-limit Hold'em event for around $ 230,000 in prize money. At the end of April 2009 Bonomo won his first live tournament with the championship event of the WSOP circuit tournament in Caesars Palace and received a circuit ring as well as a prize of almost 230,000 US dollars. In May 2009 , he finished fifth in the US $ 40,000 anniversary tournament for the 40th edition of the World Series of Poker and received his highest cash prize of more than US $ 400,000. In the same tournament series, he cashed for around a month at the WSOP main event for the first time . In May 2011, Bonomo finished fifth in the WPT Super High Roller at the Bellagio for around $ 225,000. At the 2011 WSOP he reached a final table in the Limit 2-7 Triple Draw variant and came in second behind Lenny Martin for just under $ 120,000.

Overall, Bonomo had live tournament revenues of almost three million US dollars by the end of 2011.

2012–2017: First bracelet and successes as a super high roller

In April 2012, Bonomo won the EPT Super High Roller Event in Monte-Carlo with a prize money of 1.64 million euros . At the championship event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in late August 2013 in Hollywood , Florida , he took second place and again earned more than one million US dollars in prize money. At the 2014 WSOP , as in 2012, Bonomo came second in an event in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw for around $ 220,000. Four days later, he won his first bracelet at a tournament in Six Handed No Limit Hold'em as well as a $ 450,000 prize money. At the end of January 2015, he finished fourth in the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne for 800,000  Australian dollars , at that time the equivalent of around 630,000 US dollars. In February 2016 Bonomo won the Aria High Roller at the Aria Resort & Casino with a prize of just under 400,000 US dollars. In the same place he finished second behind Cary Katz in the Aria Super High Roller for more than 550,000 US dollars in early June 2016 . At the 2016 WSOP , Bonomo took third place in the championship events of the Six Handed No Limit Hold'em and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better variants for prize money of over US $ 400,000. He then finished second behind Brian Rast in the Poker Player's Championship for a further $ 800,000. At the beginning of November 2016, Bonomo finished second behind Yuan Li in the Super High Roller of the Asia Championship of Poker in Macau for the equivalent of more than 720,000 US dollars. In early December 2016, he sat at the final table of the WPT Main Event at the Bellagio and received just under $ 350,000 for fifth place. On December 30, 2016, Bonomo finished second in the Aria Super High Roller for $ 639,000. He also took second place in this tournament on February 4, 2017 and received 420,000 US dollars. In early April 2017, Bonomo finished second behind Jason Mercier in the high roller of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown , securing $ 556,800 in prize money. At the end of May 2017, Bonomo won the first Aria 10K and the Aria Super High Roller 18 within three days, and thus almost a million US dollars. Then he reached the most expensive event of the year, the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino with a buy-in of $ 300,000, the final table and finished the tournament in seventh place for $ 600,000 in prize money. In September 2017 Bonomo cashed in two events at the Poker Masters, which were held for the first time, and landed twelfth in the race for the Poker Masters Purple Jacket ™ with prize money of 391,500 US dollars .

Overall, Bonomo had live tournament revenues of around US $ 18 million by the end of 2017. He came third in the Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2016 ranking, behind David Peters and Fedor Holz . From April to November 2016 Bonomo played as part of the London Royals in the Global Poker League and made it to the playoffs with his team.

Since 2018: Two bracelets and a jump to number 1 on the All Time Money List

At the beginning of January 2018, Bonomo was runner-up behind Cary Katz in the PCA Super High Roller in the Bahamas for more than one million US dollars. A good two weeks later he won the high roller at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open in Hollywood, Florida, with a prize of over 550,000 US dollars. In March 2018, Bonomo prevailed against a field of 75 participants at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau and received a prize money equivalent to almost five million US dollars. At the EPT Monte-Carlo, Bonomo reached the final table of the € 100k Super High Roller and € 50k High Roller at the end of April 2018 and won both one-day € 25k High Rollers on May 1 and 3, 2018 for prize money of over 1.25 million euros. In late May 2018, Bonomo also won the Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas. For this he defeated 47 other players and received a prize of five million US dollars, which made him jump past Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Colman to third on the All Time Money List . Bonomo won the Heads-Up Championship at the 2018 WSOP . In return, he prevailed in seven duels and received his second bracelet in addition to the prize money of around 185,000 US dollars . In mid-July 2018, Bonomo also played the most expensive event on the WSOP tournament schedule and the most expensive tournament of the year with a buy-in of one million US dollars. At the Big One for One Drop he reached the final table and won the tournament heads-up against Fedor Holz . Bonomo received his third bracelet as a result of the triumph and placed first on the All Time Money List , which he held until August 2019, due to the victory bonus of ten million US dollars . This achievement was named Moment of the Year 2018 at the Global Poker Awards in early April 2019 .

Bonomo's live tournament revenue totaled just under $ 25.5 million in 2018, making it the most prize money of any poker player. With this sum, he set a new record for tournament income within one year and exceeded the previous record of 22.3 million US dollars, which Daniel Colman had won in 2014 , in mid-July . In the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2018 , Bonomo took fourth place at the end of the year.

At the beginning of March 2019 Bonomo won the opening tournament of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju-do , South Korea , which was played in No Limit Hold'em Short Deck Ante-Only , and secured a prize money equivalent to almost 600,000 US dollars. In August 2019, he prevailed at the Triton Series main event in London , which was played with a short deck, and received the grand prize of more than 3.2 million US dollars. In mid-November 2019, Bonomo finished eighth at the Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas, endowed with $ 510,000.

Prize money overview

Bonomo hit $ 10 million in live tournament prize money in early June 2016. In February 2018, its earnings exceeded $ 20 million. On July 17, 2018, he became the first poker player ever to reach a total prize pool of over 40 million US dollars and was then the most successful poker player worldwide until August 2019.

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2005 00.056,415 -
2006 00.264,895 -
2007 00.574,850 -
2008 00.627.572 1
2009 00.773.201 1
2010 00.179,696 -
2011 00.415.509 -
2012 02,705,213 1
2013 01,634,717 -
2014 00.759.201 1
2015 01,285,862 2
2016 04,228,455 2
2017 04,528,569 4th
2018 25,428,935 10
2019 05,665,016 3
2020 00,000.000 -
total 49.128.105 25th

Bracelet overview

Bonomo at the 2008 WSOP

Bonomo cashed 52 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2014 0.00.1500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 1587 00.449.980
2018 0.010,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship 0114 00.185.965
1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop - No-Limit Hold'em 0027 10,000,000

Style of play

Bonomo is considered an aggressive player who often raises poker hands again (so-called 3-bet ) and continues to play offensively as an aggressor before the flop even after this (so-called continuation bet , or C-bet ). His style of play is described as very disciplined, as Bonomo plays hands of different strengths similarly and is therefore almost impossible to read for the opponent.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Justin Bonomo Embraces Polyamory on YouTube October 23, 2015, accessed November 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Ambassadors on reg-charity.org, accessed on June 9, 2018 (English).
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  30. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 8 ($ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2018.
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  36. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 14 ($ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2018.
  37. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 15 ($ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2018.
  38. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em High-Roller (Event # 28)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2018.
  39. ↑ $ 300,000 Super High Roller Bowl Payouts on pokernews.com, accessed June 1, 2017.
  40. ↑ 2017 Poker Masters ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 4) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2018.
  41. ↑ 2017 Poker Masters ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 5) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2018.
  42. ↑ GPI rankings in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on June 9, 2018 (English).
  43. ↑ London Royals on the Global Poker League website, accessed May 13, 2016.
  44. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 98,700 + 1,300 # 1 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 9, 2018.
  45. ↑ 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller # 20) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 26, 2018.
  46. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl China (HK $ 2,000,000 + 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 22, 2018 (English).
  47. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Super High Roller # 7) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 3, 2018 (English).
  48. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed # 17) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 3, 2018 (English).
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  51. ↑ 2018 Super High Roller Bowl ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2018.
  52. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads Up Championship (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 9, 2018 (English).
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personal data
SURNAME Bonomo, Justin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ZeeJustin (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Fairfax , Virginia , United States