Just watched the entire last hand and following award ceremony with Cynn and Miles - had to have been the most subdued winner ever. Cynn starts with an apology to Miles for the slowroll then barely even smiles afterward. I know he was tired, but your life just changed forever - enjoy a little.

So who had a terrible series? Any big ohfers?

Dnegs punted off ~$1.4M-ish.

But how much did he win?

Yup besides him

Money means nothing to him. He plays for the thrill of ****ing victory and winning custom jewelry.

a) So basically everyone is chopping at the big FTs of these things right? Makes the action a lot less exciting to know that, which of course is why they don't reveal it.

b) Does it seem a little shady to find out (as a backer) that your horse chopped after they win? If they lose do they say anything?

Negreanu said on his vlog that he only had 40% of his One Drop action. He had a nice finish in the SHRB that probably covered a lot of his WSOP.

Negreanu won 2.7 million a day before the series started, plus he has you tube and poker stars revenue lol.

How did the One Drop chop work? They chopped the first 8 million and played for the 2nd 8 million - how does JB get 8.8 million from that? Is that after tax?

For me, nothing can top how cool Peter Eastgate was on the last hand:

and demidov didnt even get a penny from his winnings.what a shame

Cynn didn’t seem like the most outwardly emotional guy to begin with (though of course I don’t know). Add in a somewhat strange final hand and the exhaustion and the reaction isn’t that surprising.

One would presume that the possibility of making a deal is covered in the agreement, or discussed during the event, and that the backer would be in favor of making the deal and locking in the profit to at least the same extent that the player is.

But if the player secretly makes a deal that wins him $X and then goes out in the tournament so his official payout is less, and keeps the deal quiet from the backer? Yeah, that’s pretty clearly shady if not legally fraudulent.

If you have a full backer and a makeup deal then obviously it’s between you and your backer to discuss whether to take any deals.

When selling pieces to an individual event, in my experience I let anyone that takes a piece know that I will decide about any deals and they will have to trust me to do that. It is not feasible to get approval from multiple people to make a deal at the wsop since they don’t help facilitate anything. You also have to get heads up (or maybe 3 handed) with people you completely trust which isn’t likely except maybe in a high roller like here.

It's not so much about approval as it would be nice to be told the second the chop deal is made. So you know where you stand and there's less chance of angle shooting. When you only find out about the chop after your horse wins, it just doesn't sit 100% well.

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If you had a piece of Fedor instead it would be a pleasant surprise

What's the story there?

each got 6 million
chip chopped 2 million. bonomo had ~38% of the chips which is 760k
played for other 2 million

When they got to heads up there was $4m to play for - the difference between first ($10m) and second ($6m). So they chopped $2m (evidently roughly $1.3m for Fedor and $700k for Justin, as Fedor had the chip lead at the start of HU). They then played on for the extra $2m which Bonomo won

His backer filed bankruptcy, and was "forced" to keep all they money? I don't understand...

So Demidov gave him the full amount, and backer was just like "Ya, I'm not giving you any back"?
Just keep 20, and give him 80?

It was really messedup. If i personally was staked in a poker tourney regardless of the buy in i would receive the money from the casino and then give the agreed cut to the backer. if he has personal problems or whatever thats his problem. Never in a million years i will hand over the full amount to the backer and have him give me the money i earned.

What i heard is Demidov ws threatened at the time to give it up and he got scared and hoped for the best and he got screwed at the end. Real sad situation

Thanks. Man that's messed up.

One thing Cynn and Eastgate had in common that might explain their subdued reaction: this was the first year since Eastgate's win in '08 that the last hand of the Main Event wasn't all-in preflop. So there was no anticipation and sweating of a river card, the opponent was already drawing dead.

In Russia, backing means backer has option to just put his dic on your back instead of paying. Completely standard

Dude sucked out on me on river to stay alive on Day 2 that Year anyway