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Justin Bonomo Dominates to Win 2018 WSOP $10k Heads-Up Championship

Justin Bonomo has already been on an epic run in 2018 and that run has continued at the 2018 World Series of Poker. On Friday, he made the finals of the $10k Heads-Up NL Hold’em Championship, ultimately defeating Jason McConnon heads-up for his second career bracelet and $185,965.

This win is Bonomo’s fifth live tournament victory in two weeks and his eights of the year. At this rate, he will surpass Dan Colman’s single-season record for most money won.

Justin Bonomo Pulls Off Epic Comeback to Make Heads-Up Finals

After two days of play, the Final Four was reached in the $10k Heads-Up NL Championship. Justin Bonomo was the only bracelet winner to make the Final Four. Joining him were Juan Pardo Dominguez, Martjin Gerrits, and Jason McConnon.

Bonomo’s Final Four match was against Martjin Gerrits and for a time it appeared that Bonomo’s run would end with a fourth-place finish. After a back and forth matchup, Gerrits managed a massive double up when he hit eights-full against jacks-up for Bonomo. This left Bonomo with about 11 big blinds.

He slid event further but managed to find a double when his pocket tens held against 9d-2d pf Gerrits. From there, Bonomo went on a blessed run that saw him double twice more. First, he doubled with Ah-8s against Qd-5d for Gerrits and then he managed a third double with pocket kings against pocket threes.

Gerrits slid further and eventually shoved with 10h-8s and Bonomo looked him up with Jc-8c. Bonomo proceeded to flop the nut straight with a flush draw and that proved enough to move him to the final round.

In the other heads-up match, Juan Pardo Dominguez fell in just 18 hands to Jason McConnon. McConnon led the whole way and ultimately knocked out Dominguez when he rivered a flush to crack Dominguez’s set of aces.

Bonomo Dominates the Finals to Win His Second Career Bracelet

The finals saw Bonomo take on McConnon and the majority of the poker world had their money on Bonomo.

McConnon led for a while. Ok, he led for about five hands. Afterward, Bonomo pulled into the lead and never trailed. He steadily applied pressure and whittled McConnon’s stack down to about 13 big blinds.

Finally, McConnon shoved with Qs-9d and Bonomo called with pocket fours. The fours held and Justin Bonomo won his second career WSOP bracelet.

After his win, Bonomo tweeted a pretty startling fact:

Just won the WSoP $10k HU!

I’ve been informed that with the 7 rounds I won in this tournament, on top of winning my last 8 MTT HU battles, I’ve now won 15 consecutive live poker HU matches 😮😮😮

1 / 32,768 odds for a coin flip to be heads 15x in a row!

— Justin Bonomo (@JustinBonomo) June 9, 2018

In addition to his bracelet, Bonomo won $185,965 in prize money

Bonomo Continues to Roll in 2018

To say that Justin Bonomo is having a sick year in 2018 is beyond an understatement. I think most of us are feeling the same as Thomas Keeling, aka SrslySirius:

Holy shit. Sickest run ever?

— Thomas Keeling (@SrslySirius) June 9, 2018

So far in 2018, Justin Bonomo has the following stats:

Live Earnings – $14.75 million
Wins – 9
Seven Figure Wins – 3
Wins at ARIA – 4

Including his win on Friday, Bonomo now has $32.78 million in career earnings. That’s third on Poker’s All Time Money List. Only Daniel Negreanu and Erik Seidel have more in career earnings.

Bonomo only needs $1.91 million to move past Seidel into second. He needs $6.95 million to move past Negreanu for the top spot. For many players, this would be a “future” goal. However, at the pace that Bonomo’s currently on, he should easily overtake Seidel sometime in 2018 and Negreanu no later than next year.

Of course, that’s assuming he doesn’t bink the Big One for One Drop or the 2018 WSOP Main Event. Either one would bump him over $40 million and put him in the top spot.

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