You guys are vastly underestimating how final tables are played. The chip leader can and does control the order of knockouts if he can. Standard final table play is acquiring that power and knowing how to take advantage of it. Sometimes the cards break against you but basically every payout jump is a huge bubble that can and does get exploited by a good chip leader. I don’t know the specifics of who controlled this final table and exactly when they got control but getting to a situation where these two would end up heads up, opposed to any other two is very possible to manipulate, and doesn’t require “cheating.” And gets easier with every elimanted player. 3 handed a chip leader should attack 2nd place and lay down to the short stack as much as possible. U win first with like 5 players left if u can. U try to choose who u go heads up with. If these two friends and the only ones who could split that money safely and not get screwed, it puts the whole final table play in question imo. Maybe it didn’t work like that here, but it def can. Real players may have been screwed and this deal could’ve been set up before heads up play, and then finalized when they did get heads up. That’s not impossible at all. And yeah anyone stupid to not take the extra mill if they can without defrauding the WSOP. This is the fkn WSOP. You defraud it… gtfo out of poker
There may have been several players trying to take that dude to heads up play with them, knowing he had that ticket, thereby almost guaranteeing him second. Should never been allowed for wpt to make that kind of promotion on WSOP. Laws were def broken. Sorry shady ass scammers. Anyone who make that deal with all those cameras and try to defraud anyone is fuckin stupid. It’s not as easy as it sounds and look how stupid u look in front of whole world. Huge difference between chopping the money and playing for the bracelet and dumping the bracelet to defraud a regulated contest being fkn filmed. lol at anyone who really wants to be these two dudes right now. I hope they get arrested
And super lol at any moron who says they did nothing wrong. Yeah ur a moron. You know who knows they were doing something wrong? At the very least the two dudes who played heads up… they didn’t just openly dump and celebrate the extra million! No no no, they knew they had to try to play it off. lol at chip leader never getting shorty allin… gtfo here. They defrauded everyone and knew they were doing it.
