Female poker player Catherine “Catrific” Valdes bought into a $400 WSOP Circuit Evemt at Bally’s but was somehow seated in the $1,700 main event. The floor staff realized the mistake a couple hours after she had already been playing and had amassed a 100k chip stack from the original 30k stack and even knocked out another player.
When the floor staff asked her what tournament she bought into, she admitted it was the $400 tournament and that she realized “after some time” that she was in the wrong tournament but didn’t know what to do, so she kept quiet.
She then went on to make a YouTube video that has since been deleted stating that she’s “new” to poker and didn’t realize the complexity of the mistake, but then changed direction and started complaining about how she felt like she was a victim because the floor staff wasn’t nice to her. Lmao.
Once she posted the YouTube video, it got the attention of some well known pros who roasted her and called her out on her bullshit lies.
She eventually made her twitter account private, and has since deleted the YouTube video.
Some Key things in the video.
- She bought into the $400 tournament that started at 4pm. The $400 was a 15k starting stack and she immediately thought something was strange when she was given 30k. She also thought it was strange the blinds were at 250/500 already. She asked the dealer if the 30k starting stack was right and he said yes.
- It wasn’t until hours later that she realized the mistake that she was in the main, because she looked at the tournament clock
- She texted a friend (not named) who is in poker and asked what she should do. They told her to continue to play and if she cashed, they’d deduct the $1.3k she didn’t pay from her winnings (LOL)
- She stated that after being kicked out of the main, the floor staff said she could still sit down in the original tournament she bought into but she decided against it because the blinds were too big. I assume she got her $400 BI back.
The some other facts started to come out.
Apparently her boyfriend, who has not been named afaik, had busted from the exact seat she was put in prior to a break, she had to of known her boyfriend was in the main. This was talked about immediately after she had sat down.
Pro Jesse Cohen was at her table and posted this.
Tons of people are discussing this on twitter, and most are being pretty harsh (rightfully so IMO)
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1112480159003639808