CPTV Video Spotlight -- Meet 2016 WSOP November Niner Gordon Vayo27-Year-Old Poker Pro Enters The Final Table In Third Chip Position |
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Gordon Vayo is 27-years-old. He pronounces his last name “Vey-oh” and is a longtime poker pro who was born in Bloomington, Illinois but now calls San Francisco, California home. Vayo never went to college, having picked up poker as a hobby that was earning him a living before even graduating high school. Now Vayo is guaranteed to win at least $1 million dollars as one of the final nine players in the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event.
Coming into the final table in third chip position with 49,375,000 he has a great shot at becoming the next world champion, capturing the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $8,000,000.
Vayo spends much of his time as a poker pro playing pot-limit Omaha cash games, but has still found time to cash for $974,359 in live poker tournaments, with 80 career cashes and two titles to his name.
Vayo’s biggest score, prior to his deep run in the main event this year, came when he finished runner-up in a 2014 WSOP $3,000 no-limit hold’em six-max event for $314,535. he also played extensively online under the screen name “holla@yoboy.”
Like anybody who makes the main event final table Vayo ran pretty well in a few big pots. Most notably in the following hand. Michael Niwinski raised to 350,000 and Jonas Lauck three-bet to 875,000 from the button. Vayo went all in for 4,755,000 from the big blind with the A
K
and it folded to Lauck, who instantly called with the AA
.
The board ran out Q103J
9 to give Vayo the broadway straight and the pot, increasing his stack to over 10 million. Lauck was left with only six big blinds and was eliminated shortly after in 37th place ($174,826).
That key hand kept Vayo alive late on day 6 of the world’s greatest poker tournament, and from there he never looked back. Card Player TV caught up with Vayo just minutes after he made the final table to talk to him about his background in poker and his thoughts about his chances of coming out on top this fall. He also spoke about the other players at the final table, several of whom are his friends.
“Cliff [Josephy], “Bax”, was my first ever backer for online poker, so we go way back," admitted Vayo. “Jerry [Wong] and I go back a long way, Griffin [Benger] and I have been playing online a long time together. Everyone else seems really nice. It’s a great final table, but it’s also a really good group of people.”
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