JC Yaginuma will not get a bracelet, nor will he be recognized as the winner of the millionaire manufacturer, but he and James Carol will still divide the prize money. [Image: PokerGO.com]

Money but no hardware

A few days after the World Series of Poker, an inquiry was opened in a possible chip dumping during the head-up of the $ 1,500 millionaire manufacturer event, announced that both players would be paid, but no would be honored with a bracelet.

WSOP posted on social media late on Monday night WSOP posted on social media, “We have concluded that to maintain the integrity of the game and maintain the rules of our official WSOP tournament, there will be no winner for this year’s tournament and no bracelet will be given.” “The remaining award Pool will be divided between the last two players.”

Win Jesse Yaginuma’s fourth career WSOP Bracelet and first at a live event. The WSOP did not specify how the prize money would be “divided”, but the term would be an equal distribution. The first place of Yaginuma would have been $ 1,255,180 and James Carroll’s second prize would have been $ 1,012,320. If the prize money is divided evenly, now they will get every $ 1,133,750.

Head-up play looked suspicious

Wsop The investigation was the result of suspected game between Yaginuma and Carroll Once he put a surprise at the end of the millionaire manufacturer last Wednesday night. Carol took a 10-to-1 chip lead in the head-up competition and felt to play unusually poorly, while Yaginuma played almost completely to erase the huge deficit and win the tournament.

It is certainly not impossible to make such a big comeback in the poker, but it is unusual, especially without going to all again and again, some Yaginuma did not do.

May be deliberately indicating the strength of your hand

Poker fans and experts paid attention to the action, it is believed that Carol is deliberately indicating his rival’s strength to allow him to strategically lift and create strategic lifts and create folds.

The most vocal about alleged collusion and chip dumping was an ACR Pro Rob Kuhan, who posted screenshots on X:

Kuan believed that Carol would put a odd several at stake, if he had a weak hand or if he was strong, more than one (former: 22 million). Yaginuma could then do the right reads, promoting its rise in the bracelet.

There was another million on the line of Yaginuma

It is extremely unusual that there will be some such head-ups. In fact, according to the WSOP Rulebook, it may not be technically collusion, as it is defined as any agreement between two (2) or more participants, which are engaged in illegal or unethical acts against other participants. “

Since there were no other participants, it could not be complicit.

Yaginuma won a clubweight gold competition that will give him a $ 1M prize for winning the bracelet

However, he had allegedly done so, however, it was because Yaginuma won a clubweight gold competition, which would give him a $ 1m prize. If he won a bracelet in one of a select group of 2025 WSOP events, a millionaire manufacturer was one.

Thus, while Yaginuma rejected it, it is alleged that he and Carroll made a deal to win Yaginuma, claimed million dollars, and shared it with his opponent. To repeat, these are just speculation and will explain why the end of the tournament seemed so messy.

Clubwpt Gold Ambassador Dag Polek confirmed Pokernews at the end of last week that Clubwpt would give a $ 1M prize to Yaginuma regardless of the result of the WSOP investigation. Thus, while Yaginuma will not find his fourth bracelet and will not go to the archives as the winner of the millionaire manufacturer, both he and James Carroll will still be much rich than a week ago.