‘F**k You Guys!’: Major Controversy Erupts Over Questionable But Costly Fold at WSOP

James Caputo, for the second straight day within the WSOP Paradise Tremendous Primary Occasion, discovered himself a part of an argument in one of many greatest tournaments in poker historical past.

The poker participant performed a wild hand towards vlogger Ryan Depaulo and Andre Moreira on Day 2b of the $25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match within the Bahamas. About 10 minutes lapsed earlier than the hand concluded, thanks largely to the gamers participating in a heated argument and the ground supervisor being referred to as over to supply a ruling.

A bit of backstory first earlier than we get into the hand that may have poker followers debating the ruling: Caputo, who has subsequent to no recorded reside match cashes, made a preflop mistake on Sunday in how he raised that inadvertently allowed David Benyamine to double-up towards one other participant. That hand pales as compared on the controversy scale to the incident Caputo discovered himself in on Monday.

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Stage 15 (25,000/50,000) had begun within the juiciest occasion of the WSOP Paradise schedule. PokerNews reporter Connor Richards noticed some commotion over at Desk 124, and he got here to discover a dispute had ensued involving Caputo, Depaulo, and Moreira concerning the hand they have been taking part in.

Moreira opened to 100,000, and Depaulo referred to as from the following seat earlier than Caputo three-bet to 200,000 behind him. Moreira referred to as, and Depaulo back-shoved for 1,175,000. Caputo referred to as, and Moreira then re-shoved for over 3,000,000.

That is the place issues acquired a bit loopy. Caputo turned over A♦5♦ and stated one thing to the impact of,”I’m all in towards him (Depaulo) however not him (Moreira).” The supplier interpreted this as a verbal fold and mucked his hand, leaving Moreira and Depaulo to respectively desk J♣J♠ and Ok♣Ok♠.

A confused Caputo then argued that his hand ought to nonetheless be alive and that he would’ve referred to as. Depaulo informed him he had folded, however tablemate Martin Zamani got here to Caputo’s protection and stated he by no means verbally folded.

“Do not hearken to him (Zamani), he is biased,” Depaulo informed the ground.

“How am I biased?” replied Zamani. “Do you wanna wager on it?”

“He stated, ‘I am not calling that.'”

“Dude, he referred to as ace-deuce earlier. You recognize he wasn’t making an attempt to fold.”

A number of f-bombs flew, they usually solely picked up when the ground informed Caputo that he must give up 1,175,000 and would not even get to see a flop. Lastly, a board was run, and it got here out as you most likely guessed, giving Depaulo prime set, which might have misplaced the hand as a result of the unpaired board confirmed three diamonds, a flush for Caputo if his hand hadn’t been mucked.

Depaulo, nonetheless, scooped the huge pot, and it was the second day in a row Caputo’s unintentional actions allowed one other participant to win a giant hand.

“F*** YOU GUYS!” Caputo screamed earlier than slamming a stack of round $50,000 money on the desk.

“I am sorry,” stated Depaulo. “It sucks for you that you simply folded.”

“I did not fold,” Caputo replied. “Why do not we go to the video tape.”

Depaulo, on his second bullet because of the break up buy of Alan Keating and Daniel Negreanu, was as much as round 70 large blinds on the time. Moreira took a large hit and was down to twenty large blinds after shedding with pocket jacks. Caputo, regardless of the unlucky scenario, was nonetheless in good condition with 60 large blinds.

The WSOP Paradise Tremendous Primary Occasion smashed its $60 million assure by greater than $12 million with 2,891 entrants within the area by the point registration closed on Monday. A prize pool hadn’t but been launched by the point this text was printed. Alex Livingston, Faraz Jaka, and Santhosh Suvarna have been amongst a few of the large stacks.

Poker followers can catch all of the motion all through the match proper right here at PokerNews.

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 World Poker Awards for his writing.