When Motoki Jinno had his hand mucked unfairly, as he saw it, he went on tilt. Among his victims, Jinno KO’d Alex Foxen before self-destructing. Hustler Casino Live co-founder Ryan Feldman shared the bizarre twists and turns of the story on Twitter/X:
“Playing the WSOP $50K Japanese guy who doesn’t speak much English gets in a hand where he raises turn on T654 Opponent says all in, dealer says all in, puts all in chip in front of player.
“Time runs, dealer looking at Japanese guy the whole time, spreads his time bank chips to see how many he has, tells him he’s on his last time bank, time runs to zero, dealer grabs his time bank chips, then tries to grab his cards.
“Japanese guy doesn’t understand, says no no no, “I raised”, dealer explains he said all in and his time ran out.
“Floor comes over, makes a ruling, says he has to kill his hand”
“Floor comes over, makes a ruling, says he has to kill his hand, opponent says omg thank god I got lucky (had QQ), Japanese guy forcefully grabs his cards from the much, shows 66, but pot awarded to opponent.
“After that, Japanese guy VPIPs 100%,
- rejams an Alex Foxen shove with J6, flop J66 to bust Foxen,
- opens and calls 3b vs me with 56,
- open jams A57 vs my 77, wins with running straight, then loses some pots, then
- open jams 82o for 35bb vs my AA to bust
“Never seen anything like that in a high roller.”
Poker Twitter/X wasn’t very impressed with the decision:
– “Seems like a bad ruling against a rec who clearly wasn’t folding and clearly didn’t understand what was happening.” –Joseph Cheong
– “This is actually ridiculous. While I understand that the rules are there for a reason, when there is a language barrier, some grace should be used—especially in a $50k!” –Adam Levy
– “It would be cool if a floor person would make a good decision for once. Just horrendous killing that guy’s hand.” Matthew Waxman
Steve O’Dwyer also sided with those who felt the decision was atrocious, tweeting:
Floor person should be fired for killing this guy’s hand, absolutely fucking disgraceful ruling. The all in player didn’t move any chips into the pot and they kill this guy’s hand? This would never ever ever happen at Triton or an EPT.
— steveodwyer (@steveodwyer) July 10, 2025
It wasn’t all bad news for the Japanese contingent in Vegas for the World Series. The end-of-day 1 leader was Masashi Oya, with close to 2million chips, closely followed by Martin Kabrhel in 4th spot.
Others to make it through include WSOP Player of the Year leader Shaun Deeb, Daniel Negreanu and both the Foxens (players can fire two bullets – Jinno chose not to but his “tiltfire” victim Alex Foxen did).
Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
1 | Masashi Oya | Japan | 1,956,000 |
2 | Viktor Ustimov | Russia | 1,900,000 |
3 | Brek Schutten | USA | 1,762,000 |
4 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Rep. | 1,514,000 |
5 | Sam Soverel | USA | 1,504,000 |
6 | Christopher Nguyen | Germany | 1,415,000 |
7 | Alex Kulev | Bulgaria | 1,361,000 |
8 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 1,359,000 |
9 | Andrew Pacheco | USA | 1,349,000 |
10 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 1,340,000 |
Meanwhile, in breaking news, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed today that missing 27-year-old, Japanese poker player Yuto Moriyasu has been located. As we reported earlier this week, Moriyasu was reported missing by concerned family and friends. Police have not yet provided further information about their investigation.
