Shannon Shorr and Nick Schulman are the winners of the primary two occasions of the PokerGO Tour’s closing sequence of their season, which ends with a $1 Million Championship Freeroll Jan. 10.
Nick Schulman continues crushing
After a implausible 2024, Schulman started 2025 by profitable the primary occasion within the Final Probability sequence, turning $10,100 into $283,050. The person is coming off a World Collection of Bracelet within the $5,300 Nearer occasion per week earlier than Christmas within the Bahamas ($145,000) — the second bracelet of the 12 months after wining the $25,000 Excessive Curler occasion in June for $1,667,842.
The heads-up battle with Joao Simao took practically two hours and noticed Schulman climb again from a five-to-one chip deficit whereas additionally being all the way down to relying on a king on the river to make a straight, which was “the primary of many doubles throughout heads-up play.”
Schulman, who turned 40 in September, shall be eligible for the Poker Corridor of Fame in 2025 for the primary time. An entertaining poker commentator in addition to a high-stakes professional, Schulman will most actually be thought-about for induction, becoming a member of an extended listing of gamers that needs to be thought-about for the consideration.
The occasion introduced in 111 entries and the highest 16 received not less than $16,650.
Shannon Shorr stacks one other
Shorr received his third PGT title within the second occasion of the sequence, one other $10,100 no-limit maintain’em contest, including one other $297,500 to his stack, which pushed his lifetime match winnings up over the $14 million mark, in line with the Hendon Mob. It’s his largest match money since he completed second in a $2,000 WSOP bracelet occasion in 2005.
It’s simply one other bead in a strand of six-figure cashes that’s 38 lengthy. Amazingly, the long-time professional has by no means had a tourney money value not less than $1 million.
Shorr had one other good rating in early December when he received $272,600 for taking third within the $25,000 Excessive Curler Occasion on the Seminole Arduous Rock Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open. Brandon Wilson received that one for $602,900. Since then, Shorr, cashed six instances.
The occasion introduced in 119 to the PokerGO studios on the Aria. The highest 17 have been paid not less than $17,850.
