It was a becoming ending to the 2024 PokerGO Tour season for Jeremy Ausmus, who received the PGT Championship $1 million freeroll on Saturday, sooner or later after formally securing the PGT Participant of the Yr award.
The 2-day event on the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas paid its champion $500,000. Nick Schulman, a possible Poker Corridor of Fame inductee this summer time, as is Ausmus, completed in second place out of fifty gamers and acquired $200,000.
Ausmus Runs Over Remaining Desk
Solely six gamers had been paid within the freeroll, whereas the remaining went residence empty-handed. Day 1 ended on Friday after Kristen Foxen was eradicated in seventh place on the bubble.
The ultimate desk started Saturday afternoon with Dylan Weisman holding a large chip lead. Schulman and Ausmus, oddly sufficient, had been the 2 shortest stacks when play began, however that might all change rapidly on Day 2.
PGT Championship Remaining Desk Outcomes
Jim Collopy was the primary to go on the closing desk (sixth place for $40,000), adopted by Chris Hunichen (fifth place for $60,000), after which Weisman misplaced his stack in fourth place for $80,000.
Calvin Anderson would then transfer his small stack all in with Jâ™ 5♣, however he’d run into the Okayâ™ Okay♦ Ausmus had within the massive blind. The favourite held up, sending Anderson residence in third place for $120,000.
That left a heads-up match between Ausmus, who had a large chip lead, and Schulman. The match did not final lengthy due to a bluff try that went unhealthy. On a board of J♠9♦7♦2♣7♣, Schulman went all in with a missed gutshot straight draw — 8♣5♠. Ausmus seemed him up with Okay♦9♣ to complete off the event and win $500,000. He now has over $23.8 million in dwell event cashes, in line with The Hendon Mob.
The win was massive for Ausmus in additional than only one approach, and it occurred a day after it was introduced that he’d earned the 2024 PGT Participant of the Yr award. Ausmus, a six-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner will probably be in direct competitors with Schulman, and Scott Seiver, this coming summer time for the Poker Corridor of Fame.
Schulman and Seiver flip 40 this 12 months to develop into eligible for the primary time, whereas Ausmus, who’s 45, was nominated final 12 months. Patrik Antonius, nonetheless, was voted in by the residing members of the Poker Corridor of Fame.
The 2024 PokerGO Tour season has formally ended, however the brand new season will kickoff Jan. 20 in Las Vegas with the five-event PGT Kickoff Sequence.
Jeremy Ausmus Wins the 2024 PGT Participant of the Yr Award
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