Each year, the PokerGO Tour (PGT) brings us a variety of tournaments in which players accumulate points towards the year-end point standings. The most recent opportunity to earn points was during the recently concluded PGT Last Chance, which was followed by the $1,000,000 PGT Championship freeroll.

The 40 players with the most points were able to advance to this freeroll, and were joined by 10 more players who won the Dream Seat. The winner of the leaderboard with the most points became the 2024 PGT Player of the Year, and that was Jeremy Ausmus, who racked up 2,966 points throughout the year. He earned $5,991,016 in PGT tournaments, winning one tournament and taking home money from 26 tournaments. Jeremy took home the golden plate as a reward for winning the 2024 PGT Player of the Year title, and he also earned the biggest stack in the million-dollar freeroll.

In second place behind Ausmus was Daniel Negreanu, who earned 2,054 points. He achieved these thanks to three PGT tournament wins, 21 cashes and earned a total of $2,399,106. Third place went to Seth Davies, who earned 1,855 points. Seth won 3 tournaments, made 9 cashouts and earned $5,794,660.

PGT Championship

After the PGT Player of the Year 2024 award was handed out, all eyes were on the PGT Championship freeroll with a prize pool of $1,000,000, where prize money awaited the top 6 players. The winner was eligible for a total prize of $500,000, which was made up of a cash prize of $150,000 and a PGT Passport worth $350,000.

Just before the final day, Alex Foxen was eliminated, finishing in 8th place, and right behind him was his wife Kristen, who was eliminated as well, finishing in 7th place. After her elimination, the top 6 players packed up their stacks and moved on to the final day.

Dylan Weisman started the final table as the chipleader, with a stack as high as 3,180,000. Jeremy Ausmus started with the smallest chip stack with a stack of 880,000. All players here had already secured a minimum prize of $40,000, which was split between $10,000 and a $30,000 PGT Passport.

This one went to Jim Collopy in the end, followed by Chris Hunichen who was eliminated. Fourth place went to original chipleader Dylan Weisman and third place went to Calvin Anderson. After his elimination, play moved to heads-up play.

Nick Schulman and Jeremy Ausmus, who was the chipleader, sat opposite each other in heads-up play. Jeremy handled Nick handily and took home the PGT Championship freeroll trophy in addition to the PGT Player of the Year 2024 title. He earned the aforementioned $500,000 first place prize. Nick Schulman was awarded $200,000 for his second place prize, which was made up of $60,000 and a PGT Passport worth $140,000.

Source - PGT