Jonathan Little Among New Poker Masters Champions

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We've already introduced you to the three winning names in the ongoing Poker Masters series. However, the series is still going on, with a total of 8 NLH tournaments taking place at the PokerGO studios in Las Vegas. With another pair of tournaments behind us, we have new champions.

Justin Zaki and Jeremy Becker are the next Poker Masters championsJustin Zaki and Jeremy Becker are the next Poker Masters champions

Event number 4 had a buy-in of $10,100 and brought 81 entries, making the prizepool $810,000. There was $226,800 waiting for the winner and 7 players battled it out for that amount in the final table. They were led by Jonathan Little. Jonathan knocked out every one of his opponents in the finals to take home his third career PGT trophy and $226,800. Jonathan's live tournament winnings have now exceeded $9.2 million.

Place Name Country Payouts PGT Points
1st Jonathan Little United States $226,800 227
2nd Harvey Castro United States $145,800 146
3rd Jim Collopy United States $105,300 105
4th Sam Soverel United States $76,950 77
5th Wayne Nowak United States $56,700 57
6th Isaac Haxton United States $40,500 41
7th Clemen Deng United States $32,400 32


Youngest Winner

Let's move on to tournament number 5, which also had a buy-in of $10,100. This one brought 75 entries and a prizepool of $750,000. There was a $217,500 prize awaiting the winner here and 5 players advanced to the finals for that amount. They were led by Filipp Khavin.

With the second biggest stack here was David Chen, who ended up winning this tournament. At the age of 21, David became the youngest champion in the history of PGT events.

Place Name Country Payouts PGT Points
1st David Chen United States $217,500 218
2nd Jim Collopy United States $142,500 143
3rd Chino Rheem United States $101,250 101
4th Filipp Khavin United States $71,250 71
5th Sam Laskowitz United States $52,500 53

David defeated Jim Collopy in heads-up play, his third final table in a row. Jim first finished sixth, then third, and now finished second. With these wins, Jim Collopy moved into first place in the leaderboard for the purple jacket.

Rank Player Points Wins Cashes Winnings
1st Jim Collopy 295 0 3 $294,800
2nd Jeremy Becker 285 1 2 $285,000
3rd Justin Zaki 244 1 1 $244,400
4th Jonathan Little 227 1 1 $226,800
5th David Chen 218 1 1 $217,500
6th Spencer Champlin 190 1 2 $190,475
7th Jeremy Ausmus 178 0 2 $177,600
8th Michael Moncek 165 0 1 $165,000
9th Harvey Castro 146 0 1 $145,800
10th Nicholas Seward 122 0 4 $143,750

Today we will recognize the sixth winner

The sixth tournament of the Poker Masters series got underway last night, and it now offers a buy-in of $15,100. The tournament brought in 84 entries, making the prizepool worth $1,260,000. Twelve players were able to make it to the ITM here, and a $352,800 prize awaits the winner.

7 players made it to the final day and they are led by Isaac Haxton with a stack of up to 3,060,000. At the other end is Nick Schulman with a stack of just 450,000. All players already have at least $50,400 in the bag.

Seat Player Country Chip Count
1 Jim Collopy United States 1,965,000
2 Aram Zobian United States 900,000
3 Nick Schulman United States 450,000
4 Isaac Haxton United States 3,060,000
5 Sean Winter United States 740,000
6 Jeremy Becker United States 1,065,000
7 Dylan Linde United States 2,320,000


Source - PGT.com, Poker central