Without further ado, let's jump straight into Poker Masters tournament number 2, which was an NLH format and had a buy-in of $10,100. It brought in a total of 100 entries and a prizepool of a million dollars.
The top 6 players advanced to the final day and were led by Jeremy Becker. Jeremy also made it to the final heads-up where Michael Moncek sat against him. Jeremy held a stack of just 2,400,000 against Moncek with a stack as high as 10,100,000. Despite losing chips at first, Jeremy was able to turn the hand around and become the winner of this tournament. He took home his first PokerGO Tour trophy, a career-high $255,000 payday, and 255 leaderboard points to boot.
Place | Name | Country | Payouts | PGT Points |
1st | Jeremy Becker | United States | $255,000 | 255 |
2nd | Michael Moncek | United States | $165,000 | 165 |
3rd | Sean Winter | United States | $115,000 | 115 |
4th | Daniel Sepiol | United States | $90,000 | 90 |
5th | Nicholas Seward | United States | $65,000 | 65 |
6th | Ren Lin | China | $50,000 | 50 |
Jeremy Ausmus only second again
The third tournament of the Poker Masters series was once again a $10,000 NLH, this time with 94 entries and a prizepool of $940,000. 7 players made the final table here and Justin Zaki led the way.
Justin made it all the way to the final heads-up where he was up against Jeremy Ausmus. Justin had a 4:1 chip advantage at the start of heads-up play, so there was nothing stopping him from becoming the winner. Jeremy Ausmus has been picking up second and third place finishes this year, and he notched one second place finish in this tournament as well. The winner was Justin Zaki, for whom this is the second PGT trophy. He added $244,400 and 244 points to his leaderboard, at the end of which the player with the most points will receive a custom-made purple jacket, a $25,000 PGT Passport and a $10,000 NAPT Gold Pass.
Place | Name | Country | Payouts | PGT Points |
1st | Justin Zaki | United States | $244,400 | 244 |
2nd | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $155,100 | 155 |
3rd | Michael Brinkenhoff | United States | $112,800 | 113 |
4th | Victoria Livschitz | United States | $84,600 | 85 |
5th | Cary Katz | United States | $65,800 | 66 |
6th | Jim Collopy | United States | $47,000 | 47 |
7th | Ren Lin | China | $37,600 | 38 |
Tonight we will know the fourth champion
Later tonight, we'll meet the fourth Poker Masters champion. With a total of 8 NLH tournaments to come, the series is currently in its halfway point. The fourth tournament also has a buy-in of $10,100 and this time brought only 81 entries, making the prizepool $810,000.
A $226,800 prize and 227 points await the winner here. The top 7 players in today's final day will battle it out for that amount. They are led by Jonathan Little with a stack of 2,585,000. However, there is also Isaac Haxton with a stack of 1,820,000.
Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
1 | Wayne Nowak | United States | 440,000 |
2 | Clemen Deng | United States | 945,000 |
3 | Jonathan Little | United States | 2,585,000 |
4 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 1,820,000 |
5 | Sam Soverel | United States | 1,405,000 |
6 | Jim Collopy | United States | 2,150,000 |
7 | Harvey Castro | United States | 780,000 |
How does it look in the current leaderboard?
Rank | Player | Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
1st | Jeremy Becker | 255 | 1 | 1 | $255,000 |
2nd | Justin Zaki | 244 | 1 | 1 | $190,475 |
3rd | Spencer Champlin | 190 | 1 | 1 | $165,000 |
4th | Michael Moncek | 165 | 0 | 1 | $115,000 |
5th | Jeremy Ausmus | 155 | 0 | 1 | $112,050 |
Source - PGT.com, Poker central