Ausmus Celebrates Winning PokerGO Player of the Year Award by Scooping $1 Million Championship
It’s a storybook ending to a storybook year for Jeremy Ausmus, who pulled an exacta off this weekend in Las Vegas. A day after he was honored for winning the PokerGO Tour’s 2024 Player of the Year, he took down its $1 Million Championship invitational freeroll for $150,000 in prize money and a $350,000 PPT […]
It’s a storybook ending to a storybook year for Jeremy Ausmus, who pulled an exacta off this weekend in Las Vegas. A day after he was honored for winning the PokerGO Tour’s 2024 Player of the Year, he took down its $1 Million Championship invitational freeroll for $150,000 in prize money and a $350,000 PPT passport.
“Storybook ending for me as I won both the PGT POY and the PGT Championship,” Ausmus wrote on Twitter. “I can’t thank the PGT enough for everything. They continue to have one of the absolute best products in poker (and staff) all while giving a lot back to the players. I’m incredibly fortunate to be able to play in the studio all year long and I look forward to more of it in the coming year.”
He won the player of the year by stacking cash after cash in PGT events starting 11 days into January. He earned a whopping 908 points more than second-place finisher Daniel Negreanu, and his season total cash figure was $5.9 million. The PGT tour gave him $50,000 for finishing on top.
This is how he did it:
Date Event Place Winnings PGT Points Jan. 11 PGT Kickoff Event #1: $5,100 NL Hold’em 4th $40,050 80 Jan. 12 PGT Kickoff Event #2: $5,100 NL Hold’em 10th $13,500 27 Jan. 27 PokerGO Cup Event #3: $10,100 NL Hold’em 9th $25,500 26 Jan. 29 PokerGO Cup Event #4: $10,100 NL Hold’em 5th $56,700 57 Jan. 31 PokerGO Cup Event #6: $15,100 NL Hold’em 7th $37,800 38 March 1 PGT Mixed Games Event #3: $10,200 H.O.R.S.E. 2nd $126,000 126 March 6 PGT Mixed Games Event #3: $10,200 Big Bet Mix 2nd $88,800 89 Apr. 12 U.S. Poker Open Event #5: $10,100 NL Hold’em 13th $23,000 23 Apr. 24 PGT Texas Poker Open $3,300 Main Event 11th $33,000 33 Apr. 30 PGT Texas Poker Open $5,100 PLO High Roller 15th $10,500 11 June 14 WSOP $50,000 NL Hold’em High Roller 26th $101,724 61 June 18 WSOP $100,000 NL Hold’em High Roller 2nd $1,892,260 450 June 21 WSOP $250,000 NL Hold’em Super High Roller 7th $754,052 226 June 23 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship 6th $200,896 121 June 28 WSOP $10,000 NL 2-7 Single Draw Championship 4th $130,794 131 Aug. 18 Super High Roller Bowl Series $25,750 NL Hold’em 6th $62,000 37 Aug. 20 Super High Roller Bowl Series $51,500 NL Hold’em 2nd $373,000 224 Aug. 23 $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl 3rd $1,200,000 400 Sept. 12 Poker Masters Event #3: $10,100 NL Hold’em 2nd $155,100 155 Sept. 14 Poker Masters Event #5: $10,100 NL Hold’em 11th $22,500 23 Sept. 18 Poker Masters Event #8: $25,200 NL Hold’em 10th $51,000 31 Oct. 15 PGT PLO Series II Event #2: $5,100 PLO Progressive Bounty 14th $9,540 13 Oct. 17 PGT PLO Series II Event #4: $10,100 PLO 12th $25,000 25 Oct. 19 PGT PLO Series II Event #6: $10,100 PLO 4th $93,600 94 Oct. 20 PGT PLO Series II Event #7: $15,100 PLO 1st $288,000 288 Jan. 6 PGT Last Chance Event #4: $10,100 NL Hold’em 2nd $176,700 177 $5,991,016 2,966 PGT Points
Ends season with a win
Because he finished on top of the leaderboard, Ausmus started the $1 Million Championship freeroll with 350,000 chips — 250,000 more than those sitting on the bottom. Players who finished the top 10 of POY points started with at least 290,000.
Ausmus put the cherry on top of his weekend by winning it.
“I love the leaderboard, it really inspires me to play a lot,” Ausmus, 45, said. “It’s kind of like a video game. You just want to get to the top.”
The invitational was limited to those who cracked the top 40, plus 10 additional players who won “Dream Seats” into the tourney through various PokerGO and PGT promotions.
But the final table were all pros. Here’s the results:
Place Player Country Prize Prize Money PGT Passport 1st Jeremy Ausmus United States $500,000 $150,000 $350,000 2nd Nick Schulman United States $200,000 $60,000 $140,000 3rd Calvin Anderson United States $120,000 $40,000 $80,000 4th Dylan Weisman United States $80,000 $30,000 $50,000 5th Chris Hunichen United States $60,000 $20,000 $40,000 6th Jim Collopy United States $40,000 $10,000 $30,000
The PokerGO Tour starts the 2025 season with its Kickoff that runs Jan. 20-24.
