The 2025 PokerGO Tour (PGT) season is wrapping up, and the highest performers on the high-stakes tour might be awarded handsomely. The highest 40 gamers from the official PGT leaderboard — in addition to Dream Seat winners — will compete in January for $1 million in freeroll cash within the PGT Championship in Las Vegas.
The PGT championship will happen Jan. 12-13 inside PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. It’s the fifth version of the occasion and can instantly comply with the PGT Final Probability sequence, which provides gamers a last shot at qualifying.
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The PGT Championship is accessible for each the highest 40 gamers on the leaderboard and Dream Seat winners, who can win seats by particular giveaways and companion promotions. Like within the earlier three editions, the winner might be awarded $500,000.
Regardless of its transient existence, the PGT Championship already has a storied historical past. Slovenia’s Rok Gostisa received the inaugural version in 2021, whereas high American high-stakes professionals Jason Koon and Sean Winter battled it out the next 12 months with Koon rising victorious.
In 2023, Germany’s Daniel Smiljkovic defeated actress Arden Cho to win $500,000. Most just lately, PGT Participant of the Yr Jeremy Ausmus defeated now-Poker Corridor of Famer Nick Schulman to win $500,000, turning into the primary participant to win each titles in the identical season.
Final 12 months’s last desk additionally included American professionals Jim Collopy (sixth – $40,000), Chris Hunichen (fifth – $60,000), Dylan Weisman (4th – $80,000) and Calvin Anderson (third – $120,000).
2024 PGT Championship Closing Desk Outcomes
1Jeremy Ausmus$500,000
2Nick Schulman$200,000
3Calvin Anderson$120,000
4Dylan Weisman$80,000
5Chris Hunichen$60,000
6Jim Collopy$40,000
There was loads of motion within the PokerGO Studio as of late. Most just lately, Brazil’s Joao Simao received a marathon heads-up match battle for the ages in opposition to Jason Koon to win the $100,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl for $1.1 million.
A full record of PGT Championship winners is accessible within the desk beneath.
PGT Championship Winners
202146Rok GostisaSlovenia$689,100
202221Jason KoonUnited States$500,000
202354Daniel SmiljkovicGermany$500,000
202450Jeremy AusmusUnited States$500,000
2025TBDTBDTBD$500,000
*Photographs courtesy of PokerGO
Connor Richards
Senior Editor U.S.
