The new year is upon us at PokerGO, and the action begins hot and heavy to welcome in 2025.
The 2024 PGT season concludes with PGT Last Chance and the PGT $1,000,000 Championship, while the new season will begin with the second installment of PGT Kickoff. All of these will be played in the PokerGO Studio and livestreamed on PokerGO.
PGT Last Chance
The return of PGT Last Chance will give players their last opportunity to earn a seat in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship. The six-event series will feature $10,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments with each awarding valuable PGT leaderboard points to boost players season standings.
The top 40 eligible players on the PGT leaderboard will qualify to play the PGT $1,000,000 Championship with eligibility being three PGT cashes. Several players short of eligibility are expected to be in attendance, and that includes WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo, WSOP bracelet winner Matthew Lambrecht, and high-stakes regular Brian Kim.
PGT Last Chance also features a unique incentive of a series leaderboard that will award a Dream Seat to the top three ranked players on the PGT Last Chance leaderboard who do not finish in the Top 40. A Dream Seat will give the holder direct entry into the PGT $1,000,000 Championship with 125 big blinds.
Each event will play down to a final table that will be livestreamed on PokerGO the following day. You can also follow Day 1 of each event on PGT.com.
Watch PGT Last Chance final tables from January 3-9, at 4 p.m. ET.
PGT $1,000,000 Championship
The 2024 PGT season will conclude with the PGT $1,000,000 Championship that begins on January 10. The field will include the Top 40 eligible players on the PGT leaderboard and 10 Dream Seat winners. The staggering $1,000,000 prize pool will award $500,000 to the winner and pay the final six spots.
Players assured of a spot in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship is PGT leaderboard front-runner Jeremy Ausmus, seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, two-time Super High Roller Bowl winner Seth Davies, U.S. Poker Open champion Aram Zobian, Poker Masters Purple Jacket winner Jim Collopy, Poker Hall of Famers Brian Rast and Phil Ivey, WSOP Player of the Year Scott Seiver, and five-time WSOP bracelet winner Kristen Foxen.
Who will qualify for the PGT $1,000,000 Championship and win the $500,000 first-place prize? Tune in to PokerGO and find out!
Watch the PGT $1,000,000 Championship from January 10-11.
PGT Kickoff
Following a short break following the conclusion of the PGT $1,000,000 Championship, the 2025 PGT season will begin with PGT Kickoff.
PGT Kickoff features five No-Limit Hold’em tournaments. The first four will be $5,100 buy-ins, while the finale is a $10,100 buy-in. Unique for PGT Kickoff is that cashes will be worth double PGT points to give PGT players that attend an opportunity to get a head start on their competition.
The inaugural running of PGT Kickoff in January 2024 saw David Coleman win two events, cash four times, and amass 590 PGT points. Coleman parlayed that start to the season to a ninth-place spot on the PGT leaderboard with 1,615 PGT points heading into PGT Last Chance. Kristen Foxen and Dylan Weisman both won one event and cashed two times to pick up 429 PGT points and 265 PGT points, respectively.
Watch PGT Kickoff final tables from January 21-25, at 4 p.m. ET.
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