The day after the 2023 PokerGO Tour season formally wrapped up with the PGT Championship, the brand new season bought underway with the 2024 PGT Kickoff. The five-event collection options 4 $5,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasions and one $10,500 buy-in affair, all held contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The first three tournaments are already within the books, and the highest performer to this point has been current Card Player Poker Tour Venetian champion David Coleman. The former on-line grinder from New Jersey has made the ultimate desk in all three of the occasions which have performed all the way down to a winner to this point, accumulating $221,000 and 442 PGT factors alongside the way in which to take the early lead within the PGT standings for each the collection and the season. Below is a have a look at the total outcomes from the primary trio of outcomes.
PGT Kickoff #1 – $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em
The first occasion of the brand new season drew 89 entries, making a prize pool of $445,000 that was cut up amongst the highest 13 finishers.
Coleman started his dominant efficiency at this competition with an outright win, changing his start-of-day chip lead on day 2 into the title and the highest prize of $120,150. He now has practically $4 million in profession event earnings to his identify.
This was solely the second stay event title of his profession, together with his first coming within the aforementioned CPPT Venetian $1,600 buy-in only a handful of days earlier than he closed out this victory. That win and his hat trick of final-table finishes on this collection have seen Coleman earn $336,989 to this point in 2024. With 1,564 Card Player Player of the Year factors and 442 PGT factors, he at present sits atop the leaderboards of each factors races heading into the second half of January.
Coleman overcame loads of stiff competitors on his strategy to hoisting the trophy, together with two-time bracelet winners John Riordan (eleventh) and Eric Baldwin (ninth), 2013 World Series of Poker most important occasion champion Ryan Riess (eighth), six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (4th), two-time Card Player POY award winner Stephen Chidwick, and bracelet winner Aram Zobian (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | David Coleman | $120,150 | 384 | 240 |
| 2 | Aram Zobian | $77,875 | 320 | 156 |
| 3 | Stephen Chidwick | $55,625 | 256 | 111 |
| 4 | Jeremy Ausmus | $40,050 | 192 | 80 |
| 5 | Nikita Kalinin | $31,150 | 160 | 62 |
| 6 | Clemen Deng | $22,250 | 128 | 45 |
| 7 | Viktor Ustimov | $17,800 | 96 | 36 |
| 8 | Ryan Riess | $17,800 | 64 | 36 |
PGT Kickoff #2 – $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em
Coleman backed up his win with a fifth-place displaying within the second occasion on the schedule. The prize pool grew to $450,000 in that event after 90 entries had been made. After two days of play, Dylan Weisman emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $121,500. This was the sixth-largest event rating but for the bracelet winner, and the most important payday of his profession to return in a no-limit maintain’em event. Most of Weisman’s success on the circuit has are available in pot-limit Omaha variations and mixed-game choices.
Weisman now has practically $2.6 million in lifetime event earnings to his identify. He went on to observe this victory up with a Tenth-place end in occasion no. 3. As a end result, he climbed to second within the PGT standings with 265 whole factors.
Plenty of high-stakes regulars ran deep on this occasion, together with two-time bracelet winner Joao Simao (eleventh), Ausmus (Tenth), Sean Winter (eighth), Victoria Livschitz (seventh), two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (seventh), and Coleman.
Sergey Kislinsky, who completed sixteenth within the CPPT Venetian most important occasion lower than every week earlier, took dwelling $78,750 because the runner-up.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Dylan Weisman | $121,500 | 432 | 243 |
| 2 | Sergey Kislinsky | $78,750 | 360 | 158 |
| 3 | Jeremy Becker | $56,250 | 288 | 113 |
| 4 | Matthew Mcewan | $40,500 | 216 | 81 |
| 5 | David Coleman | $31,500 | 180 | 63 |
| 6 | Jesse Lonis | $22,500 | 144 | 45 |
| 7 | Victoria Livschitz | $18,000 | 108 | 36 |
| 8 | Sean Winter | $18,000 | 72 | 36 |
PGT Kickoff #3 – $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em
Justin Young got here out on prime in occasion no. 3, besting a discipline of 73 entries to take dwelling $105,850. The World Poker Tour champion primarily based out of Las Vegas now has practically $6.6 million in recorded event scores after this newest win. This was his seventeenth stay title and 304th in-the-money end.
Young additionally earned 212 PGT factors for the win, transferring him into third place within the PGT standings.
Young closed out this event in thrilling trend, scoring a double knockout with pocket eights in opposition to two larger pairs held by David Coleman and four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen. Young flopped a set of eights and held from there to convey the occasion to a sudden conclusion.
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Coleman took dwelling $69,350 because the runner-up because of having extra chips than Foxen (third – $49,275) to start out that wild remaining hand. Foxen surpassed $7.7 million in earnings because of this deep run. She stays the second-highest-earning feminine event participant in poker historical past, trailing solely Vanessa Selbst ($10,899,027) on that leaderboard.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Justin Young | $105,850 | 336 | 212 |
| 2 | David Coleman | $69,350 | 280 | 139 |
| 3 | Kristen Foxen | $49,275 | 224 | 99 |
| 4 | Dylan Destefano | $34,675 | 168 | 69 |
| 5 | Adekunle Olonoh | $25,550 | 140 | 51 |
| 6 | Viktor Ustimov | $18,250 | 112 | 37 |
| 7 | Ryan Riess | $14,600 | 84 | 29 |
| 8 | Dylan Linde | $14,600 | 56 | 29 |
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