The high-stakes-centric PokerGO Tour’s present season will quickly attain its thrilling conclusion, with the ultimate pageant forward of the PGT $1,000,000 Championship being the fittingly-titled PGT Last Chance Series.
“The PGT Last Chance Series is the last opportunity for players to secure a place in poker’s most prestigious end-of-year championship and for rising stars to leave their mark on the 2024 PGT season,” mentioned Tim Duckworth, Director of Live Events for PokerGO. “With high stakes on the line and additional Dream Seat entries available, this series gives everyone a shot. We’re excited to see the intensity and determination the Last Chance Series will bring to PokerGO Studio.”
The six-event collection is comprised totally of $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em tournaments, every providing gamers a chance to attempt to earn factors that would qualify them for the PGT Championship, a million-dollar freeroll for the highest 40 gamers within the ultimate season-long PGT points standings.
A latest launch from PGT organizers famous that gamers who end within the high 40 additionally must have three qualifying cashes so as to declare their seat within the PGT Championship. Ahead of the PGT Las Chance Series, there are 9 gamers ranked inside the highest 40 who’ve fewer than the required three. They are: reigning World Series of Poker essential occasion champion Jonathan Tamayo, Brian Kim, Niklas Astedt, Jason Sagle, Boris Angelov, Matthew Lambrecht, Andres Gonzalez, Elie Nakache, and Malo Latinois.
If all or any of these gamers fail to fulfill the necessities in time, they are going to be faraway from competition and the subsequent participant within the rankings will take their place. Several huge names presently sit simply outdoors of the highest 40, together with World Poker Tour champion Matthew Wantman (forty first), two-time Super High Roller Bowl winner Isaac Haxton (forty second), bracelet winner Sergio Aido (forty third), and Ren Lin (forty fourth), who made 23 ultimate tables in 2024.
In addition to the half dozen excessive stakes occasions providing huge payouts and factors, the PGT Last Chance Series additionally encompasses a collection leaderboard which is able to, based on the PGT, “… award three ‘Dream Seat’ entries to players who do not finish in the top 40 but perform exceptionally during the Last Chance Series.”
The gamers who end fourth to eighth within the collection factors race will earn a ‘Dream Pass’ which secures them a spot within the PGT Championship Dream Seat Invitational which runs on Jan. 9. According to PGT information, “This single-day event is open to anyone that has been awarded, earned, or won a ‘Dream Pass’ throughout the 2024 PGT season. The final six players will all earn the final ‘Dream Seat’ entries into the PGT $1,000,000 Championship.”
The PGT $1,000,000 Championship will kick off the next day, on Jan. 10. The two-day freeroll occasion sports activities the seven-figure prize pool alluded to within the identify, with the highest six finishes cashing and the eventual champion set to earn $500,000. Starting stacks within the occasion are influenced by PGT leaderboard place.
Here is a have a look at the PGT Last Chance Series schedule:
| Event | Start Date | Days | Buy-In |
| PGT Last Chance #1 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 02 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Last Chance #2 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 03 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Last Chance #3 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 04 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Last Chance #4 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 06 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Last Chance #5 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 07 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Last Chance #6 – $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Jan 08 | 2 | $10,100 |
| PGT Championship Dream Seat Invitational | Jan 09 | 1 | $0 |
