For the second straight year, the PokerGO Tour will conclude its annual, pre-championship run of poker festivals with a series that wraps into the following calendar year. The PGT has released details for its 'Last Chance' series, the final handful of official PGT events to be held before the PGT's annual $1,000,000 Championship Freeroll.
Daniel Negreanu got his 2024 off with a bang by winning the first Last Chance this year on January 2.
This year, the PGT Last Chance series will consist of six $10,100 no-limit hold'em events held in a seven-day window in early January. The six two-day tourneys, scheduled to run January 2-9, 2025, at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, are indeed the last chance for PGT regulars to earn not only titles and cash but also 2024 PGT leaderboard points in an attempt to secure an automatic invite into the January 10, 2025 Championship Freeroll.
The top 40 players on the annual PGT leaderboard will receive those automatic invites, with Jeremy Ausmus comfortably ahead of the field heading into the final two months of 2024-and-change PGT action. The top 25 or 30 players on the leaderboard have likely already wrapped up their invites, but the Last Chance will draw in most of the players on either side of the invite bubble who are trying to snag or hold on to a Championship seat.
The six-event Last Chance slate is as follows:
- January 2, 2025: Event #1 $10,100 NL Hold'em
- January 3, 2025: Event #2 $10,100 NL Hold'em
- January 4, 2025: Event #3 $10,100 NL Hold'em
- January 6, 2025: Event #4 $10,100 NL Hold'em
- January 7, 2025: Event #5 $10,100 NL Hold'em
- January 8, 2025: Event #6 $10,100 NL Hold'em
Nick Schulman won the final PGT Last Chance tournament in January this year.Series to also award three 'Dream Seat' entries
PokerGO will further incentivize players to participate in the Last Chance series by offering an additional three seats into the $1M championship. Those seats will go to the top three finishers on the Last Chance series' separate leaderboard who otherwise wouldn't make the year-long top 40 and wouldn't qualify for those seats.
Finishers four through eight in the Last Chance series leaderboard won't automatically slide into the championship freeroll, but they won't be shut out either. Those five players will instead receive a Dream Pass into the Dream Seat Invitational on January 9, the day before the Championship Freeroll, and where the final six invites into the Championship Freeroll will be awarded.
