The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is the official tour and ranking system for the world's top professional
poker players that play in high roller
poker tournament
A poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table (called a " heads-up" tournament), and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of ta ...
s with a minimum $10,000
buy-in
Buying in may refer to:
*Buying in (poker), a tournament entrance fee
*Buying in (securities), a process in which a buyer whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, can "buy in" the securities from a third party
*Management buy-i ...
.
The PGT celebrates the most elite professional poker players by awarding points based on prize money won in approximately 150 tournaments around the globe.
History
Launched in April, 2021, the PokerGO Tour was created to reward poker players that played in high roller poker tournaments around the world. The top three finishers would share in $175,000 in prize money, and when
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company
Guaranteed Rate
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was announced as the presenting sponsor in September, the prize money was increased to $350,000; $200,000 and the Guaranteed Rate Cup for the points leader, $100,000 for second place, and $50,000 for third place.
Following the conclusion of all qualifying PokerGO Tour tournaments for the
2022 season, the top 21 players on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard will be invited to play in the season-ending PGT Championship. Players will have their starting chips based on how many points they earned during the season, and the PGT Championship will be a winner-take-all where the winner will collect the $500,000 first-place prize.
Points system
The PokerGO Tour calculates all cashes that are less than $1,000,000 in prize money by using three percentages based on buy-in amounts; 0.0010% for $10,000 to $24,999 buy-in events, 0.0006% for $25,000 to $99,999 buy-in events, and 0.0003% for $100,000+ buy-in events.
For cashes more than $1,000,000 in prize money, the following points table is used for cashes that fall within structured segments.
Seasons and champions
The PGT aims to crown the best tournament poker player in the world each year. Players compete throughout the entire year in high-stakes poker tournaments against the toughest competition in the world and are ranked by the PGT leaderboard. Each PGT season there is a season-ending event called the PGT Championship.
In 2021,
Ali Imsirovic was crowned the
2021 PGT champion ahead of
Michael Addamo
Michael Addamo (born 1994) is an Australian professional poker player from Melbourne. He is a four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner.
Addamo was a chess player as a teenager and reached a career-high rating of 1930 in 2013. He s ...
and Sean Perry.
In 2022,
Stephen Chidwick
Stephen James Chidwick (born 10 May 1989) is an English professional poker player from Deal, Kent. Chidwick led the Global Poker Index (GPI) from April 18 to October 9, 2018.
Poker
Chidwick began playing live poker tournaments in 2008. He pla ...
finished as the
2022 PGT champion, while
Jason Koon
Jason Koon (born August 14, 1985) is an American professional poker player from Weston, West Virginia known for his accomplishments in live and online poker tournaments.
Early life
Koon graduated from Lewis County High School in 2003 and then a ...
won the PGT Championship.
PGT majors
There are currently four PGT majors. They are the PokerGO Cup, Poker Masters, U.S. Poker Open, and Super High Roller Bowl. The PGT's season-ending event is called the PGT Championship.
PokerGO Cup
Poker Masters
The
Poker Masters
The Poker Masters is a series of high-stakes poker tournaments. Created in 2017, it takes place at ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and online at partypoker. Final tables are streamed on PokerGO, and the player who accumulates the m ...
was first held in 2017. It was first included in the PGT in 2021 as the PGT launched for that year.
U.S. Poker Open
The
U.S. Poker Open was first held in 2018. It was first included in the PGT in 2021 as the PGT launched for that year.
Super High Roller Bowl
Super High Roller Bowl Europe
Super High Roller Bowl was first held in 2015. It was first included in the PGT in 2021 as the PGT launched for that year.
Player stats
Top 10 all-time money list
''Information correct as of 24 December 2022.''
Top 10 most tournament wins
''Information correct as of 24 December 2022.''
Top 10 most cashes
''Information correct as of 24 December 2022.''
References
{{Major poker tournaments
Poker tournaments
Television shows about poker
Sports organizations established in 2021
Recurring events established in 2021
Organizations based in Nevada