Jeremy Becker Secures Career-Best Score With Poker Masters Victory

Jeremy Becker had accumulated more than $1.5 million in career tournament earnings across more than 234 in-the-money finishes before ever recording a six-figure score. The rising tournament star, who first caught the poker world’s attention with a spree of victories in nightly events around Las Vegas in early 2023, secured his first six-figure payday by taking down event no. 2 at the 2024 Poker Masters, a $10,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament.

Becker overcame a field of 100 entries to earn $255,000 and his first PokerGO Tour title. This career-best score grew his lifetime earnings to more than $1.8 million. The triumph also awarded Becker 600 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his second qualified title and 21st final-table finish of 2024. That puts Becker in a tie with David Coleman for the most final tables made on the year to date. With 3,901 total points, Becker now sits in 23rd place in the POY standings presented by Global Poker.

This win also added 255 PokerGO Tour points to Becker’s totals, enough to move him into 80th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

This two-day event was held inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The prize pool swelled to $1,000,000, with the top 15 finishers earning a share. Among those that cashed were bracelet winners Chris Hunichen (14th), Andrew Lichtenberger (11th), and Dan Smith (10th). Event no. 1 champion Spencer Champlin finished ninth, while World Poker Tour champion and five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman placed eighth. Day 1 ended with the elimination of WPT champion and bracelet winner Dylan Linde in seventh position.

Becker entered the second day with the chip lead, with bracelet winner and 2023 WPT World Championship title holder Daniel Sepiol hot on his heels. Ren Lin was the first to fall, with his A-7 running into the pocket kings of Sepiol. Lin earned $50,000 for his 12th final-table finish of the year, and is now ranked 15th on the 2024 POY leaderboard.

Bracelet winner Nicholas Seward, fresh off of a sixth-place showing in event no. 1, was eliminated in fifth place this time around when his A-8 suited was unable to come from behind against the A-9 of two-time bracelet winner Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek. Seward flopped an eight, but the turn and river both brought nines to give Moncek trips by the end. Seward earned $65,000 for his efforts.

Sepiol’s run ended in fourth place when his Q9 was outraced by Moncek’s 66, which made a straight on the turn and held from there. Sepiol now has nearly $9 million in career earnings after adding $90,000 to his totals in this event.

Moncek held a slight lead when the next key clash arose. He raised from the button with K9 and high-stakes tournament regular Sean Winter three-bet from the big blind with KK. Moncek four-bet shoved and, of course, received a snap call from Winter. The board ran out QJ1058 and Moncek flopped a straight to crack Winter’s pocket kings. Winter earned $115,000 as the third-place finisher, growing his lifetime haul to nearly $31.7 million.

Heads-up play began with Moncek holding roughly a 4:1 chip lead, but a series of double-ups for Becker soon resulted in a nearly even playing field. Becker then picked off a big bluff with king high to take a healthy lead of his own.

In the final hand, Moncek shoved from the button for ten big blinds with A7 and Becker called with Q10. The board came down 632103 and Becker made tens and threes to lock up the title.

Moncek walked away with $165,000 as the runner-up. He now sports roughly $2.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

Photo credits: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.

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