Jeremy Ausmus wins Poker Masters Event #7 for $278,400 and his 10th PGT title

Jeremy Ausmus won Event #7: $15,700 No-Limit Hold'em at the 2026 Poker Masters on Tuesday, Oct 20, at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. He beat Aram Oganyan heads-up for $278,400 and his 10th career PokerGO Tour (PGT) title, according to PokerNews. Adrian Mateos finished fourth and added to his lead in the race for the Purple Jacket.

The numbers

• Entries: 58, making a prize pool of $870,000. The top nine were paid, with a minimum prize of $26,100, per PokerNews.
• First prize: $278,400 and 223 PGT points, per Card Player.
• Runner-up: Aram Oganyan, $174,000.
• The event started on Monday, Oct 19, and five players came back for Tuesday's final day.

Final table results

The published results don't all agree on Negreanu's prize. Poker.org and Card Player's results table list $34,800, while PokerNews lists $39,150. PGT.com had not posted its official results for this event when we published. Myles Mullaly finished ninth and Nick Palma eighth, PokerNews reported.

Day 1: Mateos finally on the right side of a bubble

Mateos had gone out on the money bubble four times earlier in this series, by Poker.org's count. This time he burst the bubble himself, making Broadway to knock out Brock Wilson in 10th place. A day after Justin Vaysman's Event #6 comeback, the money bubble that had been so unkind to Mateos went his way.

Oganyan registered at the last possible moment and finished Day 1 as the chip leader, per PokerNews' Day 1 report. Negreanu, playing his first event of the series, entered twice to reach the money and went out in seventh when his ace-eight ran into Cherish Andrews' flopped set of deuces. Oganyan then knocked out Weissman in sixth to end the night.

"No one was terribly short coming in, so there wasn't a ton of ICM pressure," Ausmus told PokerNews. "It kind of allowed you to play a few more hands."

Day 2: pocket nines, then pocket kings

Ausmus took the first two eliminations of the day with the same hand. Andrews, the shortest stack, re-raised his open, Ausmus moved all in with pocket nines and she called with ace-queen. The flop came jack, ten, ten, adding a straight draw for her, but two fours on the turn and river kept Ausmus ahead, according to Card Player and Poker.org. Andrews was out in fifth.

Mateos went next. He lost most of his chips to Oganyan on a bluff in a blind-versus-blind hand, Poker.org reported, a hand PokerGO posted as "Adrian Mateos picks the wrong time to bluff." Then came a spot that will look familiar to anyone who read our post on leaving one chip behind:

• With just over five big blinds, Mateos put in most of his stack and kept 100,000 behind, per Poker.org.
• Oganyan moved all in from the button, and Ausmus, who covered both of them, called.
• Mateos folded his last 100,000, hoping one of the other two would bust so he could move up a place.
• Neither did. Oganyan doubled up, and on the very next hand Mateos was all in from the big blind with seven-three. Ausmus' pocket nines held again, and Mateos was out in fourth.

Three-handed play lasted three hands, Poker.org reported. Joe McKeehen, the 2015 WSOP Main Event champion, got his pocket nines in against Ausmus' pocket kings and didn't improve, finishing third.

Heads-up

Ausmus started heads-up ahead and got to about a 2-to-1 lead, but Oganyan took the lead after a turned straight beat two pair, Card Player reported. The hand that decided it, per Card Player, PokerNews and Poker.org:

• In a limped pot, Oganyan flopped three fours and Ausmus, with seven-five, flopped an open-ended straight draw.
• Ausmus made a small bet and called Oganyan's raise. Oganyan bet big on the turn, and Ausmus called again.
• The river completed Ausmus' straight. Oganyan moved all in for more than the pot with his three of a kind, and Ausmus called.

That gave Ausmus 91% of the chips in play, according to Card Player. Oganyan doubled once, but on the last hand Ausmus' queen of hearts and seven of spades beat his jack of diamonds and five of spades with neither player pairing. "Jeremy Ausmus is back in the @PokerGOTour winner's circle!" PokerGO posted.

Who is Jeremy Ausmus?

Ausmus, 47, is a six-time WSOP bracelet winner, per Card Player. With 10 PGT titles he joins the tour's double-digit club, where Sam Soverel has the most, with 17, Poker.org noted. Event #7 was his third cash of this series and his second final table, Card Player reported.

He also films a poker vlog, and Card Player says his YouTube channel passed 19,600 subscribers in its first year. "Sometimes I just get my face kicked in and do a vlog of just me losing a whole bunch," he told PokerNews. "So it's nice to bring the wins, the losses, everything."

Oganyan was chasing his first PGT title. Card Player lists his 2024 WPT Voyage win as his most notable result.

The Purple Jacket race

The win moved Ausmus up to fifth on the series leaderboard. All four players above him also cashed in this event, Card Player noted. Mateos, who won Event #5 and was runner-up in Event #2, now leads by 84 points.

Three events are left: a second $15,700 No-Limit Hold'em event, which plays to a winner on Wednesday, then a $26,000 event and the $51,000 Poker Masters Championship. The series ends on Friday, Oct 23, per Card Player and Poker.org. The overall winner gets the Purple Jacket. Palma won Event #2 and Weissman won Event #3.

A note on the buy-in

The buy-in is $15,700. Of that, $15,000 from each entry goes into the prize pool, which is why 58 entries made an $870,000 pool. The other $700 is the fee the house keeps. Some outlets call it a $15K event, after the prize-pool share.