Jeremy Ausmus Wins Poker Masters #7 for $278,400, 10th PGT Title

• Ausmus took $278,400 from an $870,000 prize pool for his 10th career PGT title.
• Aram Oganyan held the overnight chip lead and finished runner-up for $174,000.
• Ausmus earned 223 PGT points and now sits fifth in the Purple Jacket standings with 294.
• Daniel Negreanu finished seventh, his second live cash since the end of summer.

Event #7 drew 58 entries and built an $870,000 prize pool, with nine players getting paid. Brock Wilson took the bubble in 10th, sent home by Adrian Mateos, according to CardPlayer.

Event #2 champ Nick Palma went out in eighth. Negreanu followed in seventh when his A♦8♥ ran into Cherish Andrews’ pocket deuces, and the flop handed Andrews a set.

Oganyan then busted Joey Weissman in sixth and bagged the overnight chip lead. He was chasing his first PGT win, and his most notable title to date is the 2024 WPT Voyage championship.

Five players returned for Day 2, PokerNews reported. Oganyan led with Mateos close behind, and Ausmus started third.

Mateos had extra on the line. He entered the day leading the Purple Jacket standings after winning Event #5.

Ausmus told PokerNews the stack distribution opened things up. “No one was terribly short coming in, so there wasn’t a ton of ICM pressure. It kind of allowed you to play a few more hands.”

He used that room well. His pocket nines held against Andrews’ A♠Q♣ on a J♥10♥10♦ flop, with fours on the turn and river, and Andrews collected $65,250 for fifth.

Mateos was next. Short and all in from the big blind with 7♦3♣, he ran into Ausmus’ nines again and settled for fourth and $87,000.

The Spaniard still has plenty to show for his career. His live cashes now top $73 million, fourth-highest all-time, per CardPlayer.

Then came the cooler. Ausmus’ pocket kings held against Joe McKeehen’s pocket nines, and the 2015 WSOP Main Event champ exited third for $121,800.

Ausmus opened heads-up with roughly a 2:1 chip lead. Oganyan grabbed it back when he turned a straight against Ausmus’ two pair.

The decisive hand flipped the script again. Oganyan flopped trip fours, Ausmus held 7-5 for an open-ended draw, and the river completed his straight.

Ausmus called Oganyan’s river shove and took about 91% of the chips in play. On the final hand, his Q♥7♠ beat Oganyan’s J♦5♠, with neither player connecting.

Oganyan banked $174,000 for second. That first PGT title will have to wait.

If you follow Ausmus online, you know he films more than trophy shots. He started vlogging nearly a year ago, and his YouTube channel passed 19,600 subscribers in its first year, per CardPlayer.

He doesn’t only post the heaters. “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.”

The wins have been memorable, too. Ausmus hit a royal flush to beat quad aces in the NAPT Main Event. He also beat Nick Schulman to win the $1M PGT Freeroll Championship.

He also likes what the camera captures at PokerGO Studio. “The environment here is great, and I try to show that in the vlog that I do, just the camaraderie in here.”

You may see more of that room soon. Ausmus told PokerNews he’s leaning toward staying home in Las Vegas in December instead of his usual Bahamas trip. That could mean Wynn Las Vegas events and more PGT.

Event #7 was Ausmus’ third cash of the series and his second final table through seven events, per CardPlayer. The win also pushed his career earnings past $31 million.

His 223 PGT points put him fifth with 294. Mateos leads with 451, followed by Nick Palma (367), Joey Weissman (338) and Myles Mullaly (295).

That leaves Ausmus one point behind Mullaly in the hunt for the Purple Jacket, which David Coleman won at the 2025 Poker Masters. He also banked 360 Card Player Player of the Year points and climbed to 52nd.

Ausmus reached double digits in PGT titles by getting through a final table with Oganyan, Mateos, McKeehen and Negreanu on it. At 47, he’s still finding new ways to stack chips.

The win also drags him into the Purple Jacket conversation, 157 points behind Mateos. Three No-Limit Hold’em events remain, at $15,700, $26,000 and $51,000, before the series finale on Friday, October 23.

If you’re picking a horse for the Purple Jacket, don’t sleep on the guy who vlogs his losses.