Rok Gostisa has won the $50,000 buy-in PokerGO Tour Championship for a staggering $689,100, beating Belgium tournament legend Michael Gathy heads-up. Ali Imsirovic is a well-deserved PokerGo Tour Player of the Year having dominated the entire season.
“I didn’t expect to win because I came in seven out of seven, so it feels amazing,” Gostisa said in the moments after his victory.
Largest score of Rok Gostisa’s Poker Career
The victory is the largest score to date of Gostisa’s live poker career, capping off what has been a true breakout 2021 on the felt.
Prior to this year, Gostisa didn’t have a year with more than $74,000 in live tournament winnings. With this win, Gostisa improved to nearly $1,600,000 in winnings in 2021.
Gostisa said after his victory:
“I was basically just playing online and because of COVID I didn’t travel,” Gostisa said. “This year has been going well, so I’m really happy about how it turned out.”
2021 PokerGO Tour Championship Final Results and Payouts:
- 1st: Rok Gostisa – $689,100
- 2nd: Michael Gathy – $598,900
- 3rd: Sergi Reixach – $345,000
- 4th: Jake Schindler – $253,000
- 5th: Jacob Ferro – $184,000
- 6th: Ren Lin – $138,000
- 7th: Dominik Nitsche – $92,000
Ali Imsirovic is PokerGo Tour Player of the Year
With an incredible 14 victories, 34 cashes, and more than $6,000,000 in prize money won, Ali Imsirovic is a well-deserved winner of the 2021 PokerGO Tour Player of the Year leaderboard.
Imsirovic won the award thanks to a dominating year-long effort, and was rewarded with the title and $200,000 in in cash.
Ali Imsirovic in a league of his own
Ali Imsirovic finished the year with 4,364 points, nearly 1,300 points ahead of the competition.
Ali Imsirovic said in the interview:
“It still feels pretty surreal, to be honest. I never thought I would accomplish something of this magnitude in poker. Next, the goal is to just keep trying to get better and solidify and keep proving that I belong here.”
Finishing in second place on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard is Michael Addamo, who also had quite the year to remember. Addamo earned a $100,000 prize for finishing second on the leaderboard.
Sean Perry was Imsirovic’s closest competition for most of 2021 until Addamo made a late surge during the World Series of Poker. Perry ultimately finished third on the leaderboard, picking up $50,000 in prize money.
The inaugural season of the PokerGO Tour saw more than 17,600 entries across 143 tournaments.
Buy-ins ranged from $10,000 up to $300,000, with more than $262,000,000 in prize money awarded. There were 87 unique winners from PokerGO Tour events.
PokerGO Tour Season 2 already starts in January
The 2022 season of the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate will be here before we know it.
Action is set to start in early January at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas with a group of four high roller tournaments.
Also in January is the first-ever PokerGO Stairway To Millions, of which four levels will count for the PokerGO Tour.
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