Shannon Shorr became the second double-winner of the PGT Last Chance series last night, taking down event #6 for $290,000 and winning a Dream Seat to the season finale.
The 6th and final “qualifier” attracted 117 entries and would pay out 17 players, with precious leaderboard points as well as big money up for grabs.
Quick and Painless for Mike the Mouth
Among the hopefuls was an unexpected appearance by Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, but his time with “the geniuses” didn’t last long…
Others to fall well short of the paid spots included the Foxens, event #5 winner Martin Zamani, Ike Haxton, back-to-back hero Brandon Wilson, and Jason Koon. Zamani and Wilson wouldn’t leave empty-handed though, more of which later.
While Sam Laskowitz bubbled the money, the final table bubble was more interesting, a three-way all-in involving 2024 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo.
Set over set over set!
Winter: K♠ K♥
Tamayo: 5♦ 5♣
Lin: Q♠ Q♦
Flop: 10♣ 6♥ Q♣
Lin, the covering stack, was ahead but the turn changed all that instantly…
Turn: K♣
…with the river just adding a final slap to Tamayo’s exit…
River: 5♠
The final seven came back with several things on their mind; money, titles, leaderboard points and hopes of Dream Seats and Dream Passes for those not qualified for the end-of-season $1million freeroll Championship.
Lin, Chidwick and Winter were all safely in, while Shorr had already locked up a Dream Seat entry and Angelov had bagged the third cash he needed to qualify. That left Linde and Becker, both short stacked but both needing high placings to make the big finale…
For Linde, running pocket 8s into Zamani’s fishhooks spelled the end of his hopes, a Dream Seat invitational spot later also failing to produce the goods.
For Becker, it was third for direct entry or fifth for a Pass chance but the last of his chips went to Angelov, 6th spot good for $58k but nothing else.
Stephen Chidwick fell in 5th spot, the Englishman’s pocket 7s tag-teamed out by Lin and Angelov’s baby aces on an ace-high flop, and when Sean Winter’s last chips went to Lin we had our podium trio.
The mercurial Lin would have to settle for third spot…
Ren Lin eliminated in third place by Shannon Shorr in PGT Last Chance Event #6.
Lin was all-in with queen-jack against Shorr's ace-four.
Lin earns $127,600 and 128 PGT points. pic.twitter.com/mTM5AtuBIC
— PokerGO Tour (@PokerGOTour) January 10, 2025
…leaving Shorr and Angelov to battle it out for the win. The final hand quickly appeared as Shorr shoved the button and Angelov snapped him off…
Shorr: J♠ 8♠
Angelov: 10♥ 10♦
Flop: A♥ J♥ 2♠
Turn: 8♣
River: 4♠
…and that was it, Shorr scooping his second Last Chance title of the week.
PGT Last Chance Event #6 Final Table
| 1 | Shannon Shorr | USA | $290,000 |
| 2 | Boris Angelov | Bulgaria | $179,80 |
| 3 | Ren Lin | China | $127,600 |
| 4 | Sean Winter | USA | $98,600 |
| 5 | Stephen Chidwick | England | $75,400 |
| 6 | Jeremy Becker | USA | $58,000 |
| 7 | Dylan Linde | USA | $46,400 |
The top 4 on the leaderboard, four Dream Seat winners and six winners from the Dream Pass invitational will now sit down to decide the Championship, starting later today, Friday.
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