Ali Imsirovic wins the PokerGO Tour Player of Year title and adds $ 200K. added

Ali Imsirovic crowned an outstanding year by winning the first PokerGO Tour Player of the Year title on Tuesday.

Imsirovic won 14 events, had 20 more cashes and earned more than $ 6 million in prize money. He received an additional $ 200,000 for being at the top of the season’s leaderboard.

“To be honest, it still feels pretty surreal,” Imsirovic told PokerGO. “I never thought I’d achieve anything like this in poker. The next goal is to just keep trying, to get better and to consolidate and to prove again and again that I belong here. “

The PokerGO Tour, presented by Guaranteed Rate, tracked the results of high stakes poker tournaments around the world, including the World Series of Poker and many events played by Aria at the PokerGO Studio.

Buy-ins ranged from $ 10,000 to $ 300,000 and there were more than $ 262 million in prize money, PokerGO said in a press release.

Imsirovic, who was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina and lives in Vancouver, Washington, was far ahead of Michael Addamo from Australia with 3,083 points with 4,364 points. Sean Perry from the USA came third with 2,525.

Imsirovic has more than $ 15 million in career tournament winnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

Also on Tuesday, Rok Gostisa from Slovenia won the last PokerGO Tour event of the year, the $ 50,000 buy-in PokerGO Tour Championship, beating a field of 46 for $ 689,100.

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