Ali Imsirovic claims PokerGO Tour Player of Year title

Ali Imsirovic capped disconnected a banner twelvemonth by claiming the archetypal PokerGO Tour Player of the Year rubric Tuesday.

Imsirovic won 14 events, had 20 different cashes and earned much than $6 cardinal successful prize money. He received an further $200,000 for topping the season-long leaderboard.

“It inactive feels beauteous surreal, to beryllium honest,” Imsirovic told PokerGO. “I ne'er thought I would execute thing of this magnitude successful poker. Next, the extremity is to conscionable support trying to get amended and solidify and support proving that I beryllium here.”

The PokerGO Tour, presented by Guaranteed Rate, tracked results from high-stakes poker tournaments astir the world, including the World Series of Poker and galore events played astatine the PokerGO workplace by the Aria.

Buy-ins ranged from $10,000 to $300,000, and much than $262 cardinal successful prize wealth was awarded, PokerGO said successful a release.

Imsirovic, who was calved successful Bosnia-Herzegovina and lives successful Vancouver, Washington, finished with 4.364 points, good up of Michael Addamo of Australia, who had 3,083. Sean Perry of the U.S. was 3rd with 2,525.

Imsirovic has much than $15 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

Also connected Tuesday, Rok Gostisa of Slovenia won the last PokerGO Tour lawsuit of the year, the $50,000 buy-in PokerGO Tour Championship, prevailing successful a tract of 46 entries to gain $689,100.

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