Ali Imsirovic separated himself from the area to win the inaugural PokerGO Trip offered by Guaranteed Rate Player of the Year. The 26-year-old won a record-setting 14 event titles this year, making an overall of 34 qualified cash money on the high-stakes online excursion for a total of $6,028,321 in earnings.
” It still feels quite unique, to be straightforward,” Imsirovic told PokerGO press reporters after officially securing the honor. “I never ever believed I would complete something of this size in online poker. Next, the objective is to simply maintain attempting to improve as well as strengthen and maintain confirming that I belong below.”
” It was my goal from the start,” he said of attaining this honor. “I really intended to win Player of the Year, and I ensured to try and play as much of these as I might as well as ideally run comparable to I potentially could.”
The Bosnian-born online poker pro recorded 23 six-figure paydays this year, including three success for majority of a million bucks. Imsirovic conserved the very best for last, topping a field of 102 entrances in the Seminole Rock ‘n’ Roll Online Poker Open $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold ’em money player to gain $695,355 as well as his 14th title of the year. This was the third-largest rating of his career. Imsirovic currently has greater than $15.5 million in lifetime online revenues regardless of not securing his first six-figure score until 2018.
Imsirovic cashed for a minimum of $100,000 in 9 of the initial 11 months of the year, but had his two biggest monthly overalls down the last stretch. In September he made four final tables as well as won three titles, including taking down a $50,000 money player at the Super High-stakes Gambler Dish Europe for $598,000 as well as an additional $50,000 high roller occasion at ARIA for an additional $529,000. He paid for more than $1.4 million in that month alone and included almost $1.2 million even more in November with 6 money and also two even more titles.
With 4,364 overall factors accumulated, Imsirovic finished the season with 1,281 greater than his nearest competitor in four-time World Collection of Texas hold’em bracelet champion Michael Addamo. To direct that point differential in perspective: a gamer keeping that quantity of points would have ended up 26th in the total standings. Addamo accumulated 3,083, taking down numerous of the largest buy-in occasions of the year and also winning greater than $9.4 million along the road.
Imsirovic finished the period with 8 more qualified titles and seven even more certified cash money than any other gamer in the race. Below is a consider Imsirovic’s total list of PokerGO Trip ratings for the inaugural season.
| Month | Event | Buy-in | Place | Payout |
| January | ARIA High Roller #1 | $10,000 | 3rd | $54,400 |
| January | ARIA High Roller #3 | $10,000 | 2nd | $63,000 |
| February | ARIA High Roller #4 | $25,000 | 1st | $185,800 |
| February | ARIA High Roller #6 | $50,000 | 1st | $344,910 |
| March | ARIA High Roller #9 | $10,000 | 3rd | $74,200 |
| April | ARIA High Roller #12 | $10,000 | 2nd | $111,300 |
| April | ARIA High Roller #13 | $25,000 | 1st | $310,000 |
| April | ARIA High Roller #14 | $25,000 | 1st | $300,000 |
| May | ARIA High Roller #15 | $10,000 | 3rd | $71,400 |
| May | ARIA High Roller #17 | $25,000 | 3rd | $144,000 |
| May | Venetian High Roller #1 | $10,000 | 1st | $200,200 |
| May | Venetian High Roller #3 | $25,000 | 4th | $118,250 |
| June | U.S. Poker Open Event #3 | $10,000 | 3rd | $100,100 |
| June | U.S. Poker Open Event #5 | $10,000 | 11th | $25,500 |
| June | U.S. Poker Open Event #8 | $10,000 | 4th | $63,000 |
| June | U.S. Poker Open Event #9 | $10,000 | 1st | $217,800 |
| June | U.S. Poker Open Event #10 | $10,000 | 2nd | $75,600 |
| July | PokerGO Cup Event #2 | $10,000 | 1st | $183,000 |
| July | PokerGO Cup Event #4 | $15,000 | 1st | $240,000 |
| July | PokerGO Cup Event #7 | $50,000 | 5th | $122,500 |
| August | Venetian High Roller #5 | $10,000 | 1st | $136,000 |
| August | Venetian High Roller #6 | $25,000 | 3rd | $116,000 |
| August | SHRB Europe Event #2 | $25,000 | 6th | $121,500 |
| September | SHRB Europe Event #9 | $50,000 | 1st | $598,000 |
| September | Poker Masters Event #10 | $25,000 | 4th | $104,500 |
| September | ARIA High Roller #22 | $50,000 | 1st | $529,000 |
| September | ARIA High Roller #23 | $25,000 | 1st | $192,500 |
| October | ARIA High Roller #24 | $10,000 | 3rd | $48,000 |
| November | ARIA High Roller #30 | $10,000 | 1st | $120,000 |
| November | ARIA High Roller #31 | $10,000 | 9th | $17,100 |
| November | ARIA High Roller 32 | $10,000 | 4th | $53,000 |
| November | WSOP Event #76 Super Turbo Bounty | $10,000 | 22nd | $13,566 |
| November | WSOP Event #85 High Roller | $50,000 | 6th | $278,840 |
| November | WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open High Roller | $25,500 | 1st | $695,355 |
Here is a look at the final standings for the top 10 players in the PGT points race:
| Rank | Player | Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1 | Ali Imsirovic | 4364 | 14 | 34 | $6,028,321 |
| 2 | Michael Addamo | 3083 | 6 | 8 | $9,418,837 |
| 3 | Sean Perry | 2525 | 6 | 23 | $3,807,850 |
| 4 | Sean Winter | 2263 | 2 | 20 | $3,954,125 |
| 5 | Sam Soverel | 2252 | 3 | 23 | $3,697,009 |
| 6 | Chris Brewer | 2079 | 4 | 27 | $3,052,255 |
| 7 | Daniel Negreanu | 1983 | 2 | 17 | $3,054,904 |
| 8 | Stephen Chidwick | 1954 | 1 | 21 | $2,909,320 |
| 9 | David Peters | 1940 | 3 | 11 | $4,461,670 |
| 10 | Koray Aldemir | 1936 | 1 | 2 | $8,060,465’/ |
