Jeremy Ausmus Wins U.S. Poker Open Event #5: $10K NLHE ($178,200)
Jeremy Ausmus won his first career U.S. Poker Open title after defeating Chris Brewer heads-up to win Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $178,200.
Ausmus, whose initial fame came from his fifth-place finish in the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $2,155,313, now sits on nearly $12 million in live tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob. Ausmus followed this up with three gold bracelets with two of them coming during the 2021 WSOP.
This isn’t the first taste of recent success for Ausmus at the PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort & Casino. Last month Ausmus was absolutely on fire at the PokerGO Cup where he advanced to the podium four times including a win in Event #4: $15,000 No Limit Hold’em for $263,500.
This spectacular performance catapulted Ausmus to the top of the PokerGO Cup Leaderboard and thus was crowned the PokerGO Cup champion which came with an extra $50,000 prize. After last night’s victory, Ausmus finds himself in a familiar position as the U.S. Poker Open leaderboard captain with four events remaining and understands he is in a position to make history.
“It would be really cool to win back-to-back majors,” Ausmus said to the PokerGO Tour. “I know D. Peters won this twice (U.S. Poker Open), but I don’t think anyone has won back-to-back. The older I get, the more important it is to me. My kids think it’s cool. If I win trophies, they can see me way up in the standings.”
2022 U.S. Poker Open Event #5: $10K NLHE Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $178,200 |
| 2 | Chris Brewer | United States | $132,000 |
| 3 | Ren Lin | United States | $85,800 |
| 4 | Ali Imsirovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | $66,000 |
| 5 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | $52,800 |
| 6 | David Peters | United States | $39,600 |
Event #5 attracted 66 entries to generate a $660,000 prize pool with the top 10 players earning at least a min-cash of $19,800.
Final Table Recap
The six-player official final table, which was televised on a delay with hole cards show at PokerGO, began with Nick Petrangelo as the table captain with Ren “No Gamble No Future” Lin inches behind. Ausmus began the final table only ahead of one player in Ali Imsirovic.
It wasn’t Ausmus who began with the hot hand as he witnessed Imsirovic soar. Imsirovic doubled through Petrangelo when his cowboys held against ace-queen and he managed to go from last to first place within the first 14 minutes of play.
Imsirovic was in a prime position to win yet another big event as he had more than half the chips in play with four players remaining after he eliminated both Petrangelo and David Peters.
A crucial flip changed everything with Ausmus doubling through when his king-queen won against sixes. Ausmus snagged the chip lead for the first time shortly after. Meanwhile, Imsirovic was less fortunate as he found himself as the short stack.
Imsirovic lost another flip, this time to Chris Brewer, and was on the rail in fourth place when his ace-queen didn’t get there against eights.
Shortly after, Brewer sent Ren Lin packing in third place when his ace-nine dominated his opponent’s queen nine.
Brewer managed to take the chip lead during his hot run and began heads-up play with a 3:1 chip advantage against Ausmus.
Ausmus was down but far from out and doubled through Brewer on a cooler. Ausmus three-bet with sevens and was called by Brewer with ace-seven. Brewer called a continuation bet after improving to the top pair on the ace-queen-jack rainbow flop.
The case seven followed on the turn and fireworks were expected by the fans watching at PokerGO with Ausmus hitting his one outer for a set and Brewer drawing to just two outs to aces-full after improving to two pair. The money got in on the turn and Ausmus doubled into the chip lead after a brick came on the river.
Brewer continued to battle but eventually ran out of gas to award Ausmus the title after his ace-queen didn’t win a flip against tens.
*Images courtesy of the PokerGO Tour.
