Jeremy Ausmus Leads Final 7 in PGT Venetian Las Vegas Classic $3,300 Main Event

The first-ever PGT Venetian Las Vegas Classic $3,300 Main Event, which began with 418 entrants at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, is now down to just the final table of seven. After beginning Day 2 with 64 players, only seven would remain, with 2024 PGT Player of the Year Jeremy Ausmus holding a commanding chip lead. 

Ausmus came into the day with a little under average stack, but had a rollercoaster day early on. He was able to score a double when his tens held against Adekunle Olonoh's sevens, but had his kings cracked by Joshua Remitio's jacks. Ausmus then chipped up from there, taking pots from the start-of-the-day chip leader Di Liu and Dustin Iannotti.

Ausmus would then head to the stream table, maneuvering his roughly 500,000 chip stack to over 4,400,000, and ending the day by drilling the river to eliminate Adam Walton. 

Ausmus carries a more than two-to-one chip lead over his next closest opponent, Lily Kiletto, who comes into the final table with 2,600,000, and rounding out the top three is Daniel Marcus with 2,300,000. Also making the seven-handed final table are Doug Lee (2,175,000), Ryan Leng (1,985,000), Santiago Montes (1,770,000), and Daniel Lee (1,545,000).

Kiletto chipped up after her aces held to eliminate Sejo Kasic, and became one of the big stacks in the room after her and Terry Fleischer tangled in a big pot that saw Fleischer all in with a flush draw against Kiletto's top pair. Kiletto was able to fade Fleischer's flush outs to reach 1,760,000 in chips. Kiletto was then moved to the stream table and added almost another million to her stack before the end of the day.

Marcus started the day well above average and didn't relinquish from there. He busted Jason Hickey after Hickey ran his ace-king into Marcus's aces, then chipped up to around 800,000 before playing a massive all-in flip with Craig Mason, who only covered Marcus by half a big blind. Marcus held ace-queen to Mason's pocket tens and was able to spike a queen on the flop. This put Marcus at 1,700,000, which would climb to 2,400,000 only a couple of hands later when Marcus won another flip to bust Dustin Iannotti.

The Day 2 field began in the money, with many notable players looking to make a deep run. Including Andrew Lichtenberger, Christian Roberts, Landon Tice, Victoria Livschitz, Jesse Yaginuma, Josh Arieh, Joao Simoa, Matthew McEwan, Kane Kalas, Jeremy Becker, Jeff Platt, John Riordan, Jonathan Little, Michael Berk, Ryan Laplante, and Main Event runner-up John Wasnock.

The tournament drew a total of 418 entrants across three flights, resulting in a prize pool of $1,254,000. The remaining seven players will return for the streamed final table on Monday, September 15, at 11 a.m. PT, with everyone having $35,000 locked up. However, all eyes will be on the $250,000 first-place prize, 250 PGT points, the Venetian Golden Lion trophy, and the PGT Gold Cup.

PGT Venetian Las Vegas Classic Final Table

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