Shannon Shorr, Nick Schulman Winners at PokerGO Tour’s Last Chance Series

Shannon Shorr and Nick Schulman are the winners of the first two events of the PokerGO Tour’s final series of their season, which ends with a $1 Million Championship Freeroll Jan. 10.

Nick Schulman continues crushing

After a fantastic 2024, Schulman began 2025 by winning the first event in the Last Chance series, turning $10,100 into $283,050. The man is coming off a World Series of Bracelet in the $5,300 Closer event a week before Christmas in the Bahamas ($145,000) — the second bracelet of the year after wining the $25,000 High Roller event in June for $1,667,842.

The heads-up battle with Joao Simao took nearly two hours and saw Schulman climb back from a five-to-one chip deficit while also being down to depending on a king on the river to make a straight, which was “the first of many doubles during heads-up play.”

Schulman, who turned 40 in September, will be eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame in 2025 for the first time. An entertaining poker commentator as well as a high-stakes pro, Schulman will most certainly be considered for induction, joining a long list of players that should be considered for the honor.

The event brought in 111 entries and the top 16 won at least $16,650.

Shannon Shorr stacks another

Shorr won his third PGT title in the second event of the series, another $10,100 no-limit hold’em contest, adding another $297,500 to his stack, which pushed his lifetime tournament winnings up over the $14 million mark, according to the Hendon Mob. It’s his largest tournament cash since he finished second in a $2,000 WSOP bracelet event in 2005.

It’s just another bead in a strand of six-figure cashes that is 38 long. Amazingly, the long-time pro has never had a tourney cash worth at least $1 million.

Shorr had another nice score in early December when he won $272,600 for taking third in the $25,000 High Roller Event at the Seminole Hard Rock Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open. Brandon Wilson won that one for $602,900. Since then, Shorr, cashed six times.

The event brought in 119 to the PokerGO studios at the Aria. The top 17 were paid at least $17,850.