Jeremy Ausmus
The member of the PokerOrg Player Advisory Board dropped the bombshell on social media with a clear stance. For him, it doesn’t make much sense to award the same bracelet to someone who wins a US$400 online event with 300 players and access restricted to just five states, as to someone who prevails in a US$100,000 live high roller against a world elite. His proposal: differentiate both achievements with a tiered system, where online tournaments award a kind of “silver bracelet.”
The most interesting part of the argument, also reflected on the Poker.Org site, is that Ausmus is not speaking from a place of prejudice. Two of his six WSOP bracelets were actually won online. In 2022, he won a WSOP Online event with 571 entries and a prize of US$51,807, and in 2023, he added another in a US$3,200 online High Roller for US$360,036. In other words: he knows that territory well and, even so, believes the system should change.
Jeremy Ausmus has just over 28 million dollars in live tournament earnings, according to Hendonmob.
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His vision quickly found support. Tony Dunst
But there was an alternative view that even Ausmus accepted as valid. Nick Palma
Because deep down, even if no one says it officially, that tier list already exists. Winning the Main Event, the Poker Players Championship, or a small-field online tournament does not carry the same weight. The question is whether the WSOP will one day dare to acknowledge it without sugarcoating.
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