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Jeremy Ausmus is an American professional poker player from Lamar, Colorado, who moved to Las Vegas in 2005 to play cash games and became a long-time regular in high-stakes tournaments. He finished fifth in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event, has won six WSOP bracelets in pot-limit Omaha, limit hold’em and no-limit hold’em, and was the 2024 PokerGO Tour Player of the Year. [3][1][13]
Jeremy Ausmus: key facts
| Full name | Jeremy Wayne Ausmus [2] |
|---|---|
| Born | September 22, 1979 (age 47), Lamar, Colorado, U.S. |
| Online alias | Chipchecka [9] |
| Country | United States [1] |
| Hometown | Lamar, Colorado; based in Las Vegas [3][15] |
| Education | Economics degree, Colorado State University [3] |
| WSOP bracelets | 6 (WSOP.com also lists 1 ring, 57 final tables and 258 cashes) [2] |
| Best Main Event finish | 5th in 2012, $2,155,313 [4] |
| Major titles | WSOP Europe €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha 2013; WSOP $50,000 PLO High Roller 2021; PGT $1,000,000 Championship 2025; Triton Jeju $25,000 NLH 2025; EPT Barcelona €20,000 NLH 2025 [20][7][14][15][16] |
| Awards | 2024 PokerGO Tour Player of the Year [13] |
| Live tournament earnings | $30,428,775 as of October 27, 2026 [1] |
Early life and first steps in poker
Ausmus was born and raised in Lamar, a small town a little over two hours southeast of Colorado Springs. He studied at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he earned a degree in economics, and kept working as a cabinet maker while he was a student. Poker soon paid better: “My cabinet job paid $11 an hour, but I was making close to $30 an hour playing poker,” he told Card Player in 2014. [3]
After graduating he moved to Las Vegas in 2005 with a bankroll of $6,500. “I had dreams of playing for a living,” he said. He started at the Palms, found the games tougher than those he had played in Colorado, and in 2006 split his time between the $5-$10 game at the Wynn and online games on DoylesRoom. He later became a regular in the day game of the Bellagio’s $10-$20 no-limit hold’em, which he described as the biggest regularly running game in town at the time. [3] Card Player gave his age as 34 in that 2014 profile, and as 45 in March 2025. [3][15]
Breakthrough: the 2012 Main Event
His recorded live tournament cashes go back to January 2008, and his first live win came in November 2012 in a $1,080 no-limit hold’em event at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. [1] The result that made his name came a few weeks earlier, at the 2012 WSOP Main Event. Ausmus reached the final table, played in October that year, and was eliminated in fifth place on October 30, 2012, when his ten-seven failed to catch up against Jesse Sylvia’s ace-nine. He collected $2,155,313, still the largest cash of his career. [4][1] “My ICM at the final table was around $2 million, which is what I got for fifth,” he said a year later. [5]
After the Main Event he gave up his regular seat at the Bellagio for a year of travelling to tournaments, and played a handful of $400-$800 mixed game sessions at Bellagio and Aria. [3]
Playing style
Ausmus came to tournaments from cash games, and he has said that background shapes how he plays. “In cash games you have to push every edge. Your variance will go up, but you’re going to make more money,” he told PokerNews in 2013, adding that in tournaments there are spots where small edges should not be pushed, and that “it’s easier to go from cash to tournaments, yes. Cash is harder, I think.” [5] His titles cover No-Limit Hold’em, limit hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha, and his seven final tables at the 2024 WSOP included the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship. [2][11] He has summed up his approach in one line: “I just try to make the most profitable decision I can and leave all of the emotions out of it.” [3]
Greatest achievements
Six WSOP bracelets
His first bracelet came at the 2013 WSOP Europe in France, in Event #4, the €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha. He started heads-up against Juha Helppi at a two-to-one chip disadvantage and won after roughly nine hours of play, for €70,324. [20] It was a game he did not rate as his best: “I’ve always said it’s my worst game, PLO. I still think it is.” [5] He came close again in 2014, finishing second in the WSOP $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship for $414,104. [1]
The next bracelets arrived in a short burst. On October 1, 2021, he won the $1,000 Covid-19 Relief charity event from 266 players for $48,681, his first live title since 2014. [6] On November 21, 2021, he won the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller from 85 entrants, after Daniel Negreanu went out in third place, and beat Phil Hellmuth heads-up for $1,188,918. [7] In June 2022 he took the $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed from 213 entries for $142,147, a fourth bracelet that made him eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame. [8] In September 2022 he beat Nick Schulman heads-up in a $365 WSOP Online event on WSOP.com for $51,807, and on June 21, 2023 he won the WSOP Online $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller from 321 entries for $360,036. Card Player noted that he was the 19th player in WSOP history to reach six bracelets. [9][10]
The 2024 WSOP and PGT Player of the Year
At the 2024 World Series of Poker Ausmus made seven final tables without winning a bracelet, matching the single-series record Phil Hellmuth had set in 2021. The run included second place in the $100,000 High Roller for $1,892,260 and seventh in the $250,000 Super High Roller for $754,052. [11] He finished third in the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year race with 3,686.60 points, behind Scott Seiver. [12]
Over the full 2024 PokerGO Tour season he recorded 26 cashes for $5,991,016, including third place in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $1,200,000 and a win in the $15,100 PLO Series II Event #7 for $288,000. He topped the leaderboard with 2,966 points and was named 2024 PGT Player of the Year, with a $50,000 bonus. [13] On January 11, 2025, one day after clinching that award, he won the PGT $1,000,000 Championship freeroll at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, beating Nick Schulman heads-up in a 50-player field for $500,000. [14]
Triton, EPT and recent results
In early 2025 Ausmus won his first Triton title, the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max in Jeju, where a record 391 entries made it the largest field in Triton history. He beat Quan Zhou heads-up for $1,892,000, the third-largest score of his career at the time. [15] In August 2025 he won the €20,000 No-Limit Hold’em at EPT Barcelona from 63 entries, taking €318,606 after a heads-up deal with David Coleman. [16] At the 2026 WSOP he finished third in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 7-Handed for $130,380, and in October 2026 he won Poker Masters Event #7, a $15,700 No-Limit Hold’em event with 58 entries, for $278,400 and his tenth PokerGO Tour title. [2][19]
Tournament results
| Year | Event | Result | Prize | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | WSOP $10,000 Main Event | 5th | $2,155,313 | [4] |
| 2024 | WSOP $100,000 High Roller | 2nd | $1,892,260 | [11] |
| 2025 | Triton Jeju $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max (391 entries) | 1st | $1,892,000 | [15] |
| 2024 | $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl | 3rd | $1,200,000 | [13] |
| 2021 | WSOP $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller (85 entrants) | 1st | $1,188,918 | [7] |
| 2019 | partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Vegas Main Event | 2nd | $650,000 | [1] |
| 2025 | PGT $1,000,000 Championship freeroll (50 players) | 1st | $500,000 | [14] |
| 2014 | WSOP $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship | 2nd | $414,104 | [1] |
| 2023 | WSOP Online $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller (321 entries) | 1st | $360,036 | [10] |
| 2025 | EPT Barcelona €20,000 No-Limit Hold’em (63 entries) | 1st (after a deal) | €318,606 | [16] |
| 2026 | Poker Masters $15,700 No-Limit Hold’em (58 entries) | 1st | $278,400 | [19] |
| 2022 | WSOP $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed (213 entries) | 1st | $142,147 | [8] |
| 2013 | WSOP Europe €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha | 1st | €70,324 | [20] |
| 2022 | WSOP Online $365 No-Limit Hold’em (571 runners) | 1st | $51,807 | [9] |
| 2021 | WSOP $1,000 Covid-19 Relief Charity Event (266 players) | 1st | $48,681 | [6] |
Poker Hall of Fame
Ausmus became eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame with his fourth bracelet in 2022. [8] PokerNews reported that he had been nominated in 2024, and he was one of the ten finalists in 2025, when PokerNews described him and Isai Scheinberg as “becoming popular annual picks for the Hall of Fame”. [14][17] He was not among the eight finalists for 2026. [18]
Vlogging
By October 2026 Ausmus had been documenting his tournament schedule in video blogs for nearly a year, on his YouTube channel Jeremy Ausmus Poker. “Sometimes I just get my face kicked in and do a vlog of just me losing a whole bunch,” he told PokerNews after his Poker Masters win. “So it’s nice to bring the wins, the losses, everything.” [19]
In his own words
- “I had dreams of playing for a living.” On moving to Las Vegas in 2005. [3]
- “My first bracelet was in Europe, outside of Paris, so until this year I had never won a bracelet here at the Rio.” After the $50,000 PLO High Roller, November 2021. [7]
- “I play a fair amount of PLO, so I felt like I liked my spot, you know.” On the same final table. [7]
- “Lots of regulars, and I knew everyone at the final table.” After the 2021 charity event. [6]
- “It’s just kind of the nature of limit, well poker in general but limit especially is very aggressive.” After his limit hold’em bracelet, June 2022. [8]
- “The environment here is great, and I try to show that in the vlog that I do, just the camaraderie in here.” On the PokerGO Studio, October 2026. [19]
Iconic hands and moments
Poker Masters 2026 Event #7 final table (PokerGO)
A big river bluff attempt (PokerGO)
From his own vlog: chip leader at the Poker Masters (Jeremy Ausmus Poker)
FAQ about Jeremy Ausmus
How old is Jeremy Ausmus?
Card Player gave his age as 34 in February 2014, 43 in June 2023 and 45 in March 2025, which places his birth in 1979 or early 1980. [3][10][15]
Where is Jeremy Ausmus from?
He is American. He was born and raised in Lamar, Colorado, studied at Colorado State University, moved to Las Vegas in 2005 and is a Las Vegas resident. [3][15]
What is Jeremy Ausmus’s net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for his net worth. What can be verified is his live tournament record: $30,428,775 in earnings as of October 27, 2026, according to PokerNews, using data from The Hendon Mob. Prize totals do not show buy-ins, staking deals or cash game results. [1]
How many WSOP bracelets does Jeremy Ausmus have?
Six: the 2013 WSOP Europe €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha, two in 2021 (the $1,000 Covid-19 Relief charity event and the $50,000 PLO High Roller), two in 2022 (the $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed and a $365 online event) and the 2023 WSOP Online $3,200 High Roller. [2][10]
How did Jeremy Ausmus do in the WSOP Main Event?
His best result is fifth place in 2012, worth $2,155,313. He was eliminated by Jesse Sylvia. [4]
What is Jeremy Ausmus’s biggest win?
His largest first-place prize is the $1,892,000 he won at Triton Jeju in 2025. His largest single cash is still the $2,155,313 for fifth in the 2012 Main Event. [15][1]
Is Jeremy Ausmus in the Poker Hall of Fame?
No. He was a finalist in 2025 but was not among the finalists for 2026. [17][18]
What is Jeremy Ausmus’s screen name?
He plays online as “Chipchecka”. [9]
Related Poker Legends
Read more about Phil Hellmuth, runner-up to Ausmus in the 2021 $50,000 PLO High Roller and the player whose single-series final table record he matched, Nick Schulman, whom he beat heads-up for an online bracelet and for the PGT Championship, and Daniel Negreanu, third at that 2021 PLO final table.
Sources
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus player profile (earnings data from The Hendon Mob), accessed October 27, 2026.
- WSOP.com, Jeremy Wayne Ausmus player profile, accessed October 27, 2026.
- Card Player, A Poker Life: Jeremy Ausmus, February 11, 2014.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus is Eliminated in 5th Place ($2,155,313), October 30, 2012.
- PokerNews, 2013 WSOP Europe: Ausmus on Winning His First Bracelet, Cash vs. Tournaments, and More, October 21, 2013.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Wins First Gold Bracelet of the 2021 World Series of Poker, October 2, 2021.
- PokerNews, Ausmus Denies Hellmuth and Negreanu; Wins Third WSOP Bracelet in $50K PLO High Roller ($1,188,918), November 21, 2021.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Crowned 2022 WSOP $3K Limit Hold’em Champion; Wins Fourth Bracelet, June 14, 2022.
- PokerNews, Jeremy “Chipchecka” Ausmus Bests Schulman for Fifth Bracelet in Event #7: $365 NLH ($51,807), September 19, 2022.
- Card Player, Jeremy Ausmus Captures Sixth World Series of Poker Bracelet, June 21, 2023.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Ties Phil Hellmuth’s Single Series WSOP Final Table Record, July 13, 2024.
- PokerNews, Historic Summer Leads to WSOP Player of the Year for Scott Seiver, July 23, 2024.
- PokerGO Tour, Jeremy Ausmus Crowned 2024 PGT Player of the Year, January 10, 2025.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Beats Nick Schulman to Win PGT Championship $1M Freeroll, January 11, 2025.
- Card Player, Jeremy Ausmus Tops Record Field of 391 In Triton Poker Jeju $25,000 Event, March 1, 2025.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Bags €318,606 Score at the 2025 PokerStars EPT Barcelona Festival, August 21, 2025.
- PokerNews, Seiver, Galfond, Schulman Newcomers Among Poker Hall of Fame Finalists, June 17, 2025.
- PokerListings, Koon, Scheinberg, Moorman Named Finalists for Poker Hall of Fame Induction in 2026, June 30, 2026.
- PokerNews, Jeremy Ausmus Wins Poker Masters Event #7 for 10th PGT Title, October 20, 2026.
- PokerNews, 2013 WSOP Europe Day 7: Stojanovic Denies O’Brien in Event #3, Ausmus Wins Event #4, October 17, 2013.
Last verified: October 27, 2026. Figures that change over time, such as career earnings, are given with the date they were checked.
