Red Hot Jeremy Becker Returns to Winning Ways with Venetian Poker Win
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Jeremy Becker closed out 2025 on a heater, and the run appears to be carrying over to the New Year.
The Las Vegas daily tournament crusher who hails from Florida finished off the year by winning the $1,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em UltimateStack at Venetian for $71,805 during the DeepStack Extravaganza.
He beat out 406 entrants at the iconic Las Vegas Strip card room, including his heads-up opponent, Kfir Nahum, a local poker player who took home $51,322. The victory was huge for "JBex," and potentially a sign of big things to come for the popular poker pro over the next 12 months.
Becker Claims Poker Title; More to Come This Week?
The UltimateStack event featured a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool that, and like most tournaments at Venetian, the guarantee was easily surpassed, as the the prize pool hit $389,760. No one took down a larger portion of that pot on Dec. 30 than Becker, who was fresh off a fifth place finish for a career-best $710,000 in the $10,400 buy-in WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, the casino he once famously won eight daily tournaments atin a month.
Becker held a chip lead at one point during the final table of the WPT World Championship, the World Poker Tour's signature season-ending tournament won by Schuyler Thornton for $2,098,456. The final table at Venetian would be kinder to Becker on Tuesday.
Venetian Poker UltimateStack Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeremy Becker | $71,805 |
| 2 | Kfir Nahum | $51,322 |
| 3 | Evan Sandberg | $37,205 |
| 4 | Ivan Angeloov | $27,358 |
| 5 | Jeremy Eyer | $20,412 |
| 6 | Mitja Rudolf | $15,456 |
| 7 | Jeevandeep Singh | $11,879 |
| 8 | Imran Mukati | $9,269 |
| 9 | Jesse Kertland | $7,345 |
Becker's run at Venetian continued Thursday on Day 1a of the $1,600 buy-in Major Series of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) New Years Poker Open, a $500,000 guaranteed no-limit hold'em tournament. The recent Venetian tournament champion bagged a massive chip lead with nine of 76 players from the session advancing to Day 2. He finished the day with 707,000 chips, nearly double that of Ron West, who ended up second in chips. Well over 100 players had registered for Day 1b on Friday, with registration for the session still open at the time of publishing.
Becker, who burst onto the scene in 2023, has over $4.5 million in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob. If he continues to play as well as he has the past month throughout 2026, those Hendon Mob cashes will be significantly higher a year from now.
Follow Becker's run for another Venetian title with the MSPT's live reporting coverage.
