With 19 wins and 93 cashes thus far in 2023, Jeremy Becker is on the rise heading into December’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
Jeremy Becker has been one of the highest volume live tournament players in the world over the last three-plus years, and now he’s set his aim on bigger buy-in events. Jeremy Becker garnered considerable attention in the poker world back in May, when he rattled off six wins in nightly tournaments at Wynn Las Vegas. The images of Becker posing for a winner’s photo with a five-three offsuit became silly in terms of their volume, but they caught the eye of Daniel Negreanu and inspired one of the winningest players in poker history to back a true grinder in some bigger buy-in tournaments heading into the summer.
That included a run in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, in which Becker cashed for a then-career best $44,700. Opportunities to fire bigger buy-ins continued, and it would be fair to imagine Becker might leave the daily tournament grind behind. But it had only just begun.
Coming to such a conclusion would be to ignore Becker’s overall journey in live tournament poker. Long before his winner’s photos became a memeable, seemingly nightly occurrence, he was out there on the grind to an astonishing degree. Before the recognition, before even moving to Las Vegas, Becker became one of the highest-volume live tournament grinders in the world by taking advantage of the plentiful options at hand in his home state of Florida.
The momentum started to pick up for Becker in October 2020, as Becker cashed in 18 different tournaments over the last three months of the year. He was starting to put into practice what he had picked up during hours spent cooped up in the house while live poker was taken off the table over that Spring and Summer.
“I definitely got into it in 2020,” said Becker. “I used to just grind live cash. And when COVID hit, I really started studying tournaments. By studying, I mean watching PokerGO and [online] final tables. Anything I […]
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