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From Discord regular to heads-up at a Main Event in Asia. We sit down with Jeremy to break down the run, the year that led to it, and what comes next.
You'll know Jeremy Chan if you've spent any real time in the Pokercode Discord. Long-serving community member, moderator, one of the steady voices keeping the conversation sharp - he's also been quietly logging more reps on the live circuit over the last few years. On May 4, that work landed him on the biggest stage of his career.
Jeremy navigated a field of 1,281 entries down to heads-up at the Poker Dream Jeju Main Event, finishing 2nd for $177,935 - the biggest live score of his career to date and the headline result of a trip that was already producing.
Before the Main Event, he ran deep in the Asian Poker Tour Taipei Zodiac Classic ($2,700 buy-in, nearly 500 runners) for a 10th-place finish, then took 2nd in a $4,000 single-day High Roller earlier in the same Poker Dream Jeju series for $48,000. Three deep runs on one trip. One title away from a perfect month.
We caught up with Jeremy after the dust settled to talk through the score, the year that led into it, and what playing the live circuit looks like from where he's sitting now.
Firstly, congratulations on the score. How does it feel to secure this result?
Feels amazing - and lucky. I have to admit, a lot of luck is involved in runs like this.
You played a good amount of live poker in 2025. Has that continued in 2026, or have you been balancing your schedule differently?
I had a really great start to 2025 - a crazy month in March, including a coaching review and a deep run with Tobi on the platform - and I'd been moving up the stakes relatively quickly. Binked that $160k score by finishing 2nd in the APT Super High Roller in Incheon. But things went really poorly in the last few months of 2025. Had a pretty bad downswing with some aggressive shot-taking that left me doubting my ability and confidence. This was pretty much my first trip back overseas in 2026. I started in Asian Poker Tour Taipei with a 10th-place finish in the $2.7k Zodiac Classic (almost 500 runners), then a 2nd-place finish for $48k in a single-day High Roller ($4k buy-in) at Poker Dream Jeju. It really was the near-perfect trip, just without a trophy.
Since playing so much live poker, is there anything you're aware of now that you wish you knew when you were starting out on the circuit?
Online and live are hugely different in approach. You've got old-school players, total recreationals, regs - you have to tailor your game to each opponent. Live tells are a bonus on top of the usual information you're getting from the table. None of that really shows up the same way online, and you only learn it by being in the seat.
What does the remainder of 2026 look like for you?
Honestly, I haven't planned it out. I'll probably continue doing what I've been doing - studying off the tables, grinding online, getting reps in, and going on the occasional trip. Travelling constantly really is annoying when it comes to ruining the routines you've developed.
What has the Pokercode community helped you with the most, and would you recommend it to players looking to develop?
I always try to rep the team out there on live streams. This one didn't quite work out - I appeared on the Day 2 live stream of the Super High Roller ($7k buy-in) at Poker Dream Jeju and lost a massive pot AKs vs QQ. Lasted a grand total of two hands. The community has been really supportive though - I've been a member since the very start of my career, 5-6 years ago, and I've had all kinds of success from the lowest buy-ins up. I'll always recommend Pokercode to every player. But you have to put in the work for yourself.
"I've been a member since the very start of my career, 5-6 years ago. I'll always recommend Pokercode to every player - but you have to put in the work for yourself."
— Jeremy ChanJeremy's run is exactly the kind of story this community was built to produce. A long-time member who started at the lowest buy-ins, kept showing up in the Discord, kept putting in the study reps, and worked his way to a heads-up battle for a Main Event title in Asia. The downswing he describes at the end of 2025 is the part of the arc most players never talk about - and the part that makes the result on May 4 mean what it does.
The platform, the coaching, the people in the Discord - they're the same ones that have been there since the start of his career. The work is his.
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