The PokerGO Tour Pot Restrict Omaha Sequence II is now going down in Las Vegas, and there are some acquainted names who already discovered trophies and joined Alex Foxen as current winners.
Eric Seidel nonetheless bought it
Eric Seidel has been within the Poker Corridor of Fame for 15 years, and on the age of 65, could also be enjoying poker higher than ever. Seidel gained his first PGT of 2025 on the PLO II collection in Occasion #3, a $5,100 buy-in contest which attracted 143 punters who generated a prize pool of $715,000.
Seidel took house $171,500 of that. John Riordan gained $103,700 for coming in third, and Sean Winter, who would go onto win Occasion #5, completed third for $75,100.
Seidel is $1.5 million in event cashes away from breaking the $50 million lifetime mark. Not dangerous for a rap-loving white boy from NYC.
Right here’s how the ultimate desk appeared:
| Place | Identify | Nation | PGT Factors | Prize |
| 1st | Erik Seidel | United States | 172 | $171,500 |
| 2nd | John Riordan | United States | 104 | $103,700 |
| third | Sean Winter | United States | 75 | $75,100 |
| 4th | Daniel Kim | United States | 57 | $57,200 |
| fifth | James Chen (US) | United States | 43 | $42,900 |
| sixth | Bruno Furth | United States | 36 | $35,800 |
| seventh | Brevin Andreadis | United States | 29 | $28,600 |
Jesse Lonis doesn’t lose
Right here’s one thing Captain Apparent would declare: Jesse Lonis is admittedly good enjoying in PGT occasions. Since Sept 24, he’s completed within the high 10 in six of them — a kind of being a win within the first occasion of the PLO II collection.
Lonis was the final man standing of the 146 gamers who put up $5,100 to kick-off the collection. The dude merely is aware of the best way to make the cash in occasions, notably high-roller contests the place the fields hardly ever exceed 150 gamers.
He’s having a 2025 to recollect: 9 wins for greater than $10 million in cashes, which places him close to the highest of each Participant of the Yr record on the market, together with the massive one, the World Poker Index, the place he presently sits solely a dozen factors behind Artur Martirosyan.
The ultimate desk was filled with superstars, together with Josh Arieh, who simply gained his seventh World Sequence of Poker bracelet on-line. Right here had been the highest six:
| Place | Identify | Nation | PGT Factors | Prize |
| 1st | Jesse Lonis | United States | 175 | $175,000 |
| 2nd | Chino Rheem | United States | 106 | $106,000 |
| third | Josh Arieh | United States | 77 | $76,700 |
| 4th | Artem Maksimov | United States | 58 | $58,400 |
| fifth | Isaac Haxton | United States | 44 | $43,800 |
| sixth | Anthony Hu | United States | 37 | $36,500 |
Ben Lamb breaks by
Ben Lamb picked up one other $292,500 for profitable Occasion #4, a $10,100 occasion that pulled in 117 entrants. The $1.1 million generated was the primary million-dollar pool of the PLO II collection.
It’s Lamb’s first win of 2025. His subsequent deep run will most probably push his lifetime event winnings whole over the $20 million mark. Sean Winter made his fourth remaining desk of the collection within the occasion on his option to the highest of the collection’ leaderboard.
Right here’s who made the ultimate desk:
| Place | Identify | Nation | Prize | PGT Factors |
| 1st | Ben Lamb | United States | $292,500 | 293 |
| 2nd | Fernando Habegger | Switzerland | $181,400 | 181 |
| third | Chris Costa | United States | $128,700 | 129 |
| 4th | Stefan Christopher | United States | $99,400 | 99 |
| fifth | Cary Katz | United States | $76,100 | 76 |
| sixth | Sean Winter | United States | $58,500 | 59 |
| seventh | Daniel Aharoni | United States | $46,800 | 47 |
Sean Winter going for collection champion
Sean Winter made 4 remaining tables within the first 5 PLO II occasions of the collection, and he broke although in the easiest way in Occasion #5, a $10,11 PLO progressive bounty contest that attracted 106.
Winter gained the $122,300 high prize in addition to $155,000 in bounties for a grand whole of $277,300. He now has greater than $36 million in event cashes. Right here’s the ultimate desk outcomes:
| Place | Identify | Nation | PGT Factors | Prize | Bounty Prize |
| 1st | Sean Winter | United States | 253 | $122,300 | $155,000 |
| 2nd | Sam Soverel | United States | 153 | $122,300 | $19,000 |
| third | Nick Palma | United States | 121 | $73,100 | $19,000 |
| 4th | Taylor Wilson | United States | 95 | $57,200 | $16,000 |
| fifth | Jesse Lonis | United States | 69 | $41,700 | $33,000 |
| sixth | Kamel Mokhammad | Ukraine | 53 | $31,800 | $2,000 |
| seventh | Stephen Hubbard | United States | 42 | $25,300 | $4,000 |
With 5 occasion to go within the PGT PLO II collection on the Aria in Las Vegas, he’s the front-runner to win the title of collection champion. That comes with a PGT Gold Cup trophy and a $10,000 PGT Passport. Right here’s the present leaderboard.
| Rank | Participant | Factors | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1 | Sean Winter | 416 | 4 | $285,100 |
| 2 | Ben Lamb | 293 | 1 | $292,500 |
| 3 | Jesse Lonis | 264 | 3 | $228,700 |
| 4 | Fernando Habegger | 181 | 1 | $181,400 |
| 5 | Sam Soverel | 175 | 2 | $143,800 |
| 6 | Erik Seidel | 172 | 1 | $171,500 |
| 7 | Alex Foxen | 162 | 2 | $105,250 |
| 8 | John Riordan | 158 | 4 | $142,300 |
| 9 | Michael Wang | 155 | 3 | $105,200 |
| 10 | Chino Rheem | 149 | 3 | $135,700 |
The PGT collection runs till Oct. 24, earlier than slipping seamlessly into the Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl collection that runs till Oct. 29. After that, it’s North American Poker Tour occasions from Nov. 3-10.
