Chino Rheem Defends Championship Title at the PokerGO Tour PLO Series

Chino Rheem is now a four-time PokerGO Tour collection champion after one other gorilla-like run on the PLO collection in Las Vegas that simply wrapped up.

Rheem additionally gained the award finally 12 months’s PGT PLO collection. His different two got here within the PGT Combined Video games collection in 2023 and 2025. No different participant has greater than three.

And he did it this time with out profitable any occasions.

The PGT Gold Cup was the one piece of {hardware} he took from the collection. He gained all his factors by cashing in 4 out of the ten tourneys that have been held on the Venetian, however by no means profitable one. With eight cashes this month in PGT occasions, he’s operating as sizzling as Demise Valley.

He got here as shut as attainable after ending as runner-up within the collection’ first tourney, the $3,000 Foremost Occasion. PGT modified issues up a bit this 12 months by beginning with the Foremost Occasion.

He misplaced to Bruno Furth, who scored his solely money in collection with the victory, which was good for $150,000. The 300 factors he earned on this single occasion was sufficient to place Furth on the high of the leaderboard, simply forward of Rheem’s 281.

And that’s how the collection ended. And though Furth wound-up on high of the leaderboard, the title of collection championship and the PGT Gold Cup goes to Rheem as a result of, by rule, gamers should money not less than twice as a way to be eligible for the bonus prize.

So far as most cash gained throughout the collection, Jeremy Druckman completed on high with $209,400. Rheem’s whole was $136,555. Druckman gained $182,400 within the $10,100 occasion, which was his first PGT title.

After beginning the collection with a second-place end that was good for $100,000, Rheem adopted it with an eighth-place for $10,800, fourth for $15,435 and $16,000 in bounties, and a fifth for an additional $10,320.

Rheem will quickly hit the $20 million lifetime mark, in accordance with The Hendon Mob. Of that, $6.4 million got here in PGT occasions the place he’s gained 9 in 81 cashed and 41 last tables.

PGT PLO Collection at Venetian Las Vegas Prime 10 Leaderboard

*Not eligible to qualify for the collection leaderboard as they haven’t cashed in not less than two occasions.