The PokerGO Tour Pot Restrict Omaha Collection II is now happening in Las Vegas, and there are some acquainted names who already discovered trophies and joined Alex Foxen as latest winners.
Eric Seidel nonetheless obtained it
Eric Seidel has been within the Poker Corridor of Fame for 15 years, and on the age of 65, could also be taking part in poker higher than ever. Seidel received his first PGT of 2025 on the PLO II sequence in Occasion #3, a $5,100 buy-in contest which attracted 143 punters who generated a prize pool of $715,000.
Seidel took residence $171,500 of that. John Riordan received $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 regarded:
Jesse Lonis doesn’t lose
Right here’s one thing Captain Apparent would declare: Jesse Lonis is de facto good taking part in in PGT occasions. Since Sept 24, he’s completed within the prime 10 in six of them — a kind of being a win within the first occasion of the PLO II sequence.
Lonis was the final man standing of the 146 gamers who put up $5,100 to kick-off the sequence. 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 12 months record on the market, together with the large one, the International 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 received his seventh World Collection of Poker bracelet on-line. Right here had been the highest six:
Ben Lamb breaks by means of
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 sequence.
It’s Lamb’s first win of 2025. His subsequent deep run will most certainly push his lifetime event winnings complete over the $20 million mark. Sean Winter made his fourth last desk of the sequence within the occasion on his option to the highest of the sequence’ leaderboard.
Right here’s who made the ultimate desk:
Sean Winter going for sequence champion
Sean Winter made 4 last tables within the first 5 PLO II occasions of the sequence, and he broke although in the easiest way in Occasion #5, a $10,11 PLO progressive bounty contest that attracted 106.
Winter received the $122,300 prime prize in addition to $155,000 in bounties for a grand complete of $277,300. He now has greater than $36 million in event cashes. Right here’s the ultimate desk outcomes:
With 5 occasion to go within the PGT PLO II sequence on the Aria in Las Vegas, he’s the front-runner to win the title of sequence champion. That comes with a PGT Gold Cup trophy and a $10,000 PGT Passport. Right here’s the present leaderboard.
The PGT sequence runs till Oct. 24, earlier than slipping seamlessly into the Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl sequence that runs till Oct. 29. After that, it’s North American Poker Tour occasions from Nov. 3-10.
