Brandon Wilson was right down to just some large blinds at one level within the last day of occasion no. 3 of the PokerGO Tour Final Likelihood sequence. With seven gamers remaining, he referred to as all-in from the massive blind with 4
2 going through a small-blind shove from two-time bracelet winner Keith Lehr. Wilson flopped a flush to go away Lehr’s 10
5
drawing lifeless earlier than the flip, giving himself some respiration room.
From there, Wilson managed to construct his stack and survive to the ultimate two. He then overcame a heads-up chip deficit in opposition to Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian champion Landon Tice to come back away with the title, the highest prize of $297,500, and 600 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors. He’s now sitting in a three-way tie for second place within the 2025 POY standings introduced by World Poker.
He additionally earned 298 PGT rating factors with this triumph, bringing his whole for the season to 487. That’s good for one hundredth place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
Wilson is an rising star on the high-stakes match scene, having now gained 5 dwell excessive curler occasions since August of 2023. His first 4 all got here in occasions held at Seminole Onerous Rock Hollywood in Florida, and collectively totaled greater than $1.9 million. This newest victory introduced his lifetime earnings to greater than $3.6 million.
A complete of 119 entries have been made on this $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, constructing a prize pool of $1,190,000 that was paid out among the many prime 17 finishers. Wilson was close to the underside of the counts when the day started, and slid even additional earlier than managing the beforehand talked about double up with 4-2 suited.
It took greater than an hour and a half for the primary knockout of the ultimate desk to reach. It was David Chen who hit the rail in seventh place ($47,600) after he was left quick making a transfer with A-J in opposition to the A-Ok of Tice. He was quickly joined by four-time World Poker Tour essential occasion champion Darren Elias, who acquired all-in with A-Ok going through the pocket deuces Wilson. Elias failed to attach with the board and was eradicated in sixth place ($59,500), whereas Wilson continued to climb the chip counts.
WPT champion and two-time bracelet Dylan Linde was the subsequent to fall. He referred to as off with A-8 for round 5.5 large blinds going through a button shove from Tice, who held Ok-6 suited. Tice flopped a pair of kings and held from there to slim the sector to 4 contenders. Linde earned $77,350 because the fifth-place finisher.
Tice was additionally concerned within the subsequent knockout, which pitted his pocket sixes in opposition to the A-4 of two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel. Tice flopped a set and pale a gutshot to eradicate Soverel in fourth place ($101,150). Soverel now has almost $24.7 million in profession earnings.
The very subsequent hand, Lehr picked up pocket nines on the button and moved all-in for round 16 large blinds. He obtained a snap name from Tice and his pocket kings. Neither participant linked with the board and Lehr busted in third place, incomes $130,900 for his efforts.
Tice took 11,025,000 into heads-up play with Wilson and his 3,850,000. Wilson was in a position to battle his manner into the lead after some time, however Tice gained a giant pot with a flopped straight to leap again out in entrance. The match then swung decisively in Wilson’s favor when his 33
gained an enormous preflop race in opposition to the AOk of Tice.
Not lengthy after that, Tice tried his hand at profitable a flip with 33. He shoved for 3,275,000 from the button with blinds at 150,000-300,000 with a giant blind ante of 300,000. Wilson referred to as with J10 from the massive blind and the board got here down AJ8OkA and Tice was eradicated because the runner-up. The $184,450 he earned grew his recorded profession haul to almost $2.5 million.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Brandon Wilson
$297,500
600
298
2
Landon Tice
$184,450
500
184
3
Keith Lehr
$130,900
400
131
4
Sam Soverel
$101,150
300
101
5
Dylan Linde
$77,350
250
77
6
Darren Elias
$59,500
200
60
7
David Chen
$47,600
150
48
Photograph credit: PokerGO Tour / Antonio Abrego.
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