Daniel Negreanu has finished it once more.
The 50-year-old poker professional captured his forty ninth profession event title on Friday, March 28 because the final participant standing in occasion no. 3 on the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Restrict Omaha Sequence, which sported a $5,000 buy-in. This was his eleventh PGT title, having simply secured his tenth earlier this month by profitable a $15,000 supplier’s alternative occasion on the PGT Combined Video games collection.
The Poker Corridor of Famer was awarded $182,850 for the win, rising his lifetime earnings to just about $54.5 million. The seven-time World Sequence of Poker bracelet winner stays in eighth place on poker’s all-time cash listing, and is at present lower than 1 / 4 of one million {dollars} behind seventh-ranked Adrian Mateos ($54,727,198).
Earlier than getting his arms on the trophy, Negreanu needed to overcome heads-up opponent James Chen, who has made the ultimate desk of every of the three tournaments held thus far at this four-card competition.
This win additionally got here with loads of rankings factors for Negreanu. The 576 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors that got here with the title moved him inside the highest 70 within the 2025 POY standings introduced by World Poker. Negreanu additionally surged up the season-long PGT rankings, settling in seventh place in the meanwhile.
A complete of 159 entries turned out to the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & On line casino Las Vegas for this occasion, leading to a $795,000 prize pool. The highest 23 finishers made the cash, with notables like six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh (nineteenth), three-time World Poker Tour champion Chino Rheem (seventeenth), and WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Dylan Linde (eleventh) working deep.
Bryce Yockey got here into the ultimate day in the course of the pack, however was finally the primary to hit the rail. The 2-time bracelet winner misplaced nearly all of his stack with Okay
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of fellow two-time bracelet winner Dylan Weisman. The flop got here down OkayJ9 to offer Weisman the nut flush whereas Yockey hit high set. The two flip and 10 stored Weisman forward, giving him a double into second chip place whereas Yockey was left with only a handful of massive blinds. He was quickly eradicated in sixth place, incomes $39,750 for his second final-table displaying of the collection.
Xiaoxiao Music had overtaken the chip lead early on the closing desk, however misplaced a wholesome pot with an overpair towards the journeys of Negreanu to surrender the highest spot. He continued to slip down the leaderboard forward of his subsequent key hand. He ended up getting all-in on a Q868 board with Okay985 main the J982 of Chen. The river introduced the J, giving Chen a full home and ending Music’s run in fifth place ($47,700).
Eric Blair’s run on this occasion got here to a detailed when his JJ98 matched up towards the AOkay109 of Chen in a preflop showdown. The 77468 runout gave Chen a straight and the knockout. Blair settled for $59,625 because the fourth-place finisher.
With that, Chen took a large lead into three-handed motion. He added to that benefit when his AAJ6 held up towards the OkayOkay103 of Weisman, who three-bet then referred to as off from the massive blind after Chen raised from the small blind then four-bet shoved. Chen made aces full on a 955A7 board to take a 4.5:1 chip lead over Negreanu into heads-up play whereas Weisman headed to the payout desk to gather $79,500 for his podium displaying.
Negreanu managed an early double-up to shut that hole a bit, then bought all-in with AAOkay5 towards Chen’s OkayOkay52 and held to surge into the lead.
Again-to-back aces for @RealKidPoker to take the chip lead!
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 28, 2025
The 2 battled backwards and forwards from there, however finally Negreanu was in a position to pull out to greater than a 2:1 benefit by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. Negreanu raised to 1,200,000 on the button with AJOkay2 and Chen three-bet to three,600,000 from the massive blind holding QQ86. Negreanu re-potted and Chen referred to as all in for five,600,000. The A96Okay3 runout gave Negreanu a set of kings for the win, ending Chen’s newest final-table run in second place ($115,275).
The bracelet winner from Homestead, PA has now cashed for $225,895 throughout this collection, with closing placements of fifth, third, and 2nd place. Chen now sits in first place within the collection factors race with 245 factors, whereas Negreanu is scorching on his heels with 195 factors.
Closing Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Daniel Negreanu
$182,850
576
183
2
James Chen
$115,275
480
115
3
Dylan Weisman
$79,500
384
80
4
Eric Blair
$59,625
288
60
5
Xiaoxiao Music
$47,700
240
48
6
Bryce Yockey
$39,750
192
40
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