The primary PokerGO Tour sequence of the 2025 season ran on the Aria Jan. 20-24, minting a number of new champions who put up not less than $5,100 to attempt for a six-figures and a trophy. Repeat champs had been Andrew Lichtenberger Spencer Champlin, and Kristen Foxen, who received the identical occasion final yr, whereas Patrick Leonard and Masato Yokosawa claimed their first titles.
A latest inductee into the Ladies in Poker corridor of Fame, she has constructed a profession that can actually see her not less than nominated for the Poker corridor of Fame.
The PGT’s subsequent sequence is the PokerGO Cup Feb 10-19.
Andrew Lichtenberger
Occasion #1: $5,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em
$117,600
Lichtenberger received his seventh title within the first occasion of the 2025 PGT season. The person referred to as “LuckyChewy” received three in 2021, two in 2022, and one in 2023. A professional from New York who works out of Las Vegas, he handed the $20 million mark final yr.
Patrick Leonard
Occasion #2: $5,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em
$124,800
Leonard had an outstanding sequence. He sandwiched a win between a sixth and a seventh place end, two slices of bread price $46,000 complete. The Englishman who performs on-line as “pads1161” bought his first win on the PGT. He’s had some important wins in his profession in reside occasions, together with a victory in a $25,000 occasion on the Aria Excessive Curler 70 — a day earlier than profitable a $10,400 occasion on the Bellagio Cup XIII in 2017.
Masato Yokosawa
Occasion #3: $5,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em
$142,800
Yokosawa, a professional and Japanese blogger, received his first PGT title within the third occasion for $142,800. He’s approaching the $2 million mark. His YouTube channel will quickly hit 1,000,000 subscribers. Yokosawa has been at it for over a decade and is the winner of the 2013 World Poker Tour Korea.
Spencer Champlin
Occasion #4: $5,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em
$157,500
Spencer Champlin inched nearer to the $4 million lifetime mark with a victory within the fourth occasion of the Kickoff, which attracted 126 entries. He additionally received a $5,100 occasion on the PGT Poker Masters for $160,475. It’s uncertain the participant from Scarborough, Maine, needs January to finish, as a result of in the course of the month he received the $3,500 championship occasion at Seminole’s Fortunate Hearts Poker Open for $450,000. That’s fairly a twofer, Spence!
Kristen Foxen
Occasion #5: $10,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em
$197,625
Foxen took down the ultimate occasion of the PGT’s Kickoff sequence for the second yr in a row, topping a ultimate desk that included Joao Simao, Stephen Music, 2024 PGT Participant of the Yr Jeremy Ausmus, Andrew Moreno, Nick Seward, and Neil Warren, who positioned in that order. It’s her third PGT ultimate desk of the month after ending second in a $10,100 occasion for $187,550, and seventh in its freeroll for nothing. The win pushed her lifetime tally over the $9 million mark.
