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The 2025 PGT PLO Series II continued from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the final event of the series, Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. The tournament drew 68 entries, and Artem Maksimov leads the final 11 players.

Maksimov held one of the larger stacks for much of the evening and leveraged it to accumulate further en route to the overnight lead as he finished by bagging nearly 23% of the chips in play. Isaac Haxton, Jason Mercier, Chino Rheem, Dylan Weisman, Sam Soverel, Joao Simao, Christopher Frank, Alex Foxen, Sean Rafael, and LaDarren Banks round out the players returning for the final day.

The field of 68 entrants created a prize pool of $1,700,000, and the final 10 players will earn a piece of it. A min-cash will be worth $51,000, while the winner will take home the $510,000 first-place prize, 306 PGT points, and the Event #10 trophy.

Bryce Yockey currently sits atop the series leaderboard with 487 points in the race to be crowned PGT PLO Series champion and awarded the PGT Gold Cup and a $10,000 PGT Passport. Chino Rheem, Sam Soverel, Joao Simao, Alex Foxen, and Sean Rafael are the players who could overtake Yockey with a victory. Rheem could also win the title of series champion with a second-place finish, provided Soverel, Simao, Foxen, or Rafael do not win.

2025 PGT PLO Series II Event #10 Day 2 Seat Draw

Table 1

Seat Player Country Chip Count
1 Joao Simao Brazil 725,000
2 Isaac Haxton United States 2,490,000
3 Chino Rheem United States 1,535,000
4 -- empty -- -- --
5 Christopher Frank Germany 715,000
6 LaDarren Banks United States 395,000
7 Artem Maksimov United States 3,115,000

Table 2

Seat Player Country Chip Count
1 Alex Foxen United States 530,000
2 Sam Soverel United States 740,000
3 -- empty -- -- --
4 Jason Mercier United States 1,785,000
5 -- empty -- -- --
6 Dylan Weisman United States 1,170,000
7 Sean Rafael United States 520,000

When play resumes, there will be 60:00 remaining in Level 13 with blinds at 15,000/25,000 and a 25,000 big blind ante. The button will be Chino Rheem on Table 1 and Dylan Weisman on Table 2.

Play will resume on Saturday, October 25, at 12:30 p.m. PT, and the final table will be livestreamed on PokerGO when seven players remain.

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