Chad Eveslage Wins 2025 PGT $1,000,000 Championship

Chad Eveslage is the 2025 PGT $1,000,000 Championship winner. Eveslage topped a field of 54 entries to capture the tour’s season-ending title and take home $500,000.

Eveslage, winner of this season’s Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games for $1,200,000, qualified for the PGT Championship with 1,423 points. He battled his way to the final table, worked his way into the money, and then got heads up with Andrew Lichtenberger after he knocked out Michael Wang in third place. Eveslage entered the heads-up match with a greater than 4-to-1 lead, and it didn’t take him long to close it out.

The victory was sealed for Eveslage when he found two jacks after Lichtenberger moved all in from the button with eight-six suited. Eveslage had Lichtenberger drawing dead on the turn, and that ended it, scoring $500,000 for Eveslage.

2025 PGT $1,000,000 Championship Results

After 47 eliminations took place on Day 1, a group of seven returned for the final day of action. Michael Wang had the chip lead, Eric Blair was the shortest stack returning, and all seven players were on the money bubble. Eventually, Blair lost a flip to bust in seventh place and send the final six players into the money.

From there, John Riordan fell in sixth, Aaron Kupin busted in fifth, and Daniel Negreanu was knocked out in fourth. Negreanu was all in and all in and at risk against Chad Eveslage. Negreanu had ace-six of clubs, put the majority of his chips in preflop, and then got the rest of them in after flopping an open-ended straight draw. Eveslage had pocket jacks, and those jacks held up to bust Negreanu.

Michael Wang’s third-place elimination came after he got his money in good with top two pair against Eveslage’s kings. The river paired the board in a bad way for Wang, counterfeiting his two pair and sending him to the rail in third place.

Eveslage's first points of the 2025 PGT season came during the PGT Mixed Games series back in February when he finished 14th in an event. Although that specific series didn't amount to anything more for him results-wise, Eveslage did go on to win Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games for $1,200,000 and 400 PGT points. During the summer, Eveslage had three cashes in PGT-qualifying WSOP events, including a first-place finish in the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller for $883,841 and 530 PGT points. He added two more cashes in PGT-qualifying events at the WSOP Paradise series, with one of them being worth 201 points and $335,000 for placing 29th in the WSOP Super Main Event.

With the win, Eveslage joins Rok Gostisa, Jason Koon, Daniel Smiljkovic, and Jeremy Ausmus as PGT Championship winners.

With the 2025 PGT season now officially in the books, the tour sets its sights on the 2026 season, and it all begins January 26 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for the PGT Kickoff series. That leads right into PGT Mixed Games and Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games. For the full PGT schedule, visit PGT.com/schedule.

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