Chino Rheem Wins Event #10: $25,200 PGT PLO Series II Championship for $510,000

The 2025 PGT PLO Series II concluded today from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. Chino Rheem has bested a field of some of the top pot-limit omaha players in the world to take home the $510,000 first-place prize, 306 PGT points, and the PGT PLO Series II trophy. Rheem also racked up enough points to top the series leaderboard and was awarded the PGT Gold Cup and a $10,000 PGT Passport. Rheem becomes the first player in PGT history to collect three series wins.

The 68-entrant field created a prize pool worth $1,700,000, and the final ten players earned a piece of it. After 12 levels of play on Day 1, the field was whittled down to just 11 players, who returned for Day 2 on the stone bubble. Sean Rafael was the unfortunate bubble boy on the first hand of the day when his aces were cracked by Dylan Weisman. LaDarren Banks (10th), Christopher Frank (9th), Alex Foxen (8th), Weisman (7th), Jason Mercier (6th), Artem Maksimov (5th), Sam Soverel (4th), Joao Simao (3rd), and Isaac Haxton (2nd) all finished in the money. 

Rheem began the day fourth in chips, but by the time six players remained, he had crossed the 2,000,000 mark. He then doubled into the chip lead in a big hand against Maksimov, where he had top two pair and a flush draw against Maksimov's flush draw and open-ended straight draw. After that, Rheem never relinquished the chip lead. 

Mercier was the first elimination from the stream table when he got it in with top pair against the ace-king high of Simao, but Simao was able to spike a king on the turn and hold to send Mercier to the rail. Maksimov was next to exit when his draw couldn't improve against Rheem's top pair and flush draw, giving Rheem nearly half the chips in play. Soverel started the final table near the bottom of the counts and had trouble chipping up. He fell short after a failed bluff attempt against Rheem, then was sent out in fourth after calling down Simao with king-high, only to see Simao table trip fours. Simao headed out shortly after when he ran into a cooler spot against Haxton, which saw Simao end up all in with bottom set of jacks to Haxton's middle set of kings. Simao couldn't improve and headed to the payout desk to collect his $230,000 prize. 

Rheem started heads-up play against Haxton with a little more than a one-and-a-half-to-one chip lead, but after only a few hands of play, the two clashed in a massive pot that left Haxton with a single 5,000 chip. Haxton raised the pot from the button, and Rheem called. Rheem check-raised a flop, then check-called the turn. Rheem checked the river, Haxton bet all but 5,000 of his stack, Rheem moved all in, Haxton folded, and Rheem showed a flush. The tournament would end on the next hand when Haxton was forced all in with , and Rheem rivered a straight with .

Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Final Table Payouts

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