Darren Elias Leads Final 7 in Poker Masters Event #4: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em

The 2025 Poker Masters series continued today from the PokerGO Studio at Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Event #4: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em. The 112-entrant field is now down to just the final table of seven, and Darren Elias leads the way with 3,725,000 in chips. 

Elias comes into the final table holding a little more than 25% of all the chips in play, and a more than one-and-a-half-to-one lead over his next closest opponent, Victoria Livschitz, who just missed the final table in Event #3, but has 2,450,000 and collects her second cash. On the line is the $280,000 first-place prize, 280 PGT Points, and the coveted brand-new Poker Masters Purple Jacket trophy.

Elias hovered near starting stack until shortly after the close of registration, when he was able to bust Sam Soverel to reach the 700,000 chip mark. By Level 11, he had quietly chipped up to over 1,300,000, and right after the start of Level 13, he eliminated Chris Hunichen to reach 1,700,000. Kristina Holst was Elias's next elimination, sending his stack to over 2,300,000, but Elias would send some chips Hendrix's way when Hendrix doubled through him with queens. Hendrix was seated to Elias's left on the secondary feature table, and the two would continue to battle throughout the evening.

Elias would then play one of the biggest pots of the night against Jeremiah Williams, the result of which left Williams with just one 5,000 chip. Williams bluffed the river on a jack-seven-four-jack-deuce board, leaving one 5,000 chip behind, and Elias asked for the rest, getting a fold from Williams, and sending Elias's stack to over 3,300,000. 

Rounding out the remaining final table players are Stephen Song (2,385,000), who collects his third cash of the series, David Chen (1,785,000), Neil Warren (1,380,000), Adam Hendrix (1,290,000), and current Poker Masters points leader, Mitchell Halverson (935,000), who has now made his third final table of the series.

The second $10,000 buy-in event of the 2025 Poker Masters drew a total of 112 entrants, creating a prize pool worth $1,120,000 and paying the final 16 players at least $16,800. Wayne Nowak was the unfortunate bubble boy when he ran his ace-jack into the ace-queen of Halverson and couldn't improve.

Several elite players and PGT regulars made their way to the PokerGO Studio, ready to battle it out for one of the top prizes and to collect some PGT points, as only the 40 highest PGT points earners at the end of the year will gain access to the $1,000,000 PGT Championship Freeroll. Those players included Kristen Foxen, Alex Foxen, Sam Soverel, Erik Seidel, Sean Winter, Martin Zamani, Cary Katz, Brock Wilson, Cherish Andrews, Joey Weissman, Dan Sepiol, Matthew McEwan, Spencer Champlin, Andrew Lichtenberger, Jonathan Little, Clemen Deng, Jeremy Ausmus, Aram Zobian, Justin Zaki, Chris Hunichen, Jim Collopy, Justin Saliba, and Christian Roberts.

The final table will be streamed on PokerGO at 1 p.m. PT, with cards in the air at 11:45.

Play will resume with 16:00 remaining in Level 18, with blinds 25,000/50,000 and a 50,000 big blind ante. The button will be drawn at the start of the day. Connect with PokerGO.com on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Watch daily poker clips on the PokerGO YouTube channel. Join the conversation on the PokerGO Discord server. You can save $20 off an annual subscription to PokerGO.com by using the code “PGT2025” at checkout.