Erik Seidel Leads PGT PLO Series II Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table

The 2025 PGT PLO Series II continued from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha. The tournament drew 143 entries, and Erik Seidel leads the final five players.

Seidel steadily climbed the leaderboard in the late evening and scored the final knockout of the night to cement himself as the overnight chip leader with 42% of the chips in play. He leads a final table that includes John Riordan, James Chen, Sean Winter, and Daniel Kim. These five players will return with $42,900 locked up, but all eyes will be on the $171,500 first-place prize, 172 PGT points, and the Event #3 trophy.

The field of 143 entrants created a prize pool of $715,000, and the final 20 players earned a piece of it. Alex Foxen won Event #2 earlier in the day, but in Event #3, he was the unfortunate bubble boy when he got his sizable stack in against Bruno Furth and failed to make the best hand. Jim Collopy (20th), Michael Parisi (19th), Evgeni Tourevski (18th), LaDarren Banks (17th), Michael Duek (16th), Chino Rheem (15th), Yifan Tang (14th), Nacho Barbero (13th), Evan Krentzman (12th), Kamel Mokhammad (11th), Sam Soverel (10th), Ted Lawson (9th), and Allan Le (8th) were the first to fall in the money.

The remaining players converged on a single table, and soon after, Brevin Andreadis got his chips in with aces but was gone in seventh place when Riordan made a flush. Bruno Furth was the next player at risk when he got his stack in on a flop with combo draws, but was in rough shape against Seidel's better draws. The board ran out to give Seidel the superior flush, and Furth was eliminated in sixth place, while the remaining players bagged to return for Day 2.

Riordan picked up his third cash of the series in as many events, Chen and Winter each notched their second, and Seidel and Kim each grabbed their first. Event #1 winner Jesse Lonis currently sits atop the series leaderboard in the race to be crowned PGT PLO Series champion and awarded the PGT Gold Cup and a $10,000 PGT Passport.

PGT PLO Series II Event #3 Final Table

When play resumes, there will be 5:00 remaining in Level 21 with blinds at 50,000/100,000 and a 100,000 big blind ante. The button will be Daniel Kim, there will be a dead small blind, and Sean Winter will be the big blind.

Play will resume on Friday, October 17, at 11:45 a.m. PT, and live updates will continue on PGT.com until a winner is crowned.

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