Sam Laskowitz Wins Final Event of Inaugural PGT Bounty Blitz Series - $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty for $36,500 and $13,600* in Bounties

The inaugural 2025 PGT Bounty Blitz concluded today from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Event #6: $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty. Sam Laskowitz defeated Andrew "Lucky Chewy" Lichtenberger heads-up to take home the $36,500 first-place prize, $13,600* in bounties, 61 PGT points, and the coveted PGT Bounty Blitz Head Hunter trophy.

*The two players struck a deal heads-up to ICM chop the bounties and play for the remaining prize money and trophy.

This was Laskowitz's second final table of the series and first win, and his second PGT win overall. Laskowitz's career earnings now eclipse $3,800,000, according to The Hendon Mob. 

Laskowitz plowed through a field that included top players and PGT regulars, John Riordan, Jim Collopy, Chino Rheem, Christian Roberts, Nick Seward, Michael Berk, Cherish Andrews, Brock Wilson, David Coleman, John Andress, Shannon Shorr, Neil Warren, Aram Zobian, Anthony Hu, Sam Soverel, Cary Katz, and Jeremy Becker.

Becker capped off a stellar series by making his fifth final table in six events, winning Event #1, and leaving with a third-place finish in this one.

The field drew a total of 38 players, creating a prize pool worth $190,000, including $76,000 allocated to the bounty pool, and the final six players earned a piece of it. David Coleman was the unfortunate bubble boy when his stack fell to less than one big blind after losing a flip to Lichtenberger. Coleman and Bryan Swanson were eliminated in the same hand by Mike Zulker, and since Swanson started the hand with more chips, he took home the sixth-place prize. 

Laksowitz came into the final table in the middle of the pack, but found a big double through Zulker with queens against Zulker's nines to take over the chip lead. Laskowitz and Zulker would play another big pot an orbit later, where Zulker called him down on all three streets to see Laskowitz table king-queen on a queen high board, making Laskowitz the overwhelming chip leader. But the two weren't finished, Laskowitz would eliminate Zulker shortly after when Zulker three-bet Laskowitz's button open from the small blind, and then check-call Laskowitz all the way down, including a river shove on ace-seven-six-seven-four, to lose with aces and sevens to Laskowitz's sixes full. 

Laskowitz held two-thirds of the chips at the start of three-handed play, but the gap started to close when Lichtenberger douled through him with kings. Becker and Lichtenberger would slowly chip up to even things out, with Lichtenberger taking over the chip lead after making a boat against Becker.

Lichtenberger would then bust Becker with ace-queen to Becker's queen-ten to start heads-up with a little under a two-to-one chip lead over Laskowitz. However, on the first hand of heads-up, the two would swap stacks in a cooler spot that saw Laskowitz make two pair over the smaller two pair of Lichtenberger. The tournament would end a few hands later when Laskowitz limped the button and called a shove from Lichtenberger holding to Lichtenberger's . The final runout of and Laskowitz was crowned the Event #6 champion.

Event #6: $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty Final Table Results

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