A few days ago, we informed you about the start of the new PokerGO Tour (PGT) series, where players will earn valuable points towards the year-end total points. The player with the most points will win the title of Player of the Year, and the top 40 players will play in the million-dollar freeroll.
The first scoring tournament series is the PGT Kickoff taking place at the PokerGo Studio in Las Vegas, consisting of five tournaments, four of which have a $5,100 buy-in and the last of which has a $10,100 buy-in. In all five tournaments, players earn double valuable points.
We've already met the first pair of champions, so let's introduce them. The first tournament saw 84 entries and a prizepool worth $420,000, of which $117,600 awaited the winner. Andrew Lichtenberger came closest to that in the final table, holding up to 40 percent of all the chips in play. Even with names like Patrick Leonard, Erik Seidel and Nick Schulman sitting against him, Andrew was unstoppable and took the full winner's prize for himself. In doing so, he won his seventh career PGT title.
| Place | Name | Country | PGT Points | Prize |
| 1st | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 235 | $117,600 |
| 2nd | Nick Schulman | United States | 151 | $75,600 |
| 3rd | Matthew McEwan | United States | 109 | $54,600 |
| 4th | John Riordan | United States | 80 | $39,900 |
| 5th | Dennis Beres | United States | 59 | $29,400 |
| 6th | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 42 | $21,000 |
| 7th | Erik Seidel | United States | 34 | $16,800 |
The number two tournament produced 96 entries and a prizepool worth $480,000, of which $124,800 awaited the winner. The chipleader on the final day was Joey Weissman, who was the only one with a stack over 3 million.
In the end, Joey had to settle for fourth place after being eliminated by Patrick Leonard. Just moments earlier, Patrick had only 4 blinds, but even that didn't stop him on his way to the title. Patrick knocked out both Joseph Cheong in third place and Aram Zobian in second place to win his first career PGT title. After these two final tables, Patrick moved into the top spot in the scoring with 292 points.
| Place | Name | Country | PGT Points | Prize |
| 1st | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 250 | $124,800 |
| 2nd | Aram Zobian | United States | 158 | $79,200 |
| 3rd | Joseph Cheong | United States | 115 | $57,600 |
| 4th | Joey Weissman | United States | 86 | $43,200 |
| 5th | Sam Laskowitz | United States | 67 | $33,600 |
| 6th | Natalie Ferguson | United States | 48 | $24,000 |
| 7th | Chino Rheem | United States | 38 | $19,200 |
Today we meet our third champion, where the number of entries has reached 112, bringing the prizepool to $560,000. The winner will be rewarded with $142,800 and only the top 7 players are left to play for that amount.
The chipleader here is Japanese player Masato Yokosawa with a stack of up to 5,100,000. At the other end is Justin Saliba with a stack of just 650,000. All players are already assured of at least $22,400 in prize money.
PGT Leaderboard Top 10:
| Rank | Player | Points | Wins | Podiums | Final Tables | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1 | Patrick Leonard | 292 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | $145,800 |
| 2 | Andrew Lichtenberger | 235 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $117,600 |
| 3 | Aram Zobian | 158 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $79,200 |
| 4 | Nick Schulman | 151 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $75,600 |
| 5 | John Riordan | 118 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | $59,100 |
| 6 | Joseph Cheong | 115 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $57,600 |
| 7 | Matthew McEwan | 109 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $54,600 |
| 8 | Joey Weissman | 86 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | $43,200 |
| 9 | Sam Laskowitz | 67 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | $33,600 |
| 10 | Dennis Beres | 59 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | $29,400 |
Source - PGT