Jesse Lonis Overall PGT PLO Series Champion, Wins $500,000 Side Bet

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The PokerGO Tour (PGT) PLO Series took place over the past few days at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, bringing the total number of tournaments to 11. Among them was the first Mystery Bounty tournament held at the PokerGO Studio, which had a buy-in of $15,100 and brought in 78 entries with a prizepool of $1,170,000. Only three players made it to the finals here, Bryce Yockey, Tyler Brown and Daniel Negreanu. The winner was Bryce Yockey, for whom this was his second PGT title. Together with the bounty, he pocketed $323,400.

Place Name Country PGT Points Prize Bounties
1st Bryce Yockey United States 262 $218,400 $105,000
2nd Tyler Brown United States 168 $140,400 $280,000
3rd Daniel Negreanu Canada 122 $101,400 $0

 

Jesse Lonis at the final tables

 

Event number 9 also had a buy-in of $15,100 and produced 71 entries. The chipleader on the final day was Jesse Lonis, who was up against names like Chino Rheem, Alex Foxen, and Daniel Negreanu. None of them could stop Lonis, and he took home his fourth PGT title and $308,850 in prize money.

Place Name Country PGT Points Prize
1st Jesse Lonis United States 247 $308,850
2nd Chino Rheem United States 162 $202,350
3rd Alex Foxen United States 115 $143,775
4th Lautaro Guerra Spain 81 $101,175
5th Daniel Negreanu Canada 60 $74,550

Jesse Lonis also made the final table of tournament number ten, which was the $25,200 buy-in PLO Championship. This tournament brought 60 entries and a prizepool of $1,500,000. Lonis finished third here and after his elimination, the final duo of Jim Collopy and Dylan Weisman negotiated a deal. After a $100,000 playoff for the winner, the champion was Jim Collopy, who won $450,367.

Place Name Country PGT Points Prize
1st Jim Collopy United States 288 $450,367
2nd Dylan Weisman United States 180 $329,633
3rd Jesse Lonis United States 126 $210,000
4th Lautaro Guerra Spain 90 $150,000
5th Kamel Mokhammad United States 68 $112,500
6th Christopher Frank Germany 50 $82,500
7th Jeremy Ausmus United States 36 $60,000

The last tournament offered a buy-in of $5,100 and was a bounty format. It brought 73 entries and a $365,000 prizepool, where Zachary Schwartz and Alex Foxen met in the final heads-up. The winner was Schwartz, who took home $91,510.

Place Player Country Prize Bounties PGT Points
1st Zachary Schwartz United States $63,510 $28,000 105
2nd Alex Foxen United States $41,610 $12,000 69
3rd Tyler Brown United States $29,565 $16,000 49
4th John Riordan United States $20,805 $4,000 35
5th Christopher Costa United States $15,330 $2,000 25
6th Ronald Keijzer Netherlands $10,950 $10,000 18
7th Danny Noam United States $8,760 $0 15

 

Overall Champion

 

As is customary in PGT tournaments, players collected valuable ranking points as they battled it out for the overall PGT PLO Series champion. An extra trophy and a PGT Passport worth $10,000 awaited the winner. The overall winner was Jesse Lonis, who was ITM in five tournaments and sat at the final table four of those times, earning $799,140. His live tournament earnings thus surpassed the $15 million mark.

However, Daniel Negreanu told us in the podcast that ten players playing the PGT PLO Series have made side bets together. Each player has put in $50,000 and if anyone in that group becomes the overall series champion they will take home the full $500,000. All names have not been released, but we do know that Daniel Negreanu, Alex Foxen, and Jesse Lonis were in this group. Since Jesse became the overall series champion, he also earned an extra $500,000.

Rank Player Country Winnings Points
1st Jesse Lonis United States $799,140 662
2nd Alex Foxen United States $647,185 633
3rd Chino Rheem United States $540,475 506
4th Bryce Yockey United States $402,650 437
5th Tyler Brown United States $354,895 407
6th Daniel Negreanu Canada $390,900 397
7th Jim Collopy United States $505,492 356
8th Dylan Weisman United States $481,433 324
9th Lautaro Guerra Spain $383,865 314
10th Dylan Smith United States $295,870 305

 

 

Source - pgt, youtube