In Las Vegas, more specifically in the PokerGO studio located at the Aria Resort & Casino, the U.S. Poker Series is currently underway. Poker Open. This has 8 tournaments on the schedule with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,200. As is customary with PGT tournaments, players will earn valuable points towards the USPO series leaderboard. The overall winner will receive the Golden Eagle trophy plus a $25,000 PGT Passport.

The entire series kicked off on April 8 and will continue through April 16, when the final tournament awaits. The very first tournament had a buy-in of $5,100 and, like all tournaments in this series, was in NLH format.

Thefirst champion was Erik Seidel

Event #1 brought in 116 entries, bringing the prizepool to $580,000. Cash prizes awaited 17 players and a $145,000 prize was up for grabs for the winner.

Poker Hall of Fame member Erik Seidel took to the 6-seat final table here as the chipleader and had a stack as high as 5,020,000, which was 34 percent of all the chips in play.

In the end, Erik didn't even get a look at the final heads-up, as he ended the tournament in three-handed play when he found aces under his hand. Nothing could save his two opponents on the board, and so Erik Seidel enjoyed his second USPO title and a $145,000 payday.

Last night we announced the winner of Event #2

The second tournament also already knows its champion. Event number 2 was an NLH tournament with a buy-in of $10,100, 99 entries and a prizepool of $990,000. The prize money was open to 15 players and $252,450 awaited the winner.

Jesse Lonis made the final table, among the top 7, as the chipleader with a stack of 3,295,000. Sean Winter was the first to exit the final table, taking home $39,600 for 7th place. Jesse Lonis took care of all the eliminations on the table and was the clear winner of this tournament.

The winner of thethird event will be announced today

Overnight, the third event got underway, which also had a buy-in of $10,100. It has now produced 84 entries and so has a prizepool worth $840,000. Cash prizes awaited 12 players and the winner will take home $235,200. The top 7 players will sit at the final table and they are led by David Stamm with a stack of 1,980,000. Breathing down his neck is Dan Smith with a stack of 1,960,000. Just missing out on the final table was Phil Hellmuth, who finished in 8th place for $33,600.

Source - PGT.com