Bryce Yockey Wins First Ever PGT Mystery Bounty

Event #8: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty was the first mystery bounty in the history of the PokerGO Tour, and after taking home seven of the fourteen available bounties, Bryce Yockey walked away with $105,000 in bounties and the first-place prize of $218,400 for his second career PGT title. 

Yockey sent the tournament not only into the money but also scored the first three bounties of the tournament when he flopped two pair to send Nick Schulman, Tomasz Krzesinski, and Nacho Barbero to the rail, also bursting the money bubble in the process. However, Yockey failed to cash in his bounties, and after eliminating John Riordan in 12th place, Tyler Brown walked up to the drum for the first bounty pull of the tournament. 

Brown pulled the $125,000 bounty, the highest available amount, and then sent Lautaro Guerra (11th) and Jim Collopy (9th) to the rail for two more pulls. These resulted in the $50,000 and $25,000 bounty going to Brown's pocket, meaning that three of the four highest available bounties were gone with just three envelopes removed from the drum. 

Brown and Yockey traded eliminations the rest of the night on day one before Brown, Yockey, and Daniel Negreanu bagged for the streamed portion of the event with Brown holding the chip lead, Yockey in second, and Negreanu a distant third. 

Once the stream kicked off, chips were flying back and forth between the trio before Negreanu found a double through Yockey to send him tumbling down the counts, but the ever-crafty Yockey battled back, scoring a double through Negreanu to regain most of his chips. 

Negreanu would then find his second double of the final table, this time through Brown, but Negreanu could not sustain the momentum as he hit the rail shortly thereafter when he floped a flush draw against Brown's ace-high. Negreanu couldn't find his flush, and Brown paired his ace on the river to send Negreanu home in third place for $101,400 plus 122 PGT points and another bounty pull. 

The elimination gave Brown nearly a two-to-one chip lead to start the heads-up match, but Yockey quickly found his footing, and after a couple of three-bet pots went his way, it was off to the races. Brown would claw back to near even before his ill-timed pot size river raise with trip eights was picked off by Yockey's trip kings to send Brown tumbling back down the counts. 

Despite his best effort, Brown could not recover and got all the chips into the middle on a stone-cold bluff, but Yockey had turned a ten-high straight and improved to a jack-high straight on the river, leaving Brown to hit the rail in second place for $140,400 plus 168 PGT points. 

This meant Yockey had two pulls at the remaining $50,000 bounty that was reserved for the final table, but when Brown used his pull from the Negreanu elimination to find that envelope, he walked away with the top four bounties for a staggering total of $280,000.

Event #8: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts

Alex Foxen Remains Atop Series Leaderboard 

The seventy-eight entrants into Event #8 of the 2025 PGT PLO Series created a prize pool of $1,170,000, with the top 12 players finding a cash. With the win, Yockey picked up his fifth cash and third final table of the series, but still trails Alex Foxen at the top of the leaderboard by 46 points. 

Chino Rheem found a cash with a 7th place finish in Event #8 to add 37 points to his series total after picking up his third cash of the series and now sits in a tie for third with runner-up Brown, who scored his fourth cash and third final table of the series, with 344 points. 

Just behind Rheem and Brown is third-place finisher Negreanu, who added his fourth cash of the series and sits with 337 points, 32 points ahead of Event #6 champion Dylan Smith. 

Rounding out the top ten are Jesse Lonis, seventh with 289 points, Sean Rafael, eighth with 249 points, James Chen (US), ninth with 245 points, and Ben Tollerene, tenth with 238 points. With two events to go in the Player of the Series race, it is still anyone's game to win as the series comes to a close. 

2025 PGT PLO Series Leadeboard

Rheem and Negreanu Add to Season Total

Even with their cashes in Event #8, Rheem and Negreanu may have added to their 2025 season total, but not much has changed at the top of the PGT leaderboard. Rheem remains fifth with 766 and trails Eric Blair by 16 points for the fourth stop. 

Negreanu leaped two spots, moving from eighth to sixth, and now has 729 points, passing Patrick Leonard and Michael Moncek. Joao Simao remains in ninth with 559 points, and Alex Foxen remains in tenth with 493 points.

The win moves Yockey up to the 13th spot on the leaderboard with 403 points, 90 points behind Alex Foxen. Runner-up Brown moves to 17th with 344 points, and 12th-place finisher John Riordan moves to 23rd with 318 points.  

For a look at the complete top 40 in the season standings, click here.

2025 PGT Leaderboard Top Ten

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