Daniel Negreanu Wins 10th PGT Title in Event #6: $15,200 Dealer's Choice

With 20 games to choose from, you would have assumed there would have been some parody at the Event #5: $15,200 Dealer's Choice final table, but Daniel Negreanu got hot early and never looked backed, as he steamrolled the rest of the field en route to his record-tying 10th PGT title and the $292,500 first-place prize in the PGT Mixed Game 2025 penultimate event. 

The win ties Negreanu with Stephen Chidwick for the most PGT titles of all time. They are the only two players with double-digit trophies, with Sam Soverel now sitting alone in third with nine titles.

Negreanu came into the day second in chips, but after going on a rush in Omaha Hi-Lo to wrestle the chip lead away from Maxx Coleman, the cards kept running into Negreanu for the rest of the final table. 

Negreanu moved to over forty percent of the chips in play six-handed after catching a four in 2-7 NL Single draw to make a ten-nine and send Ryan Miller's pat jack to the rail in seventh place for $39,000 plus 31 PGT points. 

"Kid Poker" then took back-to-back Badeucy hands off of Nick Schulman to move to over sixty percent of the chips in play, crossing the six million mark in the process while none of the other five players at the final table had more than a million chips. 

Negreanu took a back seat to the following two eliminations despite his mountain of chips as Coleman sent Philip Sternheimer home in sixth place for $53,625 plus 43 PGT points playing No-Limit Five Card Draw with pocket queens. 

Even with Sternheimer's elimination, Coleman barely sniffed a million chips. He, Schulman, Yuri Dzivielevski, and Dylan Smith would then score five consecutive doubles. However, three of those resulted in chips passing between the trio of Smith, Schulman, and Dzivielevski, keeping everyone short. 

Coleman would end the madness in No-Limit Hold'em when Smith shoved the small blind with jack-eight only to run into Coleman's ace-king in the big blind. Coleman flopped an ace, Smith hit the rail fifth place for $73,125 plus 59 PGT points, and Coleman was over a million chips. 

Dzivielevski doubled through Schulman, leaving both players under two big bets as the limits increased to 200,000/400,000. However, Coleman would be the first to fall after putting in three-quarters of his stack before the draw, playing 2-7 No Limit Single draw on the button only for Negreanu and his monster stack to find the call from the small blind. 

Both players took one, Negreanu caught a monster, Coleman caught a pair and he folded, leaving himself half a big bet. On the next hand, Schulman was knocked down to a single big bet, giving Negreanu a staggering ninety-one percent of the chips in play four-handed. 

Coleman was all in from the big blind a few hands later with three two a nine only for Negreanu to have four to a nine from under the gun. Negreanu pealed a seven for a nine-seven, and Coleman hit the rail in fourth place for $97,500 plus 78 PGT points. 

Two hands later, Dzivielevski was forced all in from the big blind against Negreanu from the small blind, who patted with an ace-king, leaving the door open for Dzivielevski. However, he made a pair of fours on the draw and hit the rail in third place for $131,625 plus 105 PGT points.

The heads-up match started with Negreanu having an almost unheard of ninety-six percent of the chips in play, but five straight doubles from Schulman made a game of it before Negreanu picked up pocket aces in Pot Limit Omaha against the ace-queen double suited of Schulman. 

The six million chip pot would have given Schulman the chip lead after he flopped a gutshot straight draw, but the deck was not in his favor, and he hit the rail in second place for $190,125 plus 152 PGT points. 

Event #6: $15,200 Dealer's Choice Final Table Payouts

Chino Rheem Remains Atop Series Leaderboard, Negreanu Moves To Third

Event #6 set another PGT record as 65 hopefuls made their way into the PokerGO Studio, topping the old record of 47 players during Event #6 of the 2022 U.S. Poker Open by 18 entries. 

This created a prize pool of $975,000, with the top ten players finishing in the money. Cary Katz was the unfortunate bubble in Event #6 when his flush draw and a low draw missed on seventh against Negreanu's two pair in Stud Hi-Lo deep into the night on day one. 

This opened the door for John Racener (10th) to pick up his first cash of the series before Walter Chambers hit the rail in 9th for his second cash of PGT Mixed Games 2025. 

Chino Rheem picked up his third cash of the series with an eighth-place finish, just missing out on his third final table, but the Event #4 champion remains atop the leaderboard with 384 points after adding 31 points to his total. 

Schulman moves into second place with 336 points for his third cash and third final table of the series, while Negreanu sits in third with 302 points after also picking up his third cash. 

Event #5 champion Coleman sits fourth with 288 points after falling short of back-to-back titles, while Event #3 champion Miller rounds out the top five with 285 points for his third cash of the series. 

The Championship event is already underway, and you can catch all the day-one action from the $25,300 10-Game Championship here as the PGT live reporting team will be on site until the players bag and tag for the final table on March 5th. 

Cards are expected to be in the air at 1:00 p.m. PT, and the entirety of the final table will start at 2:00 p.m. PT on PokerGO.com and the PokerGO Youtube channel. 

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