Daniel Negreanu Wins Record Breaking 11th PGT Title

Daniel Negreanu came in the final table of Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha with the chip lead, but a rocky start to the day saw him fall to the bottom of the pack before making a run heads-up to deny James Chen his first title of the series capturing the $182,850 first-place prize and the trophy for his record setting eleventh PGT title in the process.

Chen, who has been at every final table thus far at the PGT PLO Series 2025, took a four and a half to one chip lead into the heads-up match with Negreanu after picking up pocket aces to send Dylan Weisman and his pocket kings to the rail in third place for $79,500 plus 80 PGT points. 

Chen amassed his vast chip lead heads-up not only with the Weisman elimination, but he also sent Eric Blair home in fourth place for $59,625 plus 60 PGT points and Xiaoxiao Song home in fifth place for $47,700 plus 48 PGT points as Negreanu sat around scoring ladder after ladder until the heads-up match began. 

First, Negreanu rivered a boat to find a double and stay alive, but he was still trailing in the chip department four to one at this point. He doubled into the chip lead a few hands later when he was the one who picked up aces pre, and Chen was left holding pocket kings. Chen took the chip lead right back with a big bluff before Negreanu pulled off his own bluff to vault right back in front. 

A few hands later, all the money would get in on the turn with Chen holding just a pair of queens. Negreanu, meanwhile, had two pair outs, trip outs, straight outs, and flush outs, giving him 23 total outs to score the elimination, but the river bricked off and Chen was right back to even in chips. 

However, Negreanu would remain undaunted and whittled Chen down before premium pocket pairs got all in pre-flop, with Negreanu holding kings against the queens of Chen. A king on the turn locked it up for Negreanu, and Chen was out the door in second place for $115,275 plus 115 PGT points. 

Well before the epic heads-up match between Negreanu and Chen, Bryce Yockey, who was at his second final table of the series after finishing fifth in event #1, found himself the first casualty of the final table when he fell in sixth place for $39,750 plus 40 PGT points after Blair flopped two pair. 

Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts

James Chen Moves to the Top of the Series Leaderboard

With finishes of third place in Event #1, a fifth place in Event #2, and now a runner-up finish in Event #3, Chen now moves to the top of the PGT PLO Series 2025 leaderboard with 245 points through three events. Negreanu moves into second place with 195 points thanks to the victory and his second cash of the series. 

Event #2 winner Billy Tarango (20th for $7,950 and 8 PGT points) also added a cash in event #3 and holds onto the third place spot on the series leader board. Yockey moves from ninth to seventh with his second cash while Weisman moves into the top ten, sitting in eighth place with 80 points, nine points behind Yockey. 

Rounding out the player of the series leaderboard, Ky Nguyen sits in fourth with 180 points, Matthew McEwan is in fifth with 119 points, Stephen Hubbard is in sixth with 111 points, Jesse Lonis is in ninth with 79 points, and John Riordan is 10th with 71 points. 

Event #3 saw 159 entrants made their way into the PokerGO studio, creating a prize pool of $795,000 with the top twenty-three players finding a cash prize. Notables that found a cash but did not reach the final table included Joao Simao in 22nd for $7,950, Josh Arieh in 18th for $7,950, Chino Rheem in 17th for $11,925, Dylan Linde in 11th for $19,875, and Isaac Kempton in 12th for $19,875. While Kamel Mokhammad picked up his third cash of the series to match Chen, he only sits with 40 points through three events.

PGT PLO 2025 Series Leaderboard

Negreanu's Record-Breaking 11th Win moves him to 7th on the Season Leaderboard

Negreanu broke a tie with Stephen Chidwick for most tournament wins in PGT history with his eleventh of his career, but he also added a second title in the 2025 season to move to the seventh spot on the leaderboard with 587 points. 

Negreanu now trails Patrick Leonard by 23 points for the top six, but is still 320 points behind Joey Weissman for the top spot on the PGT season leaderboard. 

Fourth-place finisher Blair had a chance to move within two points at the top of the leaderboard with a win in Event #3, but after only picking up 60 points at the final table, he remains in third and now clears Nick Schulman by 78 points. Rheem and Simao also added a cash to their season totals in Event #3 but remained stuck in eighth place and ninth place, respectively. 

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

2025 PGT Season Leaderboard

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