Dylan Smith Speeds Through Event #6 for 1st PGT Title

Dylan Smith made quick work of the other five players at the Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha final table as he took down his second PGT title in under two hours, walking away with a cool $252,450 for his efforts. 

The day started with Sam Soverel, who came into the final table second in chips, finding himself in a pickle against the start-of-day chip leader Sean Rafael in a blind vs. blind confrontation. 

Soverel would flop the nut-straight and called Rafael down on every street, only to get all the money in on the river to find out Rafael had also flopped the nut-straight, only to re-draw to a king-high flush on the turn, leaving Soverel headed to the rail in sixth place for $49,500 plus 50 PGT points.

The elimination gave Rafael nearly fifty percent of the chips in play, but from then on, it was all Smith, starting with him flopping a set of queens to send 2023 PGT PLO Champion Lautaro Guerra to the rail in fifth place for $64,350 plus 64 PGT points. 

The four-handed play between Rafael, Smith, Stefan Christopher, and Tyler Brown saw lots of limping and not many raises before Brown found a double on the river with the nut-straight against the second nut-straight of Christopher.

Smith took advantage of the chaos to slowly grow his chip stack and then finished off Christopher in fourth place for $89,100 plus 89 PGT points when Christopher's flopped flush draw could not run down his pocket aces. Smith was still second in chips at this juncture, but that was all about to change. 

In a three-way limped pot pre-flop, both Smith and Rafael flopped sets, and all the money got in on the turn when Rafael turned the nut-flush draw, but Rafael was in rough shape with sixes against Smith's jacks. For a moment, it appeared Rafael had made his diamond flush on the river to turn the tables on Smith, but unfortunately for Rafael, it was the only diamond in the deck he didn't want to see as the jack of diamonds improved Smith to quads for a double into the chip lead. 

From there it was over in a matter of a few hands, first Smith sent Brown to the rail in third place for $113,850 plus 114 PGT points after flopping a pair of aces to crack Brown's pocket kings. 

Two hands later, Rafael got the rest of his stack into the middle with top pair of queens and a flush draw, only to run into Smith's overpair of kings with a better flush draw. Smith turned the broadway, and Rafale was headed to the payout desk in second place for $163,350 plus 163 PGT points before the river even hit the felt. 

Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts

Smith Trails Chino Rheem by Two Points for Top Spot

Event #6 of the 2025 PGT PLO Series drew 99 entrants into the PokerGO studio and created a prize pool of $990,000 with the top 15 players finding a cash.

The win for Smith marked his third cash of the series, and he now sits with 305 points, two points behind Chino Rheem, who failed to find a cash in Event #6, for the Player of the Series lead. James Chen (US) with 245 points and Christopher Cost with 236 points, also failed to find a cash in Event #6 and dropped to third and fourth place, respectively. 

Daniel Negreanu (15h for $19,800) and Billy Tarango (12th for $24,750) picked up their third series in Event #6 and are now tied for fifth place on the leader board with 215 points. Ben Tollerene (9th for $29,700) added a second cash to his series total and sits two points behind Negreanu and Tarango. 

Alex Foxen dropped from fourth all the way to eighth place after failing to find a cash in Event #6, while runner-up Rafael also added a second cash to his series resume and moves into ninth with 186 points, six points ahead of Event #1 winner Ky Nguyen, who rounds out the top ten. 

PGT PLO Series 2025 Leaderboard

Top of the 2025 Season Leaderboard Unchanged

Several players added to their season-long totals in Event #6, with Artem Maksimov (7th for $39,600), Joao Simao (8th for $39,600), Dylan Weisman (11th for $29,700), Ronald Keijzer (13th for $24,750), and Jim Collopy (14th for $19,800) finding points. However, even with the plethora of cashes from regulars, the top ten went unchanged on the 2025 Season leaderboard. 

The biggest riser for the event was Smith, who moved into the twelfth place spot on the leaderboard with 364 points, trailing Chad Eveslage for tenth by 51 points, while Simao and Negreanu widened the gap between themselves and Eveslage. 

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

2025 PGT Leaderboard Top Ten

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