Maxx Coleman Takes Down Event #5: $10,200 Mori's Mix for 3rd PGT Title

Maxx Coleman started the $10,200 Mori's Mix final table with the chip lead but fell to the bottom of the counts four-handed before going on a tear during 2-7 triple draw three handed to take home the title and $210,000 first place prize plus 210 PGT points in Event #5 of PGT Mixed Games 2025.

Coleman started his run to re-take the chip lead when he sent David Funkhouser home in fourth place after making a seven low on sixth street in razz, leaving Funkhouser drawing dead to collect his $70,000 prize plus 70 PGT points. 

From there, Coleman won nearly an entire orbit of 2-7 triple draw hands to rake in almost seventy percent of the chips in play before tournament namesake and PokerGO president Mori Eskandani sent Mike Gorodinsky home in third place for $94,500 plus 95 PGT points with turned kings-up.

Eskandani made a game of it heads-up after hitting a nine-seven perfect in 2-7 triple draw against Coleman's nine-seven-five to take the chip lead, but with the limits reaching 300,000/600,000, Coleman made queens-up in Stud on seventh street to take the chip lead right back. 

Coleman cemented the chip lead with a seven badugi an orbit later to collect nearly ninety percent of the chips in play before closing out the tournament with a bang in Hold'em.

Coleman held pocket seven, and after hitting a seven on the river to make trips, Eskandani and his pocket queens hit the rail in second place for $136,000 plus 136 PGT points.

Hours before the fireworks three and four-handed, Eskandani would send Steve Zolotow to the rail in fifth place for $52,500 plus 53 PGT points in Stud with a pair of aces.  

Moments earlier, Daniel Negreanu found himself backing into the nut flush on the river in Omaha. However, Gorodinsky rivered a full house, leaving "Kid Poker" to hit the rail in sixth place for $38,500 plus 39 PGT points after his first final table appearance of the year. 

Eskandani got the eliminations started early in the day when he broke a nine in 2-7 on the last draw against Dzmitry Urbanovich only to see Urbanovich table an eight-draw. Urbanovich missed his draw, Eskandani remade a nine, and Urbanovich hit the rail in for $28,000 plus 28 PGT points for the seventh-place finish. 

Event #5: $10,200 Mori's Mix Final Table Payouts 

Chino Rheem Stays Atop PGT Mixed Game 2025 Leaderboard 

Event #5 drew 70 entrants into the PokerGO Studio for the first rendition of Mori's Mix, creating a prize pool of $700,000 with the top ten players finishing in the money. 

Scott Seiver made a rare appearance inside the PokerGO studio for Event #5 but couldn't catch a diamond on the final draw in Budugi to hit the rail on the money bubble late in the night on day one. Benny Glaser took advantage of the Seiver miss and scored his fourth cash in five events with a tenth-place finish. However, he sits outside the top ten on the series leaderboard with only 130 points. 

Jim Collopy picked up his second cash of the series with a ninth-place finish before Talal Shakerchi hit the rail in eighth place for his first cash of the series. 

Event #4 champion Chino Rheem failed to find a cash in Event #5 but still sits atop the series leaderboard with 353 points after making back-to-back final tables in Events three and four. Ryan Miller and Samuel Sternfield also failed to find a cash in Event #5 but remain second and third in the series standings. 

Event #5 champion Coleman picked up his second cash of the series to move into fourth on the series leaderboard with 210 points, while fourth-place finisher Funkhouser picked up his fourth cash in five events to move into fifth place on the leaderboard with 192 points.  

Two event reaming in PGT Mixed Games 2025 and Event #6: $10,200 Dealer's Choice is already underway and you can catch all the day one action provided by the PokerGO live reporting team here before tuning into the live streamed final table March 4th starting at 1:00 pm PT PokerGO.com and the PokerGO Youtube channel. 

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