Michael Rossitto Wins First PGT Title In Event #3

Michael Rossitto, Jim Collopy, and Andrew Moreno came into the day with 75% of the chips in play, and after a long three-handed affair, Rossitto emerged victorious to capture his first PGT title and the $277,950 first-place prize plus 278 PGT points. 

The final table got off to a bang as on the first hand, Matthew Wantman found himself all in from the small blind with pocket nines for just over a million in chips, and Moreno had re-shoved for just over three million from the cutoff with ace-king. Rossitto was on the button with two tens and, after a time extension, reluctantly sent his hand into the muck.

The flop saw a king in the window, but a ten followed, leaving Wantman to hit the rail in sixth place for $54,500 for 55 PGT points, and Rossitto shaking his head as he could have had nearly sixty percent of the chips in play had he found the call pre-flop. 

With the ladder secured, start-of-day short Isaac Kempton got the rest of his 925,000 into the middle with queen-jack of diamonds only to run square into fellow short stack, Christian Roberts' ace-king from the small blind. The board ran out nine-high, Roberts had Kempton covered by just over 100,000, and he was out the door in fifth place for $70,850 plus 71 PGT points. 

While the first two volleys of the Event #3 final table came rather quickly, the next elimination would take nearly two hours as Moreno, Rossitto, and Collopy would take the chip lead at some point with Roberts bopping and weaving his way through the big stacks. Moreno would end the extended play after Roberts got his last million in chips into the middle with a pair of jacks on a jack-high flop. Moreno called with pocket kings, and after Roberts failed to make two pair or trips, he hit the payout window in fourth place for $98,100 plus 98 PGT points. 

This gave Moreno the chip lead going into three-handed play with Rossitto at the bottom of the counts, but each player had over thirty bigs as three-handed play got underway. Rossitto would draw first blood three-handed when his rivered flush found value from Collopy's flopped pair of tens, but the chips wouldn't remain in Rossitto's stack long. 

Playing 75,000/125,000, Rossitto opened the button to 275,000 and Collopy moved all in for just under 3.5 million from the small blind. Rossitto found the call with pocket tens this time, and Collopy was in rough shape with just ace-deuce of clubs. However, an ace on the turn gave Collopy just over seven million chips, and Rossitto was once again the short stack. 

Rossitto would then find a double through Collopy to move Moreno back to the top of the chip counts, leaving him sitting pretty before disaster struck. First, Moreno found himself with a chance to send Collopy to the rail when he found ace-ten from the big blind, only for Collopy to have ace-king in the small blind, giving Collopy a double into the chip lead. 

Next, Moreno moved all in from the small blind after a Collopy open, only for Rossitto to cold call all-in for three million from the big blind. Collopy folded, Moreno held ace-nine against the pocket eights of Rossitto and could not improve when the board ran out king-high as he went from chip lead to just 425,000 in the blink of an eye. 

Moreno moved all in on the button the next hand with queen-four of spades, only for Rossitto to find ace-eight in the small blind. The board ran out jack-high, neither player made a pair, and Moreno was out the door in third place for $125,350 plus 125 PGT points. 

The elimination handed Rossitto the chip lead by a million chips to start the heads-up match, and that proved the difference. After losing a few small pots, Collopy moved all in for under five million on the button with pocket threes, only for Rossitto to look down at ace-jack in the big blind. An ace flashed in the window on the flop, and Collopy failed to catch a three on the turn or river to hit the rail in second place for $174,400 plus 174 PGT points. 

Event #3: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Payouts

Kazuomi Furuse Remains Atop 2025 U.S. Poker Open Leaderboard

Event #3 was another $10,100 buy-in affair and drew 109 entrants, topping Event #2 by one entrant, but the added juice was not enough as Rossitto could only lock up 278 points, meaning Event #2 champion Kazumo Furuse remains atop the leaderboard with 285 points. 

Furuse failed to cash in Event #3 but did secure a 16th-place finish in Event #1, while Rossitto had yet to cash before the win. Event #3 runner-up Collopy could have overtaken Furuse with a win, as he had a 12th-place finish from Event #1 under his belt, but now sits in third place with 190 points for his second cash. 

Event #2 runner-up Nacho Barbaero is third with 173 points, while Event #1 winner Kristen Foxen rounds out the top five with 158 points. Two points behind Foxen in sixth place is Eric Blair, who is the only player to find a cash in every event thus far after picking up a 13th-place finish in Event #3 to add another 22 points to his series total. 

Event #3 final tablists Roberts and Moreno sit tied for seventh with 125 points, with Roberts holding the tiebreaker with two cashes after finishing 12th in Event #2. Rounding out the top ten for the series are Erik Seidel with 110 points and Francis Anderson with 103. Both players have two cashes on the series, but neither found a third in Event #3. 

The race for the 2025 U.S. Poker Open Golden Eagle Trophy continues with Event #4: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em already underway. You can catch all the day one action from our PGT Live Reporting team here before catching the final table wherever you stream PokerGO on April 12th at 1:00 p.m. PT. 

2025 U.S. Poker Open Top Ten

Collopy Finds Makes His Way Into the Top Ten for the 2025 Season

With the 174 points from the runner-up finish in Event #3, Collopy has now cracked the top ten for the 2025 PGT season and sits in a tie with Alex Foxen with 677 points for the ninth-place spot. Collopy's rise means that despite two cashes in the first two events at the 2025 U.S. Poker Open, Patrick Leonard falls out of the top ten and sits 17 points behind the duo of Collopy and A. Foxen. 

Blair added 22 points to his season total and now trails Chino Rheem by just six points for the second-place spot on the leaderboard. However, all eyes are still looking up at Kristen Foxen, who tops the leaderboard with 1,015 points after her third win of the season in Event #1. 

Joey Weissman, who came into the 2025 U.S. Poker Open on top of the leaderboard, picked up his first cash of the series with a 16th-place min-cash in Event #3 to increase his season total to 923 points and vault Nick Schulman for fourth place. 

A complete list of the top 40 for the 2025 season can be found here. 

2025 PGT Season Top Ten

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