Stephen Song Leads PGT Last Chance Event #2 Final Table

The PGT Last Chance continued on Friday from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Event #2: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em. The tournament drew 119 entries and Stephen Song leads the final seven players.

Song accumulated throughout the day and scored a double with trips before he knocked out a couple of players down the stretch to hold the overnight chip lead with nearly 22% of the chips in play. He leads a final table that includes David Chen, Ben Tollerene, Joe Serock, Shannon Shorr, Adam Hendrix, and Ren Lin. These seven players will return on Saturday at 12 p.m. already guaranteed $47,600. Up top for the winner is the $297,500 first-place prize, 298 PGT points, and the Event #2 trophy.

The field of 119 entrants created a prize pool of $1,190,000 and the final 17 players earned a piece of it. This was the biggest PGT owned and operated $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament in history, eclipsing the 114-entrant 2023 Poker Masters Event #1.

Brock Wilson was the unfortunate bubble boy when he jammed his 20 big blinds in with tens and was called by the ace-king of Serock. A king landed on the turn and Wilson was eliminated just short of a cash. Jeffrey Slayton (17th), Ed Sebesta (16th), Dylan Weisman (15th), Aram Oganyan (14th), Stephen Chidwick (13th), Ian Bradley (12th), Chino Rheem (11th), Steve Yea (10th), and Sam Laskowitz (9th) were the first to fall in the money.

Jeremy Becker bubbled the first event in an unfortunate fashion but came back and secured a cash in the second. Becker just missed out on the final table when he got his ace-ten in against Chen's jacks and failed to improve, marking his elimination in eighth place, while the seven remaining players bagged to return for the streamed final table.

PGT Last Chance is the concluding series of the 2024 PGT season and gives players their final opportunity to accumulate PGT points to qualify for the season-ending PGT $1,000,000 Championship, which is open to the top 40 eligible players on the PGT leaderboard.

If Song wins this tournament, he'll be in the top 40 on the leaderboard. Lin and Tollerene will improve their placement and their starting stacks in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship based on their finishes at this final table, while Becker and Laskowitz inched closer to the top 40 with their cashes and are closing in on being eligible. 

Any player who chooses to play this series could also win a Dream Seat for direct entry into the PGT $1,000,000 Championship, as three will be awarded to the top three point earners of the PGT Last Chance series who do not finish among the eligible Top 40 on the PGT leaderboard.

PGT Last Chance Event #2 Final Table

When play resumes, there will be 22:30 remaining in Level 19 with blinds at 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 big blind ante.

Play will resume on Saturday, January 4, at 12 p.m. PT, and the final table will be livestreamed on PokerGO at 1 p.m. PT.

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