PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Victory Gives Dylan Smith Fifth Tournament Win In Four Months

Dylan Smith has been racking up live poker tournament titles in recent months.

The Florida resident has been around the circuit for nearly 15 years but has recorded most of his nine victories in the past four months.

Smith kicked off the winning spree by taking down the 2024 World Poker Tour Seminole Rock’n’Roll Poker Open main event in early December for a career-best score of $662,200. He has added four more trophies to his collection since then, with his latest coming in the sixth event of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series, which finished on Tuesday afternoon.

Smith backed up his WPT breakthrough with a win in an $1,100 big bet mix event at the WPT World Championship just a few days ahead of Christmas Eve. Then, he won a pair of high rollers at the Wynn Millions in March, taking down both no-limit hold’em and PLO events at the $10,500 price point.

Smith’s latest triumph saw him outlast 99 entries in the $10,000 buy-in PLO affair to earn $252,450 and 540 Card Player Player of the Year points. Smith has made seven POY-qualified final tables so far in 2025, cashing for more than $751,000 across those events. He now sits in 40th place in the POY standings presented by Global Poker.

This was Smith’s third cash of the PGT PLO Series, but his first final table showing at the four-card festival. With 305 PGT points accrued, he currently sits second in the series-long leaderboard.

The top 15 finishers made the money in this event, earning a share of the $990,000 prize pool. Big names like Daniel Negreanu (15th), Jim Collopy (14th), Dylan Weisman (11th), Sean Winter (10th), Benjamin Tollerene (9th), and Joao Simao (8th) all cashed but fell short of making day 2.

Sean Rafael held the chip lead amongst the final six when day 2 got underway. Two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel was the first to fall. He and Rafael both flopped king high straights in a battle of the blinds, but Rafael had a flush redraw which came in on the turn. Soverel called off the last of his stack on the river and was shown the winner, ending his run in sixth place ($49,500).

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Inaugural PGT PLO Series champion Lautaro Guerra soon followed. The Spanish PLO specialist had a pair, flush draw, and open-ended straight draw going into the river but was up against Smith’s top set. Guerra made a hero call on the end for the last bit of his stack to finish fifth for $64,350. He’s now approaching $6.1 million in career scores, the vast majority of which has come from his success in the PLO streets.

Stefan Christopher’s run in this event concluded when his double-suited J-9-5-4 ran into the pocket aces of Smith. Christopher got all-in after flopping a flush draw but could not improve further and was eliminated in fourth place ($89,100).

The next big clash pitted Smith’s top set of jacks against Rafael’s set of sixes and nut flush draw. The chips got in on the turn, and Smith improved to quads to double-up into the lead.

Soon after Smith’s big double up, bracelet winner Tyler Brown took a stand with KK66 facing the AJJ10 of Smith. The AQ9 flop gave Smith top pair, a flush draw, and a straight draw for the lead. The A turn and 10 river then improved Smith to aces full of tens to earn him the pot. Brown was awarded $113,850 for as the third-place finisher.

Heads-up play began with Smith holding 8,775,000 to Rafael’s 3,600,000. It didn’t take long for the two to square off in an all-in showdown. The chips went in on a Q102 flop with Smith holding AKK2 against the Q643 of Rafael. The J left Rafael drawing dead, making the Q river a mere formality. Rafael walked away $163,350 as the runner-up, the second-largest score of his career.

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