The 2025 PokerGO Tour season was massive, with more than $443 million in total prize money awarded across 147 qualified events with approximately 31,700 total entries. The final half-dozen of those events were held inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas from Jan. 5-10.
The PGT Last Chance series kept things simple: six $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em events, with the only variation in format being a turbo structure for the final tournament. This final chance for glory and ranking points ahead of the season-ending PGT $1,000,000 Championship added nearly $6.7 million to the tour’s tally with an average turnout of 111 entries per event.
The first tournament on the agenda drew 109 contenders, with Clemen Deng emerging victorious as the first PGT winner of the calendar year. He took home $277,950 after overcoming a stacked final table that included two-time World Poker Tour champion and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Jonathan Little (7th), recent MSPT Venetian main event champion Matthew Wantman (6th), bracelet winner Cary Katz (5th), all-time bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth (4th), and 2025 Card Player Player of the Year award winner Jesse Lonis (3rd).
David ‘ODB’ Baker, a WPT champion and four-time bracelet winner, earned $174,400 as the runner-up, the first of his two second-place showings in the series.
Just shy of a year after earning his first PGT title at the 2025 PGT Kickoff festival, Patrick Leonard earned his second, coming out on top of a field of 126 entries. The bracelet winner from the UK secured $315,000 as the last player standing, defeating David Coleman heads-up for the win. Coleman banked $195,300 for second place. Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman also recorded a podium showing in third, taking home $138,600.
Leonard finished inside the top 30 in the PGT standings, earning a spot in the seven-figure freeroll thanks to his 17 cashes during the season.
Brandon Wilson was the player who ultimately came out on top of the PGT Last Chance leaderboard, with 446 points and $446,850 accrued across three cashes. His largest payday of the week came in event no. 3, in which he outlasted 108 entries to lock up $275,400. Wilson was so successful at this stop, however, that he avoided the need for a dream seat, finishing 40th in the final season standings to ensure a spot in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship.
Bracelet winner Sergio Aido took second place for $172,800, recording the first of three straight cashes that also helped cement his spot, while Jeremy Becker helped his case with a third-place finish for $124,200. Becker wound up earning his way in as the last dream seat winner thanks to being the fifth-ranked player in the series standings who hadn’t already qualified via the seasonal ranks. He cashed three times for $193,500 during the week.
Neil Warren also earned a dream seat thanks entirely to his performance in event no. 4. Warren beat out 126 entries to print his ticket, adding $315,000 for the win. Coleman finished runner-up again, adding another $194,500 while clinching his spot inside the top 25 in the season-long standings.
Deng backed up his win in the opening event with an 11th-place finish in this event. It was ultimately enough for one of the five dream seats awarded at this stop.
Like Warren, Chi-Jen Chu also won his way in via a single event. He overcame 117 entries in event no. 5, cashing for $263,850 and accruing enough points to capture the fourth dream seat.
The highest-ranked dream seat winner was ultimately Baker, whose second runner-up finish of the festival added another $210,000 to his bankroll.
The final event of the series was the lone turbo offering, which wound up having an outsized influence on the final standings. Alex Foxen, who had been supplanted by Sam Soverel just a couple of weeks earlier at the very top of the PGT leaderboard, had one more shot to secure the tour’s Player of the Year award. He did just that, topping 83 entrants to add $232,400 and 232 key points to his count for the season.
Foxen defeated event no. 3 champion Brandon Wilson heads-up to overtake the lead just as the clock expired. Chino Rheem finished eighth, lodging his fourth cash of the festival and 35th of the season. His impressive run included three final-table showings, with $334,700 in total earnings accumulated during the series. That helped secure his spot inside the final top three on the tour’s leaderboard.
