Neil Warren’s first six-figure poker tournament payday was recorded in the spring of 2025, a runner-up finish in a $10,000 six-max high roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown for $184,600. Since that breakthrough, Warren has accumulated another handful of six-figure scores, with the latest being the $315,000 that came with the title in event no. 4 at the 2026 PokerGO Tour Last Chance series.
Warren defeated a field of 126 entries in the $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament to hoist the trophy, growing his lifetime earnings to nearly $2.1 million with the victory. This was his second-largest cash yet, trailing only the $398,275 he earned for a runner-up showing in a $25,000 high roller at the World Poker Tour World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas near the end of 2025.
This triumph at the PGT Last Chance gives Warren a great shot at a spot in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship. The 315 PGT points brought his total on the season to 1,019. That puts him one spot outside of the top 40 players, who will automatically qualify. Warren can earn his way in via another deep run in one of the two remaining PGT Last Chance events, or via the series’ Dream Seat leaderboard, which awards another five seats into the seven-figure freeroll. He is currently the highest-ranked player on that leaderboard who hasn’t already qualified via the season-long standings.
Warren also earned 660 Card Player Player of the Year points for this win, enough to move him inside the top five in the early 2026 POY rankings presented by CoinPoker.
Thinning The Field
The strong turnout inside the PokerGO Studio saw the prize pool surge to $1,260,000. The top 18 finishers earned a share, with notables like Sam Soverel (13th), Shannon Shorr (12th), Clemen Deng (11th), Stephen Chidwick (10th), Connor Rash (9th), and Kiat Lee (8th) among those who ran deep.
The second and final day of play began with seven remaining and Landon Tice in the lead. Matthew Wantman, who recently took down the MSPT Venetian just days into the new year, began with the third-largest stack. He lost a key all-in early, though, with pocket jacks outrun by the A-8 of Jim Collopy, to slide down the leaderboard. The bracelet winner and WPT champion then got all-in with pocket threes trailing the pocket queens of Warren to finish seventh ($50,400).
Collopy soon followed, with his pocket sixes unable to come from behind against the pocket aces of bracelet winner David Coleman. Collopy, a three-time bracelet winner, secured $63,000 for his sixth-place showing.
Chino Rheem, a three-time WPT champion and winner of the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event, was the next to fall. He also ran into pocket aces for Coleman, but was in even worse shape than Collopy. Rheem’s A♦5♥ found no help from the board and he was sent to the payout desk to collect $75,600 as the fifth-place finisher.
Final Four
Warren had quite the sweat in the next key all-in confrontation. His 8♣8♦ had improved to a set after the J♣8♥5♣ flop, but the 9♣ turn gave his opponent Sergio Aido the nut flush draw. Aido’s A♣9♠ failed to improve any further, though, as the 10♠ on the end left him with third pair. The Spanish bracelet winner earned $107,000 for his run to the final four, growing his lifetime haul to nearly $26 million in the process.
Warren had to come from behind in the next preflop clash. He three-bet to 1,400,000 from the big blind with Q♦9♦ after Tice had opened to 600,000 (three big blinds) from the small blind. Tice four-bet jammed for 3,875,000 with A♣Q♣ and after plenty of thought, Warren made the call. The board came down K♣9♥8♦K♠4♣ and Warren made kings and nines to win the pot, eliminating Tice in third place ($138,600). The MSPT champion now has almost $4.2 million in recorded earnings after this latest score.
That knockout saw Warren overtake the lead going into heads-up play with Coleman. The two swapped the advantage a bit in the early going, but Warren soon won a sizable pot with a turned straight against the third pair of Coleman to pull well ahead. Coleman earned one double up with pocket jacks, but was unable to push the comeback much further than that.
In the final hand, Coleman limped from the button with 3♦2♠ and Warren checked with K♣3♥. The 9♥3♠3♣ flop gave both players trips. Warren check-called a single big blind on the flop and the K♠ turn gave him a full house. Warren check-called again, this time for two big blinds. The 10♠ on the end drew a third check from Warren. Coleman shoved and Warren snap-called with his threes full of kings. Coleman settled for $195,300 as the runner-up. This was his third cash and second top-two finish of the festival, having also been the runner-up in event no. 2. Coleman currently sits atop the 2026 POY standings as a result and is 20th in the PGT rankings, making his spot in the PGT $1,000,000 Championship all but assured.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Neil Warren | $315,000 | 660 | 315 |
| 2 | David Coleman | $195,300 | 550 | 195 |
| 3 | Landon Tice | $138,600 | 440 | 139 |
| 4 | Sergio Aido | $107,100 | 330 | 107 |
| 5 | Chino Rheem | $75,600 | 275 | 76 |
| 6 | Jim Collopy | $63,000 | 220 | 63 |
| 7 | Matthew Wantman | $50,400 | 165 | 50 |
Photo credit: PGT / Antonio Abrego.
