Daniel Negreanu Captures Latest PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series Title

Daniel Negreanu has done it again.

The 50-year-old poker pro captured his 49th career tournament title on Friday, March 28 as the last player standing in event no. 3 at the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series, which sported a $5,000 buy-in. This was his 11th PGT title, having just secured his tenth earlier this month by winning a $15,000 dealer’s choice event at the PGT Mixed Games series.

The Poker Hall of Famer was awarded $182,850 for the win, growing his lifetime earnings to nearly $54.5 million. The seven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner remains in eighth place on poker’s all-time money list, and is currently less than a quarter of a million dollars behind seventh-ranked Adrian Mateos ($54,727,198).

Before getting his hands on the trophy, Negreanu had to overcome heads-up opponent James Chen, who has made the final table of each of the three tournaments held so far at this four-card festival.

This win also came with plenty of rankings points for Negreanu. The 576 Card Player Player of the Year points that came with the title moved him inside the top 70 in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker. Negreanu also surged up the season-long PGT rankings, settling in seventh place for the time being.

A total of 159 entries turned out to the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas for this event, resulting in a $795,000 prize pool. The top 23 finishers made the money, with notables like six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh (19th), three-time World Poker Tour champion Chino Rheem (17th), and WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Dylan Linde (11th) running deep.

Bryce Yockey came into the final day in the middle of the pack, but was ultimately the first to hit the rail. The two-time bracelet winner lost the majority of his stack with KK85 squaring off in a preflop clash against the AA77 of fellow two-time bracelet winner Dylan Weisman. The flop came down KJ9 to give Weisman the nut flush while Yockey hit top set. The 2 turn and 10 kept Weisman ahead, giving him a double into second chip position while Yockey was left with just a handful of big blinds. He was soon eliminated in sixth place, earning $39,750 for his second final-table showing of the series.

Xiaoxiao Song had overtaken the chip lead early at the final table, but lost a healthy pot with an overpair against the trips of Negreanu to give up the top spot. He continued to slide down the leaderboard ahead of his next key hand. He ended up getting all-in on a Q868 board with K985 leading the J982 of Chen. The river brought the J, giving Chen a full house and ending Song’s run in fifth place ($47,700).

Eric Blair’s run in this event came to a close when his JJ98 matched up against the AK109 of Chen in a preflop showdown. The 77468 runout gave Chen a straight and the knockout. Blair settled for $59,625 as the fourth-place finisher.

With that, Chen took a sizable lead into three-handed action. He added to that advantage when his AAJ6 held up against the KK103 of Weisman, who three-bet then called off from the big blind after Chen raised from the small blind then four-bet shoved. Chen made aces full on a 955A7 board to take a 4.5:1 chip lead over Negreanu into heads-up play while Weisman headed to the payout desk to collect $79,500 for his podium showing.

Negreanu managed an early double-up to close that gap a bit, then got all-in with AAK5 against Chen’s KK52 and held to surge into the lead.

Back-to-back aces for @RealKidPoker to take the chip lead!

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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 28, 2025

The two battled back and forth from there, but eventually Negreanu was able to pull out to more than a 2:1 advantage by the time the final hand was dealt. Negreanu raised to 1,200,000 on the button with AJK2 and Chen three-bet to 3,600,000 from the big blind holding QQ86. Negreanu re-potted and Chen called all in for 5,600,000. The A96K3 runout gave Negreanu a set of kings for the win, ending Chen’s latest final-table run in second place ($115,275).

The bracelet winner from Homestead, PA has now cashed for $225,895 during this series, with final placements of 5th, 3rd, and 2nd place. Chen now sits in first place in the series points race with 245 points, while Negreanu is hot on his heels with 195 points.

Final Table Results

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