It is said that the true test of a poker player is their abilities in games other than Texas Hold’em. If that is the case, then David ‘Chino’ Rheem is making a case to be considered amongst the best who have graced the baize. At the halfway mark of the PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series, Rheem is running rampant against the competition, battering the tournament as he looks to win his second overall PGT championship for 2025.
Holding Court over Negreanu, Lonis
At the halfway point of the eleven-tournament schedule that is making up the PGT PLO Series, Rheem has demonstrated some excellent skills on the table. He would win Event #4, a $10,000 PLO tournament, one day after making the money in a $5000 event on the schedule. Between those two tournaments, Rheem sits with a decent lead with his 307 points.
But it is far from being an insurmountable lead. James Chen has yet to find the Winner’s Circle at the 2025 PGT PLO Series, but he has been able to final table three of the first four completed tournaments (only missing Event #4) on his way to compiling 245 points. Daniel Negreanu is also making some noise with his victory in Event #3, which has given him the entirety of his 195 points so far in this series.
Here is a breakdown of the Top Ten at the halfway mark of the 2025 PGT PLO Series:
1. David ‘Chino’ Rheem, 307 points
2. James Chen, 245
3. Daniel Negreanu, 195
4. Billy Tarango, 190
5. Ben Tollerene, 183
6. Ky Nguyen, 180
7. Allan Le, 177
8. Arthur Morris, 171
9. Jesse Lonis, 125
10. Matthew McEwan, 119
Second Half of Festival to Crown Overall Champion
After a day off on Sunday, the 2025 PGT PLO Series will spend this week jamming the tables with action. Today marks the final table of Event #5, the $10,000 PLO Progressive Bounty tournament that is down to its final five players. Christopher Costa has a dominant lead (9.175 million) over Alex Foxen, Bruno Furth, Kamel Mokhammad, and Jordan Glazer, who collectively have 5.32 million in chips.
Today also is the start of another $10K PLO tournament but, once today’s tournament starts, the dollar value heads upward. Event #7 is a $15K event that begins on April Fool’s Day. Following that, a $15K Mystery Bounty tournament, a straight $15K PLO tournament, and the $25,000 PLO Championship will conclude the schedule on April 4 (there is a final consolation tournament on April 5 with a $5,000 buy-in).
What is fascinating about the 2025 PGT PLO Series is that every one of the tournaments has drawn over 100 players. Rheem won the smallest of the tournaments to this point, and Event #4 still drew in 118 entrants. With its smaller buy-in ($5000), Ky Nguyen had to run through a 164-entry field to take down his title, but the player reaction to a non-Texas Hold’em schedule is notable in that it either shows A) the power of the non-Texas Hold’em format, or B) that the PokerGO Tour is showing its power in being able to draw sizeable fields for its feature events.
This is important because, as soon as the 2025 PGT PLO Series wraps up over the weekend, one of the jewels of the PokerGO Tour schedule kicks off play. The 2025 PGT U. S. Poker Open will come to the tables at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas with a satellite on April 7, kicking off the next day with the first of an eight-tournament schedule. Should Rheem take down the PLO Series event for his second PGT overall title of 2025, that will put him in a firm position to be around come the 2025 PGT Championship at the end of the year.
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