The long post-World Series of Poker slumber is just about over. The World Poker Tour is back in action (albeit overseas), while the European Poker Tour is live again in Barcelona. The PokerGO Tour is also preparing to restart the second half of its 2025 season, with the battle at the top of the PokerGO Tour standings intense on the road to the PokerGO Championship.
PGT Resumes on September 1
The PokerGO Tour will pick up the chips and cards again on September 1, with its 81st tournament for 2025. The PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas will host the inaugural PGT Bounty Blitz, which runs from September 1-6. The entirety of the schedule for the Bounty Blitz will consist of bounty tournaments, with each tournament’s buy-in at $5000. Of that buy-in (or rebuy – all the PGT tournaments feature unlimited rebuys), $3000 will go towards the prize pool, and $2000 will go towards fulfilling the bounty requirements.
After a short break, the PGT will dive right back into play on September 10, with the PGT Venetian Classic. The PGT is running several satellites for their $3000 Main Event, which has a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The players should flock to this with the multiple satellite possibilities and the chance to take part in a tournament that should crush its guarantee fairly easily. If a player cannot satellite into the Main Event, there will be three $5000 “High Roller” tournaments for the stragglers that will also count toward the PGT standings.
September will wrap up with what has become one of the venerable events on the PGT schedule and a “must-play” stop for the top tournament professionals. Poker Masters will hold its 2025 version beginning on September 20, with a ten-tournament slate of events. The minimum buy-in for any of the Poker Masters tournaments will be $10,000, with the $25,000 Main Event taking place on October 1 in the PokerGO Studios.
Overall, September for the PokerGO Tour features twenty-six tournaments over the thirty days of the month. If a player were to play every tournament that is featured on the PGT schedule in September alone (and not counting the satellite tournaments or any rebuys), that player would pay over $175,000 in buy-ins and vig.
Mizrachi Uses WSOP Main Event Win to Eke Out PGT Championship Edge
The PGT Championship race is really in its infancy at this point. When it comes to the PGT Championship, only the top thirty players will take part in the million-dollar PGT Championship freeroll that will be held in January 2026. These players who are in the Top Ten might be safe to make the tournament, but the higher a player finishes, the more advantage they will have in the starting chips they will receive for that Championship tournament. Thus, staying in the upper echelons of the leaderboard would serve the players well.
Taking over the lead after the conclusion of the 2025 WSOP is our new World Champion, Michael Mizrachi. ‘The Grinder’ has put together two wins on the PGT calendar, with the 2025 WSOP Main Event championship counting as one of those wins. Mizrachi has put together 2250 points to hold a slim lead over the usual “High Roller” denizens that battle it out on the PGT felt regularly.
In second place on the PGT Championship leaderboard is Alex Foxen, who also has two wins on the PGT calendar. The substantial difference between Mizrachi and Foxen, however, is that Foxen has earned seventeen cashes throughout the first half of 2025. This has allowed Foxen to build a 2132-point resume, which would have been in first save for Mizrachi’s WSOP Main Event win.
Quietly sneaking into the Top Three is Sam Soverel, who has put together three victories so far in 2025. Soverel has a long way to look up, however, as his 1883 points for the season will require him to continue to make several PGT scores to catch Mizrachi. He has also got to worry about fourth-place Nick Schulman, who is only 102 points behind him.
As of the restart of the 2025 PokerGO Tour season this September, here are your Top Ten players on the PGT Championship leaderboard:
1. Michael Mizrachi (Miramar, FL), 2250 points
2. Alex Foxen (Cold Spring Harbor, NY), 2132
3. Sam Soverel (Palm Beach Gardens, FL), 1883
4. Nick Schulman (Manhattan, NY), 1781
5. Daniel Negreanu (Las Vegas, NV), 1597
6. Adam Hendrix (Las Vegas, NV), 1503
7. John Wasnock (North Bend, WA), 1350
8. David ‘Chino’ Rheem (Los Angeles, CA), 1327
9. Braxton Dunaway (USA), 1250
10. Philip Sternheimer (London, England), 1214
Two women are currently in the Top Thirty, which means they would qualify for the PGT Championship if it were to be played today. Kristen Foxen (1127 points) and Leo Margets (1125 points) are in eighteenth and nineteenth places, respectively. If you’re looking at the bubble for the PGT Championship race, currently players like Isaac Haxton (969 points), Quan Zhou (912), and Patrick Leonard (902) are out, while Michael Duek (977 points), Sean Rafael (984), Joey Weissman (1002) and Dylan Linde (1033) are holding down the final four entry slots.
One question that might require answering is how hard Mizrachi wants to pursue the PGT Championship. Mizrachi has never been one to grind the High Roller circuit for some reason, preferring to take on the larger WPT tournaments over the years. If Mizrachi does not commit to playing a plurality of PGT events, we will definitely see someone else climb to the top of the standings. At the same time, Mizrachi will (in theory) make the PGT Championship tournament on what he has already done.
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