The 2026 PokerGO Tour PLO Series is steaming right along, and perhaps that has been a bit problematic. In the last three events, the tournaments were concluded in a single day rather than over two days because the fields weren’t there to support a two-day event. Sam Soveral, Jeremy Ausmus, and Jordan Glazer couldn’t care less about that, however, as they scooped up the victories in the PGT PLO Series over the past three days.
Event #2 Goes to Soverel
In the past three tournaments on the 2026 PGT PLO Series schedule, there has been a shortage of players at the felt. Although Omaha Hold’em is quite popular, it seems that the players are not coming out for these $5,000 buy-in tournaments. In each of these events, there were fewer than 60 entries in each round. As such, the PGT made the executive decision to play these tournaments out in one day rather than their usual two.
For Monday’s Event #2, the fortunate soul to come out on top was Sam Soverel. Soverel came to the final table of the 54-entry field as the prohibitive favorite, holding 2.2 million chips, and he was only challenged by Michael Wang. After eliminating the rest of the table between them, Soverel and Wang would square off for almost two hours before Soverel, holding a J-5-4-3, was able to best Wang’s A-Q-7-6 after the board ran out 9-7-3-K-5.
1. Sam Soverel, $89,100 (134)
2. Michael Wang, $56,700 (85)
3. Dylan Linde, $37,800 (57)
4. Jeremy Druckman, $21,600 (41)
5. Ky Nguyen, $21,600 (32)
6. Artem Maksimov, $16,200 (24)
Ausmus Takes Event #3 Crown with Even Smaller Field
Event #3 didn’t get any better for the PGT. Only 49 entries were registered for Event #3, and Jeremy Ausmus found his way to the final table after cashing in the Event #1 opener. Maksimov came to the final table of this tournament as the massive chip leader, with 2.2 million in chips, and only Philip Shing joined him in the seven-figure club with 1.15 million. Linde, Ausmus, Jordan Glazer, ‘Chino’ Rheem, and John Riordan were also at the table, but none of them had a stack bigger than 700K.
Maksimov was a bit too aggressive, even for Omaha. He would double up Rheem and Shing both to drop down the leaderboard, eventually falling in fifth place to Riordan. Riordan then would take down Rheem in fourth, but he also failed to move further, as Shing ended his day in third. In the heads-up fight, Ausmus started with the lead and stayed there, booking the win in about ten minutes over Shing.
1. Jeremy Ausmus, $51,450 (129)
2. Philip Shing, $32,340 (81)
3. John Riordan, $21,315 (53)
4. David ‘Chino’ Rheem, $15,435 (39)
5. Artem Maksimov, $11,760 (29)
6. Dylan Linde, $8,820 (22)
7. Jordan Glazer, $5,880 (15)
Glazer Rebounds for Win in Event #4
Barely scraping his buy-in back after Event #3, Jordan Glazer put that money to effective use. He would dive into Event #4 of the 2026 PGT PLO Series and emerge as its champion over a paltry 48-entry field.
The field was tightly bunched once the final table was determined, with Ausmus holding a slim lead over Glazer and Jason Funke when the cards went into the air. Funke was a force in the early action, making quad sevens against Glazer and thumping Zachary Schwartz and Brevin Andreadis in seventh and sixth places, respectively. LaDarren Banks didn’t let Funke run off and hide, though, as Banks eliminated Ausmus in fifth place.
On the short stack, Glazer was in danger of heading to the rail himself, but he slowly ground his way up with smallish pots against Banks. That allowed Funke to take down Banks in third place and move to heads-up against Glazer with a 1.2 million chip lead. It wasn’t easy for Glazer, who at one point held only 265K in chips for battle, but he showed a great deal of tenacity in once again grinding his stack upwards.
Once the stacks were about even, it simply became a matter of who would catch the break first. It looked like it was Funke, who held a 4:1 lead at one point, but Glazer doubled twice through Funke to switch the situation. On the final hand, the two men saw an A-K-3 flop and the money went to the center:
Funke: A-9-8-7
Glazer: J-10-5-4
Funke held the lead on the flop, but a ten on the turn opened some doors for Glazer. The four on the river hit Glazer hard, giving him two pair, while Funke was left to wonder what might have been as Glazer scooped the chips and the championship.
1. Jordan Glazer, $84,000 (126)
2. Jason Funke, $52,800 (79)
3. LaDarren Banks, $34,800 (52)
4. James Chen, $25,200 (38)
5. Jeremy Ausmus, $19,200 (29)
6. Brevin Andreadis, $14,400 (22)
7. Zachary Schwartz, $9,600 (14)
The 2026 PGT PLO Series has four more tournaments to go, with three $5,000 events and the $10,000 Main Event set over the next few days. They are going to need the players to show more interest if they are going to continue spreading the series in the future, however.
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