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Chino Rheem closed out the PokerGO Tour PLO II series with a win in the $25,100 championship, which locked up enough points to take the title of series champion.

Chino Rheem
Chino Rheem won his third PokerGO Tour series championship at the PGT PLO II series. (Image: PGT)

He became the first player on the PGT tour to win three series championships. The other two came in PGT Mixed Games series in 2023 and 2025.

In fact, out of the 10 events of the series, Rheem cashed in seven of them for a total $798,900, and really left everyone in the dust from get-go when he started the series by finishing as a runner-up in Event #1, a $5,100 affair won by Jesse Lonis.

Lonis earned the title of series champion in the first PGT PLO Series of 2025 in April (the II in the name refers to the number of series in one year).

Rheem and Lonis join Lautaro Guerra (2023), Daniel Geeng (2023), Samuli Sipila (2024), and Matthew Wantman (2024) on the PGT PLO champion list. All series champions win a PGT Gold Cup and a $10,000 PGT Passport.

Rheem has been one of the more dominate payers on the PGT, winning $5,478,761 of his more than $18 million in lifetime earnings on the high-roller tour. He’s won eight PGT events, made seven final tables, and cashed 61 times.

PGT PLO Series II Top 10 Leaderboard

Rank Player Country Winnings Points
1st Chino Rheem United States $798,900 597
2nd Bryce Yockey United States $537,600 487
3rd Sean Winter United States $320,800 459
4th Isaac Haxton United States $512,800 360
5th Veselin Karakitukov Bulgaria $447,300 358
6th Taylor Wilson United States $284,400 355
7th Joao Simao United States $491,000 354
8th Frederic Normand Canada $313,400 353
9th Sam Soverel United States $365,400 318
10th Ben Lamb United States $292,500 293

Yockey wins two

Rheem may have slipped in front of Bryce Yockey in the very last event in order to take his third series championship, but that doesn’t mean that kudos should not be give to Yockey, who won two events this series.

He joined Erik Seidel, Alex Foxen, Sean Winters and others in the winner circle.

2025 PGT PLO Series II Results

Event Entrants Winner 1st Prize Runner-Up
Event #1: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 146 Jesse Lonis $175,000 Chino Rheem
Event #2: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Quattro 133 Alex Foxen $87,000 Michael Wang
Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 143 Erik Seidel $171,500 John Riordan
Event #4: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 117 Ben Lamb $292,500 Fernando Habegger
Event #5: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha PKO 106 Sean Winter $122,300 Sam Soverel
Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 88 Bryce Yockey $237,600 Matthew Wantman
Event #7: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 86 Veselin Karakitukov $348,300 Joao Simao
Event #8: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty 65 Taylor Wilson $195,000 Frederic Normand
Event #9: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 65 Bryce Yockey $290,000 Ben Tollerene
Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 68 Chino Rheem $510,000 Isaac Haxton



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