PGT PLO Series Ends with Chino in Charge

This year, the PokerGO Tour PLO Series took place at the Venetian in Las Vegas rather than the PokerGO Studio, which is at ARIA on the Sin City Strip. Across the eight-event series, millions of dollars were given away as top prizes ranged between $42,000 and $182,400 as legends of the game such as Sam Soverel and Jeremy Ausmus both won titles.

Bruno Furth Goes Close

If anyone can feel hard done by in not winning this year’s PGT PLO Series, then it might be Bruno Furth. The American took home $150,000 by winning the opening event, a heavily-populated $3,300 buy-in PLO event. He even beat Chino Rheem heads-up but he PGT PLO Series rules stipulate quite clearly the fact that any series winner must cash in a minimum of two events, so while Furth accumulated the most points with 300, he was unable to seal the series victory with seven bricked events after Furth’s stunning win in the opener.

Instead of it being Furth’s series, the latest PGT PLO Series belonged to the 2025 winner too – Chino Rheem. A long-time legend on the PokerGO Tour, no other player in poker history has won four PGT tournament series and consistency was key in Chino’ latest success. Winning no events but cashing in four of the eight tournaments, Chino took home $136,555 across the series, which was held at the Venetian in Las Vegas this year, as opposed to many PGT event series which take place at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Tale of the Tape

Across the early part of the PGT PLO Series, the race was won. Chino may have fallen just short in the opening event, the $3,300 Pot Limit Omaha Event #2 finishing as runner-up for $100,000 but instead of him dropping back, he stepped up his efforts in the remaining seven events and was rewarded for his determination.

In the next event, which cost $5,000, Chino finished in eighth place for a result worth $10,800. In Event #3, Chino finished fourth for $15,435 and an extra $16,000 in bounty prizes. In Event #4, Chino wasn’t able to cash but in Event #5, he cashed for $10,320 when he finished in fifth place.

Almost incredibly, Chino’s fourth cash in five events was his last. Through Events #6, #7, and #8, Chino was unable to add anything to his score. In fact, going into the eighth and final event, Chino was still under the impression that he needed to cash to overtake Furth when in fact what he really needed was Furth not to cash himself, thereby ruling him out of the championship.

When that happened, it confirmed Chino’s status as the 2026 PGT PLO champion, just like he was 12 months ago. In doing so, Chino became the only player ever to win four PokerGO Tour series, also winning the PGT Mixed Games series of 2023 and 2025, along with his PGT PLO Series last year.

Who Won the Other PGT PLO Events?

There were eight events in total this year, and eight different event winners. After Bruno Furth won the $3,300-entry opening event for $150,000, PokerGO favorite Sam Soverel took home $89,100 by winning the $5,000-entry Event #2, outlasting 53 others. Jeremy Ausmus won the top prize of $51,450 in Event #3, before Jordan Glazer then took down Event #4 for $84,000.

In Event #5, Michael Wang won the $5,000 Mystery Bounty event for $45,150. Event #6 cost $10,000 to play as the only five-figure buy-in of the series and the $182,400 was taken home by Jeremy Druckman as he became the PLO Championship winner. in Event #7, Aaron Mermelstein won the top prize of $42,000 before Event #8 was conquered by Qinghai Pan for $51,300.

Across the eight events, no-one won more money than Jeremy Druckman, who banked $209,400 across the series, albeit falling short of Chino’s PGT points total of 281, sitting on 223 points in that regard. In the top ten players, John Riordan (5^th for $94,695 in total winnings), Michael Wang (6^th for $101,850), Jeremy Ausmus (7^th for $89,190) and Sam Soverel (9^th for $117,600) all took home close to or in excess of $100,000 in winnings.

Here are all the winners from the 2026 PGT PLO Series in Las Vegas.