David Coleman is the 2025 Poker Masters Series Champion
The Poker masters series on the PokerGO Tour just wrapped up at the Aria in Las Vegas, and congratulations goes to David Coleman, who not only won the first event, but also finished as runner-up in the last event, which earned him enough points to be named the series’ top player. Coleman cashed three times […]
The Poker masters series on the PokerGO Tour just wrapped up at the Aria in Las Vegas, and congratulations goes to David Coleman, who not only won the first event, but also finished as runner-up in the last event, which earned him enough points to be named the series’ top player.
Coleman cashed three times in 10 events at the Poker Masters, winning a total of $657,700. For finishing with the most tournament points, he earned the Poker Masters purple jacket, which comes with a $25,000 PGT Passport that could be used to buy-in any PGT event.
He kicked-off the series with a win in the $5,000 buy-in $1,000,000 Showcase, which brought in 239 entrants. It’s the fifth victory on the PGT for the man from Livingston, New Jersey. He now has 29 final tables and 48 cashes and moved into the $12 million lifetime earnings range with his four cashes in September.
Coleman needed to do well in the final event of the series in order to be named as series champion for the first time, and he did just that, coming as close to winning his sixth PGT title before falling to Brandon Wilson in the $25,000 final. He earned $355,000 for second.
In fact, Coleman had to make sure to finish ahead of Doug Lee in the finale event in order to win the purple jacket. If Lee won the event, he would have finished on top of the series’ leaderboard, but he stalled in third place.
Although Foxen was denied his first series championship, he now sits on top of the PGT leaderboard with three months to go in the year. He also had a victory and a runner-up at the Poker Masters.
Rank Player Country Winnings Points 1st David Coleman United States $657,700 492 2nd Alex Foxen United States $468,000 429 3rd Doug Lee Canada $462,500 374 4th Chino Rheem United States $367,300 342 5th Mitchell Halverson United States $329,800 330 6th Cary Katz United States $329,450 313 7th Stephen Song United States $301,250 302 8th Brandon Wilson United States $464,000 302 9th Darren Elias United States $280,000 280 10th Andrew Moreno United States $265,000 265
Moreno, Rheem among winners
The Poker Masters ran from Sept. 19 to Oct 1, at the PokerGO Tour Studio at the Aria, bringing in 1,097 entries.
Mike Zulker won his first PGT title, Andrew Moreno and Justin Saliba both won their second titles, Darren Elias and Brandon Wilson their fourth titles, Chino Rheem and PGT owner Cary Katz both won their seventh titles, and Alex Foxen not only won his tenth PGT title, but also secured his 100th cash on the PokerGO Tour.
Event Entrants Winner 1st Prize Runner-Up $1,000,000 Showcase 239 David Coleman $270,000 Mitchell Halverson Event #2: $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em 130 Mike Zulker $157,000 Mitchell Halverson Event #3: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em 101 Andrew Moreno $252,000 Brian Batt Event #4: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em 112 Darren Elias $280,000 David Chen Event #5: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em 112 Chino Rheem $280,000 Daniyal Gheba Event #6: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em 109 Alex Foxen $272,000 Doug Lee Event #7: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em 77 Cary Katz $223,300 Jared Hyman Event #8: $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em 81 Nguyen Le $301,000 Alex Foxen Event #9: $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em 73 Justin Saliba $301,000 Kristen Foxen Event #10: $25,200 No-Limit Hold’em 63 Brandon Wilson $464,000 David Coleman
