Jesse Lonis is the 2025 PokerGO Tour PLO Series Champion
Jesse Lonis is the king of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Hold’em series that just wrapped up at the Aria in Las Vegas. He was named series champion after finishing on top of the leaderboard, just 29 points ahead of Alex Foxen. Lonis, 29, won $799,140 in the series by winning an event and […]
Jesse Lonis is the king of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Hold’em series that just wrapped up at the Aria in Las Vegas. He was named series champion after finishing on top of the leaderboard, just 29 points ahead of Alex Foxen.
Lonis, 29, won $799,140 in the series by winning an event and cashing an additional four times — a ninth, third twice, and a runner-up. He vaulted to the top of the series’ leaderboard with a third-place finish in the $25,000 Championship, which was one of the last events of the series.
He won a gold cup which came with a $10,000 passport good for any PGT event.
Lonis has more than $15 million in tournament winnings according to the Hendon Mob, The win in the PGT PLO series was his fourth in PGT events. He’s made 23 final tables and cashed 46 times giving him $6,196,807 in career PGT earnings.
Event Place Prize PGT Points Event #2: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty 3rd $47,700 79 Event #5: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty 9th $27,840 46 Event #7: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 2nd $204,750 164 Event #9: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 1st $308,850 247 Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 3rd $210,000 126
Rheem on top of season leaderboard
Until the last tow events began, Chino Rheem was in pole position to be named his second consecutive PGT series champion in a row after he took the title at last month’s Mixed games series. Instead, he finished third, behind Foxen and Lonis. Neither Lonis or Foxen even cracked the top 10 of the Mixed Game series.
Foxen would have taken the series’ title if only he won Event #11. Instead, he booked his second runner-up finish of the series. He also finished 16th, third, and won Event #7, a $15,000 buy-in contest that was good for a $315,000 cash.
Rheem sits on top of the PPT season’s leaderboard with 928 points, just in front of Joey Weisman’s 907. Lonis is seventh with 786 PGT points which he earned with nine cashes for $912,490 this season.
Rank Player Country Winnings Points 1st Jesse Lonis United States $799,140 662 2nd Alex Foxen United States $647,185 633 3rd Chino Rheem United States $540,475 506 4th Bryce Yockey United States $402,650 437 5th Tyler Brown United States $354,895 407 6th Daniel Negreanu Canada $390,900 397 7th Jim Collopy United States $505,492 356 8th Dylan Weisman United States $481,433 324 9th Lautaro Guerra Spain $383,865 314 10th Dylan Smith United States $295,870 305
PLO series in the books
Rheem, Foxen, and Lonis were three of the 11 winners of the PGT PLO series, joining Daniel Negreanu, who continues to rise to the top in PGT events. It was his PGT-leading 11th victory.
Event Entrants Winner 1st Prize Runner-Up Event #1: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 164 Ky Nguyen $180,400 Matthew McEwan Event #2: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty 159 Billy Tarango $88,245 Stephen Hubbard Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 159 Daniel Negreanu $182,500 James Chen (US) Event #4: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 118 Chino Rheem $295,000 Ben Tollerene Event #5: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty 116 Christopher Costa $123,200 Alex Foxen Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 99 Dylan Smith $252,450 Sean Rafael Event #7: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 70 Alex Foxen $315,000 Jesse Lonis Event #8: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty 78 Bryce Yockey $218,400 Tyler Brown Event #9: $15,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 71 Jesse Lonis $308,850 Chino Rheem Event #10: $25,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 60 Jim Collopy $450,367 Dylan Weisman Event #11: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty 73 Zachary Schwartz $63,510 Alex Foxen
The U.S. Poker Open is now taking place at the Aria util April 16, followed by PGT Texas Poker Open at the Champions Club in Houston April 23-28.
