Seidel, Lamb, Lonis and Winter Winners at PokerGO Tour PLO II Series in Las Vegas

The PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series II is now taking place in Las Vegas, and there are some familiar names who already found trophies and joined Alex Foxen as recent winners. Eric Seidel still got it Eric Seidel has been in the Poker Hall of Fame for 15 years, and at the age of […]

Oct 21, 2025 - 13:35
Seidel, Lamb, Lonis and Winter Winners at PokerGO Tour PLO II Series in Las Vegas

The PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series II is now taking place in Las Vegas, and there are some familiar names who already found trophies and joined Alex Foxen as recent winners.

Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel XXXX

Eric Seidel still got it

Eric Seidel has been in the Poker Hall of Fame for 15 years, and at the age of 65, may be playing poker better than ever. Seidel won his first PGT of 2025 at the PLO II series in Event #3, a $5,100 buy-in contest which attracted 143 punters who generated a prize pool of $715,000.

Seidel took home $171,500 of that. John Riordan won $103,700 for coming in third, and Sean Winter, who would go onto win Event #5, finished third for $75,100.

Seidel is $1.5 million in tournament cashes away from breaking the $50 million lifetime mark. Not bad for a rap-loving white boy from NYC.

Here’s how the final table looked:

PlaceNameCountryPGT PointsPrize
1stErik SeidelUnited States172$171,500
2ndJohn RiordanUnited States104$103,700
3rdSean WinterUnited States75$75,100
4thDaniel KimUnited States57$57,200
5thJames Chen (US)United States43$42,900
6th    Bruno FurthUnited States36$35,800
7th    Brevin AndreadisUnited States29$28,600

Jesse Lonis doesn’t lose

Jesse Lonis
Jesse Lonis

Here’s something Captain Obvious would declare: Jesse Lonis is really good playing in PGT events. Since Sept 24, he’s finished in the top 10 in six of them — one of those being a win in the first event of the PLO II series.

Lonis was the last man standing of the 146 players who put up $5,100 to kick-off the series. The dude simply knows how to make the money in events, particularly high-roller contests where the fields rarely exceed 150 players.

He’s having a 2025 to remember: Nine wins for more than $10 million in cashes, which puts him near the top of every Player of the Year list out there, including the big one, the Global Poker Index, where he currently sits only a dozen points behind Artur Martirosyan.

The final table was packed with superstars, including Josh Arieh, who just won his seventh World Series of Poker bracelet online. Here were the top six:

PlaceNameCountryPGT PointsPrize
1stJesse LonisUnited States175$175,000
2ndChino RheemUnited States106$106,000
3rdJosh AriehUnited States77$76,700
4thArtem MaksimovUnited States58$58,400
5thIsaac HaxtonUnited States44$43,800
6thAnthony HuUnited States37$36,500

Ben Lamb breaks through

Ben Lamb
Ben Lamb

Ben Lamb picked up another $292,500 for winning Event #4, a $10,100 event that pulled in 117 entrants. The $1.1 million generated was the first million-dollar pool of the PLO II series.

It’s Lamb’s first win of 2025. His next deep run will most likely push his lifetime tournament winnings total over the $20 million mark. Sean Winter made his fourth final table of the series in the event on his way to the top of the series’ leaderboard.

Here’s who made the final table:

PlaceNameCountryPrizePGT Points
1stBen LambUnited States$292,500293
2ndFernando HabeggerSwitzerland$181,400181
3rdChris CostaUnited States$128,700129
4thStefan ChristopherUnited States$99,40099
5thCary KatzUnited States$76,10076
6thSean WinterUnited States$58,50059
7thDaniel AharoniUnited States$46,80047

Sean Winter going for series champion

Sean Winter
Sean Winter

Sean Winter made four final tables in the first five PLO II events of the series, and he broke though in the best way in Event #5, a $10,11 PLO progressive bounty contest that attracted 106.

Winter won the $122,300 top prize as well as $155,000 in bounties for a grand total of $277,300. He now has more than $36 million in tournament cashes. Here’s the final table results:

PlaceNameCountryPGT PointsPrizeBounty Prize
1stSean WinterUnited States253$122,300$155,000
2ndSam SoverelUnited States153$122,300$19,000
3rdNick PalmaUnited States121$73,100$19,000
4thTaylor WilsonUnited States95$57,200$16,000
5thJesse LonisUnited States69$41,700$33,000
6thKamel MokhammadUkraine53$31,800$2,000
7thStephen HubbardUnited States42$25,300$4,000

With five event to go in the PGT PLO II series at the Aria in Las Vegas, he is the front-runner to win the title of series champion. That comes with a PGT Gold Cup trophy and a $10,000 PGT Passport. Here’s the current leaderboard.

RankPlayerPointsCashesWinnings
1Sean Winter4164$285,100
2Ben Lamb2931$292,500
3Jesse Lonis2643$228,700
4Fernando Habegger1811$181,400
5Sam Soverel1752$143,800
6Erik Seidel1721$171,500
7Alex Foxen1622$105,250
8John Riordan1584$142,300
9Michael Wang1553$105,200
10Chino Rheem1493$135,700

The PGT series runs until Oct. 24, before slipping seamlessly into the Super High Roller Bowl series that runs until Oct. 29. After that, it’s North American Poker Tour events from Nov. 3-10.