Brandon Wilson Wins Latest PGT Last Chance Title

Brandon Wilson was all the way down to only a few huge blinds at one level within the closing day of occasion no. 3 of the PokerGO Tour Last Chance sequence. With seven gamers remaining, he known as all-in from the massive blind with 42 going through a small-blind shove from two-time bracelet winner Keith Lehr. Wilson flopped a flush to go away Lehr’s 105 drawing useless earlier than the flip, giving himself some respiration room.

From there, Wilson managed to construct his stack and survive to the ultimate two. He then overcame a heads-up chip deficit in opposition to Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian champion Landon Tice to return away with the title, the highest prize of $297,500, and 600 Card Player Player of the Year factors. He is now sitting in a three-way tie for second place within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

He additionally earned 298 PGT rating factors with this triumph, bringing his whole for the season to 487. That’s good for one centesimal place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

Wilson is an rising star on the high-stakes event scene, having now gained 5 stay excessive curler occasions since August of 2023. His first 4 all got here in occasions held at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in Florida, and collectively totaled greater than $1.9 million. This newest victory introduced his lifetime earnings to greater than $3.6 million.

A complete of 119 entries had been made on this $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event, constructing a prize pool of $1,190,000 that was paid out among the many high 17 finishers. Wilson was close to the underside of the counts when the day started, and slid even additional earlier than managing the beforehand talked about double up with 4-2 suited.

It took greater than an hour and a half for the primary knockout of the ultimate desk to reach. It was David Chen who hit the rail in seventh place ($47,600) after he was left quick making a transfer with A-J in opposition to the A-Ok of Tice. He was quickly joined by four-time World Poker Tour principal occasion champion Darren Elias, who bought all-in with A-Ok going through the pocket deuces Wilson. Elias failed to attach with the board and was eradicated in sixth place ($59,500), whereas Wilson continued to climb the chip counts.

WPT champion and two-time bracelet Dylan Linde was the following to fall. He known as off with A-8 for round 5.5 huge blinds going through a button shove from Tice, who held Ok-6 suited. Tice flopped a pair of kings and held from there to slim the sector to 4 contenders. Linde earned $77,350 because the fifth-place finisher.

Tice was additionally concerned within the subsequent knockout, which pitted his pocket sixes in opposition to the A-4 of two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel. Tice flopped a set and pale a gutshot to eradicate Soverel in fourth place ($101,150). Soverel now has almost $24.7 million in profession earnings.

The very subsequent hand, Lehr picked up pocket nines on the button and moved all-in for round 16 huge blinds. He obtained a snap name from Tice and his pocket kings. Neither participant related with the board and Lehr busted in third place, incomes $130,900 for his efforts.

Tice took 11,025,000 into heads-up play with Wilson and his 3,850,000. Wilson was capable of battle his manner into the lead after some time, however Tice gained a giant pot with a flopped straight to leap again out in entrance. The match then swung decisively in Wilson’s favor when his 33 gained an enormous preflop race in opposition to the AOk of Tice.

Not lengthy after that, Tice tried his hand at successful a flip with 33. He shoved for 3,275,000 from the button with blinds at 150,000-300,000 with a giant blind ante of 300,000. Wilson known as with J10 from the massive blind and the board got here down AJ8OkA and Tice was eradicated because the runner-up. The $184,450 he earned grew his recorded profession haul to just about $2.5 million.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

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