Ky Nguyen emerged victorious within the first occasion of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series. The poker professional and blogger from Los Angeles referred to as ‘Suited Superman’ got here out on prime within the $5,000 buy-in kickoff match contained in the PokerGO Studio along with his first PGT title and the highest prize of $180,400.
This was the second-largest rating but for Nguyen, trailing solely the $357,380 he secured because the winner of the 2023 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Open Championship. He now has practically $1.5 million in profession cashes underneath his belt.
Nguyen additionally earned 624 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. This was his first POY-qualified rating of 2025.
This occasion attracted 164 entries, leading to a prize pool of $820,000. The prime 25 finishers secured a share of that whole, with six-figure payouts for the ultimate two. Plenty of notables ran deep, together with seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (18th), current Triton Jeju thriller bounty occasion champion Sean Winter (sixteenth), bracelet winner Ronald Keijzer (thirteenth), and two-time bracelet winner Steve Zolotow (seventh).
The second and last day of motion started with one other two-time bracelet winner out in entrance in Bryce Yockey. Nguyen was fifth in chips when the ultimate desk acquired underway with six gamers remaining. Yockey misplaced a giant conflict with double-suited A-Okay-6-5 in opposition to the single-suited A-A-J-7 of Nguyen to ship him tumbling to the underside of the leaderboard.
The first knockout of the day noticed six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus eradicated in sixth place ($41,000). Ausmus doubled up Yockey to grow to be the quick stack, after which ran backside pair and a flush draw into the center set of bracelet winner James Chen for the remainder of his chips.
This was already the sixth final-table end of the 12 months for Ausmus, together with a win in a record-setting Triton $25,000 occasion in Jeju. The 208 POY factors he secured for this newest last desk run grew his whole to three,754 factors, essentially the most of any participant on the circuit. He now has a 754-point lead over second-ranked Brandon Wilson within the POY standings, that are sponsored by Global Poker.
Despite scoring that double-up by way of Ausmus, Yockey was nonetheless the subsequent to fall. His final hand pitted A
8
32 in opposition to the A
A7
2 of Nguyen, who had been dealt pocket aces for the sixth time in simply the primary few hours of final-table motion. Yockey flopped backside pair together with straight and flush attracts, however failed to enhance any additional and was eradicated in fifth place ($49,200).
Sixth time with ACES!
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 26, 2025
John Riordan’s run on this occasion got here to an finish in fourth place. The two-time bracelet winner walked away with $61,500 after his previous couple of blinds went in with Okay994 going through the QJ42. Nguyen made the wheel on the river to scoop the pot, extending his lead heading into three-handed play within the course of.
The last hand of the match was a three-way all-in. It started with Chen shoving from the button for 900,000 with 9754. Nguyen three-bet to three,100,000 from the small blind with QJ104 and McEwan four-bet shoved for six,700,000 holding OkayOkay93. Nguyen known as after which flopped the nuts when 1098 rolled off. The A on the flip left each Chen and McEwan drawing lifeless, making the 7 river a mere formality.
Chen earned $82,000 because the third-place finisher, whereas McEwan secured $118,900 because the runner-up.
Absolute Insanity!
Three-way all-in knockout seals the $180,400 win for @SuitedSuperman.
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 27, 2025
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Ky Nguyen | $180,400 | 624 | 180 |
| 2 | Matthew Mcewan | $118,900 | 520 | 119 |
| 3 | James Chen | $82,000 | 416 | 82 |
| 4 | John Riordan | $61,500 | 312 | 62 |
| 5 | Bryce Yockey | $49,200 | 260 | 49 |
| 6 | Jeremy Ausmus | $41,000 | 208 | 41 |
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