The 2026 PokerGO Tour season is coming into its remaining stretch, with roughly three-quarters of the yr within the books. The higher echelons of the PGT points race standings are, unsurprisingly, crammed with the world’s prime gamers. These superstars have all already cashed for hundreds of thousands on the tour this yr, with a couple of months left to pad their stats forward of the season-ending PGT Championship.
The tour has awarded greater than $99.9 million in payouts throughout 102 accomplished occasions, with a lot extra high-stakes motion coming quickly to a screen near you. The subsequent main providing is the $100,000 no-limit maintain’em Super High Roller Bowl XI, which runs from Oct. 8-10. After that, the Poker Masters affords 10 occasions from Oct. 12-22, with buy-ins starting from $10,000 to $50,000.
Before these impactful choices get underway, although, here’s a take a look at how issues stand on the PGT leaderboard.
2026 PGT Season Standings – Top Ten
| Rank | Player | PGT Points | PGT Earnings | PGT Titles | PGT Cashes |
| 1 | Sean Winter | 1,850 | $3,646,894 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | Eelis Parssinen | 1,843 | $3,754,917 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Brock Wilson | 1,681 | $1,437,284 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Alex Foxen | 1,642 | $2,247,054 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 1,602 | $5,151,421 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Lucas Jumalon | 1,550 | $10,000,000 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Joao Simao | 1,439 | $2,986,333 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Kristen Foxen | 1,408 | $2,582,255 | 2 | 11 |
| 9 | Calvin Anderson | 1,358 | $1,318,060 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Lauri Saaskilahti | 1,350 | $6,000,000 | 0 | 1 |
Winter And Parssinen Neck-And-Neck For The Lead
Sean Winter leads the way in which with 1,850 factors accrued throughout 15 PGT cashes. Eight of these scores have include payouts of six figures or extra, together with $1.3 million for a fourth-place exhibiting within the $250,000 buy-in excessive curler on the World Series of Poker. All instructed, Winter has cashed for over $3.6 million in PGT-certified tournaments in 2026. His lone win to this point got here in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em affair on the PokerGO Cup, which noticed him greatest a discipline of 70 entries to earn his eighth profession PGT title.
Hot on Winter’s heels is Eelis Parssinen. The Finnish pot-limit Omaha and no-limit maintain’em excessive curler trails by simply seven factors, having recorded seven cashes and two wins so far. Those two triumphs each got here on the WSOP, the place Parssinen took down a pair of high-stakes tournaments within the span of a single week to develop his profession bracelet rely to a few. The first large victory noticed him beat a discipline of 451 within the $25,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-max occasion for $2,161,056. Just six days later, he was the final participant standing from 214 entries within the $25,000 PLO and NLH blended occasion, including one other $1,172,296. His whole PGT earnings for the yr are actually approaching $3.8 million.
Wilson, Foxen, And Dzivielevski Round Out The Top Five
The highest title whole of any participant within the prime ten belongs to Brock Wilson, who’s secured 4 PGT trophies in 2026, together with two on the U.S. Poker Open and two on the PokerGO Cup. Wilson was topped the collection champion for each of these festivals in consequence. Wilson has cashed for greater than $1.4 million throughout 13 PGT in-the-money finishes this season, stacking 1,681 factors alongside the way in which.
Alex Foxen at present sits in fourth place with 1,642 factors. He’s amassed over $2.2 million in PGT earnings thus far, together with his two largest paydays coming simply 4 days aside on the WSOP. He first completed sixth in a $100,000 excessive curler for $522,347. Then he raced to victory in a $10,000 tremendous turbo bounty occasion, incomes $594,246 and his fourth profession gold bracelet.
The highest-earning participant within the prime 5 is Yuri Dzivielevski with over $5.1 million throughout seven cashes. The majority of that spectacular whole comes from two large victories. First, the Brazilian crusher took down the Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games $100,000 excessive curler for $1.3 million in February. Then, he got here out on prime in a $100,000 buy-in on the WSOP to earn $2.8 million and his sixth bracelet.
The remainder of the highest ten options loads of star energy, as nicely, together with WSOP foremost occasion champion Lucas Jumalon (ranked sixth, 1,550 factors) and the runner-up of that occasion, Lauri Saaskilahti (ranked tenth, 1,350 factors). There’s additionally Brazilian all-time cash chief Joao Simao (ranked seventh, 1,439 factors), ladies’s cash record chief Kristen Foxen (ranked eighth, 1,408 factors), and eight-time bracelet winner Calvin Anderson (ranked ninth, 1,358 factors).
Photo credit: PokerGO Tour / WSOP.
