David Coleman Retakes PokerGO Tour Overall Championship Lead Following 2024 USPO

With completion of the 2024 U. S. Poker Open recently, the 2024 PokerGO Tour season appeared to be at an asset to take a look at the standings. After a number of competition series off due to the fact that they were not his video games (Omaha and the Mixed Game series), David Coleman left of the lead in the race for the leading slot in the Overall Championship. The 2024 USPO ended up being simply the tonic that Coleman required, nevertheless, to get himself back into the leading slot on the PGT Overall Championship leaderboard.

Ho Hum … Another Win

Coleman has actually been the gamer that has actually illuminated the scoreboard over the very first 4 months of this year. He had actually won 3 competitions to rise out to the lead, then needed to take a seat for a spell throughout the PGT’s Mixed Game Series and the PLO Series in March. With the switch to April, and the return of the USPO, Coleman might return into the fray.

He did not lose the chance. Throughout the run of the USPO, Coleman won Event # 4 for somewhat more than $202,000. More crucial was the truth that Coleman amassed 322 points throughout the USPO (3 money) and had the ability to draw back into the lead of the PGT Overall Championship race. Those 322 points permitted him to bypass a number of gamers who rose up the standings with their work.

Among those gamers was the ultimate USPO Overall Champion, Aram Zobian. Zobian got the “huge bird,” the Golden Eagle Trophy, while at the same time winning Event # 6, a $15,000 buy-in occasion, to press his overall incomes to simply under $1 million for the year on the PGT. It likewise pressed him approximately 3rd general in the race.

The other significant mover after the USPO was its Main Event champ, Stephen Chidwick. Chidwick banked the $25,000 Championship Event for the USPO to make $429,000. That and the rest of Chidwick’s efficiency throughout the USPO (427 points) pressed him into the Top Ten, where he must be a danger for the rest of the PGT season.

Here are the Top Ten presently on the PGT Overall Championship leaderboard:1. David Coleman, 1259 points (4 wins)
2. Dylan Weisman, 1126 (3 wins)
3. Aram Zobian, 1048 (one win)
4. Daniel Negreanu, 896 (one win)
5. Samuli Sipila, 749 (2 wins)
6. Stephen Chidwick, 711 (one win)
7. Kristen Foxen, 678 (one win)
8. Jesse Lonis, 634 (one win)
9. Jonathan Little, 591 (2 wins)
10. Seth Davies, 590 (one win)

Positioning for Season-Ending PGT Championship

All the competitions that comprise the PGT season are making these gamers points towards the season-ending PGT Championship. That competition is an invitation-only occasion, with the Top 40 gamers on the PGT Overall Championship Leaderboard being welcomed to play in the competition. The PGT Championship has a million-dollar reward swimming pool, with the ultimate champ not just making the PGT Championship however likewise $500,000.

Presently, there are significant names that are attempting to remain on the board– and, on the other end of the spectrum, other notables aiming to eke their method. In Positions 35-40 are such gamers as Victoria Livschitz, Alex Livingston, Daniel Smiljkovic, Jerry Wong, Dylan DeStefano, and Bruno Furth. Now on the outdoors looking in from Positions 41-45 are gamers such as John Riordan, Joao Simao, Lautaro Guerra, John Racener, and Nick Schulman.

The next couple of months will be important for all the gamers who discover themselves in contention for among those forty seats. The inaugural Texas Poker Open at Champions Club in Houston is hosting 5 occasions that will count towards the standings. Following the close of those celebrations, the 2024 World Series of Poker begins with 28 overall PGT-points competitions and the ARIA High Roller Series. By the time we reach completion of the 2024 WSOP, we might have a completely various want to this leaderboard.

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