Chino Rheem Wins $10,000 Event At PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha SeriesThree-Time World Poker Tour Champion Adds To Trophy Collection With Fifth Career PGT Title |
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Chino Rheem now has more than $16 million in car poker tournament earnings after his latest triumph on the live circuit. The longtime pro player topped a field of 118 entries to capture the title in event no. 4 of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series, a $10,000 buy-in affair. The victory came with $295,000 in prize money, which grew Rheem’s overall haul to $16,002,538.
This was the fifth career PGT title for Rheem, who has twice been crowned the PGT Mixed Games series champion. The three-time World Poker Tour main event winner and 2019 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion has secured hardware on nearly all of the major tours on the scene, outside of earning a World Series of Poker bracelet. While a win at the series has so far eluded Rheem, he did make the main event final table back in 2008, finishing seventh for nearly $1.8 million.
Rheem was awarded 600 Card Player Player of the Year points after coming out on top in this PLO event. This was his second title and fourth final-table finish of 2025. As a result, he now sits in 40th place on the POY leaderboard presented by Global Poker. He also climbed to fourth place in the PGT season-long standings, with all four of his final tables coming in PGT tournaments.
A total of 118 entries were made in this high-stakes four-card event, resulting in a prize pool of $1,180,000 that was split amongst the top 17 finishers. Only six players advanced to day 2 action inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas, with notables like Alex Foxen (16th), Nick Schulman (14th), Jeremy Ausmus (13th), Dylan Linde (10th), Lautaro Guerra (9th), and Sean Winter (8th) running deep but falling short of the final table.
The first knockout of the day pitted the UK’s Richard Gryko against American poker pro Ben Tollerene. The two were the largest stacks at the table, but all of the chips managed to go in thanks to Gryko picking up pocket aces (A
A
107
) against Tollerene’s pocket kings (K
K83). The side cards ended up mattering more than the big pocket pairs, though, as Tollerene flopped trip three’s and held from there to take a huge chip lead into five-handed action. Gryko earned $59,000 as the sixth-place finisher.
Aces cracked! Ben Tollerene spikes trips to send Richard Gryko out in 6th.
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2022 WSOP main event third-place finisher Michael Duek was ahead when he got the last of his stack in preflop with pocket kings. He flopped middle set against the top and bottom pair of Rheem, but the river brought an ace to give Rheem the higher boat. Duek walked away with $76,700 for his fifth-place showing.
In keeping with the theme of the day, Arthur Morris was also eliminated with pocket kings in his hand. He had just three big blinds to start his final hand, and was called in two spots. Bracelet winner Allan Le bet Rheem out of the pot after a nine-high flop, and revealed AA99 for top set. Morris picked up a backdoor flush draw to keep his hopes alive, but the river was of no help and he was sent packing in fourth place ($100,300).
Le was ultimately the next to fall, with his bottom pair and flush draw in rough shape against the top set and nut flush draw of Tollerene. Le picked up a second flush draw on the turn, but the board paired on the river to send the chips to Tollerene, who had improved to aces full of queens. Le earned $129,800 as the third-place finisher.
Tollerene entered heads-up play with 8,925,000 to Rheem’s 5,775,000. Tollerene extended that advantage early, but Rheem found a double-up with a set of tens against an overpair of aces to nearly even the match.
After some back-and-forth, Rheem claimed the lead in time for the final hand of the tournament. Rheem raised to 625,000 on the button with AJ88 and Tollerene called from the big blind with J966. The flop came down 984 and Tollerene checked. Rheem bet 400,000 and Tollerene check-raised to 2,700,000. Rheem re-potted and Tollerene called all-in for 4,800,000. The 7 turn gave Tollerene a flush and the lead, but the 7 river improved Rheem to eights full to lock up the pot and the title.
Tollerene was awarded $182,900 as the runner-up. He now has more than $22.5 million in career tournament cashes to his name. Rheem secured 295 PGT points as the champion. This was his second cash of the series. With 307 total points, he is now sitting atop the series-long standings.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Chino Rheem | $295,000 | 600 | 295 |
| 2 | Benjamin Tollerene | $182,900 | 500 | 183 |
| 3 | Allan Le | $129,800 | 400 | 130 |
| 4 | Arthur Morris | $100,300 | 300 | 100 |
| 5 | Michael Duek | $76,700 | 250 | 77 |
| 6 | Richard Gryko | $59,000 | 200 | 59 |
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