Michael Wang Leads Final Seven on Stone Bubble for the PGT Championship

The final event of the 2025 PokerGO Tour season is in full swing at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, where 54 players entered the PGT Championship $1,000,000 Freeroll. After Day 1, the field has been reduced to seven players, led by Michael Wang, who carries a stack of 2,890,000 into the final day as he looks to secure the $500,000 first-place prize.

Also returning for the final table are Daniel Negreanu, who sits in the middle of the chip counts just behind John Riordan, as well as Chad Eveslage and Eric Blair, who enter as the short stacks. Andrew “LuckyChewy” Lichtenberger and Aaron Kupin, the last remaining Dream Seat winner, round out the field with two of the larger stacks. The tournament will return on the money bubble, with six paid places and a $40,000 minimum cash.

PGT Championship Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Michael Wang	United States	2,890,000
2	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	2,410,000
3	Aaron Kupin	United States	1,690,000
4	John Riordan	United States	1,230,000
5	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	1,020,000
6	Chad Eveslage	United States	800,000
7	Eric Blair	United States	685,000

This stacked field built of the top 40 players on the PGT Leaderboard, and 14 Dream Seat winners dwindled down to just seven players on Day 1, when players such as Jason Koon, Michael Mizrachi, Issac Haxton, defending PGT Player of the year and PGT Championship winner Jeremy Ausmus, and newly crowned 2025 PGT Player of the Year, Alex Foxen all found early exits.

Several other notable names fell as the tournament approached the money bubble, including Eric Wasserson, Bryce Yockey, Adam Hendrix, and Stephen Chidwick, the second-highest earner in poker history, who was eliminated shortly after moving to Hendrix’s seat. Chidwick’s exit set the final table, but no further eliminations followed, and play was halted at the end of Level 15 with seven players remaining.