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Flashback: Chad Eveslage Proves Hold'em Dominance With PGT Championship Victory
Chad Eveslage entered the 2025 PokerGO Tour (PGT) $1,000,000 Championship Freeroll with something to prove. The four-time bracelet winner, who won the $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games in the PokerGO Studio in March 2025, is widely recognized as a mixed game expert and today showed he can compete at the highest levels of Texas No-Limit Hold'em by winning the million-dollar freeroll for $500,000.
"It feels great," Eveslage told PokerNews in a winner's interview. "I don't feel super confident in my No-Limit game, and battling against all these guys (and winning), it feels great. Ten out of ten. It feels awesome."
The freeroll event field included the top 40 players on the PGT leaderboard and 14 Dream Seat qualifiers. Day 2's final table featured Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu (4th - $80,000), American pros Michael Wang (3rd - $120,000) and John Riordan (6th - $40,000), Dream Seat winner Aaron Kupin (5th - $60,000) and runner-up Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger ($200,000), who dominated most of the event but fell after a brief heads-up battle.
2025 PGT Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chad Eveslage | United States | $500,000 |
| 2 | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | $200,000 |
| 3 | Michael Wang | United States | $120,000 |
| 4 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | $80,000 |
| 5 | Aaron Kupin | United States | $60,000 |
| 6 | John Riordan | United States | $40,000 |