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The PokerGO Tour (PGT) will cap its 2026 season with a $500,000 freeroll championship, scheduled for Jan. 11-12, 2027, at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.
The event will be limited to the top 40 finishers on the PGT season leaderboard, along with a handful of Dream Seat qualifiers who earned their spots through the RunGood Poker Series or other affiliated events.
As in previous editions, starting chip stacks will be weighted according to leaderboard position, giving top performers a built-in edge heading into the two-day event. Five players will be paid, with the minimum cash set at $25,000 and the champion collecting $250,000, split between cash and PGT Passport credit.
Sean Winter currently leads the leaderboard with 2,223 points, built on two titles and 17 cashes this season. He holds a comfortable margin over Finland’s Eelis Parssinen and American Jeremy Ausmus, who boosted his standing with a recent Poker Masters win.
Other notable names inside the top ten include Alex Foxen, Brock Wilson, and Adrian Mateos, while Daniel Negreanu—fresh off an eighth WSOP bracelet and a runner-up finish at Poker Masters—remains within the top 40 as well. Standings could still shift with the PGT Sprint festival underway and the Last Chance Series approaching in January, which will award five additional Dream Seats.
Last season’s $1,000,000 Championship Freeroll saw Chad Eveslage win $500,000 over a 54-player field that also included Negreanu, Michael Wang, and Andrew Lichtenberger.
