{"id":36482,"date":"2026-09-30T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:23:36","slug":"james-chen-rolls-through-field-to-capture-pokergo-tour-plo-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/james-chen-rolls-through-field-to-capture-pokergo-tour-plo-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"James Chen Rolls Through Field to Capture PokerGo Tour PLO Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

James Chen played the role of bouncer at PokerGo Tour’s PLO $10,500 quattro bounty tournament that’s taking place at the ARIA in Las Vegas by removing player after player from the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chen, who makes his home in Pittsburgh, won $239,000 in total prize money, but most of that came from knocking out 14 of the 57 entries for $132,000 in bounty prizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Chen’s second PGT title, and both came in PLO format. The first was worth $220,000 and came in 2024, the same year he won his only World Series of Poker bracelet in — yes, you guessed it — a $1,500 Omaha eight-or-better event ($209,350).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner-up\u00a0was Richard Gryko, who won a total of $100,400 ($68,400 came from two bounties). Third-place finisher Youness Barakat won a total of $95,900, which $47,900 came from three bounties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen’s last Hendon Mob cash was for $18,000 for finishing 13th in a $1,000 buy-in event at this year’s WSOP. He cashed in five WSOP event this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His largest poker score came in 2023 when he finished second against Ben Lamb in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the WSOP. Chen won $304,571.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is his fifth six-figure score. He has $1.7 million in tournament cashes according to the Hendon Mob<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Table Results of the $10,500 Quattro Bounty Event at PGT PLO Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/strong><\/td>Player<\/strong><\/td>Payout<\/strong><\/td>Bounties<\/strong><\/td>PGT Points<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>James Chen<\/td>$107,000<\/td>$132,000<\/td>178<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Richard Gryko<\/td>$68,400<\/td>$32,000<\/td>103<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Youness Barakat<\/td>$47,900<\/td>$48,000<\/td>72<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Cary Katz<\/td>$34,200<\/td>$0<\/td>51<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Ben Lamb<\/td>$25,700<\/td>$16,000<\/td>39<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Lautaro Guerra<\/td>$18,800<\/td>$0<\/td>28<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Jeremy Ausmus<\/td>$14,300<\/td>$0<\/td>21<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The PGT PLO series wraps-up this week, with the Super High Roller Bowl XI next, soon followed by the Poker Masters. Here’s the remaining schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE<\/strong><\/td>START TIME<\/strong><\/td>EVENT<\/strong><\/td>STARTING CHIPS<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Tue, Sep 29<\/td>12 p.m. PT<\/td>Event #5: $10,500 Pot-Limit Omaha<\/td>125,000<\/td><\/tr>
Wed, Sep 30<\/td>12 p.m. PT<\/td>Event #6: $15,700 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty<\/td>150,000<\/td><\/tr>
Thu, Oct 1<\/td>12 p.m. PT<\/td>Event #7: $15,700 Pot-Limit Omaha<\/td>150,000<\/td><\/tr>
Fri, Oct 2<\/td>12 p.m. PT<\/td>Event #8: $26,000 Pot-Limit Omaha<\/td>250,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Chen played the role of bouncer at PokerGo Tour’s PLO $10,500 quattro bounty tournament that’s taking place at the ARIA in Las Vegas by removing player after player from the premises. Chen, who makes his home in Pittsburgh, won $239,000 in total prize money, but most of that came from knocking out 14 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":36491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,529,7421,499,7415,535,501],"tags":[6387],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-36482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","tag-plo"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":36482},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/James-Chen-scaled-1-600x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/James-Chen-scaled-1-600x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36498,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions\/36498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36482"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=36482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}