Brandon Wilson Wins Latest PGT Last Chance Title

Brandon Wilson was down to just a few big blinds at one point in the final day of event no. 3 of the PokerGO Tour Last Chance series. With seven players remaining, he called all-in from the big blind with 42 facing a small-blind shove from two-time bracelet winner Keith Lehr. Wilson flopped a flush to leave Lehr’s 105 drawing dead before the turn, giving himself some breathing room.

From there, Wilson managed to build his stack and survive to the final two. He then overcame a heads-up chip deficit against Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian champion Landon Tice to come away with the title, the top prize of $297,500, and 600 Card Player Player of the Year points. He is now sitting in a three-way tie for second place in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

He also earned 298 PGT ranking points with this triumph, bringing his total for the season to 487. That’s good for 100th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

Wilson is an emerging star on the high-stakes tournament scene, having now won five live high roller events since August of 2023. His first four all came in events held at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in Florida, and collectively totaled more than $1.9 million. This latest victory brought his lifetime earnings to more than $3.6 million.

A total of 119 entries were made in this $10,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, building a prize pool of $1,190,000 that was paid out among the top 17 finishers. Wilson was near the bottom of the counts when the day began, and slid even further before managing the previously mentioned double up with 4-2 suited.

It took more than an hour and a half for the first knockout of the final table to arrive. It was David Chen who hit the rail in seventh place ($47,600) after he was left short making a move with A-J against the A-K of Tice. He was soon joined by four-time World Poker Tour main event champion Darren Elias, who got all-in with A-K facing the pocket deuces Wilson. Elias failed to connect with the board and was eliminated in sixth place ($59,500), while Wilson continued to climb the chip counts.

WPT champion and two-time bracelet Dylan Linde was the next to fall. He called off with A-8 for around 5.5 big blinds facing a button shove from Tice, who held K-6 suited. Tice flopped a pair of kings and held from there to narrow the field to four contenders. Linde earned $77,350 as the fifth-place finisher.

Tice was also involved in the subsequent knockout, which pitted his pocket sixes against the A-4 of two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel. Tice flopped a set and faded a gutshot to eliminate Soverel in fourth place ($101,150). Soverel now has nearly $24.7 million in career earnings.

The very next hand, Lehr picked up pocket nines on the button and moved all-in for around 16 big blinds. He received a snap call from Tice and his pocket kings. Neither player connected with the board and Lehr busted in third place, earning $130,900 for his efforts.

Tice took 11,025,000 into heads-up play with Wilson and his 3,850,000. Wilson was able to battle his way into the lead after a while, but Tice won a big pot with a flopped straight to jump back out in front. The match then swung decisively in Wilson’s favor when his 33 won a huge preflop race against the AK of Tice.

Not long after that, Tice tried his hand at winning a flip with 33. He shoved for 3,275,000 from the button with blinds at 150,000-300,000 with a big blind ante of 300,000. Wilson called with J10 from the big blind and the board came down AJ8KA and Tice was eliminated as the runner-up. The $184,450 he earned grew his recorded career haul to nearly $2.5 million.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

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