Chino Rheem Nabs Latest PGT Mixed Games Title

It has been a very successful weekend in the mixed-game streets for Chino Rheem. The three-time World Poker Tour champion finished third in the 2025 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event on Friday, Feb. 28 for $114,000. The following day he took down the $10,000 eight-game tournament at the same festival, besting a field of 92 entries to take home $195,500 and the title.

With $309,500 in earnings so far at the festival, Rheem is now the player to beat in the points race heading into the final three tournaments on the schedule. Rheem won the PGT Mixed Games II series title back in the fall of 2023 after cashing in five of the nine events offered, including one victory.

The 2008 World Series of poker main event seventh-place finisher now has more than $15.6 million in overall earnings to his name after his latest string of deep runs recorded inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas.

The $920,000 prize pool for this event was paid out amongst the top 14 finishers, with notables like three-time bracelet winner Mike Gorodinsky (13th), two-time bracelet winner Nick Guagenti (9th), and bracelet winner Ray Dehkharghani (8th) among those who cashed.

The final day began with seven players remaining and Brian Breck out in front. Two-time bracelet winner Alexander Livingston (7th – $36,800) was the first to fall, with the last of his short stack going in during a round of stud. He ended up with a pair of eights, which was second-best to Rheem’s ace-high flush in clubs. With that knockout, Rheem began his climb up the chip counts after starting the day among the short stacks.

Aaron Kupin bowed out in sixth place ($46,000) when his A-6 was unable to best the A-Q of six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh in hold’em. Breck soon followed, earning a career-best tournament payday of $64,400 after bricking out in a big triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball pot.

Arieh held the chip lead going into four-handed play. Bracelet winner David Funkhouser had the next-largest stack at the time, but was ultimately eliminated in fourth place. He lost a lot of his stack during the no-limit hold’em round, and then doubled up six-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman in stud to be left on fumes. He was soon all-in in stud with two callers. Schulman made trip sevens to win the pot. Funkhouser had aces up, but it was no good, and he was eliminated in fourth place ($82,800).

Schulman lost a big pot with queens up losing to the kings up of Arieh in limit hold’em to fall to the short stack. He then got the last of his chips in during triple draw. He ended up pairing on the end, while Rheem showed 8-7-6-5-2 to win the pot. Schulman was awarded $110,400 as the third-place finisher. He now has nearly $22.8 million in career tournament scores under his belt.

With that, Rheem entered heads-up play with 7,275,000 to Arieh’s 6,550,000. After a bit of battling, the two agreed to chop the remaining prize money while leaving the title and rankings points to play for. Rheem landed the decisive blow in pot-limit Omaha, with his KK108 besting Arieh’s 101062. The larger pair held up and Arieh was left with roughly two big blinds. Rheem flopped trip fives in the next all-in and improved to a full house on the end to bring the event to a close.

Arieh surpassed $13.9 million in lifetime earnings thanks to the $195,500 he earned in this event. The 2024 WSOP main event third-place finisher now has 210 recorded cashes on the circuit.

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