Ryan Miller Wins PokerGO Mixed Games $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Title

An elite field of 95 entrants turned out for the 2025 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event. The final table was littered with highly-accomplished players, but only one could walk away with the title. That turned out to be two-time bracelet winner Ryan Miller, who earned $247,000 as the champion.

This was the second-largest live tournament score for Miller, trailing only the $344,677 payout he earned for winning the 2023 World Series of Poker stud eight-or-better championship. The Pennsylvanian now has more than $1.3 million in recorded earnings on the circuit, with the majority of that success coming at the WSOP.

Miller was also awarded 540 Card Player Player of the Year points for taking down this title. That was sufficient to shoot him up the standings and inside the top 200 on the 2025 POY leaderboard presented by Global Poker.

The second and final day of this event began with seven players remaining, with Miller out in front. The bubble had burst late on day 1, with the top 14 finishers all earning a share of the $950,000 prize pool. Several big names hit the rail inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas before the night ended, including five-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (13th), seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (9th), and two-time bracelet winner Nick Guagenti (8th).

World Poker Tour champion and five-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi was the first to fall on day 2. He got the last of his stack in on sixth street during a round of stud eight-or-better with a pair of aces and a flush draw against the kings up of Miller. Mizrachi bricked out on seventh street and was eliminated in seventh place ($38,000).

Two-time bracelet winner and 2019 WSOP main event third-place finisher Alexander Livingston hung around on the short stack for a while before ultimately being knocked out in sixth place. He got all-in during a round of Omaha eight-or-better with the nut low draw with A-2 but lost out when Miller took the high side with fives full of tens while three-time WPT champion Chino Rheem rivered the best low with A-2-3 after an ace hit the river. Livingston earned $47,500 for his efforts.

2017 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner Johannes Becker busted in fifth place during a round of Razz. He caught bad on several streets and ended up with J-7-6-3-2. Samuel Sternfield was behind on sixth street, but made 8-7-5-4-A to win the pot and narrow the field to four. Becker is approaching $4.4 million in career cashes after adding $66,500 with this performance.

Five-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser’s last stand came in stud. He got all-in on third straight with and had made a pair of kings by sixth street. He was facing the tens up of Sternfield and four wheel cards of Rheem with one card to come. Neither Glaser or Rheem improved on the end and Sternfield dragged the pot to send Glaser packing with $85,500.

Rheem’s run in this event also came to an end whilst playing stud. He got his last big bet in with (J10)K trailing the (KK)8 of Sternfield. Rheem picked up a pair of tens on fourth street and an open-ended straight draw on fifth, but was unable to improve any further. Sternfield ended up with kings and sixes to score the elimination. Rheem took home $114,000 as the third-place finisher, moving him close to $15.5 million in lifetime earnings.

With that, Sternfield took better than a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Miller. The final two went on to battle for several more hours. Miller was down to a single big bet at one point, but managed to surge back from the brink of elimination to take the lead in time for the final hand. Miller raised with KQ from the button and Sternfield called with AQ from the big blind. The flop came down Q72 and Sternfield check-called with his top pair, top kicker. The turn brought the K to give Miller top two pair. Sternfield check-called again and the 6 completed the board. Sternfield knuckled the felt again and then promptly called off his last 1,500,000. Miller showed the winner and Sternfield headed to the payout desk to collect his $156,750 payout. This just barely fell short of becoming his highest payday, with the $157,046 he scored for winning a $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event at the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open festival remaining his largest cash for now.

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