PokerGO Tour (PGT)

Last Updated on October 15, 2026 by Bala Kumar

The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is high-stakes poker’s official tour and ranking system. Every eligible in-the-money finish in a qualifying tournament, from the Poker Masters in Las Vegas to the WSOP Main Event, earns leaderboard points. At the end of the season, the top 40 eligible players meet in the PGT Championship freeroll.

This hub covers the PokerGO Tour 2026 schedule, the live leaderboard, the latest results, how points work, Championship qualification, and every past Player of the Year and Champion. We update it as each event finishes.

PokerGO Tour 2026 at a Glance

What Is the PokerGO Tour?

PokerGO launched the PGT on April 22, 2021, to rank professionals who play high roller tournaments around the world. It works like a golf or tennis tour: players don’t sign up for the PGT itself. Instead, they earn points automatically when they cash in qualifying events, roughly 130 to 175 tournaments per season.

Two kinds of events count:

• PGT-owned-and-operated events, run by PokerGO at the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. These include the PokerGO Cup, U.S. Poker Open, Poker Masters, Super High Roller Bowl and the PGT’s own series.
• Qualifying outside events, such as WSOP bracelet events and other major high rollers worldwide.

That’s why a player can rank near the top without ever winning in the PokerGO Studio. One deep run in a huge outside event can be enough.

PokerGO Tour Leaderboard 2026 (Top 15)

Source: official PGT leaderboard, updated October 12, 2026. These figures change after every qualifying cash.

What the leaderboard is really telling you:

• The Player of the Year race is wide open. Winter leads Parssinen by just 7 points, and Foxen is 73 back. The first two Poker Masters winners earned 218 and 235 points each, so one deep run could change the lead before the series ends.
• Consistency beats one big score. Winter has only one win but 15 cashes. Jeremy Ausmus is 9th with one win and 25 cashes, the most in the top 15.
• A huge outside score can launch a player up the board. Lucas Jumalon’s $10 million WSOP Main Event win put him 7th, and Lauri Saaskilahti sits 12th off a $6 million cash. The October 12 leaderboard shows one cash for each. Championship qualification needs four cashes, including one in a PGT-owned event, so watch whether they add more before the season ends.
• Brock Wilson is the series king. He won player-of-the-series honours at both the 2026 PokerGO Cup and U.S. Poker Open, and his 4 wins are the most in the top 15.

PokerGO Tour 2026 Schedule

Upcoming events (official PGT schedule):

Start times for PGT Sprint events are still listed as “TBD”. Check PGT.com/schedule before travelling.

2026 series already completed:

Latest PokerGO Tour Results

Poker Masters 2026 (in progress):

• Event #1 recap: Myles Mullaly wins Poker Masters Event #1. Mullaly beat Justin Zaki heads-up after spiking a ten on the river.
• Event #2 recap: Nick Palma outlasts Adrian Mateos. Palma won holding the weaker ace on the final hand.
• Purple Jacket race (unofficial, after two events): Mullaly 243 points, Palma 235, Mateos 151.

Other headline 2026 results:

• Super High Roller Bowl XI: Brandon Wilson beat Nick Petrangelo heads-up for his sixth PGT title. The pair agreed a heads-up deal: Wilson took $950,440 and Petrangelo 874,560.Wilsonstillearned400pointsforhisofficial1st-placefinish.AlexFoxenfinishedthird(450,000), Jeremy Ausmus fourth (310,000)andAdrianMateosfifth(215,000).
• Super High Roller Bowl PLO IV: Sean Rafael beat Joao Simao for $1,150,000.
• PGT PLO Series: Jonas Kronwitter won two titles and the series leaderboard, earning $576,088. Cesar Garcia won the $26,000 PLO Championship for $420,000, and Sam Soverel’s two wins took his PGT record to 17 career titles.

How the PGT Points System Works (2026 Rules)

Points come from cashes, not wins. The rate depends on the buy-in. In PGT-owned events, points follow the official finishing position, even when players make a deal.

Cashes under $1,000,000:

The rates above match the table on PGT’s official points page and the points PGT awarded in real events. The paragraph of text on that same page shows “0.008” and “0.006”, which is a typo, and real events confirm it. A $183,000 cash in a $15,700 event earned 146 points; the typo’s rate would have given 1,464.

For $5,000-and-under events, the per-dollar formula is capped: cashes of $300,000 or more get fixed points in $50,000 blocks. Some series also double the points. Michael Berk’s $262,650 PGT Kickoff Main Event win earned 525 points, double the usual 263.

Cashes of $1,000,000 or more switch to fixed bands:

Above these bands, points keep rising in the same pattern. That’s how Jumalon’s $10 million WSOP Main Event win earned 1,550 points.

Why this matters: the system deliberately flattens huge scores. Jumalon’s $10 million win earned 1,550 points, only about seven times Mullaly’s 218 for a $218,400 cash. Lower buy-ins also earn more points per dollar. So the leaderboard rewards players who cash often at the 10K–25K level, not just the biggest single paydays.

The PGT Championship 2027: Dates, Prizes and Qualification

The 2026 season ends with the PGT Championship, a $500,000 freeroll on January 11–12, 2027, at the PokerGO Studio. PokerGO announced the details on October 14, 2026.

A PGT Passport can only be used to pay buy-ins for PGT-owned events at the PokerGO Studio. It can’t be transferred or withdrawn as cash.

How to qualify through the leaderboard:

1. Finish in the top 40 eligible players on the PGT leaderboard.
2. Record at least four PGT cashes in the 2026 season.
3. Make sure at least one of those cashes is in a PGT-owned-and-operated event.
4. Opt in before PGT Last Chance starts.

Unclaimed seats pass to the next eligible player. PGT Last Chance also awards five Dream Seats to the top players on its own leaderboard who didn’t qualify through the top 40.

Starting stacks depend on final leaderboard position: 40th place starts with 130 big blinds, and the Player of the Year starts as chip leader.

How the prize has changed: the Championships for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons were $1,000,000 freerolls with $500,000 to the winner. The 2026 edition is $500,000 in total, with each prize paid as a mix of cash and PGT Passport.

PGT History: Every Champion and Player of the Year

Jeremy Ausmus (2024) is the only player so far to win both Player of the Year and the Championship in the same season.

All-time PGT leaders:

• Most titles: Sam Soverel, 17 after his 2026 PLO Series wins
• Most earnings (through 2025): Alex Foxen, $19.3 million
• Most cashes (through 2025): Alex Foxen, 108

PGT Major Series Champions

The PGT has four majors: the PokerGO Cup, U.S. Poker Open, Poker Masters and Super High Roller Bowl.

For the full jacket history, see every Poker Masters Purple Jacket winner.

How to Watch PokerGO Tour Events

PokerGO streams PGT final tables live and on demand at PokerGO.com and in the PokerGO app, and the PGT Championship will be livestreamed there too. PGT’s own live reporting pages give hand-by-hand updates for most events.

Can Regular Players Enter PGT Events?

Yes, if you can afford the buy-in. PGT events have open registration, and most 2026 buy-ins run from $5,300 (PGT Sprint) to $100,000 (Super High Roller Bowl). Satellites into some PokerGO Studio events also run online. For a $10,500 event, most bankroll guides suggest keeping many buy-ins in reserve. Our poker bankroll calculator shows what that means for you.

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