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Chino Rheem Wins PGT Bounty Blitz Event #4, Defeats Jeremy Becker in PKO Final

The PKO result underscores a mid-series push in a six-event experiment with enlarged bounties.

A brutal one-outer sent Chris Hunichen to the payout desk in Event #4.
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Cherish Andrews took a brutal beat on the final table of Event #3.
Sam Laskowitz came into the final table as the chip leader, but had to settle for a third-place finish and no bounties.

Overview

  • Rheem claimed Event #4: $5,100 Progressive Knockout, topping a 36-entry field for $28,100 plus $37,000 in bounties after beating Jeremy Becker heads-up.
  • The tournament paid six places from a $180,000 pool with $72,000 earmarked for bounties, and Becker earned $28,100 plus $7,000 as runner-up.
  • Earlier, Landon Tice captured Event #3: $5,100 Quattro for $47,500 and $32,000 in bounties, a combined $79,500 from a 51-entry, $255,000 event.
  • Quattro rules quadruple bounties to $8,000 each and activate them only once 25% of the field remains, which concentrated payouts late.
  • The new PGT series runs $5,100 events with $2,000 per entry funding bounty pools, and the first half has produced titles for Jeremy Becker, Sergio Aido and Tice.