The 2025 PokerGO Tour season comes down to this: seven players, $1 million in prizes, and Daniel Negreanu looking to cap his Hall of Fame career with another massive score. The PGT Championship freeroll final table is set, and it's going down today at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.

The Quick Hit

• What happened: Day 1 narrowed 54 qualifiers down to 7 for the $1M freeroll final table
• The damage: $500K for first, $200K for second, and six spots paid
• Why you should care: Negreanu, Lichtenberger, and other big names still alive
• The move: Tune in at 1 PM PT to watch history—bubble hasn't burst yet

The Final Seven

Michael Wang leads with 2,890,000 chips (96 big blinds), putting him in pole position for the half-million first prize. Here's how the stacks line up heading into Day 2:

1. Michael Wang - 2,890,000
2. Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger - (Big stack)
3. Aaron Kupin - (Big stack)
4. John Riordan - (Mid stack)
5. Daniel Negreanu - 1,020,000
6. (Two additional players)

The bubble still hasn't burst—only six spots pay, meaning one of these seven players walks away with nothing. Minimum cash is $40,000, but nobody came here for min-cash money.

Day 1 Casualties

PGT Player of the Year Alex Foxen couldn't carry his momentum into the Championship. Fresh off winning his 12th PGT title in Event #6 on Saturday, Foxen built a stack early but ran into Lichtenberger's better hand as the final two tables formed.

Jason Koon and Stephen Chidwick also fell before the money, victims of the variance gods in a tournament where one bad runout ends your season.

British grinder Philip Sternheimer had the most dramatic Day 1. He scored a double knockout early, eliminating both Koon and Dream Seat qualifier Timothy Tuveson. He built a massive stack, looked unstoppable—then hemorrhaged his entire stack in back-to-back confrontations with Lichtenberger. Poker, man.

Negreanu's Shot at Glory

Kid Poker sits with a workable 1,020,000 stack, trailing the chip leader but far from dead. Negreanu showcased his legendary read abilities on Day 1, successfully calling down with a strong but non-nuts hand after rivering a set. "This is part of what makes me a good poker player!" he quipped afterward.

At 51, Negreanu has won basically everything there is to win in poker. But a PGT Championship would add another trophy to an already overflowing case. He's built his brand on making final tables and finding ways to run deep. Don't count him out.

What's At Stake

The prize pool breakdown for the PGT $1,000,000 Championship Freeroll:

• 1st: $500,000
• 2nd: $200,000
• 3rd: $120,000
• 4th: $80,000
• 5th: $60,000
• 6th: $40,000
• 7th: $0 (bubble)

Someone's going home empty after grinding all season to qualify for this freeroll. That's the brutal beauty of poker—all that work, all those buy-ins, and you can still bust on the bubble.

The Bottom Line

Seven players. Six payouts. $500,000 for the winner. The 2025 PGT season finale couldn't have been set up any better. Wang has the chips, Lichtenberger has the skills, and Negreanu has the experience. One of them walks out of the PokerGO Studio today a half-million dollars richer. The other six? Well, five of them still get paid. But this is about the title, and only one player gets to call themselves PGT Champion.