Ky Nguyen emerged victorious in the first event of the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series. The poker pro and blogger from Los Angeles known as ‘Suited Superman’ came out on top in the $5,000 buy-in kickoff tournament inside the PokerGO Studio with his first PGT title and the top prize of $180,400.
This was the second-largest score yet for Nguyen, trailing only the $357,380 he secured as the winner of the 2023 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Open Championship. He now has nearly $1.5 million in career cashes under his belt.
Nguyen also earned 624 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion. This was his first POY-qualified score of 2025.
This event attracted 164 entries, resulting in a prize pool of $820,000. The top 25 finishers secured a share of that total, with six-figure payouts for the final two. Plenty of notables ran deep, including seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (18th), recent Triton Jeju mystery bounty event champion Sean Winter (16th), bracelet winner Ronald Keijzer (13th), and two-time bracelet winner Steve Zolotow (7th).
The second and final day of action began with another two-time bracelet winner out in front in Bryce Yockey. Nguyen was fifth in chips when the final table got underway with six players remaining. Yockey lost a big clash with double-suited A-K-6-5 against the single-suited A-A-J-7 of Nguyen to send him tumbling to the bottom of the leaderboard.
The first knockout of the day saw six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus eliminated in sixth place ($41,000). Ausmus doubled up Yockey to become the short stack, and then ran bottom pair and a flush draw into the middle set of bracelet winner James Chen for the rest of his chips.
This was already the sixth final-table finish of the year for Ausmus, including a win in a record-setting Triton $25,000 event in Jeju. The 208 POY points he secured for this latest final table run grew his total to 3,754 points, the most of any player on the circuit. He now has a 754-point lead over second-ranked Brandon Wilson in the POY standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
Despite scoring that double-up through Ausmus, Yockey was still the next to fall. His last hand pitted A
8
32 against the A
A7
2 of Nguyen, who had been dealt pocket aces for the sixth time in just the first few hours of final-table action. Yockey flopped bottom pair along with straight and flush draws, but failed to improve any further and was eliminated in fifth place ($49,200).
Sixth time with ACES!
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 26, 2025
John Riordan’s run in this event came to an end in fourth place. The two-time bracelet winner walked away with $61,500 after his last few blinds went in with K994 facing the QJ42. Nguyen made the wheel on the river to scoop the pot, extending his lead heading into three-handed play in the process.
The final hand of the tournament was a three-way all-in. It began with Chen shoving from the button for 900,000 with 9754. Nguyen three-bet to 3,100,000 from the small blind with QJ104 and McEwan four-bet shoved for 6,700,000 holding KK93. Nguyen called and then flopped the nuts when 1098 rolled off. The A on the turn left both Chen and McEwan drawing dead, making the 7 river a mere formality.
Chen earned $82,000 as the third-place finisher, while McEwan secured $118,900 as the runner-up.
Absolute Insanity!
Three-way all-in knockout seals the $180,400 win for @SuitedSuperman.
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) March 27, 2025
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Ky Nguyen | $180,400 | 624 | 180 |
| 2 | Matthew Mcewan | $118,900 | 520 | 119 |
| 3 | James Chen | $82,000 | 416 | 82 |
| 4 | John Riordan | $61,500 | 312 | 62 |
| 5 | Bryce Yockey | $49,200 | 260 | 49 |
| 6 | Jeremy Ausmus | $41,000 | 208 | 41 |
Photo credits: PokerGO.
