It’s been a busy week in the life of some of PokerStake’s top players, with success on several continents. As players battle for glory in WSOP Circuit events, on the European Poker Tour and in Las Vegas at the PokerGO Studio, several of the site’s biggest winners have added to their tallies in impressive style.

Lonis Locks up the Win in Las Vegas

The opening event of the 2025 PokerGO Tour PLO Series II kicked off at the PGT Studio on the Sin City Strip this week. Immediately, several PokerStake players made it to the podium places in scintillating fashion. Topping them all was the self-styled ‘gorilla’ of high stakes tournaments, Jesse Lonis, who won his eighth ranking title of 2025 at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA on the Las Vegas Strip.

The $5,100-entry PGT PLO Series II Event #1 saw Lonis take just over an hour to win the title, and a $175,000 top prize, outlasting two PokerStake icons in Chino Rheem, who finished second for $106,000 and Josh Arieh, who banked $76,700 in third place. For Lonis, the tables turned when he flopped set of threes to beat Isaac Haxton’s nut flush draw and after hitting a straight to eliminate the dangerous Russian pro Artem Maximov in fourth place for $58,400.

That period of play meant that three-handed, Lonis had all the momentum and took out the nearly crowned seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Josh Arieh in third for $76,700. That bust-out gave Lonis the edge over the PokerGO tournament crusher Chino Rheem who recently opened up about his redemption from a period of struggle in his life in this exclusive PokerStake interview with us. Lonis’s victory heads-up gave him $175,000 up top and sent Rheem to the rail with a runner-up score worth $106,000 as well as 106 vital PGT points towards the season-ending $1m Freeroll Championship in January.

PokerGO Tour PLO Series $5,100 Event #1 Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jesse Lonis	United States	$175,000
2nd	Chino Rheem	United States	$106,000
3rd	Josh Arieh	United States	$76,700
4th	Artem Maksimov	Russia	$58,400
5th	Isaac Haxton	United States	$43,800
6th	Anthony Hu	United States	$36,500

Josh Arieh Claims Seventh WSOP Title Online

“There’s no one of age with eight bracelets who isn’t in the Hall of Fame.”

PokerStake end boss Josh Arieh’s seventh WSOP bracelet came courtesy of a dash home from holiday to play online back home in Las Vegas. Buying into the event, Josh initially ran cold, but after six re-entries, bagged not only massive profit by turning $7,000 into $67,656 but now owns his seventh bracelet, and his first earned in the WSOP Online Series.

With 804 total entries in the event, Josh – as ‘SP33Dwagon’ – beat Michael McNicholas, a.k.a. ‘FutureWhale’ heads up, who won $48,843 as runner-up. Speaking to us afterwards, Josh said that before moving to Las Vegas at the turn he would get massive FOMO (fear of missing out) about the WSOP Online Series that he couldn’t enter from his previous home in Atlanta.

“Now I can sit on my couch and add to the benchmark that I’ve measured my career by for many years.  I’m so happy living in Vegas!”

At 50 years old, Josh is now just a handful of bracelets behind putting himself in the position behind Phil Hellmuth at the top of the all-time WSOP bracelet list. The next one is all-important to him from a Poker Hall of Fame perspective.

“There’s no one of age with eight bracelets who isn’t in the Hall of Fame, so that’s my goal.”

Here are all of Josh Arieh’s WSOP bracelets and how he won them. With five in the last four years, no-one looks better positioned to make a run to the top of the chasing pack behind The Poker Brat.

Josh Arieh’s WSOP Bracelet Wins:
Year	Series	Event Details	Top Prize
1999	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$3,000 Limit Hold’em	$202,800
2005	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha	$381,600
2021	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	$204,766
2021	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$484,791
2023	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$10,000 Limit Hold’em	$316,226
2023	WSOP (Las Vegas)	$25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller	$711,313
2025	WSOP Online	Event #6 No Limit Hold’em Ultra Deepstack	$67,656

Mullur Makes Money in Malta

Finally, we wanted to mention another superstar of the poker scene who’s been crushing in high roller tournaments in 2025 and should be one of your go-to players in terms of buying action on PokerStake, Samuel Mullur.

In recent months, Mullur has won very big, claiming second place in Jeju to win $3.5 million as runner-up in the Triton Poker Series Main Event in South Korea. That was the biggest win of Sam’s career but it’s far from his only recent cash. In fact, Sam has chased an incredible dozen times since August, including an amazing seven cashes in Jeju.

In Malta, at the EPT Super High Roller event, Sam finished seventh, just outside the final three money places needed to make profit, but as ever, his consistency over the series had a huge effect on his bankroll in a positive sense. Coming second in the $5k Mystery Bounty event, Sam banked $44,721, while his third-place finish in the $25k Super High Roller Warm-Up event won him a further $161,587. Add to that a 26^th-place score of $7,180 in the $3k Mystery Bounty event and Sam ended with three cashes worth over $200,000, more than enough to offset the miss in the $100k Super High Roller event.

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