A second night of drama in a PGT Last Chance final table saw PokerStake players win hundreds of thousands of dollars as David Coleman, Brock Wilson and Jeremy Ausmus bagged over $330,000 at the purple felt. With each player almost certain to be amongst the top 40 PGT players in the PGT $1m Freeroll Championship, the race is now on to be the biggest winner in the six-event Last Chance series in Las Vegas.

Growing Field in Event #2

With 109 entries in the opening event of this year’s PGT Last Chance series, the second event was even bigger. With 126 total entries, a massive $1.26 million was in the prize pool and 18 players were paid rather than the 16 in Event #1. PokerStake players were amongst the winners right off the bat, with Chris Hunichen (17^th for $18,900) making a min-cash along with Sam Soverel and Dan Shak.

Other PokerStake players ran even deeper, with Brandon Wilson winning $22,050 in 14^th place. Only seven could make the final table, however, and once Jeremy Becker busted in eighth place for $50,400, the final seven were set. The British player Patrick Leonard led the final day field on 5.1m chips, with Portuguese professional Joao Simao second in chips on 3.1m.

Both those players had big stacks, but with three PokerStake legends in the last seven, no-one was safe, with the 2025 GPI Player of the Year David Coleman (1.94m), the 2025 PGT Freeroll Championship winner Jeremy Ausmus (1.72m) and high roller crusher Brock Wilson (1.71m) all major threats. PokerGO commentator Nick Schulman (1.34m) and Jared Jaffee (800,000) were shorter in chips but still had every chance of victory.

Double Drama

The second PGT Last Chance final table got off to a rapid start, with double-ups all over the place. The biggest beneficiary of them was Nick Schulman, who doubled several times, taking the lead when his pocket eights were all-in pre-flop and managed to get the better of David Coleman’s pocket jacks, with not one but two eights on the board putting Schulman up to 4.34m chips, with Coleman sinking to just 390,000.

“I had a bad feeling,” Coleman admitted when the board played out. But despite that hand not going his way, he was by no means out of it. Joao Simao departed for $50,400 when his pocket kings were outrun by Jared Jaffee’s queen-jack.

David Coleman doubled through Schulman to survive, and soon after, watched on as a PokerStake teammate of his, Jeremy Ausmus, busted. Ausmus was more or less committed from before the eight-high flop with king-ten, but Patrick Leonard had pocket tens and held to reduce the field to five as Jeremy exited with a score of $63,000.

Coleman Falls Just Short of Glory

Brock Wilson became the next player to exit, cashing for $75,600 when he busted to his fellow PokerStake player David Coleman. Down to just 225,000 chips, Brock’s ace-deuce was enough to call off his stack against David’s suited queen-six. A six on the river sent Brock to the rail and strengthened David’s hand as he looked down at his stack of 7 million chips, not long after having only a twentieth of that amount.

After Jared Jaffee busted in fourth place for $107,100, Patrick Leonard took out Nick Schulman in third for $138,600.  Schulman was all-in and at risk with , and Leonard’s dominating did the damage, with an ace landing on the flop but no further pairing cards coming.

Heads-up, Leonard had almost a 6:1 chip lead over David Coleman. The PokerStake player got his chips in soon after with by far the worst hand, holding against the British player’s .

“Good game,” David said, presuming the worst. Of course, a four landed on the flop and the turn to flip the script in David’s favor.

“I hit you with the ‘good game’,” he laughed. “That’s the secret.

Back to just a 2:1 chip deficit, David was unable to get back into the match further. All-in soon after with , he ran into Patrick Leonard’s and a board of meant it was all over by the end of 4^th street. With both men now inside the top 40 places that would guarantee a place in the season-ending PGT $1,000,000 Championship.

With PokerStake players Chino Rheem and Brandon Wilson both at the six-handed PGT Last Chance Event #3 final table that plays out tonight, ‘Team PokerStake’ could go past $1m in winnings this series alone in a superb start to 2026.

PokerGO Tour Last Chance Series $10,000 Event #2 Final Table Results:
Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Patrick Leonard	United States	$315,000
2nd	David Coleman	United States	$195,300
3rd	Nick Schulman	United States	$138,600
4th	Jared Jaffee	United States	$107,100
5th	Brock Wilson	United States	$75,600
6th	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	$63,000
7th	Joao Simao	Brazil	$50,400