Alex Foxen extends lead atop PGT Leaderboard with $177K bounty haul

The 2025 PokerGO Tour PLO Series II continued Thursday with final table action in Event #2: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Quattro Bounty. With 133 entrants, Event #2 generated a prize pool of $665,000, including the $266,000 set aside for bounties, and paid 19 players. The Quattro Bounty format introduced bounties with a quarter of the field remaining, sending those 34 players off on a frenzied bounty hunt. 

Alex Foxen proved himself more than capable as a bounty hunter as he sent nine players to the rail on Day 1, collecting $8,000 for each elimination. With six players remaining, Foxen scored a double knockout on Joe Serock and Christopher Hannel to end Day 1 play and take more than half of all of the chips in play to the final table. Michael Wang was the only player within striking distance of Foxen as both LaDarren Banks and Kamel Mokhammad reached the final table on short stacks. 

Foxen dominates with double digit bounties

Despite an early double up, Mokhammad was the first man eliminated at the final table. Wang's under-the-gun raise was met with a call from Mokhammad in the big blind and on the flop, the chips went in. 

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Michael Wang notched four bounties en route to a second-place finish.

Mokhammad was in rough shape with a dominated flush draw and neither the turn nor river improved him sufficiently. With the elimination, Wang added a fourth bounty to his haul. After a slog of a three-handed battle, Foxen notched his tenth elimination as he took out Banks in a pre-flop clicking war that escalated to an all-in. 

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While Banks had the best of it before the community cards came down, Foxen had plenty of paths to victory in the hand and found one of them on the runout. 

Foxen extends PGT lead

Foxen took a greater than two-to-one chip advantage into the heads-up battle against Wang and it didn't take long for him to collect all of them. In the final hand, Foxen's button open with was met with a three-bet from Wang and his . Foxen made the call and Wang continued to fire on the flop. Foxen called once again and the turn saw Wang stick the rest of his chips in the middle. 

After expending a few time extension cards, Foxen made the call and the cards hit their backs. Wang had the best of it, but needed to fade Foxen's straight draw to double up. The river completed Foxen's straight, however, and forced Wang to settle for a second-place finish. 

With the addition of 144 PGT Points for his first-place finish, Foxen extends his lead atop the 2025 PGT Leaderboard with 2,723 total points. Foxen's 4 wins, 12 final tables, 21 cashes, and $5,800,348 in earnings for the season make him the man to chase as the leaderboard battle continues into the final frame of the year. 

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