Big name hunting: PGT Bounty Blitz hits PokerGO with six $5K events

Posted on: August 23, 2025 12:20 PDT

The inaugural PGT Bounty Blitz plays out September 1-6 at Aria Las Vegas, and you can watch nearly all of the final table action from the six events live on PokerGO.

The first five final tables will be livestreamed from 4pm ET September 2-6. The sixth tournament in the series is a one-day event and won’t be streamed.

All six events are $5,300 no-limit hold’em tournaments, with $2,000 from each buy-in going to the bounties. The first five events cycle through different bounty formats as follows:

Event 1: Standard knockout ($2,000 per bounty).
Event 2: Escalator format, with increasing bounty amounts at three different stages of the tournament.
Event 3: Quattro format, with $8,000 bounties once there’s 25% of the field left.
Event 4: Progressive bounty, where each elimination earns the player half the bounty, while the other half is added to their own bounty.
Event 5: Mystery bounty, with the second-highest bounty value reserved for the final table.

The sixth and final event is a one-day standard knockout, just like Event #1.

Negreanu, Foxen, Mizrachi top leaderboard

Starting stacks are 125,000 for each event, with 30-minute levels (25 minutes for the one-day event) and the PGT shot clock active, which gives players 20 seconds to make their action pre-flop and 30 seconds post-flop.

Michael Mizrachi tops the 2025 PGT leaderboard after two huge wins at the WSOP.

Omar Sader

The Bounty Blitz marks the ninth series of the 2025 PGT season. Players earn leaderboard points based on their cashes.

Michael Mizrachi is currently on top of the leaderboard after his wins in the WSOP Main Event and Poker Players Championship, followed closely by Alex Foxen. Daniel Negreanu is fourth, and the Vegas location may tempt him onto the tables, despite his preference for PLO at the moment.

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