Lightning hits twice for British pro Patrick Leonard, who has snagged his second PokerGO Tour title
Event #2 of the PGT Last Chance series – a $10,100 No‑Limit Hold’em high roller in Las Vegas – drew a healthy 126 entries and built a prize pool of around $1.2 million. Leonard navigated that minefield to bank $315,000 up top. More importantly for him, the win came loaded with PGT leaderboard points.
His first PGT win also came in Event #2 of a series about a year ago; this repeat feels less like coincidence and more like a signature.
Coming into the final table, Leonard held the chip lead, only to watch it slip across the table to Nick Schulman after one of those sick high‑roller coolers: Schulman’s pocket eights in rough shape versus David Coleman’s jacks, only to spike quads. Coleman was left short but refused to die, clinging on through pay jumps and watching names fall around him – Brazil’s Joao Simao in seventh, reigning PGT Player of the Year Jeremy Ausmus in sixth, Schulman himself ultimately bowing out in third. By the time Coleman completed his miracle ladder to heads‑up, Leonard had done the quiet, professional work of rebuilding and recalibrating.
Heads‑up, experience and stack depth did their job. Leonard – famous for his head’s up match Vs Kristen Foxen not so long ago – closed it out to secure the $315K payday and, just as crucially, 315 PGT points.
He came into the event with 943 points and sat a few hundred shy of the top‑40 cut‑off. The win vaults him to 27th on the season leaderboard, effectively locking up a seat in the $1 million PGT Championship freeroll – the invite‑only finale that turns a year of grinding into a single, high‑stakes victory lap.
For a player already holding a WSOP bracelet and roughly $4.8 million in recorded live cashes, this second PGT title is less about validation and more about positioning.
