Kislinskii, Weisman, and Coleman Among 7 Returning to PGT Kickoff Event #2 Final Table

The 2024 PGT Kickoff continued at the PokerGO Studio from ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Sergei Kislinskii bagged the top stack with 2,645,000 to lead the seven remaining players in Event #2: $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em.

Dylan Weisman sits just behind in chips, while Event #1 winner David Coleman, Matthew McEwan, Jeremy Becker, Jesse Lonis, and Victoria Livschitz round out the players who will return for the final day as play resumes at 12 p.m. PT on Saturday, January 13 with the delayed final table stream beginning at 1 p.m. PT on PokerGO.

The healthy field of 90 entrants created a prize pool of $450,000 and the top 13 finishers earned a piece of it. The bubble lasted nearly two hours with many doubles occurring in the meanwhile, before Ping Liu got his remaining stack of less than a big blind in with jacks against ace-six and busted when an ace came on the turn.

The eliminations would then occur very quickly, and the final table was set less than a half-hour after the bubble burst. Adam Walton (13th), Jared Bleznick (12th), Joao Simao (11th), Jeremy Ausmus (10th), Lewis Spencer (9th), and Sean Winter (8th) all made it into the money but fell short of the final table.

Coleman, Ausmus, and Spencer have all cashed in both events thus far, and Coleman will be looking to go back-to-back after he was victorious over the 89-entrant field in Event #1.

The seven remaining players will return with $18,000 locked up, but all eyes will be on the first-place prize of $121,500.

2024 PGT Kickoff Event #2 Final Table

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Jesse Lonis	United States	795,000
2	Sergei Kislinskii	Russia	2,645,000
3	David Coleman	United States	1,685,000
4	Victoria Livschitz	United States	660,000
5	Jeremy Becker	United States	1,265,000
6	Matthew McEwan	United States	1,620,000
7	Dylan Weisman	United States	2,585,000

When play resumes, there is 6:00 remaining in Level 17 with blinds at 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante. The button is on Jesse Lonis.

Play will resume at 12 p.m. PT and the final table will be streamed on delay starting at 1 p.m. PT on PokerGO.com.

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