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The U.S. kicked off. Poker Open, first champion Erik Seidel
In Las Vegas, more specifically in the PokerGO studio located at the Aria Resort & Casino, the U.S. Poker Series is currently underway. Poker Open. This has 8 tournaments on the schedule with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,200. As is customary with PGT tournaments, players will earn valuable points towards the USPO series leaderboard. The overall winner will receive the Golden Eagle trophy plus a $25,000 PGT Passport.
The entire series kicked off on April 8 and will continue through April 16, when the final tournament awaits. The very first tournament had a buy-in of $5,100 and, like all tournaments in this series, was in NLH format.
Thefirst champion was Erik Seidel
Event #1 brought in 116 entries, bringing the prizepool to $580,000. Cash prizes awaited 17 players and a $145,000 prize was up for grabs for the winner.
Poker Hall of Fame member Erik Seidel took to the 6-seat final table here as the chipleader and had a stack as high as 5,020,000, which was 34 percent of all the chips in play.
In the end, Erik didn't even get a look at the final heads-up, as he ended the tournament in three-handed play when he found aces under his hand. Nothing could save his two opponents on the board, and so Erik Seidel enjoyed his second USPO title and a $145,000 payday.
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
| 1. | Erik Seidel | USA | 145.000$ |
| 2. | Eric Afriat | Canada | 89.900$ |
| 3. | Dylan Linde | USA | 63.800$ |
| 4. | John Khoury | USA | 49.300$ |
| 5. | William Lamar-Boone | USA | 37.700$ |
| 6. | Justin Zaki | USA | 29.000$ |
Last night we announced the winner of Event #2
The second tournament also already knows its champion. Event number 2 was an NLH tournament with a buy-in of $10,100, 99 entries and a prizepool of $990,000. The prize money was open to 15 players and $252,450 awaited the winner.
Jesse Lonis made the final table, among the top 7, as the chipleader with a stack of 3,295,000. Sean Winter was the first to exit the final table, taking home $39,600 for 7th place. Jesse Lonis took care of all the eliminations on the table and was the clear winner of this tournament.
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
| 1. | Jesse Lonis | USA | 252.450$ |
| 2. | Aram Zobian | USA | 163.350$ |
| 3. | Kristina Holst | USA | 113.850$ |
| 4. | Rodger Johnson | USA | 89.100$ |
| 5. | Joey Weissman | USA | 64.350$ |
| 6. | Victoria Livschitz | USA | 49.500$ |
| 7. | Sean Winter | USA | 39.600$ |
The winner of thethird event will be announced today
Overnight, the third event got underway, which also had a buy-in of $10,100. It has now produced 84 entries and so has a prizepool worth $840,000. Cash prizes awaited 12 players and the winner will take home $235,200. The top 7 players will sit at the final table and they are led by David Stamm with a stack of 1,980,000. Breathing down his neck is Dan Smith with a stack of 1,960,000. Just missing out on the final table was Phil Hellmuth, who finished in 8th place for $33,600.
| Name | Country | Stack |
| David Stamm | USA | 1.980.000 |
| Dan Smith | USA | 1.960.000 |
| Rodger Johnson | USA | 1.950.000 |
| David Coleman | USA | 1.595.000 |
| Jesse Lonis | USA | 1.220.000 |
| Bill Klein | USA | 1.055.000 |
| Dylan Linde | USA | 745.000 |
Source - PGT.com