Kazuomi Furuse captured his first reside poker match title in model, overcoming a stacked remaining desk in occasion no. 2 on the 2025 U.S. Poker Open. The Japanese newcomer to the high-stakes scene outlasted a discipline of 108 entries within the $10,000 no-limit maintain’em to earn a career-high rating of $275,400 and the golden eagle trophy.
Earlier than this win, Furuse’s high rating had been a fourth-place end in a $10,000 excessive curler finally 12 months’s Wynn Summer season Basic for $80,750. The Tokyo resident now has $504,091 in general cashes to his title.
The 275 PokerGO Tour factors that got here with the title have been sufficient to catapult Furuse into first place within the USPO series-long factors race. He additionally cashed in occasion no. 1, ending sixteenth for $9,675 and 10 PGT factors.
This occasion ran over the course of two days contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & On line casino Las Vegas. The bubble burst late on day 1, with 16 cashing and notables like Daniel Negreanu (fifteenth), Sam Soverel (thirteenth), Chino Rheem (eleventh), Patrick Leonard (tenth), and Francis Anderson (ninth) all working deep.
Day 2 started with six remaining and Eric Blair within the lead. Furuse was in the midst of the pack when playing cards received within the air. 4-time bracelet winner David Peters got here into the ultimate day on the brief stack and was unable to spin it up. The 2016 POY award winner shoved his final 9 large blinds with Okay-8 from the small blind and was seemed up by the A-5 of Furuse from the large blind. Peters failed to come back from behind and was despatched packing in sixth place. The $54,000 rating was sufficient to see him surpass $51.4 million in profession earnings, which places him simply inside the highest ten on poker’s all-time cash record.
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World Poker Tour champion and six-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman ran pocket fours into the pocket sixes of Eric Blair, cutoff vs. small blind, to complete fifth. Schulman grew his lifetime haul to greater than $23.3 million after including $70,200 with this newest deep run. Schulman additionally scored 250 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for this deep run. This was already his eleventh remaining desk of 2025, with 3,266 POY factors and greater than $1.1 million in earnings accrued throughout these scores. Because of his robust begin to the 12 months, Schulman has climbed to second within the POY standings offered by International Poker.
4-handed play noticed loads of swings over the course of greater than two hours, with Furuse falling to the brief stack a number of instances, solely to bounce again. Ten-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel was in the end the subsequent to be eradicated. The 65-year-old Poker Corridor of Famer misplaced a coin flip with A-J suited in opposition to the pocket fours of Furuse. The Japanese participant flopped a set and held from there to ship Seidel to the rail in fourth place ($97,200). Seidel now has greater than $49 million in profession earnings, which is nice for twelfth on the match earnings leaderboard.
Blair’s match got here to an finish when he received all-in on a J
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board. Bracelet winner Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero wager the tip and snap-called when Blair shoved. Barbero held Q10 for the nut straight, whereas Blair might solely produce the J10 for second pair. Blair earned $124,200 because the third-place finisher to push his profession earnings to greater than $3.9 million.
Barbero held 9,500,000 to Furuse’s 4,000,000 at the beginning of heads-up play. Furuse had closed the hole significantly forward of the subsequent key hand, although. He raised to 500,000 on the button with pocket jacks and shortly known as a three-bet jam from Barbero, who held A2. Furuse’s pocket pair held as much as see him take greater than a 5:1 chip lead.
Kazuomi Furuse takes a commanding chip lead in heads-up play.
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Barbero had chipped up a bit by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. He three-bet shoved from the large blind once more, this time with OkayJ. Furuse had been dealt AOkay on the button, which merited one other snap-call. The board got here down 7326A to offer Furuse high pair, high kicker for the win. Barbero earned $172,800 because the runner-up. The Argentinian now has greater than $22.7 million in lifetime scores on the circuit.
Last Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Kazuomi Furuse
$275,400
600
275
2
Jose Barbero
$172,800
500
173
3
Eric Blair
$124,200
400
124
4
Erik Seidel
$97,200
300
97
5
Nick Schulman
$70,200
250
70
6
David Peters
$54,000
200
54
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