Justin Zaki gained the eighth and last occasion of the 2025 PokerGO Cup — $25,200 No-Restrict Maintain’em — on Thursday. However Joey Weissman, who completed in second place, was the star of the sequence.
Weissman started the sequence final week by dropping heads-up to Michael Moncek within the first occasion after which getting revenge in opposition to the identical participant heads-up in Occasion #2. His run was removed from over as he’d ebook two extra second place finishes, marking among the finest sequence performances in PokerGO Tour historical past.
There wasn’t any suspense on the last desk as to who was going to win the PokerGO Cup as Weissman, who completed with 758 factors, already had that locked up. However Eric Blair (568 factors) and Moncek (484 factors) each gained a number of occasions. Weissman additionally took over the 2025 PGT leaderboard, holding a slight lead over Kristen Foxen.
Zaki Finishes it off with a Dub
Seven gamers out of the 59 entrants within the sequence finale returned to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for Day 2 on Thursday. Weissman held the chip lead but it surely was a good race in opposition to a couple of different gamers, together with Zaki and Sam Soverel.
Jesse Lonis, a small stack, shortly busted in seventh place ($59,000) when he misplaced a 60/40 to Clemen Deng. Michael Berk wasn’t lucky sufficient to have his AxQx maintain up in opposition to the Kx3x Christian Roberts had within the gap. So, he was out in sixth place ($81,125).
2025 PokerGO Cup Occasion #8 Closing Desk Outcomes
Weissman would start to slowly chip up and draw back from the remainder of the desk. However then Roberts tried to bluff into Zaki’s straight, and that created a tighter race on the high of the chip counts.
Zaki took over the chip lead because the beneficiary of Roberts almost doubling by Weissman on a cooler flop. He’d start to drag additional forward after successful an all-in guess with Jx10x in opposition to AxQx. Roberts had the worst of it and was eradicated in fifth place ($110,625).
Weissman then coolered Soverel with pocket aces in opposition to pocket queens, sending the latter participant residence in fourth place ($147,500). Deng was Weissman’s last sufferer in third place ($206,500). That led to heads-up play starting with Zaki out in entrance, however not by a lot.
Each gamers chasing that last 2025 PokerGO Cup title agreed to a heads-up cope with the winner to obtain $417,000 and the runner-up getting $350,000. Weissman shortly jumped forward earlier than Zaki went all in with A♥10♦ and was snap-called by 10♥10♣. The board ran out Ok♦J♣8♥Q♦4♥, giving Zaki a straight, and leaving his opponent right down to crumbs.
The match would finish shortly after, as did the PokerGO Cup. Zaki, who has 74 World-Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet occasion cashes, now has over $6.6 million in stay match cashes, in accordance with The Hendon Mob.
2025 PokerGO Cup Closing Outcomes
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