Justin Zaki received the eighth and closing 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 collection.
Weissman started the collection final week by shedding heads-up to Michael Moncek within the first occasion after which getting revenge against the same player heads-up in Occasion #2. His run was removed from over as he’d guide two further second place finishes, marking probably the greatest collection performances in PokerGO Tour historical past.
There wasn’t any suspense on the closing 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 received 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 collection 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 towards 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 towards the Okayx3x Christian Roberts had within the gap. So, he was out in sixth place ($81,125).
2025 PokerGO Cup Occasion #8 Last Desk Outcomes
| Place | Participant | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Zaki | $417,000 |
| 2 | Joey Weissman | $350,000 |
| 3 | Clemen Deng | $206,500 |
| 4 | Sam Soverel | $147,500 |
| 5 | Christian Roberts | $110,625 |
| 6 | Michael Berk | $81,125 |
| 7 | Jesse Lonis | $59,000 |
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 tug additional forward after successful an all-in wager with Jx10x towards AxQx. Roberts had the worst of it and was eradicated in fifth place ($110,625).
Weissman then coolered Soverel with pocket aces towards pocket queens, sending the latter participant house in fourth place ($147,500). Deng was Weissman’s closing 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 closing 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 Okay♦J♣8♥Q♦4♥, giving Zaki a straight, and leaving his opponent right down to crumbs.
The event would finish shortly after, as did the PokerGO Cup. Zaki, who has 74 World-Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet occasion cashes, now has over $6.6 million in stay event cashes, in response to The Hendon Mob.
2025 PokerGO Cup Last Outcomes
*Photos courtesy of PokerGO.
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