The 2024 PokerGO Cup has been rolling along in Las Vegas as some of the very best players in the world continue to battle it out for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just like with online poker in Nevada, this past weekend also saw a ton of results in No-Limit Hold’em action in Las Vegas. While most of the poker world’s focus on February 17th was the release of the 2025 WSOP schedule, there is still plenty to focus on with reviewing the results from the PokerGo Cup.
Those results most notably happened across eight and at the end of the series it was Joey Weissman who emerged as the overall winner if the series.
Event #2
- Entries: 118
- Players paid: 17
- Winner: Joey Weisman ($295,000)
Event #2 kicked off the weekend of big events and concluded with a star-studded final table that included Andrew Lichtenberger, Andrew Moreno, Erik Seidel, and Michael Moncek.
After Lichtenberger went out in 6th place, Moreno would eventually go out in 4th place for a $100,300 scire to set up three-handed play.
Poker legend Seidel bowed out in 3rd place for $129,800 after his ace-king went down to the pocket aces of Weissman after he made top pair of kings on the flop.
Weissman entered heads up play with a deficit to “Texas Mike” Moncek in a rematch of Event #1’s heads-up battle. This time, Weissman was able to overcome that deficit to deny Moncek a chance at winning back to back titles.
This win was the third PokerGo Tour title of Weissman’s career to add to the plethora of runner-up finishes he also has had on the PokerGO Tour.
With over $8.2 million in career earnings, Weissman is no stranger to big results. But this score of $295,000 still makes for the 2nd largest in his career, trailing only his WSOP Bracelet that he won back in 2012 for $694,609.
Weissman would go on to secure the title of the entire PokerGo Cup thanks to his win in this event as well as being the runner-up in Events 1,4 and 8.
Event #3
- Entries: 129
- Players paid: 19
- Winner: Adam Hendrix ($316,050)
The largest event of the weekend by numbers was Event #3 as it got a PokerGO Studio-record 129 entries in the $10,100 tournament.
A few of the notables who made the final table in this event included Landon Tice, Cherish Andrews and Daniel Sepiol who finished 7th, 6th and 5th respectively.
The eventual winner was Adam Hendrix of Alaska, who has been one of the top GPI players in the world for the past few years. Hendrix has been one of the prime PokerGo Tour performers for some time, showing elite understanding of poker tournament strategy again and again.
This win is his sixth title on the PokerGo Tour and adds a big chunk to his $7.8 million in career earnings. The $316,050 top prize is the fourth largest score of his career.
Event #4
- Entries: 98
- Players paid: 14
- Winner: Eric Blair ($254,800)
The capper of the weekend was Event #4, which ended with a more surprising winner in Eric Blair.
Kristen Foxen, who made noise by winning back-to-back events in the PokerGo Tour Kickoff series in January, was able to cash in this event with a 9th place finish.
At the final table, the heads up matchup was set between Blair and Weissman after Darren Elias and Justin Saliba had been dispatched in 4th and 3rd place, respectively.
Weissman was going for the weekend double but it was not to be as Blair came back from a heads-up chip deficit to deny Weissman.
The win for $254,800 made for the largest in Blair’s career, topping his previous best of $228,307. On top of that, it also became the first PokerGo Tour title of his career.
End of Series
- The end of the series had larger buy in events and smaller numbers starting with Event #5 which was the last event at the $10,100 buy in level. It was won by Sergio Aido for $255,000.
- Events #6 and #7 each had a buy in of $15,100 and got almost the same entry numbers with 87 and 86 respectively. Eric Blair and Kristen Foxen took down those two events. It was Blair’s second win of the series and yet another for Foxen who has won a lot of PokerGo events in recent months.
- The final event of the PokerGo Tour was the $25,200 buy in high roller. That generated 59 entries and was won by Justin Zaki for a whopping $417,000