Aram Zobian and Cherish Andrews Finish Strong in PokerGO Cup Events

A busy weekend of PokerGO Cup action in Las Vegas saw Aram Zobian and Cherish Andrews both reach final tables as PokerStake players pushed for glory. With Events #2, #3 and #4 all reaching a conclusion between Friday and Sunday night, one weekend in Las Vegas translated to big profits for investors in some of our star names in Sin City.

Event #2 Won by Weissman as Seidel and Foxen Score

After an opening event that broke records in the PokerGO Cup, the second event was a $10,100-entry No Limit Hold’em tournament, doubling the stakes of the first event. With 118 entrants, just 17 made the money, including frequent PokerStake player Kristen Foxen. She won $23,600 after coming 14^th, as others such as Patrick Leonard (15^th) and Justin Saliba (13^th) joined her in cashing but falling short of the final table.

Once inside the top seven, players such as Anthony Hu (7^th for $47,200) and Andrew ‘Chewy’ Lichtenberger (6^th for $59,000) continued their fine runs of form in high rollers in 2024 into 2025. Sam Laskowitz lost with ace-queen against the ace-king of PokerStake player Erik Seidel, as the 1987 WSOP Main Event runner-up won with a nut flush. That sent the overnight chip leader Laskowitz home in fifth place for $76,700.

Andrew Moreno became the 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Seidel’s latest victim in fourth place for $100,300 when he lost a coinflip with pocket jacks against Seidel’s ace-queen. Moreno’s jacks stayed ahead until a queen landed on the river to scupper his chances, and Seidel looked good to reach heads-up, only for his pair of kings on the flop with ace-king to run into Joey Weissman’s pocket aces.

It was a cold way for Seidel to be frozen out, and after he left in third for $129,800, Weissman put those chips to good use as he took the top prize of $295,000 after he doubled into the lead with ace-ten against Michael Moncek’s king-four then sealed the deal with king-jack, dominating ‘Texas Mike’, who had king-deuce.  A jack on the flop ended matters in Event #2 in Weissman’s favor as both he and Moncek locked up the top two places for the early part of the series.

Hawaii Heroics as Hendrix Outlasts Andrews in Event #3

In the third event of the series, Cherish Andrews banked her second final table score in three events as her PokerStake investors rejoiced with yet more profit. Like Event #2, the third event of the 2025 PokerGO Cup was a NLHE event costing $10,100 to play. It was another bumper field, as 129 entrants created a prizepool of $1.29 million that was divided by 19 players.

Among the first players to cash were two big PokerStake names, with the ever-consistent Victoria Livschitz finishing 18^th for a min-cash of $19,350, and Aram Zobian coming 13^th for a score of $25,800. Following the elimination of Jim Collopy in eighth place for $51,600, there were four players over 3 million chips at the top of the seven-strong final table. The eventual winner, Adam Hendrix, had just 985,000 chips and a dream but that dream would come true across a dramatic final day.

Among the leaders heading into the final was Cherish Andrews, and the GPI Female Player of the Year didn’t disappoint, consistently making the right plays and putting others in awkward positions for their stacks. Harvey Castro was the overnight chip leader but it was Manuel Fritz who got lucky to take out Landon Tice in seventh place for $51,600, getting there against Tice’s when the Austrian went runner-runner for a devastating straight. After some great work in making the top six, Cherish Andrews busted for $64,500, her second five-figure score in three days at the felt, losing a flip with against the of Hendrix.

At that stage, Hendrix was still fifth of the remaining five players, but a dominating ace-king against Daniel Sepiol’s ace-ten helped the latter exit in fifth for $77,400 before a wheel straight for Hendrix vaulted him into second spot. Manuel Fritz departed in fourth for $103,200 before Brazil’s Joao Simao busted in third for $141,900, his ace-king falling to pocket jacks for Castro. Heads-up, a superb bluff from Hendrix when the stacks were almost level saw Castro lay down top two pair on the river and a short while later, it was all over. Leading with 75% of the chips in play, Hendrix’s pocket sevens held against Castro’s queen-jack and took the $316,050 top prize, Castro having to be content with $193,500 as runner-up.

Zobian Out in Fifth as ‘Big Vegas’ Wins the Day

The fourth event of the 2025 PokerGO Cup saw Aram Zobian reach the top five places, as Eric ‘Big Vegas’ Blair eventually took the title after defeating Joey Weissman heads-up. For the third time in four events, Weissman made the latter stages, meaning he leads the pack at the halfway stage of the series by some distance.

Early in the 98-entry Event #4 some big players busted, but Kristen Foxen (9^th for $29,400) cashed once again. The six-handed final table began with Justin Saliba in charge, with PokerStake player Aram Zobian hoping to bank as much profit as possible from a strong starting position of third in chips. Justin Sternberg took an immediate hit to his stack and eventually lost when Saliba’s dominated his to defeat for $49,000 in sixth place. Saliba was threatening to run over the table, and won a crucial flip to oust the luckless Zobian in fifth place, pocket fives failing to hold against Saliba’s when a board of made Saliba a straight on the turn to end Zobian’s chances short of the final four, although he did win an outstanding $68,600.

Darren Elias was on fumes and busted in fourth place for $88,200, before a prolonged period of play without anyone busting ended with a different script to how it had started. Saliba was the player to miss out on heads-up, his shot down by Joey Weissman’s , as a jack landed on the river and Weismann took a lead into the final duel.

Eric Blair had nothing to lose and everything to win, however, and managed to win a few marginal pots to get close to level. When almost all of the chips went into the middle, Weissman had pocket eights to win the title, but lost to Blair’s as a board of left Blair with 12 million chips and Weissman with just a single 200,000 big blind. Weissman’s was beaten by Blair’s soon after when a deuce landed on the flop to end the event in Eric Blair’s favor, winning him the title and $254,800.

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