The 2022 PokerGO Tour is off to a fast start. It began the year with some Venetian High Roller tournaments in Las Vegas, followed by the new Stairway to Millions series at the PokerGO Studio. Some players then went to Florida for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, where that high roller event qualified for PokerGO Tour points. And this week, the PokerGO Cup played out back in Las Vegas. And they’re just getting started.
Jaffe Makes History at LHPO
The Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) has become a popular tournament series through the years. And its host casino, the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida, has become a huge part of the World Poker Tour annual schedule. It was forced to cancel its early 2021 series because of the pandemic, but organizers made it happen again in 2022. And the players couldn’t get enough of it.
There were many highlights of the 2022 Lucky Hearts series, most notably the WPT Main Event win by Alexander Yen for nearly $1M.
The $25K buy-in LHPO High Roller was also a highlight of this January’s action. Not only did the tournament garner a solid 93 entries, it also found a familiar winner. Jonathan Jaffe won it after a heads-up deal with Joseph Cheong. And it was important for Jaffe to claim the win because he did the same thing in the 2020 LHPO, just before the lockdowns began. Technically, he won back-to-back events.
Last year, the very first PokerGO Cup series took place in Las Vegas with eight events. Ali Imsirovic won two of the events, but Daniel Negreanu captured the Player of the Series title. This year, there were some familiar faces winning titles but a new overall champion.
Let’s get to the individual results.
Event 1
$10K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
77
Total prize pool:
$770,000.00
Players paid:
11
Final table results:
1st place:
Daniel Colpoys (USA) $200,200
2nd place:
Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) $146,300
3rd place:
Darren Elias (USA) $100,100
4th place:
Matthew Wantman (USA) $77,000
5th place:
Scott Ball (USA) $61,600
6th place:
Michael Lang (USA) $46,200
Event 2
$10K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
80
Total prize pool:
$800,000.00
Players paid:
12
Final table results:
1st place:
Sean Perry (USA) $200,000
2nd place:
Cary Katz (USA) $144,000
3rd place:
Bryn Kenney (USA) $96,000
4th place:
Scott Ball (USA) $80,000
5th place:
Darren Elias (USA) $64,000
6th place:
Dan Shak (USA) $48,000
Event 3
$10K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
80
Total prize pool:
$800,000.00
Players paid:
12
Final table results:
1st place:
Jake Daniels (USA) $200,000
2nd place:
Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $144,000
3rd place:
Daniel Weinand (Canada) $96,000
4th place:
Chris Moorman (UK) $80,000
5th place:
Sean Winter (USA) $64,000
6th place:
Brock Wilson (USA) $48,000
Event 4
$15K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
65
Total prize pool:
$975,000.00
Players paid:
10
Final table results:
1st place:
Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $263,250
2nd place:
Brock Wilson (USA) $195,000
3rd place:
Cary Katz (USA) $126,570
4th place:
Bill Klein (USA) $97,500
5th place:
Justin Saliba (USA) $78,000
6th place:
Jesse Lonis (USA) $58,500
Event 5
$25K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
41
Total prize pool:
$1,025,000.00
Players paid:
6
Final table results:
1st place:
Nick Petrangelo (USA) $369,000
2nd place:
Bill Klein (USA) $246,000
3rd place:
Nick Schulman (USA) $164,000
4th place:
Sean Winter (USA) $112,750
5th place:
Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia) $82,000
6th place:
Darren Elias (USA) $51,250
Event 6
$25K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
35
Total prize pool:
$875,000.00
Players paid:
5
Final table results:
1st place:
Daniel Negreanu (Canada) $350,000
2nd place:
Sean Winter (USA) $227,500
3rd place:
Vikenty Shegal (USA) $140,000
4th place:
Stephen Chidwick (UK) $96,250
5th place:
Brock Wilson (USA) $61,250
Event 7
$25K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
43
Total prize pool:
$1,075,000.00
Players paid:
7
Final table results:
1st place:
Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia) $365,500
2nd place:
Sam Soverel (USA) $236,500
3rd place:
Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $161,250
4th place:
Nick Schulman (USA) $118,250
5th place:
Cary Katz (USA) $86,000
6th place:
Darren Elias (USA) $63,500
Event 8
$50K buy-in
PokerGO Cup
Total entries:
32
Total prize pool:
$1,600,000.00
Players paid:
5
Final table results:
1st place:
Sean Perry (USA) $640,000
2nd place:
Brock Wilson (USA) $416,000
3rd place:
Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $256,000
4th place:
Nick Schulman (USA) $176,000
5th place:
Daniel Negreanu (USA) $112,000
In the end, Jeremy Ausmus won the title of PokerGO Champion. As points accumulated throughout the series, he was in the running for the title alongside all four of his opponents at the Event 8 final table. In the end, Brock Wilson finished second on the leaderboard, and Ausmus took the title. In addition to winning the actual PokerGO Cup, he won $50K in cash.
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What’s Next?
Everyone is taking a break for a couple of weeks. The next events on the PokerGO Tour will run February 24-26 at the Aria as a part of the yearlong Aria High Roller series. March 3 will deliver the Wynn Millions $10K event, and then the US Poker Open begins on March 16 and runs its 12 events through March 27. From there, players can head to Cyprus in April for the Triton Poker and Super High Roller series there at the Merit Royal.
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