Eric Blair Leads 2025 U.S. Poker Open Event #2: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table

The 2025 U.S. Poker Open continued from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with Event #2: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em. The tournament drew 108 entries and Eric Blair leads the final six players.

Blair was one card away from being eliminated in the evening when he held pocket aces against pocket kings. A king fell on the turn, but an ace spiked the river and he scored the double. Shortly after, he picked up kings and scored a triple knockout to surge to the top of the counts, which he leveraged to further accumulate throughout the late evening en route to holding the overnight chip lead with 30% of the chips in play.

Blair leads a final table that includes Erik Seidel, Kazuomi Furuse, Nacho Barbero, Nick Schulman, and David Peters. These six players will return already guaranteed $54,000, while all eyes will be on the $275,400 first-place prize, 275 PGT points, and the Event #2 mini Golden Eagle trophy.

The field of 108 entrants created a prize pool of $1,080,000 and the final 16 players earned a piece of it. Jeremy Ausmus was the unfortunate bubble boy when he got his last few chips in blind-versus-blind against Seidel and Seidel improved on the river. Isaac Kempton (16th), Daniel Negreanu (15th), John Gallaher (14th), Sam Soverel (13th), Christian Roberts (12th), Chino Rheem (11th), Patrick Leonard (10th), Francis Anderson (9th), and Nick Seward (8th) were among those to cash in the event.

On the final hand of the night, Philipe Pinto got his chips in with ace-queen and ran into Blair's ace-king. The runout changed nothing and Pinto was eliminated in seventh place, while the six remaining players bagged to return for the streamed final table.

2025 U.S. Poker Open Event #2 Final Table

When play resumes, there will be 40:00 remaining in Level 20 with blinds at 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante. The button will be Nacho Barbero.

Play will resume on Thursday, April 10, at 11:45 a.m. PT, and the final table will be livestreamed on PokerGO at 1 p.m. PT.

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