Eric Blair Wins Second 2025 PokerGO Cup Title in Event #6

Eric Blair came into the final table of Event #6: $15,100 as one of the bottom two stacks to start the day, but after being one of four players to find a double in the first level of play, rode that momentum all the way to the title and $352,350 first place prize after defeating Keith Lehr heads-up. 

Blair doubled with ace-jack against start-of-day chip leader Christian Roberts' ace-six to move to third in chips. Roberts would then hand Nick Schulman a double, leaving Blair and Lehr virtually tied at the top of the counts one hand later. 

Schulman's momentum was short-lived, however, as his ace-king could not run down Michael Berk's pocket fours, sending the six-time PGT champion home in sixth place for $65,250 plus 52 PGT points. 

Start-of-day short stack Matthew McEwan was the next to fall after scoring the ladder when he ran king-five suited into the ace queen of Berk. Berk flopped top two pair and left McEwan headed to the rail to collect his $91,350 plus 73 PGT points prize. 

Lehr would then get in on the elimination train as Roberts found himself all in with ace-eight against Lehr's ace-seven. Roberts flopped a pair of eights, but Lehr rivered the nut flush as the start-of-day chip leader could get nothing going at the final table and hit the rail in fourth place for $117,450 and 94 PGT points. 

The three-handed play was all Blair as he quickly distanced himself from Berk and Lehr, eventually taking a nearly four-to-one chip lead into heads-up play after Berk put in more than three million pre-flop with pocket sixes. Blair held pocket queens, and when the board ran out king-high, Berk went from second in chips to out the door in third place for $163,125 plus 131 PGT points. 

The heads-up match lasted precisely one hand as Blair flopped bottom pair on five-five-three with queen-three suited and got all the money in against Lehr's ace king. 

The turn improved Blair to a pair of queens, and when the river landed a seven, Lehr remained with just ace-high heading to the rail in second place for $228,375 plus 183 PGT points.  

The win marks Blair's second title in three days after taking home the trophy in Event #4, and it once again gives him his best career tournament cash, topping the $255,000 from Event #4 by nearly $100,000. 

Event #6: $15,100 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Payouts

Joey Weissman Still Leads Race for 2025 PokerGO Cup, Blair Moves to Second

Event #6: $15,100 No-Limit Hold'em was the first $15,100 buy-in of the series. Eighty-seven entries entered the PokerGO Studio, creating a prize pool of $1,305,000, with the top thirteen winning cash.

Current 2025 PokerGO Cup leader Joey Weissman failed to find his fourth cash of the series as Lehr cracked his aces with queens to put him on the short stack and then fell on the direct bubble when his ace-ten ran into Brandon Wittmyer's ace-king. 

Despite the bubble, Weissman still sits atop the leaderboard with 581 points, but his lead has shrunk dramatically. Blair, who won his second tournament of the series, is now in second place, trailing by just 44 points. 

Fellow event winners Michael Moncek, Adam Hendrix, and Sergio Aido round out the top five, but all are almost 100 points or more behind Weissman, with Moncek the closest, sitting 97 points behind Weissman and 53 points behind Blair. 

Lehr picked up his third cash of the series, moved into sixth place with the runner-up finish in Event #6, and now has 248 points. Harvey Castro is in seventh with 175 points leading third-place finisher Berk by 19 points. Berk sits one point ahead of Shannon Shorr and five points ahead of Manuel Fritz, who rounds out the top ten. Event #6, sixth-place finisher Schulman, sits in eleventh with 167 points.

Matthew Wantman (7th), Wittmeyer (8th), Sam Laskowitz (9th), Cary Katz (10th), Ren Lin (11th), Alex Foxen (12th), and Neil Warren (13th) rounded out the payouts for Event #6. 

Two events remain in the chase for the 2025 PokerGO Cup, and action is already underway in Event #7, with all the action from day one available here. 

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