Isaac Haxton Leads 2025 U.S. Poker Open Event #5: $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 #5: $10,100 No-Limit Hold'em. The tournament drew 76 entries, and Isaac Haxton leads a final table that includes Shannon Shorr, Yifu He, Brock Wilson, and Eric Blair. The five remaining players are all guaranteed to take home at least $53,200, but everyone will be gunning for the $220,400 first-place prize, 220 PGT points, and the Event 5 Golden Eagle trophy.

Haxton started the day strong, climbing to the near top of the chip counts by Level 3 when he rivered a broadway straight to eliminate Blair. He became the overall chip leader a few levels later after playing a massive pot with Clemen Deng, which saw Deng four-bet jam ace-king into Haxton's aces. That pot sent his chip stack to more than four times the average. Throughout the day, Haxton would go on to eliminate Kristen Foxen, Joey Weissman, and Chino Rheem to cross the 2,000,000 chip mark. David Chen would be Haxton's final victim of the day after both players made a flush, but it was Haxton's superior king-high flush over Chen's nine-high flush that would send the more than 3,000,000 chip pot to Haxton and Chen home in sixth place to end the night.

The field of 76 entrants created a prize pool worth $760,000, and the final 11 players all got paid. Daniel Negreanu was the unfortunate bubble boy when his overcards couldn't improve against the pocket pair of Blair. Blair doubled through Negreanu a few hands earlier to leave him short, when it was Negreanu who held the pocket pair and Blair the overcards. Stephen Chidwick (11th), Cary Katz (10th), Jim Collopy (9th), Darren Elias (8th), Rheem (7th), and Chen (6th) all finished in the money.

After the final seven consolidated to a single table, Rheem fell in seventh for the second consecutive event, however, the finish puts him back on top of the PGT season-long leader board, where he currently sits ahead of Kristen Foxen by 11 points. Chen was next to exit, just missing the streamed final table after the big confrontation with Haxton.

Haxton, Wilson, and Shorr all collected their first cashes of the series, while He grabbed his fourth. He currently sits fifth on the series leader board, with a final table and a top-three finish also on his series resume. This was Blair's fifth straight cash of the series, tying a PGT record currently held by Rodger Johnson for the most consecutive cashes in a single series. If either Blair or He wins this event, they will overtake Event #4 winner Matthew Wantman atop the series leaderboard in the race to be crowned the U.S. Poker Open champion and be awarded the Golden Eagle trophy and a $25,000 PGT Passport..

2025 U.S. Poker Open Event #5 Final Table

When play resumes, there will be 8:00 remaining in Level 17 with blinds at 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante. The button will be Isaac Haxton.

Play will resume on Monday, April 14, at 11:45 a.m. PT, and the final table will be livestreamed on PokerGO at 1 p.m. PT.

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