Sergio Aido Scores Third PGT Title and $255,000 in Event #5

Sergio Aido came into the final table of Event #5: $10,100 No-Limit Hold 'em third in chips, and after picking up the first two eliminations of the day, road that momentum to the title and $255,000 first-place prize, plus 255 PGT points after defeating Shannon Shorr heads-up. 

Aido started the heads-up match at nearly a three-to-one chip disadvantage against Shorr as Shorr quickly extended that chip lead with ultra aggression. However, that aggression would ultimately be the Alabamian's downfall. 

With Shorr still holding the chip lead, Adio opened the button to 275,000. Shorr called, and the flop fell ace-high with two hearts. Aido continued for 150,000, and Shorr check-raised to 500,000. Aido called as the third heart hit the felt on the turn. 

Shorr kept up the pressure with a bet of 775,000, and Aido called as the river came upon a brick. Shorr emptied the clip and moved all in, but Aido snap-called for just over two million in chips with king-queen of hearts for the turned nut flush. Shorr had air, and the chip stacks were reversed, with Aido now holding a nearly two-to-one chip lead. 

A few hands later, all the chips got into the middle on the turn with the board reading ace-eight-seven-seven, with Aido holding ace-eight for top two pair while Shorr held ten-six for just straight and flush draws. The river bricked out on Shorr, and just like that, he was out the door in second place for $165,000 plus 65 PGT Points. 

Shorr took the chip lead into heads-up after he denied Michael Moncek his third top-two finish of the series after "Texas Mike" was the one applying max pressure with a jack-high flush draw on a nine-eight-duece flop. Shorr held the king-high flush draw and, after a count, called the just over three million chip bet of Moncek. The ace of diamonds completed both players' flushes on the river, and Moncek hit the rail in third place for $115,000 plus 115 PGT points. 

Shorr also sent six-time PGT champion Nick Schulman home in fourth place for $90,000 plus 90 PGT points after Schulman's bottom pair of threes ran into Shorr's over pair of tens on an eight-high board. 

Start-of-day short stack Nick Seward scored a pair of doubles early in the first level of play, the second of which came through Brandon Wilson, who had just lost over half his stack the hand before when his ace-king went down in flames to Schulman's king-six. 

Wilson would hit the rail in sixth place for $50,000 plus 50 PGT points moments later when Aido's king-jack ran down his ace-eight. Two kings on the flop secured the ladder for Seward, but he too would fall to Aido after his rivered pair of aces was done in by Aido's flopped full house, sending the young gun out in fifth place for $65,000 plus 65 PGT points.

Event #5: $10,100 No-Limit Hold 'em Final Table Payouts

Joey Weissman Remains Atop 2025 PokerGO Cup Leaderboard

Event #5 of the 2025 PokerGO Cup was the final $10,100 buy-in of the series and attracted a field of exactly 100 entries, creating a prize pool of $1,000,000, with the top fifteen players finishing in the money.

Joey Weissman failed to find a cash in Event #5 but still leads the way atop the leaderboard with 581 points and leads Moncek by 97 points after "Texas Mike" could only pick up 115 points with the third-place finish. 

Event #5 winner Aido moved into fifth place on the leaderboard and now sits tied for fourth with Eric Blair at 255 points, while Event #3 winner Adam Hendrix remains in third with 316 points. 

Shorr picked up his second cash of the series with the runner-up finish in Event #5 and sits in seventh with 174 points, 20 points behind Event #3 runner-up Harvey Castro. 

Manuel Fritz picked up his third cash of the series in Event #5 and added 20 points to his total, vaulting him into eighth place on the leaderboard after a 14th-place finish. 

Schulman and Seward also scored their second cash of the series in Event #5, but neither sits in the top ten, with three events remaining in the chase for the 2025 Cup. 

Rounding out the payouts for Event #5 were Shaneil Stokes (7th), Richard Green (8th), Brock Wilson (9th), Jeremy Ausmus (11th), Jeremy Becker (12th), and Steve Zolotow (13th), all scored their first cash of the series. Victoria Livschitz (10th) picked up her second cash of the series, and Jim Collopy (15th) scored his third. 

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