Joey Weissman Wins 2025 PokerGO Cup Series Championship

The 2025 PokerGO Cup packed numerous exciting storylines into its eight-event schedule, all while paying out $9,405,000 in total prize money. The high-stakes tournament series drew 854 cumulative entries inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas, including a record-setting field of 177 in the kickoff tournament.

Joey Weissman captured the PokerGO Cup series championship with a dominant performance throughout. The 36-year-old bracelet winner based out of Las Vegas final tabled four of the eight tournaments that made up the festival, recording one win and three runner-up finishes. Weissman cashed for a total of $930,600 throughout the series, the most of any player by far. The second-highest total for the festival belonged to Eric Blair, who ended up with $645,850 after cashing three times with two titles won.

Weissman finished the series with 758 PokerGO Tour points, giving him a 190 final margin of victory over Blair (568 points). With two final-table finishes during the PGT Kickoff festival in January under his belt, Weissman has claimed the top spot in the season-long PGT points race.

As if that wasn’t enough, Weissman’s success at this festival also propelled him into the top spot in the 2025 Card Player Player of the Year race presented by Global Poker.

Weissman’s Run To The Cup

The first event of this festival was the lone tournament on the schedule with a buy-in below five figures. A record total of 177 entries turned out for the $5,000 kickoff tournament, a record field for a PokerGO owned and operated no-limit hold’em event inside the PokerGO Studio.

Weissman navigated his way through the sizable turnout to make it down to the first of four heads-up matches he played during the series. He ended up placing second ($123,900) to two-time bracelet winner Michael Moncek.

Joey Weissman

Moncek ended up placing third in the series points race, with three final-table finishes totaling $483,750 in earnings.

Weissman did not cash in event no. 3, but got right back to his winning ways in event no. 4. The 98-entry field was whittled down to Weissman and Eric Blair, with the latter contender coming out on top. Weissman added $161,700 to his totals with this second runner-up showing of the series.

The final deep run for Weissman came in the largest event of the festival: the $25,000 buy-in finale. The tournament drew 59 entries, with Weissman once again battling his way to the business-end of the event. He started at a chip deficit against Justin Zaki, but managed to work his way in front before playing a huge all-in with pocket tens against the A-10 of his opponent. The runout gave Zaki a straight and a huge chip advantage. Soon after, Weissman was heading to the payout desk to collect $350,000 for his third runner-up finish in the span of nine days.

The Best Of The Rest

Eric Blair was the only player to win two titles at the series, and wound up finishing second in the series-long race. Moncek placed third, and event no. 7 champion Kristen Foxen ended up in fourth place thanks to her one victory and three cashes. Foxen’s performance at this series helped her surpass Vanessa Selbst to take the top spot on the Women’s all-time money list.

Rounding out the top five is Spanish high-stakes regular Sergio Aido, who won event no. 5 and placed fifth in the penultimate tournament to bring his haul for the festival to $345,300.

Here are the top ten in the final PokerGO Cup series standings:

Photo credits: PokerGO / Alicia Skillman, Enrique Malfavon.

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