Ausmus Claims Overall PokerGO Cup Champion Title
The 2022 PokerGO Tour is off to a fast start. It began the year with some Venetian High Roller tournaments in Las Vegas, followed by the new Stairway to Millions series at the PokerGO Studio. Some players then went to Florida for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, where that high roller event qualified for PokerGO Tour points. And this week, the PokerGO Cup played out back in Las Vegas. And they’re just getting started.
Jaffe Makes History at LHPO
The Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) has become a popular tournament series through the years. And its host casino, the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida, has become a huge part of the World Poker Tour annual schedule. It was forced to cancel its early 2021 series because of the pandemic, but organizers made it happen again in 2022. And the players couldn’t get enough of it.
There were many highlights of the 2022 Lucky Hearts series, most notably the WPT Main Event win by Alexander Yen for nearly $1M.
The $25K buy-in LHPO High Roller was also a highlight of this January’s action. Not only did the tournament garner a solid 93 entries, it also found a familiar winner. Jonathan Jaffe won it after a heads-up deal with Joseph Cheong. And it was important for Jaffe to claim the win because he did the same thing in the 2020 LHPO, just before the lockdowns began. Technically, he won back-to-back events.
| PokerGO Tour | $25K buy-in | Lucky Hearts Poker Open High Roller (Florida) |
| Total entries: | 93 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,297,100.00 | ($1M GTD) |
| Players paid: | 13 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Jonathan Jaffe (USA) $574,085 |
| 2nd place: | Joseph Cheong (USA) $540,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Timothy Capretta (USA) $291,730 | |
| 4th place: | Daniel Colpoys (USA) $202,145 | |
| 5th place: | Elijah Berg (USA) $130,935 | |
| 6th place: | Caleb Piderit (USA) $98,775 | |
| 7th place: | Sameer Batra (USA) $80,400 | |
| 8th place: | Vikenty Shegal (USA) $68,915 | |
| 9th place: | Jerry Wong (USA) $66,615 |
Jonathan Jaffe does it again! He won the 2020 LHPO High Roller and now he's the 2022 LHPO High Roller Champ.
He earned $574,085 after a heads-up deal with Joseph Cheong.
Congrats Jonathan!
Results: https://t.co/VWdCaBij4G pic.twitter.com/ZnVn4Upu4q
— Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (@shrpo) January 25, 2022
PokerGO Cup Pulls in Big Names
Last year, the very first PokerGO Cup series took place in Las Vegas with eight events. Ali Imsirovic won two of the events, but Daniel Negreanu captured the Player of the Series title. This year, there were some familiar faces winning titles but a new overall champion.
Let’s get to the individual results.
| Event 1 | $10K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 77 | |
| Total prize pool: | $770,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 11 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Daniel Colpoys (USA) $200,200 |
| 2nd place: | Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) $146,300 | |
| 3rd place: | Darren Elias (USA) $100,100 | |
| 4th place: | Matthew Wantman (USA) $77,000 | |
| 5th place: | Scott Ball (USA) $61,600 | |
| 6th place: | Michael Lang (USA) $46,200 |
| Event 2 | $10K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 80 | |
| Total prize pool: | $800,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 12 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Sean Perry (USA) $200,000 |
| 2nd place: | Cary Katz (USA) $144,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Bryn Kenney (USA) $96,000 | |
| 4th place: | Scott Ball (USA) $80,000 | |
| 5th place: | Darren Elias (USA) $64,000 | |
| 6th place: | Dan Shak (USA) $48,000 |
| Event 3 | $10K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 80 | |
| Total prize pool: | $800,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 12 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Jake Daniels (USA) $200,000 |
| 2nd place: | Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $144,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Daniel Weinand (Canada) $96,000 | |
| 4th place: | Chris Moorman (UK) $80,000 | |
| 5th place: | Sean Winter (USA) $64,000 | |
| 6th place: | Brock Wilson (USA) $48,000 |
| Event 4 | $15K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 65 | |
| Total prize pool: | $975,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 10 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $263,250 |
| 2nd place: | Brock Wilson (USA) $195,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Cary Katz (USA) $126,570 | |
| 4th place: | Bill Klein (USA) $97,500 | |
| 5th place: | Justin Saliba (USA) $78,000 | |
| 6th place: | Jesse Lonis (USA) $58,500 |
| Event 5 | $25K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 41 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,025,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Nick Petrangelo (USA) $369,000 |
| 2nd place: | Bill Klein (USA) $246,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Nick Schulman (USA) $164,000 | |
| 4th place: | Sean Winter (USA) $112,750 | |
| 5th place: | Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia) $82,000 | |
| 6th place: | Darren Elias (USA) $51,250 |
| Event 6 | $25K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 35 | |
| Total prize pool: | $875,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Daniel Negreanu (Canada) $350,000 |
| 2nd place: | Sean Winter (USA) $227,500 | |
| 3rd place: | Vikenty Shegal (USA) $140,000 | |
| 4th place: | Stephen Chidwick (UK) $96,250 | |
| 5th place: | Brock Wilson (USA) $61,250 |
| Event 7 | $25K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 43 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,075,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 7 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia) $365,500 |
| 2nd place: | Sam Soverel (USA) $236,500 | |
| 3rd place: | Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $161,250 | |
| 4th place: | Nick Schulman (USA) $118,250 | |
| 5th place: | Cary Katz (USA) $86,000 | |
| 6th place: | Darren Elias (USA) $63,500 |
| Event 8 | $50K buy-in | PokerGO Cup |
| Total entries: | 32 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,600,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Sean Perry (USA) $640,000 |
| 2nd place: | Brock Wilson (USA) $416,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $256,000 | |
| 4th place: | Nick Schulman (USA) $176,000 | |
| 5th place: | Daniel Negreanu (USA) $112,000 |
In the end, Jeremy Ausmus won the title of PokerGO Champion. As points accumulated throughout the series, he was in the running for the title alongside all four of his opponents at the Event 8 final table. In the end, Brock Wilson finished second on the leaderboard, and Ausmus took the title. In addition to winning the actual PokerGO Cup, he won $50K in cash.
.@JeremyAusmus is the 2022 @PokerGO Cup champion. Ausmus cashed four times for $824,500 including a win in Event #4 for $263,250.https://t.co/TPVzZm0HXC
— PokerGO Tour (@PokerGOTour) February 11, 2022
What’s Next?
Everyone is taking a break for a couple of weeks. The next events on the PokerGO Tour will run February 24-26 at the Aria as a part of the yearlong Aria High Roller series. March 3 will deliver the Wynn Millions $10K event, and then the US Poker Open begins on March 16 and runs its 12 events through March 27. From there, players can head to Cyprus in April for the Triton Poker and Super High Roller series there at the Merit Royal.
