Adam Hendrix has seized another PokerGO Tour title after taking down the PokerGO Cup Event #3: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em for $316,050.
The event set another new PokerGO studio record after 129 entries bested the 121-player field from PGT Last Chance Event #5 in January.
The field created a prize pool of $1,290,000 to be paid out to the top 19 finishers.
Action Recap
Brandon Wittmeyer was the unfortunate soul who missed out on a payday after his ace-five suited whiffed the board against the pocket nines of Aram Zobian.
Yi Klassen just slipped into the money, a day after bubbling Event #2, followed by Victoria Livschitz in 18th place.
As the end of Day 1 approached, Harvey Castro was leading the pack after a productive day spent steadily building his stack. With a second place from last year being his only PokerGO cash, he was clearly looking to go one better.
When the seven-player final table was formed, everyone was guaranteed at least $51,600.
Michael Moncek and Joey Weissman who won the first two events both failed to cash but still maintained their lead at the top of the series leaderboard with 369 and 419 points, respectively.
Landon Tice was the first player to exit the final table, picking up his first PokerGO Tour cash in a major event.
Starting the day with the smallest stack, Tice made some early headway after doubling through Cherish Andrews. But the momentum didn’t last as his ace-king came up short against a rivered straight held by Manuel Fritz.
2022 GPI Female Player of the Year Cherish Andrews made her second final table of the PokerGO Cup but was eliminated soon after Tice in sixth place with a prize of $64,500.
Castro was still dominating the event and extended his lead even more after picking up pocket aces at the right time to send home Daniel Sepiol who risked it all with nines.
But then the wheels came off dramatically when he doubled up Joao Simao, Hendrix, and Fritz in quick succession.
Hendrix was then facing an early exit in fourth place when he got all-in against Fritz. The Austrian’s ace-queen flopped a queen to make him a huge favourite, but a king landed on the turn to turn the tables and send Fritz home in fourth place with $103,200 as compensation.
Castro had now completed a comeback of sorts, finishing off the job by eliminating Joao Simao in third place who collected a prize of $141,900.
As the players squared up to begin the heads-up battle, they both sat with eight million chips in front of them.
The first hand of note saw Henrix opening to 900,000 from the big blind with king-queen and Castro calling with ten-six.
The flop came down five-three-deuce with one spade and Hendrix led out for 500,000 which Castro called.
The turn was a ten, giving Castro top pair, and Hendrix fired again, this time for 1.7 million. Castro called after a long think.
The six river sealed the pot for Castro but Hendrix then fired the third barrel by moving all-in for 4.8 million.
Castro didn’t know what to think at this point. Top two pair in a heads-up scenario is usually an auto call but there was a lot of money at stake here.
After using his sixth time extension chip in this hand, Castro reluctantly folded.
Sat with a three-to-one disadvantage after that hand, Castro soon capitulated after Adam Hendrix claimed his sixth PokerGO Tour title.
PokerGO Cup Event #3: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table Results
| Place | Name | Country | PGT Points | Prize (USD) |
| 1st | Adam Hendrix | United States | 316 | $316,050 |
| 2nd | Harvey Castro | United States | 194 | $193,500 |
| 3rd | Joao Simao | Brazil | 142 | $141,900 |
| 4th | Manuel Fritz | Austria | 103 | $103,200 |
| 5th | Daniel Sepiol | United States | 77 | $77,400 |
| 6th | Cherish Andrews | United States | 65 | $64,500 |
| 7th | Landon Tice | United States | 52 | $51,600 |
