Martin Zamani Wins Penultimate PokerGO Tour Last Chance Event

The second-to-last occasion of the PokerGO Tour Last Chance sequence drew 121 entries, a brand new report for a $10,100 buy-in occasion contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas. The $1,210,000 prize pool was paid out amongst the highest 18 finishers, with the biggest share going to eventual champion Martin Zamani. The two-time bracelet winner walked away with $302,500 because the champion, rising his lifetime earnings to almost $7 million within the course of.

Zamani additionally earned 660 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. He now sits in third place within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

The 303 PGT factors he secured with this title run moved him into fourth place within the series-long standings.

Zamani got here into the second and closing day of this occasion with the chip lead. Super-short-stack Joey Weissman was the primary to fall, along with his Okay-10 outrun by the Okay-9 suited of Zamani. Weissman earned $48,400 for his seventh-place exhibiting. The bracelet winner now has greater than $7.8 million in recorded cashes to his identify.

Two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer quickly joined Weissman on the rail when his A-J suited misplaced a preflop race to the pocket eights of World Poker Tour champion and bracelet winner Brek Schutten. Brewer bricked out on a queen-high runout and was eradicated in sixth place ($60,500). This rating ticked his profession earnings over $26.7 million.

During five-handed play, Zamani bluffed Schutten off of a full home in a wild hand. With blinds of 40,000-80,000, Schutten min-raised from underneath the gun with 77. Zamani three-bet to 800,000 with AQ out of the massive blind and Schutten known as. The flop got here down 874 and Zamani guess 500,000 into the pot of 1,720,000 with the nut flush draw. Schutten known as along with his center set and the 8 paired the board on the flip. Zamani guess small, firing 660,000. Schutten known as along with his full home and the 8 rolled off the deck on the top. Zamani moved all-in on the river, placing Schutten to the check for his match life. Schutten folded and was proven the bluff. While he remained in second chip place with 2,660,000, Zamani surged to 7,030,000.

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Ren Lin was at his second final-table end of the sequence. He received the final of his stack in with pocket fives trailing the pocket queens (‘Lady Gagas’ in Lin’s parlance) of Rania Nasreddine. The bigger pair held and Lin was knocked out in fifth place ($72,600). He is approaching $15 million in lifetime scores after this newest deep run.

Nasreddine doubled up by way of Zamani twice throughout four-handed motion to briefly take the chip lead, however she then doubled Zamani up when he flopped journey tens in opposition to her jacks and tens with an ace kicker to slip again right down to the brief stack.

Schutten received the final of his chips in with A-J suited main the A-8 of Zamani, however an eight on the flop turned the tables. Schutten picked up a flush draw on the flip however bricked the river to complete fourth for $102,850.

Nasreddine additionally misplaced a giant pot with A-J after main preflop, with five-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen spiking a ten with A-10 and holding from there to go away Nasreddine on fumes. Zamani claimed Nasreddine’s final couple large blinds to ship her residence in third place ($133,100). The two-time European Poker Tour closing tablist grew her profession haul to greater than $1.9 million with this rating.

Heads-up play started with Zamani holding 12,875,000 to Foxen’s 2,250,000. It took simply two palms for him to transform that lead into the title. The closing hand noticed Zamani open rip from the button with A10. Foxen known as off her final 1,875,000 (9.5 large blinds) with A8. The board got here down 766Q2 to deliver the occasion to an finish.

Foxen walked away with $187,550 because the runner-up. With $10,458,236 in lifetime earnings, she is simply the second feminine participant in poker historical past to accrue eight figures in match scores. She now trails feminine all-time cash chief Vanessa Selbst ($10,899,027) by simply $440,791.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:

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