“LuckyChewy” Knocks Out Every Player at PokerGO Cup Final Table to Win $257,400

After a red-hot begin to the yr on the PokerGO Tour (PGT) that included a runner-up end within the $1 million freeroll and a victory in a PGT Kickoff occasion, Andrew Lichtenberger had only one PokerGO Cup money heading into the collection finale.

However “LuckyChewy” stayed centered and it paid off with a victory in Occasion #10: $15,000 NLH to win $257,400 and the ultimate trophy of the collection. Lichtenberger overcame an awesome chip lead by fellow PokerGO Studio common Sam Soverel, who earned $163,800 for his runner-up end.

The finale, the best buy-in occasion of the collection, drew 52 runners for a prize pool of $780,000. The ultimate desk additionally included 2015 WSOP Fundamental Occasion champion Joe McKeehen (third – $109,200), WPT champ Arthur Peacock (4th – $109,200), longtime Canadian grinder John Krpan (fifth – $62,400), and total collection champion Brock Wilson (sixth – $46,800).

Occasion #10 Remaining Desk Outcomes

“Restoring Company”

Resilient is one solution to describe Lichtenberger this collection, and a serious heads-up chip deficit did not cease the high-stakes professional and holistic poker coach from closing out and knocking out each opponent at Day 2’s last desk.

“I simply all the time attempt to do my finest and simply put one foot in entrance of the opposite,” he advised PokerNews in a winner’s interview. “I believe it is necessary to be resilient as a event participant.”

Lichtenberger stated altering your mindset on the poker desk generally is a manner of “restoring company” and to “type of take issues into your personal fingers.”

“I believe it’s totally unhelpful to play poker in a manner the place you’re feeling entitled to win, so I simply attempt to settle for every little thing that occurs to me, and simply to extract no matter useful lesson or impact from something that happens. So I believe that is actually helped me, more and more so, over the course of my profession, the place if I lose, I simply search for ways in which I might have finished higher in all elements.”

Wilson Wins General Collection Title

Whereas the occasion nonetheless wanted to play out right now, the general collection leaderboard race had already been determined. Brock Wilson clinched the victory late Saturday after making the cash and following the eliminations of Ben Grise and Filipp Khavin.

However the red-hot Wilson, who gained Occasion #4 and Occasion #6, could not get something going on the last desk and fell in sixth place earlier than going to pose for portrait pictures with the large silver PokerGO Cup.

McKeehen, the one WSOP Fundamental Occasion champion within the subject, bowed out in fourth place as his king-queen was crushed by the turned Wheel of the eventual champion.

Lichtenberger stored his foot on the fuel and eradicated Peacock, however issues shifted throughout heads-up play when Soverel gained a half-dozen consecutive pots to have Chewy on the ropes. However Lichtenberger rapidly turned issues again round and secured the victory and his newest poker title.

*Images courtesy of PokerGO and Antonio Abrego

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 World Poker Awards for his writing.