Brock Wilson is still the king of the PokerGO Studio after capturing another PokerGO Tour series title with an overall win at the US Poker Open.
The reigning PokerGO Cup champion has now gone back-to-back just one month later – the first to do so since Sean Winter in 2022. He joins a list of USPO champions that includes Stephen Chidwick, David Peters, Martin Zamani, Shannon Shorr, and Aram Zobian.
Wilson did it this time with four cashes, three final tables, and two wins during the 10-tournament series, finishing with $434,900 in series earnings, plus a $25K PGT Passport bonus.
But it wasn't decided until the very end, when Wilson had to hold off his partner, Cherish Andrews, to claim the title. Andrews was the last player to threaten Wilson's championship claim, and a win in the final event would have put her over the top. She would mount an early charge on Wednesday but fell short at the final table. Her 2026 USPO run also included a win, plus sixth- and eighth-place finishes.
Brock Wilson: 'Best-case scenario'
Wilson, who has won more than $5.8 million on the PokerGO Tour, has been coming to the PokerGO Studio since live poker returned in 2021 — when he lived right across the street on the Las Vegas Strip.
"Best-case scenario," Wilson told PokerOrg about the final table sweat.
The champ spent Day 1 of the final US Poker Open event holding off the other threats to his title, Jeremy Ausmus and Aram Zobian, before he stone-bubbled the tournament and left the door open for Andrews. The sweat ended early in the afternoon on Day 2 when she busted the tournament in sixth place.
"Either way it was a win. I'm glad she laddered a little bit and had a shot. It seems like she was playing well."
Andrews had told PokerGO producers that she would be happy either way, but that a win for her would likely mean more to her emerging career than that of her already-established boyfriend.
Wilson would have been very happy to see it happen.
"I see her success as just as good, if not better than mine," he said.
"I really root for her almost more than I root for myself. I can understand for her that a big title like this would be amazing. It would be history for her to win, to be the first female to win one of these. That would have been really awesome. It was cool to see her sweat it out in this big buy-in and come close to the title."
Coleman closes out stacked USPO finale
David Coleman would go on to win the tournament at a final table that featured three women. Ebony Kenney and Kristen Foxen joined Andrews in the lineup, with Kenney bowing out in seventh just before Andrews followed to the rail. Foxen would go on to challenge Coleman for the title, but she had to settle for a second-place finish.
Richard Green finished third and Darren Elias finished fourth, while Jesse Lonis rounded out one of the toughest final tables of the year with a fifth-place finish.
2026 USPO Event #10 final table results
- David Coleman - $420,000
- Kristen Foxen - $264,000
- Richard Green - $174,000
- Darren Elias - $126,000
- Jesse Lonis - $96,000
- Cherish Andrews - $72,000
- Ebony Kenney - $48,000
Next up, the PokerGO Tour heads to Texas, where several events wait at the Champions Club in Houston from May 6-11. The $2,200 Texas Poker Open will headline the festival with its $1M guarantee, joined by five PGT High Rollers with a buy-in of $3,100.
Images courtesy of Antonio Abrego/PokerGO.
