PokerStake’s Brock Wilson Wins the 2026 PokerGO Cup
The PokerStake seller Brock Wilson took down the 2026 PokerGO Cup last night as he sealed a fourth cash of the series in the 10th and final event. Racking up over $390,000 in winnings from the 10 events, Brock managed to sneak over the line in beating his fellow two-title series winner Filipp Khavin in the final event. With Khavin finishing outside the money places, Brock needed to cash to win the series outright and came sixth for worth $46,800 to seal victory.
Which Events Did Brock Cash In?
Four cashes came in ten events, but it took until Event #4 for Brock and his backers to see a return on their investments. When it came, it was a big one. Brock may have done a deal heads-up with his fellow PokerStake player David Coleman, but he still ended up the winner for over $112,000, more than putting him and his PokerStake investors in profit for the series.
In the next event, Brock scraped into the money places to min-cash, before playing out Event #6 in fine form, winning his second title inside three events. This time, the tournament title was worth $210,000 after Brock beat Shannon Shorr heads-up. Having won two titles, Brock might have thought his mission complete but that wasn’t the case.
Filipp Khavin took down Event #8 to change everything, putting him above Brock in the table.
It all came down to the 10th and final event, with Borck needing to overtake Khavin by the end of the tournament. That became easer when Khavin busted outside the money places. But Brock still needed to cash. After Brock’s fellow PokerStake player Chino Rheem busted in ninth place, the money bubble burst and Brock had done it, eventually finishing fourth for enough PGT Points to usurp Khavin and confirm his ascension to series champion.
Here’s how the final PokerGO Cup leaderboard finished after 10 events.
| PGT PokerGO Cup 2026 Top 10 Leaderboard: | |||||
| Position | Event Details | Country | Winnings | PGT Points | |
| 1st | Brock Wilson | United States | $390,220 | 467 | |
| 2nd | Filipp Khavin | United States | $355,525 | 443 | |
| 3rd | Sean Winter | United States | $330,650 | 347 | |
| 4th | Myles Mullaly | United States | $226,300 | 335 | |
| 5th | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | $331,066 | 301 | |
| 6th | Kent Stephens | United States | $150,100 | 280 | |
| 7th | Ben Grise | United States | $273,000 | 274 | |
| 8th | Darren Elias | United States | $287,725 | 261 | |
| 9th | Michael Berk | United States | $233,800 | 240 | |
| 10th | Chris Hunichen | United States | $211,450 | 218 | |
Legends Like Saliba and Winter Win
While Brock and his closest challenger Filipp Khavin dominated the 2026 PokerGO Cup with four wins from the 10 events, others won both before and after Brock’s opening victory in Event #4. The opening event, which cost just $3,000, was won by a relative newcomer and first-time PGT winner, Kent Stephens for $130,000. From there, the buy-ins went up and so did the drama.
Justin Saliba took down Event #3, as the PokerStake player booked a win worth $96,400. Between Brock Wilson’s victories in Events #4 and #6, Michael Berk took home $207,000 as the Event #5 champion. Tony Gregg won his first major title in some time when he took down Event #7 for $173,075, while Sean Winter followed up on Filipp Khavin’s Event #8 win by claiming the win in Event #9.
In the 10th and final event, it was all about Brock Wilson becoming the 2026 PokerGO Cup leaderboard winner which he duly did. There was still an event to win, and a series top score to claim, and that was done by Andrew ‘LuckyChewy’ Lichtenberger as he won $236,566 as the last champion of the series.
After a stunning 2026 PokerGO Cup series, here are all the event winners.
| PGT PokerGO Cup 2026 Events: | ||||
| Event # | Event Details | Winner | Top Prize | |
| 1 | $3k No Limit Hold’em Showcase | Kent Stephens | $130,000 | |
| 2 | $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Filipp Khavin | $124,525 | |
| 3 | $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Justin Saliba | $96,400 | |
| 4 | $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Brock Wilson | $112,720 | |
| 5 | $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Michael Berk | $207,000 | |
| 6 | $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Brock Wilson | $210,000 | |
| 7 | $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Tony Gregg | $173,075 | |
| 8 | $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Filipp Khavin | $210,000 | |
| 9 | $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Sean Winter | $210,000 | |
| 10 | $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em | Andrew Lichtenberger | $236,566 | |
Chewy Chops All Others in Final Event Win
In Event #10, ‘Chewy’ won the biggest buy-in event of the series, eliminating every other player at the final table, including the series champion. With 52 total entries, a prize pool of $780,000 was fought for as Brock Wilson was taken out in sixth place, his king-six beaten by the ace-seven of Andrew Lichtenberger.
After Canadian John Krpan busted in fifth place for $62,400, the former WSOP Main Event winner Joe McKeehen left in fourth place for $78,000. Lichtenberger removed Arthur Peacock in third for $109,200, before getting the better of Sam Soverel heads-up to end the last tournament of the series as the Grim Reaper, winning at the expense of all his opponents.
“I always try to do my best and just put one foot in front of the other,” Chewy said after the event. “I think it’s important to be resilient as a tournament player. It’s very unhelpful to play poker in a way where you feel entitled to win, so I just try to accept everything that happens to me, and just to extract whatever beneficial lesson or effect from anything that occurs.”