The 51-day race for WSOP PoY status lasted until the very last event on the final day. It took cashes worth $4,006,440 across eighteen live bracelet events and six online bracelet events, with five final tables and one gold bracelet to seal the deal.
For fans of the game it was a pleasure following the mostly three-way race between Deeb, Martin Kabrhel and Benny Glaser, with the remarkable PPC/Main Event double thrusting Mike Mizrachi into late contention.
While Glaser was wining an amazing three gold bracelets, and Kabrhel was seemingly everywhere at once, it took Deeb a little longer to get going this year.
Multiple minor cashes had him trailing his rivals, with Daniel Negreanu (PoY in both 2004 and 2018) and Brian Rast also in the early mix. When he started to motor, however, the 2018 Player of the Year proved impossible to stop.
A third-place finish $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship was his first big showing, followed by a runner-up finish behind Allan Le in the $1,500 Razz.
Another second, in Online Event #12: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Monsterstack, was the prelude to his only win of the series, but it was a huge win.
Deeb scooped Event #79: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller ahead of a 121-entry field of the game’s biggest and best 4-card fans, pocketing $2,957,229 from the $11,676,500 prizepool.
Shaun Deeb (@shaundeeb) was VERY NICE to chat with us after winning bracelet #7 tonight in the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha. Deeb expressed how difficult the field was and how his Team Lucky run-good and support from the rail helped carry him through one of the toughest… pic.twitter.com/YWLCTwEHOk
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 4, 2025
He was back in content in again almost immediately but couldn’t quite close out the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack, losing out to Kabrhel’s countryman Zdenek Zizka.
A few more cashes would close his account at 24 total cashes worth $4,006,440 and 4,191.10 points in the leaderboard race.
Glaser’s triple-bracelet run this summer brought him ever-so-close finishing less than 40 points behind Deeb, while Mizrachi’s $10million Main Event victory — in addition to 11 other cashes, including the highly-coveted Poker Player’s Championship — launched him into 3rd place.
WSOP Player of the Year Final Standings
1 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 4,191.10 |
2 | Benny Glaser | USA | 4,153.66 |
3 | Michael Mizrachi | USA | 3,804.96 |
4 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Rep. | 3,639.41 |
5 | Scott Bohlman | USA | 3,328.86 |
6 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 3,025.20 |
7 | Brian Rast | USA | 3,006.66 |
8 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 2,972.05 |
9 | Klemens Roiter | Austria | 2,813.51 |
10 | Zdenek Zizka | Czech Rep. | 2,807.76 |
“We did it boys and girls,” Deeb tweeted. “Great battle between Martin and Benny they battled to the last tourney.”
We did it boys and girls great battle between Martin and Benny they battled to the last tourney pic.twitter.com/jRnWtAk7L1
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) July 16, 2025
Deeb will not only receive the WSOP Player of the Year trophy but also a seat in the 2026 WSOP Main Event.
Shaun Deeb’s 2025 WSOP Results
Event #3: | $5k NLH 8-Handed | 94th | $10,000 |
Event #5: | $5k PLO | 55th | $12,903 |
Online Event #2: | $555NLH Mystery Bounty | 161st | $1,008 |
Event #14: | $25k NLH/PLO High Roller | 17th | $60,520 |
Online Event #4: | $1k NLH PKO | 138th | $866 |
Event #19: | $500 NLH COLOSSUS | 1036th | $1,230 |
Event #21: | $1k PLO Hi-Lo | 31st | $8,101 |
Online Event #5: | $600 NLH Deepstack | 166th | $1,265 |
Event #34: | $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty | 86th | $3,036 |
Event #36: | $10k PLO Hi-Lo Championship | 3rd | $348,304 |
Event #43: | $1,500 Razz | 2nd | $84,221 |
Event #47: | $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo/Stud Hi-Lo | 12th | $11,269 |
Event #55: | $10k H.O.R.S.E. Championship | 19th | $20,999 |
Event #57: | $50k PLO High Roller | 26th | $100,000 |
Online Event #12: | $600 NLH Monsterstack | 2nd | $90,776 |
Event #63: | $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw | 56th | $3,154 |
Event #65: | $1,000 NLH TagTeam | 69th | $1,508 |
Online Event #17: | $500 NLH Deepstack | 205th | $1,351 |
Event #76: | $2,500 Mixed Big Bet | 29th | $7,237 |
Event #79: | $100k PLO High Roller | 1st | $2,957,229 |
Event #90: | $777 Lucky7’s | 270th | $2,078 |
Event #88: | $50k NLH High Roller | 19th | $123,068 |
Online Event #28: | $400 NLH Mystery Bounty | 92nd | $1,411 |
