David “ODB” Baker Bags WSOP Seniors Bracelet

The mixed game expert was among 801 entries to Event #40: $5,000 Seniors High Roller, with 121 players sharing in the $3,684,600 prizepool.

Bracelets and Bubbles

First port of call for the over-40s was the money bubble on day two and it was Gary Benson who would leave empty-handed, running most of his stack into quads, then his fumes going ‘West’ too…

Gary Benson: 4♥ 4♦
Ron West: Q♠ Q♣

Flop: J♦ 3♥ 2♦

Turn: 2♠

River: 6♦

Legends on site: John Juanda, @Erik_Seidel and Billy Baxter are among the players that have returned for Day 2 or the $5,000 Seniors High Roller.

214 remain out of 799 that have registered so far. Registration closes in 16 minutes! pic.twitter.com/nuxIhfkx5W

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 13, 2025

Those who made it to the paid spots included Hall of Famers Billy Baxter (48^th for $13,246) and John Juanda (58^th for $11,801) with 12 WSOP gold bracelets between them, but 10-time bracelet winner Johnny Chan was among the also-rans.

Mike The Mouth Exits

Running deep on day 3, however, was Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, hunting his 5^th piece of WSOP gold jewellery. It wasn’t to be, though, as his luck ran out in 15^th place…

Mike Matusow: A♦ Q♠
Carmino Argiero: J♦ J♠

Matusow’s pre-flop shove had him all-in and at risk…

Flop: 5♣ 5♦ 5♠

Turn: K♥

The legend still had 7 outs on the river but he couldn’t find one of them …

River: 9♥

…and it was off to the payout desk for Mike Matusow.

The plan had been to finish things off on day 3, but they had to add an extra day when four players still remained after ten 1-hour levels. Baker and Chuanshu Chen led the way in chips, with Matusow’s executioner Argiero and Ron West still in the mix.

Argiero managed to avoid busting in a kings versus aces situation on the very first hand, an ace on the flop and a bet scaring the cowboys off, and laddered up when Ron West fell in 4^th to Chen.

Quads Crack Kings

It was a spirited affair 3-handed, all with 30-40 BBs to manoeuvre with, and eventually it was a double cooler that saw off Argiero.

David “ODB” Baker: 6♠ 6♦
Carmino Argiero: K♥ K♣

Baker was in rough shape when all the chips went in pre- but the runout couldn’t have been better for him…

Flop: 5♠ 6♣ 3♣

Turn: 6♥ 

River: 9♥

Argiero still had chips, but he then ran K♦ Q♥ into Chen’s [pocket rockets and that was that – 3^rd place and $302,208 for an excellent run.

Baker had to overturn a slight chip deficit for bracelet number four, but when he did he steadily [pulled away, eventually finishing things off with another nice flop…

Chen: K♠ 10♦
Baker: A♣ 3♥

Flop: 7♦ 3♣ A♠

Turn: Q♦

River: 6♥

You could see how much his first NLH brace let meant to Baker…

David “ODB” Baker 🇺🇸 adds another milestone to his incredible career, winning his 4th WSOP bracelet in Event #40: $5,000 Seniors High Roller, and a first place prize of $646,845! #WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/TIg317HpVt

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 16, 2025

Final results

“It’s hard to put into words. I’ve always wanted to win a No-Limit bracelet,” said a tearful Baker following his victory.

“$650,000 is a lot of money”

Stating his first three WSOP wins “were about the bracelet,” he added: “…this one, it’s still about the bracelet because I love the World Series, but it’s also about the money. I mean, $650,000 is a lot of money.”

Andrew Burnett

Professional Poker Journalist

An avid poker player, he dreams of one day playing the WSOP Main Event and has promised himself he will fold aces and kings if he gets them on the first hand to avoid front-page headlines. [more]