Stephen Chidwick has won the $50K buy-in Super High Roller event at the 2025 NAPT Las Vegas, beating Thomas Boivin for the first prize of $557,930.
Only 23 players entered, but Chidwick had to come through a stacked field that included Bryn Kenney, Isaac Haxton, and Jason Koon to get to the trophy.
Three players got paid, with Kenney going out in fourth when his K-Q couldn’t catch up with Boivin’s A-J.
Cary Katz finished third, and he wasn’t happy to lose with 3-3 against Chidwick’s K-3. He survived the flop, but a king on the turn sent him to the payout desk.
Chip stacks heads-up were almost dead even, but Chidwick took the lead early on and didn’t relinquish it, closing out the win — his 44th live tournament win in an incredible career — in a little over an hour.
Is Chidwick set to be poker's new all-time #1?
It means Chidwick has eaten further into Kenney’s lead at the top of the Hendon Mob all-time money list — and it’s surely only a matter of time before he gets there.
That’s no slight on Kenney, more a reflection of the volume that Chidwick puts in at the very highest level.
Chidwick already has 34 cashes in 2025, including this latest score. Kenney has only nine cashes — all at Triton stops or the WSOP.
Nearly half of Kenney’s $78.7 million in career earnings comes from his top five results, which total $37.6 million.
And his figures are skewed by his $20.5 million score for finishing second in the £1 million buy-in Triton event in 2019. Kenney left the event without the trophy but with the largest payout after Aaron Zang took $16.7 million in a deal. Without that mega-cash, Kenney would be 7th on the all-time money list.
Chidwick’s top five cashes equal $14.3 million. Even without his top score ($5,368,947), Chidwick would still rank third on the all-time money list, just behind Koon.
Koon himself has no doubt that Chidwick will not only take the number one spot on the all-time money list but also chalk up a big gap to the rest of the poker world.
In a recent interview with PokerOrg, Koon said, “He (Chidwick) is number two on the list at the moment, and it's inevitable that he’s going to be number one. I think he'll be number one by a wide margin because he plays a ton of volume, and he loves it.”
