The 2025 World Series of Poker is officially in the books — but how does it stack up against the greats?
Subjectively, it has to go down as one of the most memorable in its 55-year history. It had everything, with characters, controversies and a blockbuster ending that saw Michael Mizrachi win the Main Event and Leo Margets become the first woman to make the Main Event final table in 30 years.
Daniel Negreanu didn’t win a bracelet, but even he called it “maybe the greatest WSOP in the 50+ year history.”
What didn’t we get? There were no bracelets for the ‘big three’ — Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey — and the Main Event didn’t break the attendance record but still drew a massive field of 9,735 players.
We did get staggering prize pools, new records being set and players from all over the world chasing the coveted bracelets.
The Main Event is the showpiece of the WSOP and a huge, diverse field of almost 10,000 players paid the $10,000 entry for a shot at the Main Event bracelet and $10,000,000 first prize. Mizrachi won after also taking gold in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. That’s almost certainly the greatest feat in tournament poker history — and one that may never be repeated.
Join us for a full breakdown: which countries brought home the most bracelets, how the gender split played out, and who cashed big on poker’s grandest stage. We’ve crunched the numbers — here’s what the 2025 WSOP looked like.
2025 WSOP — total bracelets awarded
10099 bracelets awarded
We should have seen a record number of bracelets given out in Las Vegas this summer, up from 99 in 2024. However, following a high-profile chip-dumping investigation, the WSOP made the unprecedented decision to withhold the bracelet in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker event. Jesse Yaginuma and James Carroll both got second place and split prize money for first and second, with each taking home $1,133,750 (and a ban from the WSOP). It was the first time in history that a live bracelet wasn’t awarded at the WSOP since they were introduced in 1976.
- Bracelets won by men: 98
- Bracelets won by women: 1
Margets made the final table of the Main Event for the first time in the modern era. Incredibly, Margets is also the last woman to win an open event at the WSOP — The Closer in 2021. 382 bracelets have been awarded in open events since then.
2025 WSOP — total entries
The WSOP collected over half a billion dollars for the first time in its history. Total entries were up but only because of more opening day flights and re-entries. Numbers in the Main Event (played as a freezeout) were down around 4% from last year.
Rake was up by $4 million and nudging the $50 million mark with staff fees included. The WSOP employed around 1,700 dealers — a massive logistical feat, though some players criticized the overall standard of dealing this summer.
- Total entries: 246,960 — up 17,461 from 2024 (229,499)
- Total buy-ins collected: $529 million — up $48 million from 2024 ($481 million)
- Total prize pools: $482 million — up $44 million from 2024 ($438 million)
- Total rake & fees: $47 million — up $4 million from 2024 ($43 million)
Multiple bracelets & biggest wins
Three players won multiple bracelets this summer, and Benny Glaser won three for himself. Mizrachi won the two most prestigious of the summer. None of them won the 2025 Player of the Year award.
- Benny Glaser — 3
- Michael Mizrachi — 2
- Blaz Zerjav — 2
Biggest single payouts
- Michael Mizrachi: $10,000,000 — $10K Main Event
- Seth Davies: $4,752,551 — $250K Super High Roller
- Shaun Deeb: $2,957,229 — $100K PLO High Roller
- Joao Vieira: $2,649,158 — $100K NLH High Roller
- Jason Koon: $1,968,927 — $50K NLH High Roller
2025 WSOP Player of the year
- 1st: Shaun Deeb — Deeb became one of only two players to have won the Player of the Year twice (2018 and 2025). Daniel Negreanu won it in 2004 and 2013.
- 24 cashes
- 18 live cashes
- 6 online cashes
- 5 final tables
- 1 bracelet
- Total winnings: $4,006,440
- 2nd: Benny Glaser
- 17 cashes
- 11 live cashes
- 6 online cashes
- 3 final tables
- 3 bracelets
- Total winnings: $813,734
- 3rd: Michael Mizrachi
- 12 cashes
- 12 live cashes
- 2 final tables
- 2 bracelets
- Total winnings: $11,372,233
2025 WSOP Main Event
The 2025 WSOP Main Event was the third-biggest of all time, after 2023 (10,043) and 2024 (10,112). The vast majority of entries were from the USA, followed by Canada and the UK. The oldest player was 95 and, unlike Phil Hellmuth, he didn't go in claiming the Main Event was too grueling.
- 9,735 players
- Oldest player: 95
- Youngest player: 21
- Men: 8,444
- Women: 369
- Gender not specified: 922
Main Event entries by country
- USA: 5,978
- Canada: 421
- UK: 388
- France: 292
- Japan: 217
- Brazil: 189
- China: 177
- Germany: 173
- Spain: 141
- Israel: 124
- Rest of the world: 1,635
Main Event prize pool, rake & fees
- Total buy-ins collected: $97,350,000
- Prize pool: $90,535,500
- Rake & fees: $6,814,500 — better than second-place prize money.
Of course, with record-breaking stories and unforgettable runs, the 2025 WSOP will be remembered not just for the numbers but for the players who made the headlines, good and bad.
