# 2025 World Series of Poker
The 2025 [World Series of Poker](https://www.edgepedia.org/world-series-of-poker) (WSOP) was the 56th edition of the series, held from May 27 to July 16, 2025 at [Paris Las Vegas](https://www.edgepedia.org/paris-las-vegas) and Horseshoe Las Vegas, and the first staged under GGPoker's ownership. It set series records with 246,960 total entries and $481,761,879 in prize money awarded, and its $10,000 Main Event was won by Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi for $10 million.[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) • [2](https://www.wsop.com/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-the-2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-title-and-achieves-poker-immortality/) • [3](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dates and venue | May 27 – July 16, 2025, at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe Las Vegas[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) • [4](https://wsop.gg-global-cdn.com/wsop/pdfs/2025-WSOP-Tournament-Rules.pdf) |
| Bracelet events | 100 live gold bracelet events, a 56-year record, plus 30 online bracelets on WSOP.com[3](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm) • [5](https://www.pgt.com/news/wsop-2025-schedule--main-event-dates-full-tournament-lineup) |
| Main Event | 9,735 entries, third-largest ever; $90,535,500 prize pool; won by Michael Mizrachi for $10 million[6](https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-attracts-9735-entries-to-become-third-largest-ever-held) • [2](https://www.wsop.com/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-the-2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-title-and-achieves-poker-immortality/) • [7](https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1156011) |
| Series totals | 246,960 entries and $481,761,879 awarded, both all-time records; 37,311 places paid; 43 prizes of $1 million or more[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) |
| Commercial figures | $529 million in buy-ins, $482 million in prize pools, $47 million in rake and fees[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) |
| Player of the Year | Shaun Deeb, his second title (2018, 2025), with 24 cashes and $4,006,440 in winnings[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) |
| Unprecedented event | The Millionaire Maker bracelet was withheld after a chip-dumping investigation, the first live bracelet not awarded since 1976[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) |
## Schedule and events
The schedule offered 100 gold bracelet events, the most in the series' 56-year history, and introduced six brand-new bracelet events.[3](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm) The series opened on May 27 with Mystery Millions, which guaranteed a $1 million top bounty and a $1 million first prize across five Day 1 flights. The Main Event began July 2 and concluded July 16.[9](https://ggpoker.com/blog/wsop-releases-full-summer-2025-series-schedule/)
**Buy-in tiers** ran from $500 for the Industry Employees event to $250,000 for Event #46, the Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em on June 15, with a $50,000 Poker Players Championship and a $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha in between.[9](https://ggpoker.com/blog/wsop-releases-full-summer-2025-series-schedule/) The new events were a $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Mixed 8-Handed event (Event 14, June 2), a $3,000 T.O.R.S.E. event (Event #93, July 11) replacing Hold'em with 2-7 Limit Triple Draw in the mixed rotation, a $1,000 Battle of the Ages Over 50/Under 50 No-Limit Hold'em, and the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.[3](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm) • [5](https://www.pgt.com/news/wsop-2025-schedule--main-event-dates-full-tournament-lineup)
## Main Event
The $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em Main Event drew 9,735 entries, the third-largest field in the tournament's 56-year history. Only the 2024 Main Event (10,112 entries) and the 2023 Main Event (10,043) were larger; the 2025 field was down roughly 3.7 percent year-on-year, so the record set in 2024 stood.[6](https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-attracts-9735-entries-to-become-third-largest-ever-held) The Hendon Mob database independently records the event (Event #81) at Horseshoe Las Vegas, July 2–16, with 9,735 entries and a $90,535,500 prize pool.[7](https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1156011)
**Mizrachi's victory.** Michael Mizrachi carried a decisive chip lead from the first day of the final table to the title on July 16, taking home $10 million plus a Main Event bracelet valued at half a million dollars. On the final hand, Leon Wasnock flopped two pair with ace-nine, and Mizrachi turned a flush holding suited ten-three.[2](https://www.wsop.com/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-the-2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-title-and-achieves-poker-immortality/) [Leo Margets](https://www.edgepedia.org/leo-margets) made the final table, the first woman to do so in the modern era.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/)
## By the numbers
The 2025 series set all-time highs across the board: 246,960 entries, $481,761,879 in prize money, and 37,311 places paid, with 43 prizes of $1 million or more.[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) Using Poker.org's reported 2024 total of 229,499, 2025 total entries were 17,461 higher; the increase was attributed in part to more opening flights and re-entries, even as Main Event entries fell about 4 percent.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/)
The economics behind those figures: total buy-ins collected reached $529 million, up $48 million from 2024's $481 million, exceeding half a billion dollars for the first time; prize pools totaled $482 million; and rake and fees totaled $47 million, up $4 million from 2024.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) Nine events exceeded $10 million in prize pool and 57 exceeded $2 million, both series records.[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) Mid-series, overall attendance was up about 7 percent year-over-year with prize pools up 3 to 5 percent for the same events, though unique player participation may have been slightly down.[10](https://pokerfuse.com/news/live-and-online/222302-can-wsop-2025-make-history-again-trends-point-not/)
## Notable results and records
Several fields set size records for their buy-in class. Event #53, the Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em, drew 11,996 entries, a record for the largest $1,500 buy-in field in live tournament poker history. Event #86, the Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha, drew 5,284 entries, the largest PLO field in live tournament history. Event #89, the Mid-Stakes Championship, drew 3,797 entries, the largest $3,000 buy-in field ever.[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/)
**The withheld bracelet.** After a chip-dumping investigation in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, the WSOP withheld the bracelet for the first time since live bracelets were introduced in 1976. Jesse Yaginuma and [James Carroll](https://www.edgepedia.org/james-carroll) were both moved to second place and split the first and second prize money, $1,133,750 each, and both received bans from the WSOP. Only 99 bracelets were therefore awarded in Las Vegas.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/)
**Multi-bracelet winners.** Benny Glaser won three bracelets, and Michael Mizrachi and Blaz Zerjav won two each.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) Mizrachi won the two most prestigious events of the summer, the Poker Players Championship and the Main Event, earning $11,372,233 in total.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) Of the 99 bracelets awarded, 98 went to men and 1 to a woman.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) In the $250,000 Super High Roller, Seth Davies won $4,752,551.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/)
## Player of the Year and honors
Shaun Deeb won the 2025 Player of the Year award with 24 cashes and $4,006,440 in series winnings, becoming one of only two players to win the title twice (2018 and 2025), alongside [Daniel Negreanu](https://www.edgepedia.org/daniel-negreanu) (2004 and 2013).[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) For winning his fourth Poker Players Championship and the Main Event in the same summer, Mizrachi, by then a nine-time bracelet winner, was unanimously voted the 65th member of the [Poker Hall of Fame](https://www.edgepedia.org/poker-hall-of-fame).[2](https://www.wsop.com/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-the-2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-title-and-achieves-poker-immortality/)
## Online and international series
**Online qualification.** International online satellites to WSOP live events were hosted exclusively at GGPoker, which had sent more than 1,000 players to the 2024 Main Event.[9](https://ggpoker.com/blog/wsop-releases-full-summer-2025-series-schedule/) GGPoker's satellites launched on March 9, 2025, starting from as little as $1, with $1,200 direct buy-in satellites guaranteeing at least 15 $12,000 Main Event packages.[11](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/ggpoker-launches-online-satellites-to-wsop-2025-main-event-aOc5u2Z1UzJW/) [The Road](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-road) to Vegas campaign, in its fifth year, awarded exactly 900 Main Event packages (868 via GGPoker.com and 32 via GGPoker Ontario), plus 101 ClubGG qualifiers and 158 direct buy-ins, a potential 1,159 entries through GGPoker channels.[10](https://pokerfuse.com/news/live-and-online/222302-can-wsop-2025-make-history-again-trends-point-not/) In the United States, 30 gold bracelets were available online on WSOP.com across a combined player pool in Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.[5](https://www.pgt.com/news/wsop-2025-schedule--main-event-dates-full-tournament-lineup) Players who won tickets on WSOP Online could redeem them for live events through the WSOP+ system after an initial in-person ID verification at the Champagne Ballroom in the Paris convention center.[4](https://wsop.gg-global-cdn.com/wsop/pdfs/2025-WSOP-Tournament-Rules.pdf)
**International series.** WSOP Europe ran September 12 to October 8, 2025 at King's Casino Rozvadov, with 15 bracelet events and a €10,350 buy-in Main Event guaranteeing €6 million; its Main Event began October 3. WSOP Paradise returned to the Bahamas December 4–18.[1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) • [9](https://ggpoker.com/blog/wsop-releases-full-summer-2025-series-schedule/)
## What has changed since 2023
Three shifts define the 2025 edition against recent years. First, ownership and operations: 2025 was the first series under GGPoker's ownership, and the WSOP+ app, launched in 2025, allowed online registration (requiring an active Caesars Rewards account and a free WSOP+ account) and virtually eliminated registration lines.[3](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm) • [1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/) • [4](https://wsop.gg-global-cdn.com/wsop/pdfs/2025-WSOP-Tournament-Rules.pdf) Second, the Main Event field trajectory has moved from 10,043 entries in 2023 to a record 10,112 in 2024 to 9,735 in 2025, leaving 2025 the third-largest field ever rather than a new record.[6](https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-attracts-9735-entries-to-become-third-largest-ever-held) Third, aggregate figures kept climbing: Poker.org reported 229,499 total entries in 2024, compared with a record 246,960 in 2025, and prize money awarded reached a record $481,761,879, while the series also saw the first withheld live bracelet since 1976.[8](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/) • [1](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/)
## References
1. [The 56th Annual World Series of Poker Sets New Records, WSOP](https://www.wsop.com/news/the-56th-annual-world-series-of-poker-sets-new-records/)
2. [Michael Mizrachi Wins the 2025 WSOP Main Event Title, WSOP](https://www.wsop.com/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-the-2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-title-and-achieves-poker-immortality/)
3. [The Official 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Schedule, PokerNews](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/02/2025-world-series-of-poker-schedule-47958.htm)
4. [2025 WSOP Tournament Rules (PDF), WSOP](https://wsop.gg-global-cdn.com/wsop/pdfs/2025-WSOP-Tournament-Rules.pdf)
5. [WSOP 2025 Schedule & Main Event Dates – Full Tournament Lineup, PGT](https://www.pgt.com/news/wsop-2025-schedule--main-event-dates-full-tournament-lineup)
6. [2025 WSOP Main Event Attracts 9,735 Entries To Become Third-Largest Ever Held, Card Player](https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/2025-world-series-of-poker-main-event-attracts-9735-entries-to-become-third-largest-ever-held)
7. [Hendon Mob Poker Database — WSOP Main Event World Championship (Event #81)](https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1156011)
8. [Number crunching: Everything you need to know about the 2025 WSOP, Poker.org](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/number-crunching-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2025-wsop-aPVww1o43r1g/)
9. [WSOP Releases Full Summer 2025 Series Schedule, GGPoker](https://ggpoker.com/blog/wsop-releases-full-summer-2025-series-schedule/)
10. [Can WSOP 2025 Make History Again? Trends Point Up — But Not Without Caveats, PokerFuse](https://pokerfuse.com/news/live-and-online/222302-can-wsop-2025-make-history-again-trends-point-not/)
11. [GGPoker launches online satellites to WSOP 2025 Main Event, Poker.org](https://www.poker.org/latest-news/ggpoker-launches-online-satellites-to-wsop-2025-main-event-aOc5u2Z1UzJW/)
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