It’s official! Shaun Deeb ( @shaundeeb ) has won the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year! 🏆
👉During the 2025 series he cashed in eighteen live bracelet events, six online bracelet events, reached five final tables, and won his seventh career WSOP bracelet in the $100,000 Pot Limit… pic.twitter.com/t4PMYyVcsi
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 19, 2025
The World Series of Poker has officially announced Shaun Deeb as the winner of the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year race, taking to social media over the weekend to share the news. This is the second POY triumph for Deeb, joining Daniel Negreanu (2004,2013) as the only multi-time winner of the award.
Deeb has been a perennial contender since securing his first win in 2018. In the intervening years, he only failed to finish inside the top ten in the final standings once (2024), and managed two runner-up showings (2019, 2023), a fourth-place finish (2022), and a sixth-place run (2021).
“We did it boys and girls great battle between Martin and Benny they battled to the last tourney,” said Deeb on X after the final day of the series concluded.
He also seemed to weigh in on a burgeoning online debate about his victory. Some have argued that Benny Glaser, who won three bracelets this summer, or Poker Players Championship and main event winner Michael Mizrachi, should have earned the POY award given their impressive performances. Deeb shared a post by DBZMafia on X that said, “This is ridiculous. Tell the guy that won the Heisman Trophy he needs to give it to the guy that won the national
championship. [Deeb] earned POY, [Mizrachi ]won the Main, his fourth PPC, and went straight into HoF. BOTH guys earned what they got.”
2025 WSOP POY Top Ten
| Rank | Player | WSOP POY Points |
| 1 | Shaun Deeb | 4,194.10 |
| 2 | Benny Glaser | 4,153.66 |
| 3 | Michael Mizrachi | 3,804.96 |
| 4 | Martin Kabrhel | 3,639.41 |
| 5 | Scott Bohlman | 3,328.86 |
| 6 | Brian Rast | 3,091.97 |
| 7 | Joao Vieira | 3,025.20 |
| 8 | Daniel Negreanu | 2,972.05 |
| 9 | Klemens Roiter | 2,813.51 |
| 10 | Zdenek Zizka | 2,807.76 |
Deeb’s POY-Winning 2025 Run
His grind through both live and online poker tournaments this year was nothing short of relentless. This year, the 39-year-old poker pro cashed in 24 bracelet events between live and online play, accumulating over $4 million in tournament earnings across those two-dozen in-the-money finishes. He made five final tables along the way, including one win, three runner-up finishes, and one third-place showing.
The lone victory came in an absolutely massive event: the first $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha tournament ever held at the WSOP in Las Vegas. He bested a field of 121 entries to earn the single largest payout in PLO tournament history: $2,957,229. The win also came with his seventh career gold bracelet, making him just the 16th player in WSOP history to have earned as many.
Deeb’s second-largest payday of the summer was the $348,304 he earned for a podium showing in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship. Just two days after that close call, he finished second in the $1,500 razz. Less than a week later, he got second online in a $600 no-limit hold’em Monster Stack. His final runner-up showing came a few days into the main event. He navigated a field of 1,873 entries in a $1,000 NLH, losing heads-up to Zdenek Zizka in the end.
A Look At Deeb’s 2025 WSOP Cashes
| Event | Place | Prize |
| Event #3: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed | 94th | $10,000 |
| Event #5: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha | 55th | $12,903 |
| Online Event #2: $555 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty | 161st | $1,008 |
| Event #14: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller | 17th | $60,520 |
| Online Event #4: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em PKO | 138th | $866 |
| Event #19: $500 No-Limit Hold’em COLOSSUS | 1,036th | $1,230 |
| Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo | 31st | $8,101 |
| Online Event #5: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack | 166th | $1,265 |
| Event #34: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty | 86th | $3,036 |
| Event #36: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 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: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship | 19th | $20,999 |
| Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller | 26th | $100,000 |
| Online Event #12: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Monsterstack | 2nd | $90,776 |
| Event #63: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw | 56th | $3,154 |
| Event #65: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Tag Team | 69th | $1,508 |
| Online Event #17: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack | 205th | $1,351 |
| Event #76: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet | 29th | $7,237 |
| Event #79: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller | 1st | $2,957,229 |
| Event #84: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em | 2nd | $154,906 |
| Event #90: $777 Lucky 7’s | 270th | $2,078 |
| Event #88: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller | 19th | $123,068 |
| Online Event #28: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty | 92nd | $1,411 |
