Stephen Chidwick Crosses $75 Million In Earnings With NAPT Las Vegas Win

Stephen Chidwick is consistently identified as one of the greatest tournament poker players of all time. The numbers are simply overwhelming. The 36-year-old British poker pro’s long list of accomplishments grew yet again with a milestone victory in a $50,000 high roller at PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas.

This $557,930 victory represents Chidwick’s 50th live tournament win in the Card Player record books. It pushed Chidwick over $75 million in career tournament earnings. With $75,193,836 in lifetime cashes to his name, Chidwick is now solidly in second place on poker’s all-time money list, trailing only Bryn Kenney ($79,777,539).

“Yeah, I mean, the all-time money list is definitely something that’s motivated me for a long time,” said to PokerNews reporters, shortly after his $50,000 high roller win. “At the end of the day, I realized it doesn’t mean that much. Most of it is volume and just playing the high stakes for a long time. But I think that that says something in itself. Longevity at the top of the game, at the high stakes, is something that’s been important to me.”

Amidst a two-week schedule chock full of high roller events at Resorts World Las Vegas, this marquee event drew 23 entrants to create a $1,115,730 prize pool. Chidwick defeated Thomas Boivin heads-up to secure the title. Boivin, Chidwick, and Cary Katz, who finished third, each have multiple final tables already at this festival.

High-Stakes Showdown Has Big POY Implications

For his win, Chidwick also earned 306 points in the Card Player Player of the Year race. That’s good enough to push Chidwick up to 13th place overall on the Card Player POY leaderboard, presented by CoinPoker. The two-time POY winner is now well situated for a run at a third victory in the year-long race.

Chidwick’s highlights for 2025 include three seven-figure results, with a win and a runner-up at Triton Jeju and second place in the 2025 World Series of Poker $50,000 pot-limit Omaha event. He has made 16 final tables and won three titles on the year, accruing nearly $11 million in POY earnings and 6,217 points along the way.

Boivin’s second-place finish puts him in 55th place in the POY standings, while Katz climbed to 115th thanks to his podium showing.

A Long Way To Victory

Six players bagged up chips on Wednesday night, with Boivin and Chidwick sitting first and second overnight. Registration remained open through the start of day 2, with a number of re-entries and a handful of high roller standouts taking advantage of the opportunity.

By the time the field reached an unofficial final table, Boivin held a commanding lead with more than three times the chips of Chidwick, who remained in second. Play moved at a slow pace, with deep stacks and patient play. Players slowly fell away over the course of the evening, with five making it to the dinner break.

Boivin busted recent $20,000 high roller winner Nick Petrangelo in fifth place, as his pocket queens held strong against Petrangelo’s K♠J♣. A short time later, Boivin picked off Kenney on the bubble, with his A♦J♠ holding off Kenney’s K♣Q♦.

Boivin threatened to run away with the title, but Chidwick pulled back, and Katz held his own for the better part of three hours. Katz eventually ran into some tough luck to go out third, as his pocket threes got cracked by Chidwick, whose K♣3♣ turned a king. The PokerGO founder secured $223,100 for his efforts, growing his career total to $41.7 million.

Chidwick started to pull away early on in the heads-up match with Boivin. While the Belgian high roller managed one double to survive, his second time at risk during the match was his last. On the river of an A♣Q♣7♦A♥6♥ board, Chidwick put Boivin all in. Boivin eventually called with Q♥9♠, but Chidwick’s A♦10♦ was enough to secure the victory with trips. Boivin increased his lifetime haul to $13.9 million with this runner-up performance.

Final Table Results

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