The 2025 World Series of Poker Online officially wrapped up alongside the finish of the live and in-person series midway through July. As with the live WSOP, this year’s online series also awarded one fewer bracelet than intended, with one of the 30 planned events being cancelled due to technical issues.
Card Player covered events 1-15 in previous issues. Below is a look at the winners from the back half of the slate, with several big names adding to their bracelet collections along the way.
Full real-name results are not yet available for the $5,300 no-limit hold’em six-max event, but it reportedly drew 264 entries, with Justin Vaysman coming out on top in the end. He earned $257,400 and his second gold bracelet for the win.
Like Vaysman, UK poker pro Harry Lodge also captured bracelet no. 2, beating out 2,501 in the $500 no-limit hold’em Deepstack to seize the hardware and $138,544. Both Vaysman and Lodge have won all of their bracelets online.
In keeping with the developing trend, the next winner also added to a growing bracelet collection cultivated entirely (to this point) of virtual victories. Joshua Remitio, who first put his name on the map with a final-table showing in the 2021 WSOP main event, had won two online bracelets in the time since that deep run.
He added another two this summer, starting with a win in the $2,500 no-limit hold’em event. He beat out 547 entries to earn $243,881 with that triumph. Then, just a fortnight after that win, he took down the $3,200 six-max event for $217,140 and his fourth career bracelet. The 31-year-old Arizona resident has over $3.4 million in recorded tournament earnings, including $2.4 million for his fourth-place showing in the big dance.
The $777 Lucky 7s attracted 1,386 entries. Manas Gandhi defeated two-time bracelet winner and high-stakes cash game stream regular Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek heads-up for the win. Gandhi earned $174,636 for his bracelet debut.
Michael Banducci came out on top in the $555 pot-limit Omaha mystery bounty six-max event, besting a field of 1,691 entries to earn his second bracelet and $77,653 from the main prize pool. This victory came roughly 17 years after Banducci’s first win at the series. He took down the $5,000 no-limit hold’em with rebuys event in 2008 for the hardware and $636,736. He now has more than $2.2 million in lifetime earnings. Michael Lavin, who made headlines earlier this summer for earning a $1 million bonus alongside his second bracelet, was the runner-up.
Australia’s Jordan Westmorland beat out 1,307 entries in the $600 deepstack to secure his first bracelet and $97,469 in prize money. Westmorland is approaching $2 million in prize money after this title run.
Salvatore Dicarlo triumphed in the $1,000 mystery bounty event, earning his first gold bracelet and the top payout of $120,020 from the main prize pool. This win came a dozen years after he finished third in a $1,500 event at the series in Las Vegas for a career-best score of $184,914. Dicarlo’s career haul now sits at more than $1.1 million.
A total of 3,141 entries were made in the WSOPO’s version of The Colossus. Travis Stover turned a $400 buy-in into a bracelet and $147,452. That dwarfed Michigan resident’s previous top score of $24,592 earned for a 16th-place showing on the MSPT. Bracelet winners Malcolm Trayner (9th), Harry Lodge (5th) and Kathy Liebert (3rd) joined Stover at the final table. With more than $7.2 million in career cashes, Liebert remains the third-ranked player on the Women’s all-time money list. She trails only Kristen Foxen ($12.4 million) and Vanessa Selbst ($10.9 million).
The $1,000 shorthanded event drew 825 entries, with several stars of the game making the final table. In the end, 2020 WSOP Online main event champion Stoyan Madanzhiev emerged victorious with his second gold bracelet and the top prize of $152,514. The Bulgarian’s first win saw him best 5,802 entries in the $5,000 main event held during the COVID shutdown. He walked away with more than $3.9 million as the champion.
While this event had a markedly smaller prize pool, the competition was arguably even tougher down the stretch. Three-time bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva (5th), WPT champion Aram Oganyan (4th), and seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (3rd) all ran deep.
Aditya Agarwal took home his second bracelet in as many years as the champion of the $1,000 no-limit hold’em event. In 2024 he won a live tournament at the same price point for $189,661 after more than 15 years of participation at the series. The poker pro from Kolkata, India only had to wait just over a year before he found his way to the winner’s circle again. This time around, Agarwal topped 1,013 entries, overcoming Card Player columnist and recent bracelet winner Jonathan Little (2nd – $118,521) heads-up for the win. Four-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel finished third for $91,170.
Little didn’t have to wait long for a second shot at his second bracelet. The two-time WPT champion made the final table of the $5,300 no-limit event, which played out a live final table at the series. Little made it down to heads-up, but was ultimately defeated by Michael Weiss. This was the first bracelet for the German player, who earned $237,938 as the champion.
Little took home $182,125 as the runner-up, his largest score of the summer. He now boasts recorded earnings in excess of $9.7 million after his 1-2-2 showing in online events this summer. Little’s win in a WSOPO $1,000 freezeout was actually the smallest of his three notable cashes during the festival, clocking in at $90,663.
The game switched over to pot-limit Omaha for the next event, with six-handed tables throughout the tournament. A total of 882 entries were made at $1,000 a piece, resulting in a prize pool of $793,800. Aaron Pacheco dragged the last pot in the end, earning $146,853 and his first bracelet.
The final mystery bounty tournament of the festival cost just $400 to enter. A total of 2,761 entries were made when all was said and done, with Aaron Overton closing out the victory. This was the first bracelet for Overton, who also made a deep run in this year’s main event (64th – $135,000). His top score remains the $259,012 he secured with a fourth-place finish in the 2014 WPT Borgata Poker Open main event.
The final tournament was dubbed the Summer Saver. A total of 1,763 entries were made at $500 a piece, with Andrew Rosen outlasting all others to claim the bracelet and the top prize of $103,454. The New York resident already had two online circuit gold rings to his name.
While the summer bracelet bonanza is now officially over, players won’t have to wait too long for another shot at the coveted gold jewelry. A standalone WSOP Online festival has been held in the fall in recent years, and the WSOP Europe (Sept. 17- Oct. 8) and WSOP Paradise (Dec. 4-18) have already been announced.
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