Josh Reichard has taken his tournament poker game to a whole new level in recent years, starting with a win in the 2024 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown main event for a career-best score of $839,300.
The 35-year-old pro from Wisconsin has already won three titles so far this year, including earning his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet thanks to a victory in the $2,500 no-limit hold’em event for $555,198.
The longtime mid-major crusher’s latest triumph on the circuit saw him defeat a field of 549 entries in the latest $1,110 no-limit hold’em Major Series of Poker: The Tour Iowa State Poker Championship event. He earned $111,942 and his third MSPT main event title.
“I love the MSPT. I mean this is the tour I play the most, the tour I support the most, I wear all their swag everywhere I go, every tournament I play in, so it would be nice to be recognized as one of the best and to see my name on top of the leaderboards,” Reichard told the MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson.
Reichard now leads the tour’s ‘GOAT Ranking’ leaderboard, and is second in career MSPT earnings. His $1,061,914 total trails only fellow MSPT Hall of Famer Kou Vang, who boasts $1,090,176 in lifetime cashes.
The 17-time WSOP Circuit ring winner secured 840 Card Player Player of the Year points with this victory. With 4,724 total points, he now sits in 11th place in the 2026 POY standings presented by CoinPoker.
Family Feud: Reichard Vs. Reichard
Plenty of notables were among the 62 players who earned a share of the $531,030 prize pool in this $300,000 guaranteed event, including MSPT champions Justin Lynch (44th) and Craig Trost (36th), bracelet winners Rob WazWaz (31st) and John Reading (24th) and Josh’s father Brett Reichard (13th).
In fact, the younger Reichard scored the knockout blow against his dad, with A♣K♣ holding against K♠8♣. The 6♥6♣4♣3♥5♦ runout improved neither player, and the man known to many as ‘Pops’ at MSPT stops settled for $6,397.
The younger Reichard held the chip lead when the final table began. He added another three eliminations on his way to heads-up, taking a sizable lead into the final showdown against Jake Wilding. The final hand pitted Reichard’s A♠9♠ against Wilding’s 9♥9♣. The board ran out J♣10♥6♠4♠K♠ to give Reichard running spades for the nut flush and the title. Wilding earned $68,763 as the runner-up.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Joshua Reichard | $111,942 | 840 |
| 2 | Jake Wilding | $68,763 | 700 |
| 3 | Ricky Landais | $50,108 | 560 |
| 4 | Jason Crews | $37,314 | 420 |
| 5 | Tony Olguin | $28,412 | 350 |
| 6 | Max Havlish | $21,322 | 280 |
| 7 | Chris Wickman | $16,525 | 210 |
| 8 | Stan Webb | $12,793 | 140 |
| 9 | Matthew Schurter | $10,128 | 70 |
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