Allan Le’s First Razz Event Turns Into Second WSOP Bracelet

There are 100 different live World Series of Poker bracelet events on the schedule for 2025. On any given day, there are two or three to choose from, and while some have unlimited re-entry, others have strict limits.

On Friday, Allan Le entered the $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event, the early event. It did not go well for him, and Le looked around at his other options. He landed on the other non-hold’em event of the day, the $1,500 razz.

“I only entered it because I busted out of the $1,000 PLO for three bullets,” Le told Card Player. “And that’s the maximum you could register for.”

That twist of fate put Le on a three-day path that would lead him to his second career WSOP bracelet. Le outlasted a field of 472 entries in the event to earn $126,363 and 720 Card Player Player of the Year points. More impressively, he did so by defeating six-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb heads-up.

Perhaps most incredibly, Le did so having never played a straight-up razz tournament in his life.

“It’s my first time playing, entering a razz tournament,” said Le. “I have played it, only through these mixed games tournaments like the dealers choice, the eight game, and the nine game. [And then to win] against one of the best, Shaun Deeb, it was nice to walk away with the victory.”

Sticking To The Schedule

While a number of recent events have stretched on to unscheduled fourth days, the $1,500 Razz event stuck right to the schedule. The unofficial final table of nine returned on Sunday, and with Le’s elimination of Jackson Spencer, it was official.

Le already had the chip lead to start day 3 of this tournament, but Deeb, who was in third, commanded significant attention. The six-time WSOP winner was in position to become the third to hit seven career WSOP bracelets already in 2025. Earlier in this series, Benny Glaser won twice to reach seven, and just a few days ago Nick Schulman won his seventh as well.

2022 WSOP bracelet winner and mixed game specialist Maxx Coleman was also in the mix.

Coleman bounced MengQi Chen out in eighth in a multi-way pot. Deeb picked off a few pots with seven lows against Le, and grabbed enough chips to take over the chip lead for a significant stretch.

Le gained ground when he eliminated Gabriel Ramos in seventh. Despite Le making trip sevens and a king-low for his hand, Ramos managed to make an unlikely full house, jacks-full-of-aces, officially a pair of aces for low.

Jason Lipiner went out in sixth, followed shortly thereafter by Jeanne David in fifth.

Big Swings

Clint Wolcyn took his moment in the chip lead during four-handed play, taking several big chunks out of Coleman’s stack before Deeb finished the job.

All three stacks swung wildly at this point, and after his brief flirtation with the lead, Wolcyn quickly trended downward to the shortest stack. Le took the last of Wolcyn’s chips. Wolcyn was behind when the chips went in on fourth street, showing 6-3 / J-8 to Le’s 9-2 / 10-7, and it got worse when Wolcyn paired his jack. Le made a 10-9 low, and then improved again to a 9-7 low with a 3 on sixth street. When Wolcyn drew a 9 on sixth street, it was officially over for him.

We are now heads up in Event #43: $1,500 Razz! Allan Le and Shaun Deeb are battling for the $126,363 top prize — and for Deeb, a shot at joining poker’s elite as the 14th player to win 7 or more WSOP bracelets.#WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/YNfPodYnNP

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Deeb started heads-up play with a small lead, and extended it to almost 3-to-1 in short order. But like Wolcyn before him, the downswing would be violent and Deeb would not recover.

In a matter of less than 30 minutes, Le had steamrolled his way to a 3-to-1 lead of his own. Deeb lost most of his remaining chips with a board that showed 5-7-7-7. The action was checked on seventh street and when Le turned over a queen-nine low, thanks to a two-pair of his own, Deeb flashed a 5 for a full house and the massive pot was pushed to Le.

On the final hand, Le made a nine-low on fifth street and an unbeatable seven-six on sixth street to secure the title.

Back In The Winner’s Circle, Nine Years Later

Over the last decade Le’s enjoyed several different tournament successes, including a victory in a $5,300 pot-limit Omaha PokerGO Tour event in 2024. Le’s first career WSOP bracelet win came in 2016, in a mixed Omaha eight-or-better event, but he’s played a lot of poker since then.

“My first bracelet was so long ago I forgot who was at the final table,” said Le.

Le’s first WSOP victory was well-earned. On the way to that 2016 victory, Le outlasted the late Gavin Smith, two-time WSOP bracelet winner Yuval Bronshtein, and three-time WSOP bracelet winner and $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. champion David Bach.

Final Table Results

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