The 2025 World Series of Poker Online saw 33 events on the schedule, with the $5,000 WSOP Online main event wrapping up with 5,961 entrants. The huge turnout saw the $25 million guarantee easily surpassed, with $28,314,750 paid out in the end. The international final table kicked off with more than 5,000 people watching to see Benjamin ‘bencb789’ Rolle win his first gold bracelet and the top prize of $3,900,707.
The German online tournament specialist entered the final table with the chip lead; he traded it around the table, but was always in contention. The CoinPoker ambassador and founder of the Raise Your Edge training site took a key heads-up pot holding ace king that all but locked up the biggest win of his career.
Hard work pays off, and this time it paid big.
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— CoinPoker (@CoinPoker_OFF) September 24, 2025
This was the second straight year that Rolle made the final table of this event. He finished in eighth place for $651,921 in 2024 as the shortest stack coming into the final table. This year, he was the chip leader with Anatoly Zlotnikov and Daniel Smiljkovic on his heels when the final day began.
Fiery Action Out of the Gate
Santiago Plante won a sizable pot early with pocket aces against the pocket sixes of Smiljkovic to move from fourth to third in chips.
The first elimination came about 40 minutes into play when Zlotnikov opened for a min-raise with A♥10♦ and Zengxiang Chen shoved from the big blind holding A♦J♠. The board ran Q♠Q♦7♣4♦10♣ and Zlotnikov earned the knockout on the river.
Barely an orbit later, Felix Rabas open min-raised with A♣A♠ and Amit Ben Yacov moved his short stack all in holding A♥J♦. Rabas made the easy call, the board came out 10♥7♠4♣J♥A♦ and Rabas’ set pushed him within two big blinds of Rolle (74 million), to battle for Zlotnikov’s chip lead of 91 million.
When blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, Rolle was on the button with A♦K♠ and min-raised. Andres Christoforou shoved his stack in the small blind with pocket sevens, Rolle called, and he flopped Broadway to chip up to 132 million – with Zlotnikov in a distant second with 60 million.
Then, Plante jammed from the small blind with a sub-ten big blind stack holding K♠7♣. Rolle snapped him off from the big holding A♥10♦, he paired his ten on the flop, and eliminated Plante in sixth place.
Rolle’s chip stack increased to 170 million, Rabas held 64 million, Zlotnikov with 44 million, Marco Perez with 35 million and Smiljkovic was the short stack with 25 million with the big blind sitting at 3 million.
Short-Handed Play
With five players remaining Rabas shoved from the small blind with Perez in the big holding just six bigs. He called off with K♣7♣, Rabas showed Q♥9♣, and a nine was in the window. Perez blanked out and four players remained with Rolle and Rabas collectively holding 275 million of the 366 in play.
Two hands later, Zlotnikov shoved his small blind with K♠Q♦ and Smijkov called holding pocket sixes. The flop paired Zlotknikov’s queen, Smijkov was drawing to two sixes and whiffed.
Three-handed play saw the chip lead change hands between players with blinds at 2,000,000/4,000,000. Rabas limped from the small blind with A♣3♣, Zlotnikov three-bet, and Rabas shoved. Zlotnikov called with A♦A♥, the board ran jack-high, and they were ready for heads-up play.
Zltonikov led 185 million to Rolle’s 143 million to start. Rolle took the decisive lead in heads-up play, holding A♦K♥ to Zlotnikov K♣J♠ in a preflop showdown. They both paired their king on the flop, but Rolle’s ace kicker played to see him chip up to 268 million.
A couple of hands later, Zlotnikov shoved from the small blind with A♠9♥, Rolle called with K♠Q♠, and Zlotnikov was at-risk. The board ran K♥5♠2♥J♠K♦ to see Rolle secure the pot and the title.
The Final Moment of winning $3.900.000
Just speechless. pic.twitter.com/42bxrALlI8
— bencb (@bencb789) September 23, 2025
Still to Come
Jeff Gross and Phil Hellmuth provided live commentary on the official GGPoker YouTube channel. Gross and Daniel Negreanu return next Tuesday to call the final table of the $10 million guaranteed $10,300 GGMillion$ high roller.
Next up on the schedule is the $25,000 super high roller championship, a $2,100 six-max bounty event, and a $5,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller.
WSOP Online Main Event Final Table Payouts
| Place | Player | Payout |
| 1 | Benjamin Rolle | $3,900,707 |
| 2 | Anatoly Zlotnikov | $3,006,763 |
| 3 | Felix Rabas | $2,318,640 |
| 4 | Daniel Smiljkovic | $1,788,027 |
| 5 | Marco Perez | $1,378,866 |
| 6 | Santiago Plante | $1,063,360 |
| 7 | Andreas Christoforou | $820,073 |
| 8 | Amit Ben Yacov | $632,473 |
| 9 | Zengxiang Chen | $487,813 |
