Chad Eveslage Wins WSOP $25k H.O.R.S.E. For His Fourth Bracelet

Chad Eveslage. Credit: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.

Chad Eveslage has had plenty of success in the no-limit hold’em streets, with a triumph in the 2022 World Series of Poker $25,000 eight-max and two World Poker Tour main event titles. In 2025, though, his biggest wins have come in the mixed-games streets. Eveslage took down the first-ever Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games $100,000 high roller back in March for $1.2 million. Most recently, he closed out this year’s WSOP by taking down the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. high roller, besting a field of 150 entries to secure his fourth career bracelet and the top prize of $883,841.

Eveslage is hardly new to the mixed-game scene. While his first bracelet came in the previously mentioned NLH high roller, his second and third were both secured in dealers choice events: he won both the $1,500 and $10,000 buy-in versions of that format in 2023.

The 33-year-old poker pro now has more than $11.5 million in recorded tournament earnings to his name, with nearly $4.6 million of that coming from his 80 cashes and 14 final tables in gold bracelet events at the series. He cashed eight times this year, with two final-table showings. In addition to this win, he had placed third in the $10,000 no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw lowball event five weeks earlier for $231,321.

Eveslage earned 1,008 Card Player Player of the Year points and 530 PokerGO Tour points with this victory. He now sits within reach of the top 100 in the POY race presented by Coin Poker, and has claimed the 15th-place spot in the PGT standings.

Outlasting Legends

The strong turnout for this high-stakes affair built a prize pool of $3,525,000, which was split amongst the top 23 finishers. Of the nearly two dozen players that cashed, only four didn’t have at least one bracelet to their name already.

Among the many multi-time WSOP champions to run deep were six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier (21st), tow-time bracelet winner Elior Sion (17th), five-time bracelet winners Yuri Dzivielevski (15th) and John Monnette (14th), three-time bracelet winner Nick Guagenti (12th), and four-time bracelet winner Ben Yu (9th).

2024 WSOP $100,000 high roller champion Chris Hunichen (8th – $90,110) was the last player to cash for less than six figures. Seven-time bracelet winner John Hennigan sent him packing during a round of stud, but soon joined him on the rail when his three queens were unable to overcome the low straight of Ryan Miller during stud eight-or-better. Hennigan earned $114,350 as the seventh-place finisher.

11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey was the next to fall, getting all-in with A-4 suited in limit hold’em and losing to the K-Q of seven-time bracelet winner Brian Rast, who wound up with queens and nines. Ivey settled for $149,643.

Final Five 

Rast was also on the winning side in the next knockout hand, scooping with one pair of kings in stud eight-or-better when Ryan Miller’s queens and low draw bricked out. Miller, a two-time bracelet winner, earned $201,761 for his fifth-place showing.

Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero bowed out in fourth place ($280,030), getting his last chips in with a set of jacks on the flop in Omaha eight-or-better. He was leading against the top pair of queens of fellow bracelet winner Toby Lewis, but the river filled a gutshot for the UK poker pro to end Barbero’s run. The Argentinian now boasts career earnings of nearly $26 million after this latest strong showing at the series. This was his ninth final-table finish of 2025. With 4,782 total points, he now sits in 10th place in the POY rankings.

Lewis held the chip lead going into three-handed play, but was ultimately the next to be eliminated. He got his last chips in ahead with middle pair leading the ace high and two overcards of Eveslage in limit hold’em. The turn gave Eveslage a better pair, and the river improved him to aces up. Lewis earned $399,763 as the third-place finisher. The 2023 WSOP main event seventh-place finisher is approaching $10.9 million in lifetime cashes.

With that, Eveslage took 14,400,000 million into heads-up play with Rast, who held 8,100,000. Eveslage was able to widen the gap from there, and then landed the final blow during a hand of stud. Rast’s last chips went in on fifth street with a pair of fives facing a pair of jacks for Eveslage. Neither player improved on sixth or seventh street and Rast was knocked out as the runner-up. The Hall of Famer and reigning $10,000 razz championship winner was awarded $586,539 for his efforts, growing his overall total to $28.3 million.

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