Dennis Weiss Banks $2.3M Win In WSOP $25,000 PLO High Roller

Dennis Weiss recorded the 15th significant tournament cash of his poker career on Friday afternoon at the 2025 World Series of Poker. For the German-born Weiss, all but one of those results have come in some variety of pot-limit Omaha, and number 15 brought in the motherlode.

Weiss won the $25,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller, outlasting a mind-blowing 489-entry field for $2,292,155. In addition to his second career WSOP gold bracelet, and one of the most lucrative payouts of the summer from an overall prize pool of $11,491,500, Weiss also banked a ridiculous 2,520 Card Player Player of the Year points. With just his second qualifying result in this 2025 POY race, presented by Coin Poker, Weiss sits just outside the top 30.

While this event took four days in total, Weiss truly shone over the two days of play at this final table. Weiss’ ascendance began in earnest at the unofficial final table of nine, when he eliminated Ben Lamb in ninth place. Weiss’ pocket pair of aces warded off Lamb’s double-suited pocket kings, and Weiss started the final table with a significant lead.

Big Moves for Weiss And Duek

Michael Duek was also making moves in the early stages of this final table. The third-place finisher in the 2022 WSOP main event picked off Lautaro Guerra in eighth place, and remained steady in the middle of the chip counts.

Weiss picked up yet another elimination at the expense of Najeem Ajez. Ajez was a fair bit ahead with K♠ J♥ 10♥ 8♠ against Weiss’ A♣ K♣ 9♣ 8♦ on a J♦ 7♠ 5♣ flop. But the best of Weiss’ seven outs came in on the 6♣ turn, giving him a straight. There was no river rebuttal for Ajez, who went out in seventh.

Duek made his biggest move of the day at the expense of 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey. On a flop of A♥ 10♥ 9♠, Duek shoved with 10♦ 9♣ 8♠ 7♣ and Ivey called with K♠ Q♦ J♥ 8♥ for a flush draw and massive wrap straight draw. Despite Duek having two-pair and a straight draw of his own, Ivey was a 62.68 percent favorite, according to the Card Player Omaha Odds calculator. That was all rendered moot when Duek nailed the 10 on the turn, giving him an unbeatable full house.

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Then, on the final hand of day 3, Duek finished the job against Ivey. Ivey was one of three limpers, and when Duek made a significant raise from the big blind, Ivey was the only caller.

The Q♥ 9♣ 4♥ flop prompted Duek to put Ivey all in, and Ivey snap-called, showing K♥ K♣ 4♦ 4♠ for a set of fours. Duek’s A♣ A♥ 10♥ 2♠ had been overtaken, but Duek still had two aces and seven hearts to win. The turn was the inconsequential 10♣ , but the river J♥ spelled the end of Ivey’s hopes for capturing bracelet number 12 in this event.

Five-Way Finale

In the early stages of five-handed play on Friday, Duek pulled virtually even with Weiss while the other three players fought on far shorter stacks. Weiss re-established his lead by toppling British businessman and high roller regular Talal Shakerchi. For Shakerchi, who has been a big winner in Triton Poker Series events, this was the closest he had been to a bracelet since a runner-up finish in the 2023 WSOP Poker Players Championship.

Dennis Weiss smashes the river to eliminate Talal Shakerchi in 5th place from the @WSOP $25,000 PLO High Roller.

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That hope would run dry in a tough spot against Weiss. On a board of 10♣ 10♠ 7♠ 6♣, Shakerchi was significantly ahead with A♣ Q♥ 10♥ 8♠ to Weiss’ Q♦ 8♣ 7♣ 2♣. Weiss had gone from just a 3.78 percent chance to win on the flop, to 15 percent on the turn. The J♣ river delivered on that chance, giving Weiss a flush and Shakerchi a bad-beat story to go with his $539,817 fifth-place prize.

Those chips would soon disappear, though. Duek slipped into the lead when Evan Krentzman doubled through Weiss. That lead exploded when Duek took all of those newfound chips from Krentzman.

Duek was the aggressor on every street of an A♥ 6♠ 2♣ 9♦ 7♥ board, and he put Krentzman all in on the river. Holding A♦ Q♥ 10♦ 9♠ for top two-pair, Krentzman went into the tank and eventually called. But Duek had the best of it with 10♥ 8♠ 6♥ 6♦, going from a flopped set of sixes to a rivered nut straight.

With Krentzman out in fourth, Duek had the inside track to the bracelet. But a double from Hakim and an all-in check-raise from Weiss brought Duek back to earth. Hakim found a second double through Duek, but remained the distant short stack for much of an extended stretch of three-handed play.

Weiss Closes Strong

The lead returned to Weiss when he claimed the entirety of Hakim’s stack. Holding A♥ A♦ 8♦ 8♠ to Hakim’s A♣ K♣ 10♥ 7♣, the A♠ 6♣ 3♥ flop couldn’t have hit Weiss harder. The 9♥ gave Hakim a glimmer of hope with a gutshot straight draw, but the 3♠ put an end to that.

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Weiss started heads-up play with a big lead, and though Duek held steady early, Weiss chipped away. By the final hand, Duek had less than 10 big blinds in his stack. On a K♠ 10♣ 9 flop, Weiss put Duek all in. Weiss had A♦ K♦ 6♠ 5♣ and his pair of kings was ahead of Duek’s Q♥ 10♥ 4♦ 3♣. The 4♣ turn gave Duek two-pair, but the 9♣ river counterfeited him, making Weiss’ two-pair, kings and nines, best.

A Breakout Performance

Though he’s only had 15 tournament results of note, Weiss has packed a lot into those cashes. In October 2024, Weiss won a €5,000 pot-Limit Omaha event at WSOP Europe for $177,486. Earlier this summer, Weiss made his second career WSOP final table in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship, finishing eighth.

Weiss earned 800 PokerGO Tour points for his latest victory, and his second qualifying PGT result of 2025 puts him in 13th place on the season-long PGT leaderboard. Duek’s second-place finish in this event pushes him up to 10th in those same standings.

Final Table Results

Photo credit: WSOP / Rachel Kay Winter.