There have now been 30 total bracelets awarded live and in-person at the 2025 World Series of Poker. Nearly $97.6 million in total praise money has been paid out across the completed tournaments, which have collectively drawn more than 72,000 entries to Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas. The two latest bracelet events to wrap up this week were a pair of no-limit hold’em tournaments. Let’s take a look at the results.
2025 WSOP Event 29 – $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Mark Darner
The first of this pair of NLH tournaments cost $2,500 to play, with 1,493 total entries made by the time registration closed. The top 224 finishers all earned a share of the $3,321,925 prize pool, with the largest chunk going to eventual champion Mark Darner. The Winter Park, Colorado resident was awarded $496,826 and his first gold bracelet for the win.
This was a new high score for Darner, topping the $132,169 he earned as the fourth-place finisher in the 2014 $3,000 six-max event. He now has more than $1.8 million in recorded scores to his name.
Darner had plenty of stiff competition to contend with down the stretch, including Hall of Famer John Juanda (47th), Faraz Jaka (46th), Michael Liang (40th), Rainer Kempe (21st), Aram Oganyan (10th), Ian O’Hara (9th), and Dylan Linde (4th).
Linde, a two-time bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion, earned $173,435 for his fourth-place showing. He is now approaching $11.9 million in lifetime scores.
| Place | Player | Prize Money | POY Points |
| 1 | Mark Darner | $496,826 | 1440 |
| 2 | David McGowan | $331,163 | 1200 |
| 3 | Christopher Puetz | $238,204 | 960 |
| 4 | Dylan Linde | $173,435 | 720 |
| 5 | Jon Vallinas | $127,841 | 600 |
| 6 | Yaroslav Ohulchanskyi | $95,415 | 480 |
| 7 | Alexander Greenblatt | $72,119 | 360 |
| 8 | Dragos Trofimov | $55,212 | 240 |
| 9 | Ian O’Hara | $42,819 | 120 |
2025 WSOP Event 31 – $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Jonathan Stoeber
Jonathan Stoeber emerged victorious from the field of 4,481 entries that turned out for the $800 no-limit hold’em Deepstack event, securing $352,610 and his first bracelet as the champion.
This breakthrough came nearly a year after Stoeber’s closest call in a bracelet event, which saw him place sixth in the 2024 WSOP Online $777 event for $35,574.
With this win, Stoeber’s recorded career earnings grew to more than $700,000.
The top 676 finishers collected a piece of the $3,136,700 prize pool, with notables like David ‘ODB’ Baker (50th), Stephen Song (45th), Patrick Leonard (43rd), Billy Kopp (29th), Nicholas Seward (6th), and Shawn Buchanan (4th) running deep.
Matthew Morin knocked out Shawn Buchanan in fourth place. The bracelet winner and WPT champ earned $128,100 for his strong showing. Morin then bowed out in third, setting up a clash between Stoeber and eventual runner-up Daniel Cosner. The final hand saw Stoeber’s pocket sixes hold against the A-4 suited of Cosner, who earned $234,908 for his second-place finish.
| Place | Player | Prize Money | POY Points |
| 1 | Jonathan Stoeber | $352,610 | 660 |
| 2 | Daniel Cosner | $234,908 | 550 |
| 3 | Matthew Morin | $172,724 | 440 |
| 4 | Shawn Buchanan | $128,100 | 330 |
| 5 | Geoffrey Coater | $95,834 | 275 |
| 6 | Nicholas Seward | $72,327 | 220 |
| 7 | Ryan Hohner | $55,071 | 165 |
| 8 | Peter Fox | $42,308 | 110 |
| 9 | Mikhail Sniatovskii | $32,796 | 55 |
Photo credits: WSOP / Regina Cortina, Trevor Scott.
