Two no-limit hold’em events came to a close on July 4, 2025 at the World Series of Poker. While fireworks were going off outside of the Horseshoe Las Vegas, the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship and the $800 Summer Celebration both crowned their champions.
2025 WSOP $600 No-Limit Hold’em PokerNews Deepstack Championship
The first to finish was the $600 buy-in event. The tournament had drawn 5,667 total entries, resulting in a final prize pool of $2,856,168. The bubble burst back on day 1, with the top 851 finishers all cashing for at least double the buy-in.
The event had 50 seats awarded to players based on their performance in the $200, $250, and $400 buy-in daily deepstack events run at the WSOP. The top 10 players from the weekly leaderboard for those events all earned a free seat through the first five weeks of the 2025 WSOP.
Among those who ran deep in the event were bracelet winners Ryan Depaulo (94th), Anthony Denove (77th), and Aditya Sushant (9th).
In the end, it was Nick Ahmadi who took down the bracelet for this event.
Narimaan Ahmadi takes down Event 78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship, earning his first WSOP bracelet and a massive $302,165 payday! #WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/qbRtfDJmF8
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 4, 2025
“I guess it’s just like validation for the years and hours that I put into the game,” Ahmadi told PokerNews live reporters. “It hasn’t been easy, but just pushing through the downswings and the tough times, it all just makes it worth it. It means a lot to me.”
The American player earned $302,165 from the prize pool to go with the hardware. This was by far his largest live tournament score yet.
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Nick Ahmadi | $302,165 | 660 |
| 2 | Ran Kadur | $201,233 | 550 |
| 3 | Nicolas Godard | $149,601 | 440 |
| 4 | Jorge Dominguez | $112,101 | 330 |
| 5 | Daniel Schill | $84,676 | 275 |
| 6 | Jason Li | $64,477 | 220 |
| 7 | Mario Quilez | $49,497 | 165 |
| 8 | Pablo Valdes | $38,310 | 110 |
| 9 | Aditya Sushant | $29,897 | 55 |
2025 WSOP $800 No-Limit Hold’em Summer Celebration
Giuseppe Zarbo defeated 7,078 total entries in the ‘Summer Celebration’, securing $504,180 and his first bracelet as the champion. The Italian player’s top score prior to this win was a third-place finish for $69,843 in a €1,100 side event at the 2023 WPT Prime San Remo festival.
Giuseppe Zarbo 🇮🇹 returns from just 1 bb in heads-up play to win his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) title in Event #80: $800 Summer Celebration along with a payout of $504,180 👏 #wsop2025 pic.twitter.com/nn6TO2Wh45
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 5, 2025
Now, Zarbo is a WSOP champion with a half-million-dollar score on his resume.
The top 361 finishers earned a share of the $3,698,201 prize pool in this event, with several previous bracelet winners among those who survived to the final 100. On that list were recent Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Series $1,600 no-limit hold’em $1.5 million guaranteed event champion Kenneth Odonnell (95th), Arkadiy Tsinis (29th), Rob Wazwaz (16th), and Jonathan Stoeber (4th).
Stoeber took down his first bracelet in an $800 buy-in event earlier this summer, besting 4,481 entries to earn $352,610. This latest deep run added $186,650 to his career haul, which now sits at nearly $950,000.
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Giuseppe Zarbo | $504,180 | 660 |
| 2 | Ryo Kotake | $332,840 | 550 |
| 3 | Wai Lo | $248,320 | 440 |
| 4 | Jonathan Stoeber | $186,650 | 330 |
| 5 | Ciaran Duffy | $141,350 | 275 |
| 6 | Yansong Kou | $107,850 | 220 |
| 7 | Ioannis Panagopoulos | $82,920 | 165 |
| 8 | Marat Shafigullin | $64,250 | 110 |
| 9 | Quinterol Mallette | $50,161 | 55 |
Featured image credit: WSOP official X account.
