Samuel Rosborough Scores First Bracelet In $1,500 WSOP Freezeout

Samuel Rosborough took his tournament poker game to a whole new level at the 2025 World Series of Poker. The Spring, Texas resident overcame a field of more than 2,300 players who turned out to the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas for the $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em freezeout. For the he earned his first WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $410,426.

Prior to this triumph, Rosborough’s best finish was a fourth-place showing in an $800 event at the 2024 Aria Poker Classic for $31,974. Now he’s approaching half of a million dollars in career earnings, with the most coveted trophy in poker kickstarting his collection.

This was Rosborough’s second deep run of the series, having also finished 10th in the $1,500 super turbo bounty event that was won by John Racener. This win came with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year points, enough to move him inside the top 300 in the POY standings presented by Coin Poker.

This event had an exact turnout of 2,320 entries, making for a prize pool worth nearly $3.1 million. The top 349 finishers made the money, with plenty of big names among those that ran deep. 2006 WSOP main event champion Jamie Gold (30th), Felipe Ramos (17th), 2020 WSOP Online main event champion Stoyan Madanzhiev (14th), bracelet winner Jeremy Saderne (13th), bracelet winner Julio Belluscio (9th), and two-time bracelet winner Bryan Piccioli (6th) all made it down to the final handful of tables.

Michael Rossitto busted Eric Berman (5th – $110,463) late on day 3, holding with A-10 against A-7 to narrow the field to four. Rossitto then continued his surge, winning a battle of the blinds with Q-8 against the K-4 suited of short stack Tanupat Punjarojanakul (4th – $147,952). Despite scoring those two knockouts, Rossitto was still the shortest of the final three when play was halted for the day.

Podium Finishers Square Off On Day 4

2024 WSOP $5,000 champions reunion bounty eight-max winner Asher Conniff was out in front when day 4 began, with Rosborough and Rossitto not far behind. Rosborough won a hefty pot early to jump ahead, then got involved in a massive preflop clash against Rossitto. The action began with a small-blind 3x raise to 1,800,000 from Rossitto, who held A♥K♥. Rosborough three-bet jammed with 2♠2♣ and Rossitto quickly made the call. The board connected with neither player and Rosborough’s pocket pair earned him the knockout.

Rossitto earned $200,173 as the third-place finisher. This came just a couple of weeks after he finished as the runner-up to Michael Lavin in the $1,500 shootout. Rossitto now has more than $4.5 million in career cashes after this latest strong showing.

Event #52: $1,500 NLH Freezeout is heads up between one-time bracelet winner, Asher Conniff (@misterashmoney) and Samuel Rosborough.

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Heads-up play began with Rosborough holding 40,500,000 to Conniff’s 17,500,000. The gap was narrowed in the early going, and Conniff was able to pull ahead before the clashed in the decisive hand of the match. It began with a Conniff raise to 1,500,000 on the button with 8♠8♦. Rosborough three-bet to 4,500,000 with K♠K♥. Conniff four-bet shoved as the covering stack and Rosborough snap-called all-in. The board came down Q♥Q♦5♣J♣A♠ and the larger pair held to see Rosborough take a gigantic lead.

Conniff managed to double up twice during the next few hands, but he was still quite short. He then found another double, drawing out with Q-9 against Rosborough’s K-9 thanks to a queen on the river.

The last hand of the tournament saw Rosborough open shove from the button with 8♦6♠. Conniff called with A♥Q♥ and held through the first four of J♦7♦2♥K♦, but the 6♦ gave Rosborough a flush and the win. Conniff settled for $273,545 as the runner-up, falling just short of his second bracelet. The World Poker Tour champion and 2022 WSOP main event 10th-place finisher now has nearly $5 million in career earnings.

Final Table Results

Winner photo credit: WSOP / Rachel Kay Winter.