Shaun Deeb took down the $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event at the 2025 World Series of Poker, overcoming a stacked final table to earn a record-setting top prize of $2,957,229. In addition to the massive top prize, Deeb also scored his seventh career WSOP gold bracelet with the win.
As if that wasn’t enough, the 39-year-old poker pro from New York also moved into first place in the WSOP Player of the Year race standings with this triumph. The 2018 POY award winner and perennial contender in the race clearly had it on his mind when closing out this victory. Before this win, Deeb had already finished third in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship and second in both the $1,500 razz and a $600 no-limit hold’em event online during this year’s series.
“I already did the math last night, I knew it was 1,360 to win. The POY doesn’t update with online [results], so I have a second place for about 500 points online. Benny [Glaser] also has a seventh place for about 300 online. So it’s going to be me and Benny balloting. He’s a favorite though, because I think he only has six or seven scores so any score he gets is just points on his total. So I really got to get that 200 points, or another final table,” Deeb when asked about the POY impact of this win. “I’m going to multi-table the shit out of the series. I got the money to do it. And yeah, I just want another banner, join my friends and to tie Daniel [Negreanu].”
We ducking did it but jobs not done now onto the 2500 freeze out
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) July 4, 2025
Deeb has now climbed into a nine-way tie on the all-time WSOP titles leaderboard at seven bracelets. He is one of just 16 players in the history of the game to have earned as many.
“It’s everything you hope for coming out here. God, this is the best one, I am probably going to play all summer to win.”
Pot-Limit Omaha History Is Made
This is the single largest payout ever awarded in a pot-limit Omaha tournament, topping the previous record of $2,340,000 that was set by Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, who took down a $100,000 PLO high roller at the Triton Jeju festival in South Korea earlier this year. That tournament drew 91 entries. Deeb beat out a field of 121 entries inside the Horseshoe Las Vegas, to lock up the POY points and the payout of nearly $3 million. Before that big win by Martinez Gonzalez, the record had belonged to the 2023 WSOP $50,000 PLO that Jesse Lonis took down for $2,303,017.
As for the ongoing boom in PLO tournaments, Deeb told Card Player, “I wish the popularity was more rec-based. More of the really good no-limit players like Foxen and others have studied the game, so the fields have definitely gotten tougher in the last few years. But obviously the field size and people see millions of dollars won, regardless of how tough the final table is, people see that and are like, ‘I wanna have a shot.”
“I can’t believe it,” continued Deeb, switching his focus back to this victory. “No matter how much I have to look at that board, knowing I won. It’s great.”
Deeb earned 1,320 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win, moving him into 36th place in the 2025 POY standings presented by Coin Poker. The 550 PokerGO Tour points that came with the win moved him into 13th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
Huge Money, Even Bigger Names
The massive turnout for this event resulted in a $11,676,500 prize pool, with the top 19 finishers making the money. Plenty of PLO and tournament heavyweights ran deep, including 2024 Triton Montenegro $100,000 PLO champion Christopher Frank (19th), two-time bracelet winner Lou Garza (18th), recent $5,000 no-limit hold’em six-max champion Andjelko Andrejevic (17th), two-time bracelet winner Bryce Yockey (16th), and seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (15th).
Headline-grabbing high-stakes livestream cash game regular Nikhil ‘Nik Airball’ Arcot also ran deep, earning his first six-figure tournament score ever ($209,457 to be exact) as the 14th-place finisher.
Several other highly-accomplished stars came close to making the final day, only to fall just short. Among them were two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel (13th), seven-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (12th), bracelet winners Aaron Katz (10th) and Tomas Ribeiro (9th), and two-time bracelet winner Ben Lamb (8th).
Haxton Sends Several Stars Packing Early
Bracelet winner and two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Isaac Haxton came into the third and final day of this event as the leader amongst the final seven. Haxton was surpassed by Arthur Morris early, but soon got back on track when he value bet the wheel on a paired board with a heart flush possible. Sean Rafael called with aces and deuces with a king kicker, but was shown the winner. Rafael earned $419,563 as the seventh-place finisher. This came just a couple of days after he finished fourth in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship for $462,451. With one title and 11 final-table finishes in 2025, Rafael is now sitting inside the top 20 in the POY standings.
Alex Foxen was the next to clash with Haxton. He kicked off his final hand raising from the button with A♦Q♦5♥2♥. Haxton called from the button with A♥J♥J♣9♠ and the pair saw a flop of 3♥3♦2♣. Foxen bet 1,100,000 into the pot of 3,800,000 and Haxton called. The A♠ turn rolled off and Foxen sized down, betting 900,000. Haxton came along again and the 9♣ river improved him to aces and nines. Foxen opted to check on the end and Haxton bet enough to put Foxen all-in for his last 4,500,000. After plenty of consideration, Foxen made the call and was shown the bad news. The three-time bracelet winner earned $539,917 for his sixth-place showing.
This was Foxen’s 13th final-table finish of the year, with three titles won. He now sits in second place in the POY standings, and first in the PGT points race for 2025.
Alex Foxen put to the test on the river at the final table of the @WSOP $100,000 PLO High Roller.
Watch now on https://t.co/2RQh5ROjQG. pic.twitter.com/NaLeh4DcTf
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 4, 2025
Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey was the clear short stack heading into five-handed play. The 11-time bracelet winner managed one double-up, but was soon all-in again for 7.5 big blinds with K♥9♠7♣5♥ trailing the A♠A♦Q♥3♦ of the surging Haxton. The board came down A♣10♦7♥4♣9♥ and Haxton’s top set secured him yet another knockout. Ivey walked away with $715,614, growing his career haul to $51.9 million in the process.
Final Four In The Four Card
PLO specialist Lautaro Guerra was already sitting in fourth place on the all-time money list for the game. He entered this event with more than $6.7 million in prior scores in the four-card tournament streets. That includes winning the 2024 WSOP Paradise $100,000 PLO high roller for $2.1 million. He also cashed for almost $1 million along his way to securing the 2023 PGT PLO Series championship.
Guerra added another $976,082 to his tally with a fourth-place showing in this event, moving him into third place on the PLO earnings leaderboard ahead of Stephen Chidwick. Guerra committed the last of his stack with an overpair of pocket aces. He was up against an open-ended straight draw for Haxton, which ultimately came in on the river to see the Spanish PLO star’s latest run come to an end.
Deeb was the short stack heading into three-handed play, but he won a big all-in with A♣K♣10♦6♦ after getting most of his stack in preflop. He was up against A♦J♦10♥5♠ for Morris. The last of Deeb’s chips went in after a flop of A♥Q♠4♠. Deeb had top pair with the best kicker, but had plenty to fade. The 9♠ turn and 4♣ river were safe, though, and Deeb doubled into second chip position.
Morris was left on fumes after that, and was soon all-in with A♠9♦2♠2♥ against the K♠10♣9♣5♦ of Haxton. The board came down Q♠10♦7♥Q♦J♦ and Haxton rivered a straight to eliminate Morris in third place ($1,368,994). This was the first seven-figure score for the WSOP Circuit main event winner from Colleyville, Texas.
Arthur Morris bows out in third place from the @WSOP $100,000 PLO High Roller.
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 4, 2025
Heads-Up For The Gold
It was roughly a 4:3 chip advantage for Haxton over Deeb when heads-up play began. The two were sent on a dinner break early in their clash, with Deeb closing the gap after play resumed. He then won a hefty pot with a set of tens fading several straight draws for Haxton to move into the lead.
Haxton continued to slide from there. He stopped the bleeding with a double up, but Deeb was still out in front by the time the final hand of the tournament was dealt.
Haxton limped from the button for 800,000 with K♠K♦J♦7♦ and Deeb potted to 2,400,000 holding Q♠Q♥10♣6♠. Haxton called and the flop came down J♥4♠2♠. Deeb checked and Haxton fired 1,300,000. This was met with a check-raise to 9,600,000. Haxton moved all-in and Deeb called to put him at risk. The 10♦ on the turn still kept Haxton’s kings as the best hand, but added to Deeb’s outs. The J♠ on the end gave Deeb the winning flush, sending Haxton to the rail in second place.
Haxton earned $1,972,860 for his efforts. This was the fourth-largest score of his career. He now boasts more than $57.9 million in lifetime tournament earnings after adding this 13th seven-figure score to his ledger.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Shaun Deeb | $2,957,229 | 1320 | 550 |
| 2 | Isaac Haxton | $1,972,860 | 1100 | 450 |
| 3 | Arthur Morris | $1,368,994 | 880 | 400 |
| 4 | Lautaro Guerra | $976,082 | 660 | 293 |
| 5 | Phil Ivey | $715,614 | 550 | 215 |
| 6 | Alex Foxen | $539,917 | 440 | 162 |
| 7 | Sean Rafael | $419,563 | 330 | 126 |
| 8 | Ben Lamb | $336,110 | 220 | 101 |
| 9 | Tomas Ribeiro | $277,839 | 110 | 83 |
Winner photo credit: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.
