Blaz Zerjav Wins 1st WSOP Bracelet for $1.7 Million

Blaz "Scarmak3r" Zerjav is now a World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner after claiming victory in Event #22: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed High Roller. Zerjav won the third $25,000 buy-in tournament of the series and claimed the largest first-place prize awarded thus far in the series.

Zerjav topped the record-setting 336-entrant field, which saw a big boost from the 272 entrants in 2024. This was Zerjav's largest career score and propelled his lifetime tournament earnings to more than $2,862,000, according to The Hendon Mob. Zerjav also moves to the top of the Slovenia All-Time Money List, overtaking Casey Kastle and Rok Gostisa.

The $7,896,000 prize pool in Event #22 paid 51 players, including Andrew Lichtenberger, Santhosh Suvarna, Brock Wilson, Michael Gathy, Seth Davies, Joao Vieira, Chino Rheem, Neil Warren, John Riordan, Matthias Eibinger, David Coleman, Darren Elias, Brian Rast, Jonathan Jaffe, and Nick Schulman, who all were eliminated on Day 2. The final day would see 15 players return, and David Peters, Galen Hall, Kristen Foxen, Fabian Gumz, and Mustapha Kanit were all eliminated prior to the final table redraw.

Needing to lose one more player before the PokerGO livestreamed final table would kick off, Daniel Sepiol took a bad beat to bust in seventh place when Chris Moorman's pocket tens outdrew his pocket kings. Moorman entered the final table with more than 40% of the chips in play and looking to win his third WSOP bracelet. Aram Oganyan exited in sixth when his ace-ten went down to Landon Tice's ace-jack. 

Paulius Vaitiekunas fell in fifth when he was all-in with ace-jack against the ten-nine suited of Moorman. Moorman flopped top two pair, and Vaitiekunas was drawing dead on the turn. Tice was eliminated next when he was all-in with ace-jack suited against Jared Bleznick's ace-king. No help fell for Tice, and the final table was down to the final three players.

Bleznick then found himself all-in on the turn with pocket kings, but was drawing dead to Moorman's turned straight. As Bleznick exited in third, Moorman would hold nearly a four-to-one advantage entering heads-up play with Zerjav. Zerjav immediately doubled with pocket queens against pocket fours, and then doubled another time with ace-queen against pocket nines to hold a nine-to-chip lead over Moorman. The final hand played out with Moorman three-bet shoving all-in with ace-jack, but being called by Zerjav's ace-king. The safe runout ensured Moorman was eliminated in second, while Zerjav won his first WSOP bracelet.

2025 WSOP Event #22: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed High Roller Results

Event #22 of the 2025 World Series of Poker was the sixth PGT-qualifying event of the series, and with Blaz Zerjav's victory, he moves to 12th on the PGT leaderboard following his first cash of the PGT season. Chris Moorman also logged his first PGT cash of the season and now sits 16th on the PGT leaderboard with 700 PGT points. Jared Bleznick sits 30th on the PGT leaderboard with 452 PGT points, while Landon Tice rises to 23rd on the PGT leaderboard with 508 PGT points from three cashes.

Kristen Foxen and Chino Rheem both cashed, and moved ahead of Alex Foxen on the PGT leaderboard. Kristen sits third overall with 1,086 PGT points, while Reem is fourth with 1,057 PGT points. Nick Schulman scored his 16th cash of the PGT season, and now sits sixth on the PGT leaderboard with 1,003 PGT points - becoming the sixth player to reach 1,000 PGT points for the season.

PGT Leaderboard Top 10 

These are the leaderboard standings as of Saturday, June 7, 2025. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.

The next eligible WSOP event to earn PGT points is Event #26: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller, which is underway on Saturday, June 7. Closing out the week will be the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship. Starting on Monday, June 9, will be Event #32: $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller, while Event #36: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship will begin on Tuesday. Wednesday will host Event #38: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller and Thursday will be the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship.

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