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Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast is now a seven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Rast prevailed in Event #50: $10,000 Razz Championship after an exhausting and emotional heads-up match against Andrew Yeh, winning $306,644 in prize money and 307 PGT points.
Rast now has more than $28,350,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob. His seventh WSOP bracelet is his first in strictly a limit game, having won bracelets in Pot-Limit Hold'em, No-Limit Hold'em, No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, and the Poker Players Championships. Rast is now tied on seven WSOP bracelets with Daniel Negreanu, Nick Schulman, Scott Seiver, Benny Glaser, Billy Baxter, and Men Nguyen.
The 134-entrant field in the Razz Championship saw a strong boost from the 118-entrant field in 2024, which George Alexander topped for his first WSOP bracelet. Alexander was one of the 21 players to finish in the money, which included Maxx Hoffman, Daniel Negreanu, Yuri Dzivielevski, James Obst, Ren Lin, Maxx Coleman, and David Funkhouser.
Once the final table was down to the final four players, Rast would sink as low as one big bet. But he battled back and laddered up as Joao Vieira fell in fourth, and Brian Yoon exited in third. Once play ended for Day 3, and an unscheduled day of play was needed, Yeh held a commanding 25-big bet to 8-big bet advantage over Rast. When play resumed on Day 4, Rast would drop down to one big bet again but found several doubles to stay in contention. Rast sunk again, but again, started to claw his way back and eventually fought his way into the chip lead after winning a pot on sixth street.
As the chip lead bounced back and forth, eventually Rast seized his opportunity and put his foot on the gas. The final hand would see Yeh all-in and declare himself drawing dead on sixth to finish short of his second WSOP bracelet. Rast, succumbed with emotion, hoisted his seventh WSOP bracelet to a rail that included Eric Wasserson and many other mixed-game pros.
Place | Player | Country | Prize | PGT Points |
1st | Brian Rast | United States | $306,644 | 307 |
2nd | Andrew Yeh | United States | $204,423 | 204 |
3rd | Brian Yoon | United States | $142,579 | 143 |
4th | Joao Vieira | Portugal | $101,983 | 102 |
5th | Nikolay Ponomarev | United Kingdom | $74,857 | 75 |
6th | Christian Roberts | Venezuela | $56,424 | 56 |
7th | Ali Eslami | United States | $43,706 | 44 |
8th | Maksim Pisarenko | Russia | $34,817 | 35 |
Event #50 of the 2025 World Series of Poker was the 16th PGT-qualifying event of the series, and with Brian Rast's victory, he moves to 50th place on the PGT leaderboard. Rast has 472 PGT points from seven cashes this PGT season. João Vieira is now 20th on the PGT leaderboard with 756 PGT points from five cashes.
Christian Roberts climbs to 54th with 444 PGT points, while Daniel Negreanu adds a little breathing room between himself and Chino Rheem with his min-cash in 19th place.
Rank | Player | PGT Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
1st | Alex Foxen | 1,667 | 2 | 12 | $4,236,071 |
2nd | Nick Schulman | 1,529 | 1 | 18 | $1,544,865 |
3rd | Daniel Negreanu | 1,440 | 2 | 17 | $2,073,331 |
4th | Chino Rheem | 1,295 | 2 | 14 | $1,357,388 |
5th | Andrew Lichtenberger | 1,211 | 1 | 7 | $2,040,132 |
6th | Eric Blair | 1,157 | 2 | 13 | $1,174,570 |
7th | Philip Sternheimer | 1,116 | 1 | 7 | $1,203,528 |
8th | Kristen Foxen | 1,086 | 3 | 9 | $883,077 |
9th | Joey Weissman | 1,002 | 1 | 10 | $1,121,420 |
10th | Thomas Boivin | 900 | 0 | 2 | $3,269,450 |
These are the leaderboard standings as of Thursday, June 19, 2025. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.
The next eligible WSOP event to earn PGT points is the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller that begins on Friday. The following week will be the start of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and the $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship.
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