Joao Vieira Wins 4th WSOP Bracelet in $100k High Roller for $2.65 Million

Joao Vieira is now a four-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner. Vieira topped the 103-entrant field to win Event #38: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller for $2,649,158 in prize money. He also earned 550 PGT points, moving him to 26th on the PGT leaderboard.

This was Vieira's second-largest career score, surpassing his runner-up finish in the 2024 WSOP Paradise Triton Main Event for $2,590,000, and only topped by his Triton Jeju $150,000 No-Limit Hold'em win earlier this year for $4,610,000. Vieira now sits with more than $20,950,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob. He is first on Portugal's All-Time Money List, and 60th on the All-Time Money List. 

Vieira won his first WSOP bracelet in 2019 by topping an 815-entrant field to win the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed for $758,011. In 2022, he won the $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller for $1,385,413, while his third WSOP bracelet was won on GGPoker in 2023 in the $25,000 GGMillion$ Super High Rollers Championship for $771,975.

The biggest buy-in of the WSOP so far attracted a 103-entrant field, which was slightly down from the 112 entrants in 2024. The final 16 players were in the money, which included last year's winner Chris Hunichen, Brandon Wittmeyer, Landon Tice, Adrian Mateos, David Peters, and Phil Ivey. The final eight players returned for Day 3 with Aram Oganyan holding the chip lead. 

Vinny Lingham was the first to fall when he three-bet shoved all-in with ace-five suited and was called by Vieira's pocket kings. Lingham was followed out the door by Frenchman Emilien Pitavy when he was all-in with ace-six suited against the ace-seven suited of Oganyan. A seven landed on the flop, and the final table was down to six. Andrew Lichtenberger followed his runner-up finish in the $50k No-Limit Hold'em High Roller with a sixth-place finish in this event after he shoved all-in with ace-jack suited and was looked up by Thomas Boivin and his king-queen suited. Lichtenberger flopped top pair, but Boivin went runner-runner to make a Broadway straight to eliminate Lichtenberger.

Following the first break of the day, Benjamin Heath was eliminated in fifth when his ace-five failed to improve against Oganyan's ace-king. Exiting in fourth place was Isaac Haxton, whose pocket queens went down to Oganyan's king-deuce. Boivin then called all-in with king-jack but was against Oganyan's ace-jack. No help fell for Boivin as he was eliminated in third place, and Oganyan entered heads-up play with Vieira holding a three-to-one lead.

Vieira found a double with a rivered straight to take a slight lead before Oganyan doubled with pocket sixes against ace-jack. Vieira then doubled with pocket sixes against king-queen. Oganyan then another double of his own, all-in with pocket fours against ace-queen suited. An ace on the flop, but a four on the river ensured the heads-up duel continued. The two players kept trading the lead back-and-forth before the final hand saw Oganyan move all-in with queen-eight and Vieira called with king-jack. The board ran out king-high and Oganyan was eliminated in second place, while Vieira was awarded his fourth WSOP bracelet.

2025 WSOP Event #38: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Results

Event #38 of the 2025 World Series of Poker was the 12th PGT-qualifying event of the series, and with Joao Vieira's victory, he moves to 26th place on the PGT leaderboard with four qualifying cashes this season. Aram Oganyan climbs to 28th with 634 PGT points from three cashes, while Thomas Boivin sits 53rd. Isaac Haxton sits in 54th place with 397 PGT points, while this was Benjamin Heath and Vinny Lingham's first cash of the season.

Andrew Lichtenberger is now the ninth player to accumulate 1,000 PGT points this season. Lichtenberger sits with 1,211 PGT points from seven cashes to sit fourth on the PGT leaderboard.

PGT Leaderboard Top 10 

These are the leaderboard standings as of Friday, June 13, 2025. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.

The next eligible WSOP event to earn PGT points is Event #44: $10,000 Big O Championship, scheduled for Saturday, June 15. The $250,000 Super High Roller will kick off on Sunday, while Monday will be the $10,000 Razz Championship. Tuesday, June 17, will see the beginning of the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller and the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship begins on Wednesday. The final event for the week will begin on Friday, June 20, and will be the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

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