WSOP 2025 Day 23 Recap: Roiter Takes Maiden Gold, Rast and Yeh on Collision Course

Klemens Roiter was the sole winner of a WSOP bracelet on Day 23 of the 56th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) as eight events played out in Las Vegas at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos on the Strip. With action in NLHE, PLO and other formats, the Monster Stack bracelet and $1.2m went to Roiter as the Austrian won his first WSOP gold bracelet in thrilling circumstances.

Roiter Rukes as Linde Falls Short

Klemens Roiter won his first-ever gold bracelet as he conquered the WSOP Monster Stack for a score of $1.2m and life-changing money. At an exciting final table, Dylan Linde was the only former bracelet winner to reach the final nine, but he missed out on the top prize as he was eliminated in seventh place for $207,647.

Roiter made the final heads-up battle and got the better of long-time leader David Uvaydov to win his first-ever WSOP title.

“I cannot describe how good it feels after I've tried so long,” Roiter said at the event’s conclusion. “It's a big dream come true, to be honest. It's such a massive field, hard to describe, I can't even grasp .”

Telling reporters that the win meant ‘everything’ Roiter described how this win topped everything that had gone before in his career. “I mean I had some runs, one other final table in the Bahamas. But I think it's my first final table actually in Vegas. It's unbelievable to scoop one.”

WSOP Event #37 $1,500 Monster Stack Final Table Results

 
Rast and Yeh Await Razz Fate 

In Event #50, the $10,000 Razz Championship, Andrew Yeh holds a 3:1 chip lead over the six-time WSOP winner and Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast. With an extra day required to complete the event, only two remain from a total field of 134, as a top prize of $306,644 and a runner-up result worth $204,423 are yet to be decided.

Others who got close at the final table included Brian Yoon, who finished third for $142,579 after Joao Vieira missed the chance to go second on the WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard when he finished fourth for $101,983. Whoever wins tomorrow, it will be their first bracelet of the 2025 series, but Rast could go onto seven bracelets, the same as legends of the game such as Benny Glaser, Daniel Negreanu and Billy Baxter.

The Poker Hall of Famer will be doing everything he can to join them tomorrow, while Yeh will be doing everything he can to deny him. 

WSOP Event #50 $10,000 Razz Championship Final Table

Deep Run and Go Fetsch in Seniors Event 

Ron Fetsch takes a big lead into Day 3 of the $1,000 Seniors Championship, otherwise known as Event #48. With a total of 1,445 starters on Day 2, just 202 remain in contention for when play returns at the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas for Day 3 tomorrow. With an overall field of 7,575 entries, the $6,913,052 prize pool will reward the winner with a top prize of $653,839.

Top of the returning players is the aptly named Fetsch who came back with 2.93 mmillion chips at the close of play. Near rivals Mansour Alipourfard (2.12m) and David Hong (2.09m) are going to push hard to take that lead heading into the fourth and final day, while Yucel Eminoglu, who likes to go by the name of the ‘Mad Turk’, is marginally behind on 2.07m. 

WSOP Event #48 $1,000 Senior's NLHE Championship Chip Counts

Big Names Smell Blood in PLO High Roller 

In Event #51, the $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha event, 489 total entries were whittled down to 28 players by the end of 10 levels on Day 2. With a massive $2.2 million top prize up for grabs, some very big names made the top 10 stacks in the room when time was called.

As chip leader, Australian player Najeem Ajez had 7,845,000 chips at the close of play, with Lautaro Guerra (6,444,000) second inc hips and Tomasz Gluszko third on 4.4 million chips. Sitting in seventh place is Bryn Kenney, All-Time Money List leader and an ominous opponent for anyone on tomorrow’s Day 3. Kenney is on 3.96 million chips as he bids to put some distance between himself and his rivals on The Hendon Mob.

WSOP Event 

Belluscio Battling for Second Gold

Just 29 hopefuls are still in with a chance of winning the $410,426 top prize in Event #52, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event. With a massive $3 million prize pool, the player with the best chance of winning that massive chunk of the pie is the chip leader Julio Belluscio (6,900,000), who leads from Asher Conniff (5,650,000), with both men going for their second WSOP title.

With 354 players coming back on Day 2 players such as Joe Cada, Jason Wheeler, Faraz Jaka, and Jamie Gold all fell inside the money places, with the 2006 WSOP Main Event winner gold the last to go, busting in 30th place for $12,762. Tomorrow, someone will win a lot more than that as they achieve WSOP bracelet glory.

WSOP Event #52: $1,500 NLHE Freezeout Chip Counts 

Three Day 1s Begin at Horseshoe and Paris 

In Event #53, the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, an incredible 1,612 entries were reduced to 345 survivors, as German player Sascha Manns (776,000) bagged the Day 1a chip lead. Dutch player Mateusz Moolhuizen (759,000) and Damarjai Davenport (427,000) are the closest to Manns, with David Pham (174,000) and Mat Frankland (156,000) both making the top 100 too.

Event #54 began on Day 23 of the 2025 WSOP, as the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event saw 114 players survive from 1,564 total entries on Day 1. A prize pool of $2,076,210 was built as PLO specialist Giuseppe Pantaleo stacked up the lead with 1,105,000, the only player to pass the million-chip mark, with Michael Monroig (893,000) and Leonid Yanovski (878,000) also reaching the podium places.

Finally, Event #55, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship began with 176 players taking on the latest Championship event, and just 91 players surviving. Top of the shop is Poker Hall of Famer John Hennigan (350,500), with Chris Vitch (342,500) close behind. Other stars such as Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow (208,000), Scott Seiver (206,500) and Huck Seed (190,000) will be hoping to end Day 3 as strongly as they have managed Day 2. 

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