Rising New Jersey Poker Star Captures First WSOP Bracelet

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Jun 11, 2025 3 min read

Day 2 of Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack at the World Series of Poker hosted within the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas has recently concluded, and we have a winner! Jonathan Stoeber has topped the field of 4,481 entries and claimed his first WSOP bracelet and a healthy $352,610 cash prize out of the $3,136,700 prize pool.

Stoeber jumped from the bottom of the chip counts to the top swiftly by winning crucial pots during the final table. He then began asserting dominance over his competitors, especially during heads-up play versus Daniel Cosner, needing less than one level to seal the deal. The total play time for the final table was only three hours, and Stoeber proclaimed, "I don’t think I had a tough decision all final table.”

Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Final Table Results

Day 2 Action

The newly crowned WSOP bracelet winner had a lot of work to do, even though he bagged a very healthy 1,000,000 chips heading into the day.

“With 250 people starting the day, I had no expectations coming into Day 2. I knew it would be a roller coaster the whole way.” Stoeber managed to stay out of trouble and float during the middling stages of Day 2. While people who had roughly triple his chips were knocking out the competition, Stoeber knew that this event would eventually reach the “push poker” phase.

Walking into the final table, Stoeber was very short, but it was irrelevant when his friends were at his back, and the cards on his side.

“I came in with four and a half bigs. I just kinda sun runned it, to be honest. Queens into 98o, Kings into Queens." It may have been the king on the river to save Stoeber's tournament life, but once some momentum was gained, he was impossible to stop.

Stoeber jumped from 6,800,000 to over 110,000,000 over four major hands including the one mentioned above, the elimination of Peter Fox in eighth helping him chip up, and then eliminating Geoffrey Coatar in fifth to put himself in a dominant position to close the event out as the chip leader.

Winners Reaction

With close to 20 people rooting him on from the rail, Stoeber wasn’t needed in the shouting department. A surreal sense of relief came over him once the event concluded. After coming very close to a bracelet multiple times in WSOP online events and having a plethora of strong finishes in live events throughout his young career, the New Jersey resident felt bliss as he more than doubled his career earnings.

When asked about his strategy to close out the event, Stoeber explained, “I was just trying to put people in spots. If it’s six big blinds, but a 50k pay jump, you put people in the blender.” He accomplished his goal and found himself pushing the agenda once his fate was set by a river card that may just have changed this young man’s life. To use Stoeber’s own words, unfortunately for the other guys, today he had the cards.

When asked how winning this event would change his summer, Stoeber said, “I’m coming back.”

With a flight scheduled for the morning, he explained that he has no current plans. However, it appears that he intends to hunt number two after touching back down in his hometown of Ewing, New Jersey, for some clothes and a well-deserved celebration.

"There is still a lot more money to win," a member of the winning rail announced

That concludes our coverage of Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack, but stay tuned to PokerNews as we continue to cover every bracelet winner until the end of the WSOP live from the tournament floor here at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

• Tags WSOP25 Daniel Cosner Geoffrey Coatar Jonathan Stoeber Matthew Morin Mikhail Sniatovskii Nicholas Seward Peter Fox Ryan Hohner Shawn Buchanan
• Related Players Shawn BuchananRyan HohnerDaniel CosnerGeoffrey CoatarNicholas SewardMikhail Sniatovskii