How Much Did the 2025 WSOP Rake from the 100 Live Bracelet Events?

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Jul 18, 2025 7 min read

After two months of millions of cards flying across the tables, the 2025 World Series of Poker is officially in the books, and the final numbers confirm what many already suspected.

New WSOP custodians GGPoker will be delighted with the fact that their first year of stewardship was the biggest series in history. Across 100 live bracelet events at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, players combined for 246,960 total entries, generating $528,940,009 in total buy-ins.

Of that, $481,761,879 was paid out in prize pools. The remaining $47,020,650 was collected in rake, made up of $32,900,672 in entry fees and $14,119,978 earmarked for dealers and staff. That comes out to around 8.9% of all buy-ins staying with the house.

Breaking Down the Totals

The average cost to enter a WSOP bracelet event in 2025 was just over $5,238. That figure is skewed by the Super High Rollers, but even so, players entering just one bullet in each event would have needed $1,095,956 to complete the full live schedule. That’s without rebuys, re-entries, or travel expenses.

The series saw entries range from as low as 63 (in the $250,000 Super High Roller) to as high as 24,629 (in the $300 Gladiators of Poker). Popular low-stakes events like the Colossus, Mystery Millions, and the Mini Main Event helped drive the total entry figure near a quarter-million.

With over $47 million in rake collected, the WSOP set a new benchmark for total series revenue. The Main Event alone produced $6,814,500 in rake. The Mystery Millions and Millionaire Maker brought in more than $2 million each.

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Mizrachi & Glaser Steal the Spotlight

While the financial figures were massive, the on-felt performances were just as historic.

Michael Mizrachi delivered one of the most dominant series runs ever seen. He captured the $10,000 Main Event for $10 million, alongside winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for a record fourth time.

Mizrachi became the first player in history to win both the Main Event and the PPC in the same summer, and was immediately inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame following the double. He now holds eight career bracelets.

Oh, and how could you forget about Shiina Okamoto going winning back-to-back Ladies Championships and Leo Margets becoming the first woman in thirty years to make the Main Event final table.

Benny Glaser continued to solidify his status as the game’s premier mixed-game maestro. The British pro won three bracelets in three weeks, in three disciplines, Dealers Choice, Mixed Omaha, and Mixed Triple Draw. That brought his career total to eight, giving him the most WSOP bracelets of any UK player and joint seventh overall. He also became only the eighth player in WSOP history to win three gold bracelets in a single summer.

At just 36 years old, Glaser has now racked up eight WSOP bracelets in a ten-year span, trailing only six legends on the all-time list: Johnny Moss (9), Erik Seidel (10), Johnny Chan (10), Doyle Brunson (10), Phil Ivey (11), and Phil Hellmuth (17).

Big Fields, Big Numbers, and Big Revenue

This year’s WSOP generated more revenue than any previous series. The $300 Gladiators of Poker event brought in over 24,000 entries. The Colossus drew more than 16,000, and the Mystery Millions surpassed 19,000. Dozens of other events cleared the 1,000-entry mark, including most of the $600 and $1,000 tournaments that made up the core of the schedule.

Several marquee events crossed into eight-figure prize pool territory. The Main Event led the way with $90.5 million. The Millionaire Maker awarded $15.9 million, while the Monster Stack and Mini Main Event paid out $13.1 million and $9.5 million, respectively. Many of these high-traffic events also produced seven-figure rake totals.

The average event size finished at 2,470 entries. That figure was driven up by the low buy-in no-limit hold’em events that consistently filled the rooms, while the higher-stakes and championship events, though smaller in field size, still played a major role in pushing the series past half a billion dollars in total buy-ins.

High Rollers Deliver Massive Payouts

While large-field events powered the overall rake, the High Roller scene produced the summer’s biggest payouts.

Seth Davies led the way with $4.75 million for winning the $250,000 Super High Roller. Shaun Deeb scored $2.95 million in the $100K PLO High Roller, and aided his run to a second WSOP Player of the Year banner.

Joao Vieira earned $2.6 million in the NLHE $100K High Roller, and Jason Koon banked $1.96 million in the $50K High Roller.

A Record-Breaking Summer, On and Off the Felt

The 2025 WSOP was unforgettable for plenty of reasons. Players chased life-changing scores, legends added to their legacies, and the turnout exceeded anything the series had seen before.

What remains to be seen is how players respond. With rake totals now exceeding $47 million and participation at an all-time high, pressure will likely grow for greater transparency around where the money goes and how it supports the people running the games. For now though, the WSOP stands alone in both reach and revenue.

2025 WSOP By the Numbers

_{NB: Prize Pools include bounty payouts}

Calum has been a part of the PokerNews team since September 2021 after working in the UK energy sector. He played his first hand of poker in 2017 and immediately fell in love with the game. Calum has written for various poker outlets but found his home at PokerNews, where he has contributed to various articles and live updates, providing insights and reporting on major poker events, including the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

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