2025 Wynn Summer Classic Series Awards $69,175,810 In Prizes

Jon Pill Contributor

Jul 15, 2025 5 min read

The 2025 Wynn Summer Classic kicked off at the Wynn Las Vegas on May 21 with the $600 Seniors No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD).

Eight weeks later, on July 14, the festival wrapped up with a pair of $600 buy-in, no limit hold'em tournaments.

Between those two days, the Wynn hosted 87 Wynn Summer Classic events, not including an array of satellites on the side.

TheWynn Las Vegas guaranteed those tournaments for $40,000,000 collectively. The prize pools totalled $69,175,810, of which $11,276,752 was paid out as first-place prizes.

The festival had big stories like Jesse Lonis's impressive hot streak and Michael Sklenicka winning the $2,339,200 first prize in the $10,400 Wynn Summer Championship with quads.

It also had smaller stories like Edson Tsutsumi winning the event on his first trip to Vegas. Or the coincidence of Michael Mizrahi winning an event on the same day that Michael Mizrachi (one more letter, tens of millions more in live tournament cashes) made the final table in the World Series of Poker Main Event.

Wynn Summer Championship

The tentpole event of the Wynn Summer Classic was the $10,400 buy in Wynn Summer Championship a big multi-day event with a $10,000,000 guarantee.

The event smashed that guarantee; after getting 1,537 entries over the course of four starting flights, the prize pool hit $15,062,600.

Michael Sklenicka won the biggest cut of that pot, collecting $2,339,200 for winning the event and collecting a Wynn Summer Classic trophy for his mantelpiece.

Sklenicka won the event during three-handed play when he knocked out Jun Obara (2nd - $1,594,677) and Daniel Rezaei (3rd - $1,181,360) in the same hand.

All three players got it in pre-flop. Sklenicka had the worst of it with 8♠7♣ against pocket kings and pocket tens. However, the board of K♥7♥8♥8♦8♣ gave him quads to take the event down.

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2025 Wynn Summer Classic Complete Results

Check out the winners so far at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.

Event	Entries	Prizepool	Winner	Prize
$1,100 HORSE ($50k GTD)	82	$79,130	Zachary Stern	$19,060
$600 Seniors No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD)	212	$109,180	Daniel Yu	$20,688
$600 Mix Triple Draw ($30k GTD)	98	$49,980	Maksim Pisarenko	$14,190
$1,100 T.O.R.S.E. ($50k GTD)	86	$82,990	Casey Schams	$21,977
$1,100 Triple Draw ($50k GTD)	59	$57,525	Daniel Blum	$19,155
$1,100 Big O ($50k GTD)	124	$120,900	David Tarbet	$33,248
$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 ($50k GTD)	125	$120,625	Ryan Hoenig	$33,170
$600 No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD)	113	$58,195	Kezheng Peng	$13,088
$600 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($50k GTD)	155	$79,825	Ryan Passey	$20,471
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($1.5m GTD)	1,579	$1,523,735	Maxim Lykov	$230,842
$600 No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD)	106	$54,590	James Foster	$10,701
$600 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($50k GTD)	177	$91,155	Cristian Cabrera Cuenca	$22,310
$1,100 5-Card Pot-Limit Omaha ($50k GTD)	189	$184,275	Millard Hale	$36,701
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	263	$256,425	Timothy Miles	$52,463
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($200k GTD)	212	$206,750	Mark Lacoste	$48,410
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	217	$211,575	Nikolai Tulin	$49,547
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	198	$193,050	Max Kingstone	$47,254
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	177	$172,575	Matthew Dodd	$42,241
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	144	$140,400	Juan Fonseca Chaves	$37,907
$1,600 Seniors NLH 50+ ($1m GTD)	961	$1,374,230	Terry Fleischer	$188,520
$2,200 PLO ($200k GTD)	379	$758,000	Caleb Furth	$154,538
$1,100 PLO Turbo ($100k GTD)	231	$225,225	Vincas Tamasauskas	$52,740
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em ($1.5m GTD)	2,466	$2,379,690	David Stefanski	$376,595
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em ($250k GTD)	234	$250,000	Vladas Tamasauskas	$51,145
$1,100 Big O ($50k GTD)	251	$244,725	Edward Spivack	$50,067
$1,100 5-Card PLO ($100k GTD)	184	$179,400	Jose Severino	$35,449
$3,000 Ladies High Roller	76	$206,720	Dusti Smith	$61,335
$1,100 Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD)	53	$51,675	Chantelle Zeze	$14,095
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	109	$106,275	Juan Hernandez	$30,177
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	117	$114,075	John Depersio	$27,242
$1,600 NLH Progressive Bounty (PKO) ($500k GTD)	317	$500,000	Andres Loiv	$58,020
$10,000 No Limit Hold’em Seniors ($500k GTD)	100	$950,000	Phong Nguyen	$186,026
$3,000 NLH 8-Max ($500k GTD)	256	$698,880	Boris Angelov	$142,978
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	179	$174,525	Adekunle Olonoh	$32,384
$10,100 buy-in NLH PKO	79	$790,000	Santhosh Suvarna	$114,165
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($250k GTD)	378	$368,550	Alban Juen	$72,526
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	195	$190,125	Romani Locquet	$46,536
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($250k GTD)	367	$357,825	Tzur Levy	$70,413
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	183	$178,425	Stuart Taylor	$38,011
$1,100 Seniors No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($250k GTD)	549	$535,275	Fredrick Arni	$98,711
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	198	$193,050	Vladimir Belekhov	$47,254
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	257	$250,575	Kai Cohen	$51,270
$1,600 Pot Limit Hold'em $500 Bounty ($200K GTD)	342	$492,480	Philip Shing	$67,930
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	175	$170,625	Brandon Sheils	$41,764
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo $100k GTD	236	$230,100	Said El Harrak	$47,073
$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha PKO ($300K GTD)	325	$877,250	Joshua McCully	$99,936
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250K GTD)	509	$496,275	Nikolai Mamut	$93,260
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	263	$256,425	Jonathan Park	$52,463
$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha $1K Bounty ($300K GTD)	319	$551,870	Ruslan Nazarenko	$116,617
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	456	$444,600	Clement Bonnant	$53,030
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	189	$184,275	Sang Sim	$45,103
$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha ($300k GTD)	286	$780,780	Max Neugebauer	$169,598
$2,200 Mystery Bounty ($3m GTD)	352	$5,641,870	Ruoxiao Shi	$584,157
$1,100 5-Card PLO $200K GTD	435	$424,125	Sergio Torres Espinosa	$77,220
$600 Ladies No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD)	292	$150,380	Marguerite Spagnuolo	$30,667
$25,800 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max	56	$1,400,000	Jesse Lonis	$410,242
$3,500 Wynn Summer Classic NLH	2,091	$6,638,925	Artur Martirosian	$1,016,763
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	224	$218,400	Namhyung Kim	$51,144
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250K GTD)	477	$465,075	Dumitru Pora	$87,402
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	222	$216,450	Timothy Kenyon	$50,688
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250K GTD)	604	$588,900	Ran Ilani	$98,000
$25,800 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max	41	$1,025,000	Aleksejs Ponakovs	$297,150
$10,400 Wynn Summer Championship	1,537	$15,062,600	Michael Sklenicka	$2,339,200
$1,600 No Limit Hold'em ($500k GTD)	695	$1,075,700	Luis Faria	$183,268
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	304	$296,400	Samuel Bernstein	$47,587
$25,800 No Limit Hold'em 8-Max	35	$875,000	Brandon Wittmeyer	$302,837
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($250K GTD)	240	$250,000	Shigeo Marumoto	$51,145
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	239	$233,025	Francisco De Belagausegui Castano	$39,831
$1,600 PLO Mystery Bounty $1M GTD	835	$3,590,400	Quan Zhou	$307,025
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	158	$154,050	Kestutis Jungevicius	$39,507
$1,600 Mystery Bounty ($2m GTD)	2,541	$3,633,630	Charles Phillips	$212,501
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	268	$261,300	Amarpreet Dhoot	$48,480
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250K GTD)	465	$453,375	Sridhar Panchumarthi	$85,211
$2,200 No Limit Hold'em ($2m GTD)	2,006	$3,981,910	Edson Tsutsumi Jr	$652,846
$1,100 T.O.R.S.E. ($50k GTD)	146	$142,350	Yudai Futai	$32,015
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	391	$381,225	Nicholas Palma	$62,223
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD)	240	$234,000	Max Pinnola	$32,879
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	184	$179,480	Ronald Fernandez Ucona	$43,914
$10,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max	69	$641,700	Benjamin Grise	$215,625
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	356	$347,100	Damaso Benalcazar	$68,813
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	215	$209,625	Romain Locquet	$49,087
$1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max ($50k GTD)	351	$342,225	Ronald Keijzer	$67,850
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	118	$115,050	Jeremy Schoenberg	$31,636
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	253	$130,295	Roberto Damelian	$26,661
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	137	$70,555	Michael Mizrahi	$19,049
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100K GTD)	312	$160,680	Phillip Latimer	$28,492
$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD)	447	$230,205	Americ Stiller	$44,303

What's Next at The Wynn?

With the hustle and bustle of the Wynn Summer Classic done, the poker room at the Wynn is returning to business as usual for a bit. The usual daily tournaments resume and, as always, there are cash games available.

However, from August 21 to September 7, the Wynn is playing to another poker festival — the Wynn Signature Series.

This time, the festival is aimed at low-to-mid-stakes events with most of the buy ins being below a grand. However, the main event will be a $1,100 No Limit Hold’em that comes with a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000.