25K Fantasy 2025

Congratulations to Team BTG who have won the 2025 25K Fantasy Contest!

They finished with a score of 1,279, ahead of Team Lady Gaga (1,179) and Team Handsome Horses (1,115). Team Dinkers (1,005) was the only other team over 1,000 points.

2025 25K Fantasy Contest Final Standings

Dan Zack's victory in Event #96: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha was the icing on the cake, increasing Team BTG's lead from just 11 points to a clean 100 points.

Team Liaison leapfrogged Team Phenom into fifth place, while Team Survivor Sweat and Team Wass burst into the top 10.

Two results for Team Survivor Sweat saw them secure seventh place, as Ben Yu finished ninth in #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. and Sam Laskowitz finished sixth in Event #99: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em.

Team Wass also came from the clouds with 132 points, mostly thanks to Brian Rast's runner-up finish and John Hennigan's seventh-place finish in Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E..

Top Performing 25K Fantasy Players

25K Fantasy Bracelet Winners at the 2025 WSOP

In addition to Dan Zack's PLO victory, there were two other 25K Fantasy draftees adding bracelets on the last day of action.

Chad Eveslage won Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. ahead of a final table packed with 25K Fantasy players. Eveslage defeated a field of 150 players to win his fourth bracelet and $883,841.

Finally, Andrew Ostapchenko defeated Brandon Wilson heads-up in Event #99: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em for $606,849. Third-place went to David "ODB" Baker for $283,554.

25K Fantasy Bracelet Winners

This wraps up the PokerNews coverage of the 2025 25K Fantasy Contest. Thank you for following along and we'll be back in 2026!

It's the final day of the 2025 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas and Team BTG is poised for victory in the 14th Annual Daniel Negreanu 25K Fantasy League.

The $25,000 buy-in Fantasy League drew 24 teams for a $600,000 prize pool that will see the winning team take home $250,000 the runner-up earning $125,000 and third place winning $100,000. Fourth and fifth will respectively take home $75,000 and $50,000.

With just a half-dozen events left to play out, Team BTG sits in front with 1,194, propelled by the strong summers of Dylan Linde, Isaac Haxton, Nick Guagenti and Punnat Punsri. Not far behind is Team Lady Gaga with 1,174 points after Adam Hendrix's sixth-place finish in the WSOP Main Event good for 172 points.

25k Fantasy Bracelet Winners at the 2025 WSOP

PokerNews reported last month that 27 gold bracelets had been awarded to either 25K Fantasy players this summer. Since then, an additional seven bracelets have gone to Fantasy players for a total of 34 across 94 events.

ODB Bonus player Michael Wang took down Event #74: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, while Aaron Kupin of Team Hoggers took down Event #76: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event for 79 points.

Not long after, Shaun Deeb won Event #79: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for 126 points and to take the Player of the Year lead before Mike Gorodinsky of Team Splashy Octopi won Event #82: $10,000 Eight Game Mixed Championship for 126 points.

The very next event, PokerGO founder Cary Katz of Team AJ's Eagles won Event #83: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em for 87 points. Sam Soverel of Team Lang later won Event #94: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship for 130.

All eyes were on the Main Event as Michael Mizrachi achieved the incredible feat of winning the Poker Players Championship and world championship in the same summer, enough to get him fast-tracked directly into the Poker Hall of Fame. It also earned ODB Bonus team some points.

Team Rankings as of 7-16-25

Top Performing Fantasy Players as of 7-16-25

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How to Follow the Action

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On Day 45 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Day 5 of the 2025 WSOP $10,000 Main Event will play out. The field of 9,735 runners is down to 522, and there are plenty of fantasy players remaining.

They include Nick Pupillo (Team Girl Dads), Josh Reichard (Team Lang), Adam Hendrix (Team Lady Gaga), Stephen Chidwick (Team BTG), Maksim Pisarenko (Team Noori), Isaac Haxton (Team BTG), Brian Hastings (Team AJ’s Eagles), Viktor Blom (Team Dinkers), Dong Chen (Team Lady Gaga), Esther Taylor (Team Survivor Sweat), [Removed:548] (Team Liaison), Jon Kyte (Team Glue Factory), Brad Owen (Team Girl Dads), and Justin Liberto (Team AJ’s Eagles).

Likewise, ODB Bonus players still in include Asher Conniff, Matt Affleck, Nate Silver, Francis Anderson, Kevin Calenzo, and Nadya Magnus.

Registration is still open headed into Day 2 of Event #88: $50,000 High Roller, but as it stands 78 players from a 194-entry field will return including ODB Bonus players Brek Schutten, Mikita Badziakouski, and Christoph Vogelsang; as well as, 25 25K Fantasy players such as Sam Soverel (Team Lang), Kristen Foxen (Team Money Mondays Podcast), and Joe Cada (Team Money Mondays Podcast), just to name a few.

Thursday will also see Day 1b of Event #89: $3,000 Mid-Stakes Championship and the start of both Event #90: $777 Lucky 7’s and Event #91: $1,500 PLO.

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

Be sure to follow the PokerNews Live Updates to see how all of these players perform today at the 2025 WSOP!

On Day 44 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Event #85: $600 Ultra Stack is down to the final 14 players from a 7,057-entry field. However, none of those remaining are fantasy players.

In the 2025 WSOP $10,000 Main Event, the field of 9,735 runners is down to 1,476, which is just 15 off the money. There are plenty of fantasy players remaining and primed to get some points including [Removed:548] (Team Liaison), Dong Chen (Team Lady Gaga), Maksim Pisarenko (Team Noori), Viktor Blom (Team Dinkers), Kevin Gerhart (Team Phenom), Nick Pupillo (Team Girl Dads), Jason Mercier (Team Hoggers), Brian Hastings (Team AJ’s Eagles), Jon Kyte (Team Glue Factory), Mike Matusow (Team Negreanu), Esther Taylor (Team Survivor Sweat), Chris Hunichen (Team Handsome Horses), Adam Hendrix (Team Lady Gaga), Justin Liberto (Team AJ’s Eagles), Stephen Chidwick (Team BTG), Brian Yoon (Team Hoggers), James Obst (Team Australia), Brad Owen (Team Girl Dads), Andrew Ostapchenko (Team Liaison), Anthony Zinno (Team Negreanu), Josh Arieh (Team Jeremy’s), Noel Rodriguez (Team Frog Poison), Dylan Linde (Team BTG), Jerry Wong (Team Australia), Sergio Aido (Team Dinkers), Dan Sepiol (Team Phenom), Yuri Dzivielevski (Team Liaison), Christian Harder (Team Splash Sports), and Josh Reichard (Team Lang).

Likewise, ODB Bonus players still in include Nate Silver, Matt Affleck, Masato Yokosawa, Dash Dudley, Justin Zaki, Nadya Magnus, Darren Elias, Kevin Calenzo, Matthew McEwan, Francis Anderson, Michael Mizrachi, Asher Conniff, Bin Weng, Loni Harwood, Landon Tice, John Holley, and Natalie Ferguson.

Meanwhile, two new events will kick off on Wednesday in Event #88: $50,000 High Roller and Event #89: $3,000 Mid-Stakes Championship.

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

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On Day 37 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Day 3 of Event #77: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship is down to the final 15 players from a 186-runner field including Phil Hellmuth (Team Money Mondays Podcast), Viktor Blom (Team Dinkers), Alex Livingston (Team Noori), Tomasz Gluszko (Team Handsome Horses), Christopher Claassen (Team Handsome Horse), and ODB Bonus player Jordan Siegel.

Among those returning for Day 2 of Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship are a pair of ODB Bonus players Qiang Xu and Darren Rabinowitz. There are no 25K Fantasy players remaining in this one.

Day 2 of Event #79: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller will see Arthur Morris (Team AJ’s Eagles) return as the chip leader while Daniel Negreanu (Team Negreanu) sits third in chips. Others still in contention include Eelis Parssinen (Team Jeremy’s), Sam Soverel (Team Lang), John Hennigan (Team Wass), Bryce Yockey (Team Jeremy’s), Alex Foxen (Team Money Mondays Podcast), Seth Davies (Team DPMD), Chris Brewer (Team NOVIG), [Removed:548] (Team Liaison), Jason Koon (Team Splash Sports), Isaac Haxton (Team BTG), Jeremy Ausmus (Team DPMD), Nick Schulman (Team Splash Sports), and Ben Lamb (Team Money Mondays Podcast).

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

Be sure to follow the PokerNews Live Updates to see how all of these players perform today at the 2025 WSOP!

On Day 36 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Day 4 of Event #74: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship will see the final seven players from an 874-entry field return including chip leader Quan Zhou (Team Lady Gaga) and the short-stacked Alex Foxen (Team Lady Gaga); as well as, ODB Bonus player Michael Wang. All of them will earn fantasy points, but only one of them could potentially win the $1,394,579 first-place prize.

Event #76: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet is down to 11 players from a 458-entry field. Among those coming back for Day 3 are Aaron Kupin (Team Hoggers), Daniel Negreanu (Team Negreanu), and Marco Johnson (Team Survivor Sweat), who sit first through third in chips, respectively. Also returning are Jeff Madsen (Team Brown’s Bargain Bin) and Christopher Vitch (Team Phenom).

After Day 1 of Event #77: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, 78 players from a 160-runner field, including dozens of fantasy players. ODB Bonus player Walter Chambers leads the pack, followed by Shaun Deeb (Team Phenom), Scott Bohlman (Team Brown’s Bargain Bin), and Anthony Zinno (Team Negreanu), who round out the top four stacks.

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

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On Day 31 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the Event #64: $1,000 Super Seniors final table will play out, but none of the remaining field are 25K Fantasy players nor ODB Bonus players.

Over in Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship, the money bubble burst at the end of Day 3, so for Day 4 just 17 players will return, including ODB Bonus players Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Andrew Yeh, who sit third and first in chips, respectively. As for 25K players returning, they include Ben Lamb (Team Money Mondays Podcast), Mike Matusow (Team Negreanu), Esther Taylor (Team Survivor Sweat), Erick Lindgren (Team Negreanu), Ali Eslami (Team Survivor Sweat), Marco Johnson (Team Survivor Sweat), Christian Roberts (Team Girl Dads), Justin Liberto (Team AJ’s Eagles), Joao Vieira (Team Lady Gaga), Christopher Vitch (Team Phenom), Ben Yu (Team Survivor Sweat), and ), Jon Kyte (Team Glue Factory).

After Day 2 of Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em, 127 players from a 2,338-entry field found a bag. Among them are Dan Sepiol (Team Phenom), Martin Zamani (Team AJ’s Eagles), Stephen Song (Team DPMD), Arthur Morris (Team AJ’s Eagles), Dylan Linde (Team BTG), Adrian Mateos (Team Splash Sports), Ari Engel (Team Lang), Robert Wells (Team Hoggers), Ren Lin (Team Splash Sports), Chino Rheem (Team Handsome Horses); as well as, Nitesh Rawtani, Evan Sandberg, and Michael Berk.

In Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, the field is down to the final 11 players from the original 615 runners. The only player remaining is 1996 WSOP Main Event champ Huck Seed (Team Phenom), who is on the shorter side of things, sitting eighth in chips.

Finally, over in Event #71: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship, there are plenty of fantasy implications among the 50 returning players, including chip leader Jon Shoreman (Team DPMD), Yueqi Zhu (Team NOVIG), John Monnette (Team Liaison), Jeremy Ausmus (Team DPMD), and Daniel Negreanu (Team Negreanu), among many others.

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

Be sure to follow the PokerNews Live Updates to see how all of these players perform today at the 2025 WSOP!

On Day 30 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker is down to the final seven players from a 11,996-entry field. Josh Reichard (Team Lang) is the only 25K Fantasy player remaining, and he just so happens to hold a big chip lead. Not only will he be earning Team Lang some valuable points, but he could very well walk away with the $1,255,180 top prize and his first WSOP gold bracelet after several close calls.

Event #62: $5,000 6-Handed NLH started with 1,168 runners, but only 54 of them will return for Day 3. They include Jake Schwartz (Hoggers), Anthony Zinno (Negreanu), Renji Mao (Splash Sports), Mustapha Kanit (Team Australia), Ryan Leng (Frog Poison), and Renan Bruschi (Team Wass); as well as, ODB Bonus player Michael Wang.

Just 11 players from a 635-entry field return for Day 3 in Event #63: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, including the 25K Fantasy players in the short-stacked Jon Turner (Team Negreanu) and Brandon Shack-Harris (Team Australia).

Day 2 of Event #64: $1,000 Super Seniors will have 880 players return to action, but none of them are 25K Fantasy players nor ODB Bonus players.

On the flip side, Day 2 of Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship will see a ton of 25K Fantasy players return including chip leader Ali Eslami (Team Survivor Sweat), Jeremy Ausmus (Team DPMD), Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen (Team Handsome Horses), Christopher Vitch (Team Phenom), and ODB Bonus player Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, who all sit in the top five chip counts.

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

Be sure to follow the PokerNews Live Updates to see how all of these players perform today at the 2025 WSOP!

On Day 26 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Day 5 of Event #48: $1,000 Senior’s NLH Championship will see seven players from a 7,575-entry field return to action including ODB Bonus player Manish Madan, though he is the extreme short stack so will face an uphill battle to capture the bracelet.

Just four players from a 207-entry field remain in Event #55: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship, including Brad Ruben (Team NOVIG) and Jason Mercier (Team Hoggers), who sit third and fourth in chips, respectively.

Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball will see 15 players from a 463-entry field return to action including chip leader David “Bakes” Baker (Team Jeremy’s), Benny Glaser (Team Dinkers), Yuval Bronshtein (Team Brown’s Bargain Bin), and Chino Rheem (Team Handsome Horses).

Finally, Event #57: $50,000 PLO High Roller drew 148 runners on Day 1, but only 62 players advanced including dozens of 25K Fantasy players such as Biao Ding (Team Noori), Alex Foxen (Team Lady Gaga), Eelis Parssinen (Team Jeremy’s), Sean Winter (Team Wass), Isaac Haxton (Team BTG), Arthur Morris (Team AJ’s Eagles), Artur Martirosian (Team Jeremy’s), Shaun Deeb (Team Phenom), and John Riordan (Team Splashy Octopi).

How to Follow the Action

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with either a 25K Fantasy or ODB badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the 25K Fantasy or ODB badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by 25K Fantasy players.

Be sure to follow the PokerNews Live Updates to see how all of these players perform today at the 2025 WSOP!