Matt Glantz has been a staple at the World Series of Poker for decades. The Team Lucky member's first WSOP cash came all the way back in 2000, when he min-cashed a $5,000 Limit Hold'em event. Since then, Glantz has amassed nearly $9 million in tournament earnings, won two WSOP Circuit rings, and has been present at 16 official bracelet events' final tables. Despite all his achievements, a bracelet still eludes Glantz; however, that might all change today at the 2025 World Series of Poker.
Glantz has made the 17th WSOP final table of his storied career in Event #19: $500 The COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em. Only nine players from the colossal field of 16,301 entries will return at 1 p.m. local time to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas to divide the largest shares of the $6,664,102 prize pool and decide who will take home the WSOP bracelet and the staggering $542,540 first-place prize. With 60,900,000 in chips, Glantz sits near the bottom of the leaderboard, being one of four players who will sit down at the short-stacked final table with only 12 big blinds.
Three-time bracelet winner and fellow 25K Fantasy pick Ryan Leng and Brazilian UFC fighter Antonio Trocoli Filho are also among the shortest stacks. Meanwhile, chip leader Ramaswamy Pyloore will start the final day with over a quarter of the chips in play. Germany's Sigrid Dencker is the only other player with a nine-figure stack, as the only lady at the final table bagged 101,300,000 on Day 3.
Final Table Seating and Chip Counts
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Trocoli Filho | Brazil | 61,000,000 | 12 |
| 2 | Justin Gutierrez | United States | 74,400,000 | 15 |
| 3 | Kaiwen Wei | United States | 90,000,000 | 18 |
| 4 | Courtenay Williams | United States | 60,600,000 | 12 |
| 5 | Jason Blodgett | United States | 82,000,000 | 16 |
| 6 | Matt Glantz | United States | 60,900,000 | 12 |
| 7 | Ryan Leng | United States | 60,400,000 | 12 |
| 8 | Sigrid Dencker | Germany | 101,300,000 | 20 |
| 9 | Ramaswamy Pyloore | United States | 224,700,000 | 45 |
The $57,970 the players have secured would be a decent first-place prize in any other tournament at this buy-in level, and is already the highest-ever score for six out of nine returning players. With six-figure payouts starting at the final six players, the pay jumps are huge, bringing massive ICM implications with them.
Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $542,540 |
| 2 | $361,690 |
| 3 | $273,260 |
| 4 | $207,740 |
| 5 | $158,910 |
| 6 | $122,330 |
| 7 | $94,760 |
| 8 | $73,880 |
| 9 | $57,970 |
The players will return with 19 minutes and 10 seconds left to play in Level 44: 2,500,000/5,000,000 with a 5,000,000 big blind ante. The levels will stay 40 minutes long throughout the final table, with a small break after every three levels.
An extra day was added to the tournament as PokerGO has selected the COLOSSUS to be streamed, which will start one hour after the "shuffle up and deal," at 2 p.m. The live reporting will follow the same delay to avoid spoilers.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who will conquer one of the biggest fields of the 2025 World Series of Poker, walking away with over half a million dollars and the coveted WSOP bracelet.
