2025 WSOP Gets Ready to Usher in Some Seven Card Stud Action
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Today marks the start of Event #6: $1,500 Seven Card Stud, the first bracelet-awarding stud tournament of the 2025 WSOP. Day 1 shuffles up and deals at 2 p.m. local time here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Entrants start with 25,000 chips and will play 40-minute levels; 15-minute breaks are scheduled every three levels.
Day 1 of this three-day event breaks after 15 levels, with surviving players returning to their seats at 1 p.m. local time on Friday, May 30. Blind levels extend to 60 minutes on Day 2, and players will aim to survive 10 more levels.
Popular British pro Richard "Chufty" Ashby is this event's reigning champion. Ashby outlasted 405 opponents and banked $113,725 of the $542,010 prize pool, plus his second WSOP bracelet. Amazingly, Ashby's first bracelet came from this very event, but at the 2010 WSOP.
Ashby described his bracelet win as "pretty surreal" after he overcame an 4:1 chip deficit.
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 406 | Richard Ashby | United Kingdom | $113,725 |
| 2023 | 339 | Nick Schulman | United States | $110,800 |
| 2022 | 329 | Alex Livingston | Canada | $103,282 |
| 2021 | 260 | Rafael Lebron | United States | $82,262 |
| 2020 | - | Not Held | - | - |
| 2019 | 285 | Eli Elezra | Israel | $93,766 |
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