Daily Tournament Highlights
Day live Completed
Daily Tournament Highlights
Day live Completed
Yesterday (July 14), was the last day of action at the Wynn Summer Classic, closing out what has been an incredible summer of poker.
The final day of the event had just two simple one-day events to complete. A $600 No Limit Hold’em ($50k GTD) and a $600 No Limit Hold’em Turbo ($50k GTD).
The small schedule still attracted a big player base which made for a quiet send off to a massive two-months of poker in which almost $70 million in prizes were handed out across 87 events.
The last $600 No Limit Hold’em ($50k GTD) event of the Wynn Summer Classic was won by Americ Stiller, who outlasted 447 entries to earn a $44,303 cut of the $230,205 prize pool.
The tournament's guarantee of $50,000 anticipated a turnout of just over one-fifth of those numbers. Instead, the event rivalled some of the biggest one day events of the serie, ending the festival on a strong note.
Of the prize pool, some $29,637 went to Jordan Henegar, Stiller's heads-up opponent. Henegar ultimately took second place.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Americ Stiller | $44,303 |
| 2 | Jordan Henegar | $29,637 |
| 3 | Albert Ng | $22,686 |
| 4 | Alejandrop Garcia Asenjo | $17,771 |
| 5 | Michael Setera | $13,751 |
| 6 | Teofil Groza | $10,467 |
| 7 | Yvo Steiner | $7,856 |
| 8 | Larry Serebryany | $5,742 |
| 9 | Joshua Matti | $4,150 |
Phillip Latimer had the honor of winning the last event of the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic. He took down the $600 No Limit Hold’em Turbo ($50k GTD), earning $28,492 and the final WSC trophy of the summer.
Latimer outlasted a field of 312 entries, a solid turnout for the last event of the festival, which put $160,680 in the pot.
To earn the trophy, Latimer had to beat Jianfeng Sun heads up. The pair cut a heads-up deal before battling it out for the trophy.
So, Sun ended up taking $25,711 home for second place.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phillip Latimer | $28,492 |
| 2 | Jianfeng Sun | $25,711 |
| 3 | Bryan Allen | $16,677 |
| 4 | Clayton Maguire | $13,070 |
| 5 | Nicolas Palma Jalife | $10,140 |
| 6 | Robert Bull | $7,718 |
| 7 | Robert Spano | $5,759 |
| 8 | Aaron Thivyanathan | $4,200 |
| 9 | Errol Samuel | $3,101 |
Check out the winners so far at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.
So, the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic ended with a total of $69,175,810 in prizes across 87 events. A total of $11,276,752 prizes went to first-place finishers (not including bounties), divided up by either as tournament payouts or as part of final table deals.
The main event of the Wynn Summer Classic, the $10,400 Wynn Summer Championship, garnered a total of 1,537 entries, for a total prize pool of $15,062,600.
Michael Sklenicka took the championship title down, earning $2,339,200, a trophy, and a spot in the history books.
Daily tournaments resume at the Wynn Las Vegas poker room today. However, it won't be long until the next big festival at the Wynn.
The Wynn Signature Series begins on August 21 and runs until September 7. This festival will focus on low-to-mid-stakes buy ins. Reflecting that, the main event of the festival will be a $1,100 No Limit Hold’em with a $400,000 guarantee.
The penultimate day of the Wynn Summer Classic at the Wynn Las Vegas fell on July 13.
The day saw action in two events, both of them smaller no-limit hold’em events.
he $600 No Limit Hold’em ($50k GTD) and $600 No Limit Hold’em Turbo ($50k GTD), played out from start to finish, leaving the field free for the final day of action today!
The $600 No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD) is the little brother of the stalwart $1,100 NLH events that have run on the majority of days at the Wynn Summer Classic.
In this case, a smaller buy in meant a smaller event with just 137 entries, a turnout that put $70,555 in the prize pool.
Michael Mizrahi won this event, earning$19,049 to go with his first-place prize. To get there, Mizrahi had to get past Rodruigo Cella during heads up play. The pair battled it out for the trophy, but Mizrahi prevailed.
Cella took home $11,762 for second place, with Michael Abreu rounding out the podium positions and earning himself $8,220.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Mizrahi | $19,049 |
| 2 | Rodruigo Cella | $11,762 |
| 3 | Michael Abreu | $8,220 |
| 4 | Joel ShackelfordJ | $6,103 |
| 5 | Abazar Khayami | $4,516 |
| 6 | Pavle Pecelj | $3,387 |
| 7 | Nathan Bomey | $2,646 |
| 8 | Eric Piderit | $2,134 |
| 9 | Noah Piderit | $1,774 |
The other event of the day was the $600 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($50k GTD). More or less the same as the previous event but with shorter blind levels and faster action.
A total of 253 players bought into the tournament, putting $130,295 in the prize pool. This meant that when Roberto Damelian and Idianlei Zhang were battling heads up, there was a first-place prize of $26,661 at stake.
Damelian ultimately prevailed, collecting the first-place prize and a Wynn Summer Classic trophy.
Riley Dieckhoff came third, earning $13,839.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roberto Damelian | $26,661 |
| 2 | Idianlei Zhang | $18,534 |
| 3 | Riley Dieckhoff | $13,839 |
| 4 | Macio Zacconi | $10,889 |
| 5 | Ghali Haloui | $8,516 |
| 6 | Miguel Herreros Sanchez | $6,526 |
| 7 | Sye Hickey | $4,828 |
| 8 | Sam Harvey | $3,649 |
| 9 | Peng Zhang | $2,789 |
Check out the winners so far at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.
And so we come to the final chapter of this year's Wynn Summer Classic.
Today will be the last day of action, and to play the festival off the stage, the Wynn is running two final events.
The $600 No Limit Hold'em ($50k GTD) starts at midday. This event has 30-minute blind levels, 30,000 starting stacks, and late registration until 4:30 p.m.
Then at 6 p.m., final shuffle up and deal of the festival will be called to start the $600 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($50k GTD).
This event also has 30,000 starting stacks, but comes with 20-minute blind levels. Late registration will close at around 9 p.m., when level nine of the event is due to start.
| TIME | EVENT | GUARANTEE | ENTRY | CHIPS | LEVELS | END OF REG. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em | $50,000 | $600 | 30,000 | 30 | 4:30 p.m. | ||
| 6 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em Turbo | $50,000 | $600 | 30,000 | 20 | 9:00 p.m. |
Just two days remain in what has been an entertaining 2025 Wynn Summer Classic. Two more events are in store on Sunday before the series wraps on Monday. But before we look ahead, we must look back at Saturday's results and celebrate the three newest champions.
Those three individuals are Jeremy Schoenberg, Ronald Keijzer, and Romain Locquet. They all won tournaments late Saturday night that surpassed the prize pool guarantees, a trend throughout the Wynn Summer Classic. Let's take a look at how it all went down yesterday in Las Vegas.
The action kicked off at noon from Wynn-Encore with an $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em event, featuring a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. As per usual, the pot surpassed the guarantee ($115,050) with 118 entrants registered.
When all was said and done, Schoenberg was the only player who still had chips. He won $31,636 and now has nearly $300,00 in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob. The championd defeated Tetsuro Tomita heads-up to close things out. A runner-up finish was worth $20,042.
Lorenzo Santos (third place for $13,864), Jamie Dalupan (fourth place for $10,124), and Glenn Cozen (fifth place for $7,496) rounded out the top five.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeremy Schoenberg | $31,636 |
| 2 | Tetsuro Tomita | $20,042 |
| 3 | Lorenzo Santos | $13,864 |
| 4 | Jamie Dalupan | $10,124 |
| 5 | Glenn Cozen | $7,496 |
| 6 | Scott Wellenbach | $5,770 |
| 7 | David Hudson | $4,516 |
| 8 | Joshua Brunner | $3,682 |
| 9 | Yi Ke | $3,106 |
No-limit hold'em wasn't the only game played on Saturday at the Wynn Summer Classic. An $1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max tournament was spread, and it came with a $50,000 guarantee. That guarantee was completely obliterated after reaching 351 entries, creating a $342,225 prize in the 1 p.m. tournament.
Keijzer came out on top in this large-field event, a run that ended with a $67,850 payday. He beat Arie Kliper, who received $45,261, heads-up to close out the win. Zachary Schwartz (third place for $34,811), Ankush Khandelwal (fourth place for $27,281), Dan Komem (fifth place for $21,165), and Yaser Al-Keliddar (sixth place for $16,110) also reached the final table.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronald Keijzer | $67,850 |
| 2 | Arie Kliper | $45,261 |
| 3 | Zachary Schwartz | $34,811 |
| 4 | Ankush Khandelwal | $27,281 |
| 5 | Dan Komem | $21,165 |
| 6 | Yaser Al-Keliddar | $16,110 |
The third and final tournament of the day — $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo — started at 6 p.m. The field reached 215 entries before registration closed, making for a $209,625 prize pool, more than double the $100,000 guarantee.
Locquet, a French poker player who cashed in 164th place in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event last week, took down the title for a $49,087 payday. The winner beat Linus Goh heads-up for the win, while Goh earned $30,349 for his near win.
Nan Zhang took third place for $22,134, Shotaro Kobayashi was eliminated in fourth place for $16,557, and Nikolay Ponomarev collected $12,233 for fifth place. Kobayashi, like Locquet, cashed in the WSOP Main Event (631st place). Saturday's Wynn score was just his second recorded live tournament cash ever.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romain Locquet | $49,087 |
| 2 | Linus Goh | $30,349 |
| 3 | Nan Zhang | $22,134 |
| 4 | Shotaro Kobayashi | $16,557 |
| 5 | Nikolay Ponomarev | $12,233 |
| 6 | Dylan Kahn | $9,316 |
| 7 | Reginald Roberts | $7,287 |
| 8 | Brevin Andreadis | $5,855 |
| 9 | Changjie Zhang | $4,847 |
Today (July 12), the Wynn Summer Classic has two events on the schedule, starting with the $600 No-Limit Hold'em at noon. This one offers a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. Players will start with 30,000 chips and play 30-minute levels. Registration will close at 4:30 p.m.
The nightcap — $600 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo — begins at 6 p.m. It's the same tournament but with quicker blind levels (20 minutes). Players begin with 30,000 chips and will be playing for at least a $50,000 prize pool. Registration will close at 9 p.m.
| TIME | EVENT | GUARANTEE | ENTRY | CHIPS | LEVELS | END OF REG. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em | $50,000 | $600 | 30,000 | 30 | 4:30 p.m. | ||
| 6 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em Turbo | $50,000 | $600 | 30,000 | 20 | 9:00 p.m. |
Check out the remaining Wynn Summer Classic Schedule below!
Another day of poker action, another day of guaranteed prize pools being smashed. That's how it went down on July 11 at the Wynn Summer Classic on the Las Vegas Strip.
Three poker players escaped difficult fields to win sizable amounts of money and a coveted Wynn replica trophy. Those three individuals are Damaso Benalcazar, Benjamin Grise, and Ronald Fernandez Ucona.
The series is winding down, but there are still some juicy events on the schedule left.
The first event of the day — $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em — began at noon from inside the Encore. The tournament had a $250,000 prize pool, which was easily surpassed thanks to the 356 entrants. With $347,100 in the pot, Benalcazar claimed the biggest share ($68,813).
Giuseepe Calio lost heads-up to Benalcazar for the title, but he still received $45,905 as a consolation prize. Jayden Krnyaich finished in third place for $35,307. Angelina Rich was the fourth-place finisher and took home $27,670, while Rudy Cervantes rounded out the top five with a $21,467 payday.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damaso Benalcazar | $68,813 |
| 2 | Giuseppe Calio | $45,905 |
| 3 | Jayden Krnyaich | $35,307 |
| 4 | Angelina Rich | $27,670 |
| 5 | Rudy Cervantes | $21,467 |
| 6 | Jason Clarke | $16,339 |
| 7 | Pablo Alvear Baschwitz | $12,192 |
| 8 | Kim Schinco | $8,893 |
| 9 | Lukas Bencovic | $6,371 |
Grise not only cashed in his first live poker tournament since December 2024. He also surpassed the $1 million mark in career cashes, according to The Hendon Mob.
Grise took down the $10,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max event at Wynn on Friday. He beat a field of 69 entrants, and took the largest portion of the $69,000 prize pool — $215,625. To earn that money, he had to beat a tough field that included his heads-up opponent, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Latvia's all time live tournament earnings leader with over $27 million in cashes.
Ponakovs collected $138,000 for his second-place finish. Grise also outlasted the skilled third-place finisher — Igor Yaroshevskyy ($96,600). Yuan Lei (fourth place for $69,000), Weirui Tang (fifth place for $51,405), and Paulius Vaitiekunas (sixth place for $39,675) also reached the final table.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Grise | $215,625 |
| 2 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $138,000 |
| 3 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | $96,600 |
| 4 | Yuan Lei | $69,000 |
| 5 | Weirui Tang | $51,405 |
| 6 | Paulius Vaitiekunas | $39,675 |
The third an final event on July 11, which started at 6 p.m., was the $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo. This one attracted 184 entrants, creating a prize pool of $179,480, exceeding the $100,000 guarantee.
Fernandez Ucona was the last player standing, an accomplishment that resulted in a $43,913 payday. The champion beat Ahmed Edali heads-up to finish things off, and the runner-up earned $26,983 for the deep run.
The rest of the top five in this event, which ran late in the night, went as follows: Third place for $19,423 (Klemens Binswanger), fourth place for $14,694 (Kuang Lee), and fifth place for $10,916 (Antoine Vranken).
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronald Fernandez Ucona | $43,914 |
| 2 | Ahmed Edali | $26,983 |
| 3 | Klemens Binswanger | $19,423 |
| 4 | Kuang Lee | $14,694 |
| 5 | Antoine Vranken | $10,916 |
| 6 | George Pappas | $8,112 |
| 7 | Renee Xie | $6,430 |
| 8 | Fabian Scherle | $5,237 |
| 9 | Ingracia Bet Dias De Oliveira | $4,352 |
Check out the winners so far at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.
Today (July 12), the Wynn Summer Classic has another three events on the go. All three of which will be brand new starters. Each will be of the one-day variety.
The action begins at noon with an $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament, which promises at least $100,000 in the pot. Each level lasts 30 minutes, and players start with 30,000 chips.
At 1 p.m., the $1,100 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max event kicks off. This one features a $50,000 minimum prize pool with starting stacks at 30,000 chips (30-minute levels).
Lastly, the $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo begins at 6 p.m.. This $100,000 guaranteed tournament has 20-minute levels and 30,000 chips to begin play.
| TIME | EVENT | GUARANTEE | ENTRY | CHIPS | LEVELS | END OF REG. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em | $100,000 | $1,100 | 30,000 | 30 | 4:30 p.m. | ||
| 1 p.m. | Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max | $50,,000 | $1,100 | 30,000 | 30 | 5:30 p.m. | ||
| 6 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em Turbo | $100,000 | $1,100 | 30,000 | 20 | 9:00 p.m. |
Check out the remaining Wynn Summer Classic Schedule below!
July 10 was a busy day for the poker room cashier at the Wynn Las Vegas, where four tournaments played down to winners at the Wynn Summer Classic.
The final table of the $2,200 No Limit Hold’em knocked out its last eight players, awarding the juiciest cuts of its $4 million dollar prize pool to those top spots.
Two one-day $1,100 No Limit Hold’em events (one turbo, one regular speed) went all the way from no entries to no survivors, as did an entire mixed-game $1,100 T.O.R.S.E. tourney.
A Brazilian pro, Edson Tsutsumi Jr, won the $2,200 No Limit Hold'em ($2m GTD) event. In the process, he earned $652,846 and a Wynn Summer Classic trophy. What's more is that he did so on his first-ever trip to Vegas.
According to a post-game interview with the Wynn staff, this was Tsutsumi's first trip to Vegas. However, he has several live cashes as a local in Brazil as well as remotely in WSOP Online events. These cashes aslo include a runner-up finish in the 2021 WSOP Online $5,000 Main Event where Tsutsumi won $1,907,035.
Tsutsumi's Wynns Summer Classic victory came after three days of play in which he outlasted a field of 2,006 entries that generated a prize pool of $3,981,910.
Tsutumi's heads up opponent was Thomas Muehloecker, a high roller regular with over $10 million in live tournament cashes. He earned $430,853 for second.
Another high roller regular Eugene Katchalov managed to take fourth for $253,48.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edson Tsutsumi Jr | Brazil | $652,846 |
| 2 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | $430,853 |
| 3 | Brian Luo | United States | $328,689 |
| 4 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | $253,481 |
| 5 | Patrik Jaros | Czech Republic | $195,237 |
| 6 | Tanner Rose | United States | $148,721 |
| 7 | Robert Pollmeier | Germany | $111,738 |
| 8 | Tjan Tepeh | Slovenia | $82,075 |
Yudai Futai mixed things up in the $1,100 T.O.R.S.E. ($50k GTD) to take the event down.
The last eight times Futai cashed, he made a final table, including an eighth-place finish in 2025 WSOP Event #61: $500 Freezeout last month. This was his ninth final table cash in a row.
Futai came first out of a field of 146 entrants. With $142,350 in the prize pool, his heads-up opponent, Andrew Lavender, earned $30,151.
Seventeen places were paid and Caitlin Comesky scraped into 17th, earning the min-cash of $2,448.
This was the last mixed game event of the festival.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yudai Futai | Japan | $32,015 |
| 2 | Andrew Lavender | United States | $30,151 |
| 3 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russian | $16,584 |
| 4 | Gennadiy Dvosis | United States | $12,313 |
| 5 | Frankie O'Dell | United States | $9,110 |
| 6 | Joshua Ray | United States | $6,833 |
| 7 | Yannick Jobin | Switzerland | $5,338 |
| 8 | Robert Michel | United States | $4,306 |
Nicholas Palma won the $1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD).
Palma has had a good Wynn Summer Classic this year, cashing in four other events. These cashes include a third-place finish in a $600 NLH Turbo early on in the series.
The event garnered 391 entries for a $381,225 prize pool and $62,223 up top. Palma had to defeat a Polish pro, Krysztof Zapolski, heads up to claim this prize.
Zapolski earned $50,033 for his finish.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicholas Palma | United States | $62,223 |
| 2 | Krysztof Zapolski | Poland | $50,033 |
| 3 | Donald Landwirth | United States | $42,059 |
| 4 | Edward Kang | United States | $39,365 |
| 5 | Kajetan Renke | Poland | $23,393 |
| 6 | Chrysi Phiniotis | Cyprus | $17,806 |
| 7 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | Netherlands | $13,286 |
| 8 | Daniel Orgil | United States | $9,691 |
| 9 | Richard Mullen | Canada | $6,943 |
With 240 entries and $234,000 in the prize pool, the $1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD) was a pretty typical example of this type of tourney, which has been the faithful workhorse of the Wynn Summer Classic schedule.
This edition of the event went to Max Pinnola, who won $32,879 to go with his trophy.
Alexandru Tibulca came second, falling to Pinnola at the last hurdle but earning $30,228 as part of a heads-up deal.
Nikki Limo, the "loose-cannon" on the first season of The Big Game on Tour, came third in the event, earning $25,420.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Pinnola | United States | $32,879 |
| 2 | Alexandru Tibulca | United States | $30,228 |
| 3 | Nikki Limo | United States | $25,420 |
| 4 | Amapreet Dhoot | Canada | $24,116 |
| 5 | Sabry Wazwaz | United States | $22,866 |
| 6 | Ethan Ackerman | United States | $17,073 |
| 7 | David Urban | United States | $8,671 |
| 8 | Carlos Vizoso | United States | $6,553 |
| 9 | Carter McMahon | United States | $5,009 |
Check out the winners so far at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.
Today (July 11), the Wynn Summer Classic has another three events on the go. All three of which will be brand new starters.
There will be the usual two $1,100 events plus a $10,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max.
The first $1,100 event is the $1,100 No Limit Hold'em ($250k GTD) which kicks off at midday. Late registration in this event will stay open until 4:30 p.m., when level 9 is expected to begin.
The $10,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max event starts an hour later at 1 p.m. with 100,000 starting stacks, and 30-minute starting blind levels rising to 40 minutes later in the day.
There is a discount for buying in before the start time. However, if you cannot make it by then, late registration doesn't close until around 5:30 p.m.
The last event will be the $1,100 No Limit Hold'em Turbo ($100k GTD), which rolls out at 6 p.m. with late registration until around 9 p.m. This event has 20-minute blinds.
All three events are scheduled to be single-day events.
| TIME | EVENT | GUARANTEE | ENTRY | CHIPS | LEVELS | END OF REG. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em | $250,000 | $1,100 | 30,000 | 30 | 4:30 p.m. | ||
| 1 p.m. | NLH 6-Max | $10,500** | 100,000 | 30/40 | 5:30 p.m. | |||
| 6 p.m. | No Limit Hold'em Turbo | $100,000 | $1,100 | 30,000 | 20 | 9:00 p.m. |
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