2025 Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 49
$2,200 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 219
Prize Pool: $438,000
April 2-3, 2025
There were 219 entries in the two-day $2,200 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em event, generating a prizepool worth $438,000, which more than doubled the $200K guarantee.
Jake Cody emerged victorious, defeating Kevin Eyster heads-up to win the title, the trophy, and $93,900.
Day 1 played down to the final table, with Eyster in the chip lead, followed by Cody. And after the eliminations of Jeremy Becker (4th place) and Mykhail Lendel (3rd place) in a span of a few minutes, Eyster had a 1.5-to-1 lead for the start of heads-up play against Cody.
The heads-up battle lasted for an hour and a half, until Eyster got short and got it in with 
against Cody’s 
. The board came 
, giving Cody the victory with a pair of queens.
Cody is a top poker player with more than $4.6 million in career earnings, and he is in the elite club of players with a triple crown — a WPT title, a WSOP bracelet, and an EPT title. And now Cody can add a Seminole Hard Rock trophy to his collection.
RESULTS:
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Cody | $93,900 |
| 2 | Kevin | Eyster | $66,500 |
| 3 | Mykhail | Lendel | $47,500 |
| 4 | Jeremy | Becker | $35,500 |
| 5 | Tim | Capretta | $27,000 |
| 6 | Artem | Metalidi | $20,500 |
| 7 | Petre Bogdan | Ionescu | $15,800 |
| 8 | Gregory | Back | $12,300 |
| 9 | Scott | Margereson | $9,600 |
| 10 | Bryce | McVay | $9,600 |
| 11 | Alex | Keating | $8,200 |
| 12 | Dorian | Rios | $8,200 |
| 13 | Carlos | Bermudez | $7,000 |
| 14 | Mathew | Frankland | $7,000 |
| 15 | Taylor | Hart | $7,000 |
| 16 | Will | Failla | $5,800 |
| 17 | Zachary | Fischer | $5,800 |
| 18 | Kevin | MacDonald | $5,800 |
| 19 | Joseph | Molitor | $5,800 |
| 20 | Clemen | Deng | $4,800 |
| 21 | Kharlin | Sued | $4,800 |
| 22 | Daniel | Vranich | $4,800 |
| 23 | Harvey | Castro | $4,800 |
| 24 | Chun | Kwan | $4,000 |
| 25 | Joseph | Crowley | $4,000 |
| 26 | Bryan | Paris | $4,000 |
| 27 | Adam | Agaev | $4,000 |
| T-28 | Ryan | Dougherty | $2,000 |
| T-28 | Eugene | Golubchik | $2,000 |