Showdown

Art Peacock Wins the 2025 WPT Poker Showdown Championship for $776,000!

2025 Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 58
$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  1,755
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000
April 4-8, 2025

Art Peacock

The 2025 WPT Poker Showdown Championship headlined the series and the $3,500 buy-in tournament drew 1,755 entries, turning the $3,000,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $5,616,000. The final table was played down in Las Vegas and Florida poker legend Art Peacock took the top spot on the big stage for $776,000.

Another title on his résumé, congrats Art!

PlaceFirst NameLast NameAmount
1ArthurPeacock$776,000
2MihaiNiste$515,000
3DanielMarcus$380,000
4MitchellHynam$285,000
5JaredHemingway$215,000
6JeffreyFritz$164,000
7RafaelRodriguez Arang$126,000
8AlainMedesan$98,000
9BrianYoon$77,000
10JohnnyBromberg$77,000
11FrankFunaro Jr$65,000
12AlfiePoetra$65,000
13KharlinSued$54,000
14DungNguyen$54,000
15SridharSangannagari$54,000
16NathanThrush$45,500
17ScottHeiligman$45,500
18BrianAltman$45,500
19AsherConniff$45,500
20MichaelVanier$38,500
21DavidMoses$38,500
22HassanEl Hakim$38,500
23HyndiKhomutetsky$38,500
24ShuofeiGeng$32,500
25NicholasSena-Hopkins$32,500
26NicholasBlumenthal$32,500
27LucasReeves$32,500
28JimmyBorn$32,500
29ElijahBerg$32,500
30DanielShiff$32,500
31JorgeGomez$32,500
32HarrisonGimbel$27,500
33DanielChalifour$27,500
34WilliamPappas$27,500
35JonathanBennett$27,500
36SeunghyunNam$27,500
37JoshuaAdcock$27,500
38NadyaMagnus$27,500
39JarrettMullins$27,500
40SeanAstwood$23,000
41DonaldDelancy$23,000
42AsherNeaman$23,000
43ThomasBoivin$23,000
44PeterMugar$23,000
45AbbasHadizadeh$23,000
46ViktorKovachev$23,000
47DavidHa$23,000
48AdrianHoda$19,400
49YunkyuSong$19,400
50Jen-YueChiang$19,400
51AaronAugusten$19,400
52OnielMccalla$19,400
53OryHen$19,400
54DanielLee$19,400
55JoshuaStewart$19,400
56DylanSmith$16,300
57JohnMatsuda$16,300
58EugeneGolubchik$16,300
59MarkDavidoff$16,300
60DavidUvaydov$16,300
61AkashSeth$16,300
62ThomasKornechuk$16,300
63SpencerChamplin$16,300
64ZhenCai$13,800
65JasonHickey$13,800
66NancyBirnbaum$13,800
67MichaelZulker$13,800
68AlexAnton$13,800
69AdrianState$13,800
70JakeSchwartz$13,800
71VictorAvallone$13,800
72MatthewYorra$13,800
73RomanKornev$13,800
74RobertBendeck$13,800
75LadarrenBanks$13,800
76ScottEskenazi$13,800
77KathleenLiebert$13,800
78SeunOluwole$13,800
79SebastianToro Henao$11,500
80FeiwenWu$11,500
81ChaseBricker$11,500
82MichaelChiappetta$11,500
83BryceMcvay$11,500
84DavidPeters$11,500
85MikeGao$11,500
86GinoldRendel$11,500
87YanivYarkony$11,500
88AlexanderHensley$11,500
89DominickSarle$11,500
90VictorNissim$11,500
91EmanuelFailla Jr$11,500
92OleksandrTrokhymenko$11,500
93DraganaMackelprang$11,500
94BryanParis$11,500
95MeganChapman$9,600
96AntoineSankari$9,600
97ClemenDeng$9,600
98EdwardMcnamara Iv$9,600
99JuanMunne$9,600
100JorgeBermudez$9,600
101HarveyCastro$9,600
102MichaelBohmerwald$9,600
103ThomasCarroll$9,600
104VincenzoAbate$9,600
105NicholasPalma$9,600
106NicholasChong$9,600
107PoseidonHo$9,600
108DavidBattaglia$9,600
109IlyasMuradi$9,600
110TylerMontoya$9,600
111RyanBrown$8,200
112CarlosLeiva$8,200
113DevonShalmi$8,200
114GeorgeRovero Spyropoulos$8,200
115JasonRocha$8,200
116TarunGulati$8,200
117JessicaCai$8,200
118JoshuaGuindon$8,200
119JuanMontoya Bernal$8,200
120DannyWong$8,200
121RyanHogan$8,200
122LuisOrtiz$8,200
123GregoryNerenberg$8,200
124YlmazYosul$8,200
125PhilipePizzari Pinto$8,200
126BradyBash$8,200
127NikolayVolper$8,200
128AlvinNorman$8,200
129DiegoFernandez Mendez$8,200
130SaberSalum Penayo$8,200
131JonathanKramer$8,200
132OmarEl Nasrallah$8,200
133FabioPorcino Rosado Chaves$8,200
134AndrewMoreno$8,200
135MichaelSavakinas$8,200
136GeorgeDolofan$8,200
137MichaelTait$8,200
138SterlingSavill$8,200
139MatthewLambrecht$8,200
140JhoanLadino$8,200
141KaranvirSingh$8,200
142DavidMcgowan$7,000
143RobertLebeau$7,000
144ScottWright$7,000
145BenjaminLudlow$7,000
146AlejandroHerrera Gonzalez$7,000
147ThanhlongNguyen$7,000
148JerryRobinson$7,000
149KevinNee$7,000
150GeorgeCain$7,000
151DanielCharlton$7,000
152CyrusKao$7,000
153YuvalBronshtein$7,000
154ManuelFritz$7,000
155LaithSalem$7,000
156EricBonin$7,000
157KennethKim$7,000
158BryanSwanson$7,000
159AnatolyNikitin$7,000
160JustinZaki$7,000
161StephenKehoe$7,000
162BryanLeskowitz$7,000
163MelaniePittard$7,000
164YiLi$7,000
165ConnorStuewe$7,000
166BrianMurphy$7,000
167JavierZarco Sanchez$7,000
168MaxwellLytell$7,000
169AlainCandales Falcon$7,000
170CubaLevenberry$7,000
171MichaelWang$7,000
172AlejandroJaureguireynoso$7,000
173DavidFrenkel$7,000
174RyanMandara$7,000
175NguyenLe$7,000
176PetreIonescu$7,000
177AndrewJenc$6,400
178GregoryBack$6,400
179SteveYagudaev$6,400
180JarodLudemann$6,400
181RussellBrooks$6,400
182RichardScardina$6,400
183AndrewFrankenberger$6,400
184ThomasMacey$6,400
185JamesCalderaro$6,400
186BradleyGafford$6,400
187WilliamMedina Diaz$6,400
188ZacharyKhang Vuong$6,400
189ChadEveslage$6,400
190BenWarrington$6,400
191NicholasMaimone$6,400
192ZiadMatta$6,400
193RichardDubini$6,400
194BalakrishnaPatur$6,400
195IgorKorkhin$6,400
196MarcGoldman$6,400
197DenisCyr$6,400
198TimothyThorp$6,400
199DanielNovak$6,400
200JasonDaly$6,400
201StevenSarmiento$6,400
202BrianLuo$6,400
203DevinBatista$6,400
204DanielSwartz$6,400
205WilliamMical$6,400
206CalebPiderit$6,400
207MatthewWantman$6,400
208JeremySchoenberger$6,400
209NicholasSeward$6,400
210KevinDarouvar$6,400
211AllanBieler$6,400
212GrantWang$6,400
213BryanRadigan$6,400
214MatthewSalsberg$6,400
215DanielMonosson$6,400
216ByungEun Shin$6,400
217MartinZamani$6,400
218FarazJaka$6,400
219CherishAndrews$6,400
220ZacharyFischer$3,200
221Or KriefHaim$3,200

Championship: Art Peacock Wins! ($776,000); Mihai Niste Finishes as Runner-Up ($515,000)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 39:  800,000/1,600,000 with a 1,600,000 ante

Art Peacock

Art Peacock opened to 3,600,000 from his button, Mihai Niste moved all in for 37,400,000 and Peacock called to put him at risk.

Peacock: 8d8h
Niste: 4h4d

Peacock was dominant with the bigger pair and bigger stack. Nothing changed on the AhAcKc flop but some chop outs appeared on the 9h turn.  The 7s river finished the board and Art Peacock became the 2024 WPT Poker Showdown Champion.

1st:  Art Peacock  –  $776,000*
2nd:  Mihai Niste  –  $515,000

Championship: Heads-Up Underway

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 35:  300,000/600,000 with a 600,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 1,755

Mihai Niste

Heads up is underway between Art Peacock and Nihai Niste with $515,000 for the runner-up and $776,000 plus a WPT Championship seat to first.

Seat 1: Art Peacock – 34,700,000 (58 bb)
Seat 2: Mihai Niste – 52,600,000 (88 bb)

1st: $776,000*
2nd: $515,000

Art Peacock

Championship: Daniel Marcus – 3rd Place ($380,000)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 35:  300,000/600,000 with a 600,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 1,755

Daniel Marcus

Mihai Niste opened to 1,200,000 from the button, Art Peacock called in the small blind, and Daniel Marcus called all in for 1,000,000 in the big blind.

The flop was Kd7s3c, Niste bet 1,000,000 and Peacock folded.

Niste: Ks8d
Marcus: Th9h

Niste was ahead with his paired king, Niste turned an open-ended straight draw on the 8s turn but blanked the 4h river to go out in third place.

Mihai Niste – 52,600,000 (88 bb)
Daniel Marcus – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($380,000)

Championship: Mitchell Hynam – 4th Place ($285,000)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 33:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 1,755

Mitchell Hynam

Mitchell Hynam opened to 800,000 and Art Peacock defended in the big blind. The flop was Ts9c3d and Peacock checked. Hynam bet another 800K, Peacock check-raised all in and Hynam called at risk for 4,900,000.

Peacock: Ad3s
Hynam: QcQd

Hynam was in great shape for a double, the big favorite with two cards to come but Peacock made trip threes on the 3c turn to take the lead. The 5c river finished the board and Hynam was sent out in fourth place.

Art Peacock – 47,300,000 (118 bb)
Mitchell Hynam – Eliminated in 4th Place ($285,000)

Championship: Jared Hemingway – 5th Place ($215,000)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 33:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 1,755

Jared Hemingway

Jared Hemingway open-shipped for 3,775,000 and Mihai Niste called in the small blind to put him at risk.

Niste: TcTs
Hemingway: KhJd

It was a coin flip and Hemingway needed to improve to double but blanked the 9d8s2cQh7c flop to exit in fifth place.

Mihai Niste – 21,600,000 (54 bb)
Jared Hemingway – Eliminated in 5th Place ($215,000)

Championship: Jeffery Fritz – 6th Place ($164,000)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 33:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 1,755

Jeffery Fritz

Jeffery Fritz open-shipped for 5,000,000 and it folded around to Art Peacock in the big blind. The huge chip leader called and Fritz was at risk.

Peacock: Ad9h
Fritz: QsQc

Fritz was in great shape to double with the queens but Peacock took the lead when he paired his ace on the As7c6h flop. The board finished with the Kc turn and Jc river and Fritz was the first eliminated from the final table.

Art Peacock  –  45,600,000 (114 bb)
Jeffery Fritz  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($164,000)

Championship: Cards in the Air for Final Table

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,616,000  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 31:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 1,755

Cards are in the air the 2025 WPT Poker Showdown Championship final table in Las Vegas. You can watch all the action on the WPT live stream below with hole cards on a 30-minute delay.

Seat 1: Art Peacock – 27,150,000 (109 bb)
Seat 2: Jeffery Fritz – 16,150,000 (65 bb)
Seat 3: Mitchell Hynam – 2,000,000 (8 bb)
Seat 4: Jared Hemingway – 11,150,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5: Daniel Marcus – 22,150,000 (89 bb)
Seat 6: Mihai Niste – 8,650,000 (35 bb)

1st: $776,000*
2nd: $515,000
3rd: $380,000
4th: $285,000
5th: $215,000
6th: $164,000

Slater Scoops Quad Stack Goes Bigger

Once the 2025 Poker Showdown wraps up, we will return to our regular schedule of tournaments in the Poker Room, and we will have a nice bonus on April 15.

The Tuesday Night Slater Scoops Quad Stack, hosted by our good friend Andy Slater, will increase its regular guarantee and offer at least $50,000 in prize money. We are also adding a $5,300 seat to the 2025 SHRPO Championship for first place.

With a $250 buy-in and huge starting stacks, that is a ton of value available on April 15.

We hope to see you here!

  • $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • $5,300 SHRPO Championship seat added to 1st place
  • Players begin with 40,000 in chips
  • Levels last 20 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 11 (9:30pm)
  • Structure Sheet

2025 Poker Showdown in Review

WPT Poker Showdown Championship final table

The 2025 Seminole Hard Rock Showdown was a massive series with 74 trophy events over three weeks and tons of great stories. But first the numbers –

Events:  74
Entries:  21,162
Guarantees:  $10,170,000
Prize Pools:  $20,008,190

A successful series by any measure. It was only the fifth time in our history that we drew more than 20,000 entries and the sixth time we awarded at least $20,000,000 in prize money.

The series wrapped, kind of, when the WPT Poker Showdown Championship reached its six-handed TV final table. The Championship drew 1,755 entries for a prize pool worth $5,616,000. The last six players will now travel to Vegas to play the final table in front of the WPT cameras on May 29.

We kicked off the series with a big $1,000,000 opener, and Michael Newman banked the win and the trophy along with $103,274. This was his 12th career major SHRP win, but it was only the start of a shake-up of our all-time wins list.

Yuval Bronshtein won the $600 10-Game event for his 12th trophy to pull within one of leader Raminder Singh. Then, Singh went ahead and won his 14th. Bronshtein won the $600 Big O for his 13th, and Singh kept the pace by winning a $400 Deep Stack for his 15th. Closing out the series on the last night, Bronshtein added one more for his third in three weeks.

They kept us on our toes.

Not letting them all get away, Phil Hui added his 11th, so here’s a look at the updated all-time major SHRP win list:

Raminder Singh  –  15 wins
Yuval Bronshtein  –  14 wins
Michael Newman  –  12 wins
David Shmuel  –  11 wins
Phil Hui  –  11 wins
Matt Bretzfield  –  10 wins

Bronshtein became the sixth player in our history to win three in the same series plus five other players, including Singh, recorded two Showdown wins this year. Another record with Eric Polirer, Frederic Moss, Johnny Bromberg, and Jay Kerbel joining the two-win fun.

Eric Polirer

Polirer won the $600 Big O and $400 H.O.R.S.E. plus two other final tables in the first two weeks to top our $10,000 Mixed Game Leaderboard. He held off a late charge by Bronshtein and took home $3,000 in cash plus a $1,100 Showdown ticket and the pretty guitar trophy.

Other notable wins include Cherish Andrews dominating a tough final table to win the $25K High Roller, Jonathan Jaffe winning the $10K Heads-Up Event, 2024 WPT Poker Showdown Champion Josh Reichard making a huge comeback to take the $10,000 Deep Stack title, 2021 Showdown champ Brek Schutten winning the $5,000 Deep Stack trophy on the last night of the series, and Jay Kerbel went back-to-back winning two trophies in as many nights.

There were so many great wins that it is impossible to summarize them all, so we’ll let the list do it for us. Below are links to all 74 events on the Showdown schedule, along with the winners and their tally.

We couldn’t put on these huge series without our players. Thank you to everyone who traveled to participate and our fantastic local support. Thank you as always; we hope to see you at the next one!

Poker Showdown Championship
Event 1 ($400 NLH): Michael Newman – $103,274
Event 2 ($600 PLO8): Ryan Hoenig – $14,520
Event 3 ($600 6-Max NLH): Jorge Martinez – $12,300
Event 4 ($300 NLH): Eldo Rodriguez – $4,040
Event 5 ($600 Seniors): Kevin MacDonald – $20,720
Event 6 ($600 Big O): Eric Polirer – $14,210
Event 7 ($300 NLH/PLO): Manny Tarich – $7,025
Event 8 ($600 O8): Daniel Pearlman – $13,195
Event 9 ($1K Bounty): Dylan Kahn – $21,740
Event 10 ($300 Bounty): Hector Pacheco – $4,367
Event 11 ($600 10-Game): Yuval Bronshtein – $10,940
Event 12 ($1K PLO): Ruslan Lukash – $22,735
Event 13 ($400 NLH): Julio Delgado – $19,167
Event 14 ($600 TD): Frederic Moss – $9,630
Event 15 ($1K Platinum): Dessiree Bennett – $49,199
Event 16 ($400 PLO): Alex Ziskin – $15,166
Event 17 ($300 Bounty): Shravan Kulshrestha – $5,865
Event 18 ($200 NLH): Andreas Athanasopoulos – $26,459
Event 19 ($400 HORSE): Eric Polirer – $8,960
Event 20 ($300 Bounty): Raminder Singh – $4,499
Event 21 ($400 Mixed PLO): Bill Heimiller – $10,210
Event 22 ($600 6-Max): John Malvasio – $16,751
Event 23 ($400 Seniors): Jeffrey Homer – $8,697
Event 24 ($600 Big O): Yuval Bronshtein – $15,100
Event 25 ($300 Bounty): Asham Amir – $6,421
Event 26 ($600 NLH): Femi Fashakin – $156,565
Event 27 ($600 TORSE): Josh Heinzl – $10,670
Event 28 ($1K 6-Max): Chris Da-Silva – $27,825
Event 29 ($400 PLO): Idan Magor – $7,498
Event 30 ($600 O8): Frederic Moss – $12,050
Event 31 ($300 Bounty): Jasmin Omanovic – $5,355
Event 32 ($600 Badugi): Dominick Sarle – $9,625
Event 33 ($400 PLO): Rafael Rodriguez Arango – $8,530
Event 34 ($400 NLH): Johnny Bromberg – $28,282
Event 35 ($600 Dealer’s Choice): Joshua Rhodes – $11,225
Event 36 ($1K Triple Stack): Fred Paradis – $131,300
Event 37 ($600 PLO): Isaac Malca Cohen – $17,130
Event 38 ($400 Seniors): Gyorgy Fazekas – $10,085
Event 39 ($1K 10-Game): Joseph Olivieri – $18,665
Event 40 ($10K HU): Jonathan Jaffe – $100,000
Event 41 ($600 Bounty): Thomas Bilello – $12,496
Event 42 ($600 Bounty PLO): Ernest Chevrette – $13,440
Event 43 ($1K Turbo): Scott Baumstein – $24,145
Event 44 ($600 6-Max): Tyler Whitehead – $14,995
Event 45 ($1K O8): Hal Klein – $19,650
Event 46 ($10K NLH): Anatoly Nikitin – $188,000
Event 47 ($400 PLO): Tanupat Punjarojanakul – $7,375
Event 48 ($400 NLH): Raminder Singh – $7,576
Event 49 ($2K NLH): Jake Cody – $93,900
Event 50 ($1K HORSE): Kris Lord – $19,380
Event 51 ($5K PLO): Frederic Normand – $43,434
Event 52 (Charity Event): Roberto Desogos – $3,850
Event 53 ($1K NLH): Maxime Chilaud – $49,430
Event 54 ($600 OE): Phil Hui – $11,945
Event 55 ($10K 6-Max): Thomas Boivin – $271,600
Event 56 ($300 Bounty): Johnny Bromberg – $7,255
Event 57 (Larry Frank Memorial): Matthew Zarcadoolas
Event 59 ($600 PLO8): Jay Kerbel – $9,177
Event 60 ($300 NLH): Michael Bohmerwald – $6,690
Event 61 ($600 Big O): Jay Kerbel – $14,235
Event 62 ($200 NLH): Tal Chacage – $6,580
Event 63 ($400 NLH): Walter Bravo – $26,490
Event 64 ($10K NLH): Josh Reichard – $288,400
Event 65 ($1K Mixed PLO): Andrea Mastrogiovanni – $19,290
Event 66 ($1K Turbo): Jason Daly – $32,580
Event 67 (Savage Average): Ben Boston – $14,865
Event 68 ($600 Triple Stud): Ricard Quintero – $9,508
Event 69 (High Roller): Cherish Andrews – $408,265
Event 70 ($1K Bounty): Eric Panayiotou – $20,700
Event 71 ($400 NLH): Carlos Loving – $8,565
Event 72 ($5K NLH): Brek Schutten – $185,400
Event 73 ($1K 6-Max PLO): Yuval Bronshtein – $28,930
Event 74 ($300 Bounty): Rafael Lima – $6,530