Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Seven has long been known as a lucky number in gambling, and it certainly seems to be living up to its name at this summer’s 2025 World Series of Poker. On Thursday, Shaun Deeb won his seventh career WSOP bracelet, claiming the crown in the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller event and nabbing nearly $3 million in the process.
Deeb became the fourth player to win their seventh bracelet this year, joining Benny Glaser, Nick Schulman, and Brian Rast. Glaser did not stay on that number, winning three bracelets at the 2025 WSOP so far and taking his lifetime total up to eight.
“I’m not like Ike or some of these Triton guys who play for millions of dollars every day,” Deeb told PokerOrg, referring to the man he beat heads up, Isaac Haxton, adding that this week, he decided to shoot his shot in the nose bleed stakes and it worked out perfectly.
“My opponents just seemed like they were dejected the whole time. They just knew I was gonna keep winning and winning and they never, ever got me out,” Deeb said. “And you keep me around, you’re gonna end up losing. Obviously, I got lucky at the end, but you’re gonna get lucky on a lot of hands in poker.”
Player of the Year in his sights
Despite what it sounded like, it wasn’t smooth sailing for Deeb. He went into the final table against the likes of Haxton, Phil Ivey, and Alex Foxen second in chips, but found himself short while Haxton, who started as the big stack, was racking up the eliminations.
But Deeb surged back and was close to even heading into heads-up. He soon grabbed the lead and expanded upon it. On the final hand, the chips got in with both players having overpairs, but Deeb rivered a flush to win the title.
With the win, Deeb is expected to leap into the top spot on the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year race, moving ahead of Glaser and Martin Kabrhel. Deeb previously took POY honors in 2018.
He told PokerNews that he might not play in the Main Event because it is the “worst tournament for Player of the Year.”
Because of how the POY formula works, Deeb knows that there is a good chance that someone will catch him. The point system only counts a player’s best ten points-earning cashes (and only one online event) and Deeb has more than ten. Glaser, meanwhile, has fewer than ten, so any cash in the last days of the WSOP will instantly boost his points total.
Regardless of how it unfolds, it should be a great race to the end.
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