Shaun Deeb Joins Daniel Negreanu as Second Player to Win WSOP Player of the Year Twice
After all the dust settled, it’s Shaun Deeb who is the 2025 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. Deeb, who also won the honor in 2018, joins Daniel Negreanu as the only player to win the WSOP Player of the Year twice (2004, 2013). “We did it boys and girls,” Deeb tweeted. “Great […]
After all the dust settled, it’s Shaun Deeb who is the 2025 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. Deeb, who also won the honor in 2018, joins Daniel Negreanu as the only player to win the WSOP Player of the Year twice (2004, 2013).
“We did it boys and girls,” Deeb tweeted. “Great battle between Martin (Kabrel) and Benny (Glaser) — they battled to the last tourney.”
This was true. Deeb had to wait until the very last WSOP tourney was completed to see if Glaser could find 41 points he needed in order to take the lead, but he fell about 70 spots short in “The Closer” where he finished 114th.
Instead of winning the 2025 Player of the Year, Glaser becomes the first player in history to win three bracelets in one year and not earn enough points to win Player of the Year.
WSOP Main Event and Poker Players Champion Michael Mizrachi rounded out the top three, moving past Martin Kabrel, who at one point during the Series, looked like the POY frontrunner. He cashed a dozen times, made three final tables, and won his third bracelet in a $1,000 event. He also finished seventh in $250,000 Super High Roller event.
Glaser, a mixed-game specialist, had three bracelets won at the Series before the middle of June, but couldn’t do better than a 34th place the rest of the summer. One more deep run would probably have done it for the English pro.
Deeb took the top spot on the leaderboard by cashing in 18 live bracelet events, six online bracelet events, making five final tables, and winning his seventh career WSOP bracelet in the $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller for a lifetime-best $2,957,229.
The WSOP only counts the top 10 finishes in the Player of the Year race.
Deeb receives the WSOP Player of the Year trophy, a $10,000 entry into the 2026 WSOP Main Event, and his second banner hung in the rafters of the Horseshoe.
The more than $4 million Deeb won at the WSOP this year is the third-best total of the Player of the Year winners since 2004, only behind 2012 WSOP Champion Greg Merson’s $9,755,180 and Ben Lamb’s $5,352,970 he earned in 2011.
Deeb will be eligible to be nominated for the Poker Hall of Fame when he turns 40 next year.
