2025 WSOP: Chad Eveslage Wins Fourth Bracelet in 2nd Last Event of the Series

Chad Eveslage 2025 WSOP Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. Bracelet Winner

Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. was the second-to-last bracelet event on the 2025 World Series of Poker schedule, and it drew some of the biggest names in the game. 150 total entries were recorded for the game, putting the prizes at $3,525,000.

When all the chips were in, Chad Eveslage was wearing his fourth bracelet after pushing through a final table that read like a who’s who of modern poker. While the $25k price tag tends to make this a pretty exclusive buy-in regardless, the game nearly always comes down to some of the top players in the game.

2025 was no exception, with Eveslage facing down the likes of Brian Rast heads up, as well as Nacho Barbero, Toby Lewis, Ryan Miller, “Johnny World” Hennigan, the Big Huni Chrish Hunichen, and some guy named Phil Ivey.

Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPrize
1United States of America Chad Eveslage$883,841
2United States of America Brian Rast$586,539
3United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Toby Lewis$399,763
4Argentina Nacho Barbero$280,030
5United States of America Ryan Miller$201,761
6United States of America Phil Ivey$149,643
7United States of America John Hennigan$114,350
8United States of America Chris Hunichen$90,110

Event #98: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Recap

It was the final day of action at the 2025 WSOP at Paris and Horseshoe, Las Vegas, and, while Michael “the Grinder” Mizrachi was putting on a clinic on the final day of the Main Event, one of the biggest mixed games of the year was playing out alongside. Mizrachi crushed the Main final table in about 20 hands, but this one took a little longer to decide, playing for about 10 hours on the final day before Eveslage emerged victorious.

Eveslage was second in chips to start the day, trailing Barbero by 250k. Hennigan, Rast, and Ben Yu rounded out the top five counts to start the final day with a total of 14 players still in the mix.

Ben Yu 2025 WSOP
Ben Yu

It took just a couple of hours to play down to the unofficial final table of 9 players, with Eveslage still second in chips, but now trailing Lewis from the UK. Ben Yu was the first player off the final table, but it took around 90 minutes to draw first blood.

That started a bit of a flood as Hunichen exited shortly after Yu, sending his chips to Johnny World after Hennigan hit two pair in stud while Big Huni could only find one pair. About 20 minutes later, Hennigan followed Hunichen out when Miller wheeled over him for a scoop in stud8.

Phil Ivey followed about 15 minutes later, sending his chips to Rast in a limit Hold ’em hand where Ivey’s ace-four couldn’t hold against the king-queen of triple PPC winner Brian Rast. The action slowed considerably after Ivey’s exit, with the field playing a couple more hours before Ryan Miller was scooped by Rast in stud8 to get them four ways.

Phil Ivey 2025 WSOP
Phil Ivey

During four-way play, the eventual winner was down to the short stack, but rallied back in another couple of hours of play before Barbero hit the cage for fourth-place money. The UK’s Lewis got short after Eveslage scooped him in Stud8, then hit the rail shortly after to set up heads up between Eveslage and Rast.

They battled for close to an hour heads up, but it was Eveslage the whole way. He started the final phase with a big lead and never really gave that up. Rast was able to rally back a bit, but never got even close to even. The biggest damage happened when Rast’s two pair was capped in O8 by the bigger two pair of Eveslage, and he had his fourth bracelet shortly after.

Eveslage won his first bracelet in 2022 before having a stellar 2023 with two Dealers’ Choice bracelets. The win pushed his lifetime earnings over $10 million.

* Hands and photos courtesy of PokerNews and WSOP

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