Nick Guagenti won his 3rd bracelet on Sunday, and his first in a non-Hold’em event. He prevailed over a stacked final table that included runner-up Chino Rheem, Paul Volpe, Adam Friedman, Dan Heimiller, Mori Eskandani, and Mike Matusow.
There were 127 entries for Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, part of the 2025 World Series of Poker hosted by Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, generating a prize pool of $1,181,100. Guagenti pocketed $295,008, along with the bracelet, at the end of the night.
This was #3 for Guagenti, who had just shy of $2.6 million in wins coming into this one. The nearly $300k prize will come in at #2 on his list of all-time cashes, behind an online bracelet from 2020 worth $305k, and it will push his total near $2.9 million.
Stacked Endgame
It wasn’t an easy run to the end for Guagenti. While this was his 3rd bracelet, his first two came in hold’em variants, so this was his first win from the mixed game side of the summer festival. And he had to beat some pretty serious mixed-game talent on his way to the bracelet.
Runner-up Chino Rheem is always dangerous, and he had extra motivation, as a bracelet would close out his Triple Crown. Dan Heimiller (7th, $41,357) was there looking for his second Stud bracelet of the series, and Mike Matusow (8th, $33,190) was trying to break a 12-year bracelet drought.
Add in Paul Volpe (4th, $96,502), Mori Eskandani (5th, $70,587), and Adam Friedman (6th, $53,201), and it’s clear that Guagenti had his work cut out for him at the final table.
2025 WSOP Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Nick Guagenti | United States | $295,008 |
| 2 | Chino Rheem | United States | $196,662 |
| 3 |  Qiang Xu | China | $135,828 |
| 4 | Paul Volpe | United States | $96,502 |
| 5 | Mori Eskandani | United States | $70,587 |
| 6 | Adam Friedman | United States | $53,201 |
| 7 | Dan Heimiller | United States | $41,357 |
| 8 | Mike Matusow | United States | $33,190 |
| 9 | Dave Rogers | United States | $27,528 |
2025 WSOP Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Final Table Recap
At the beginning of the final table, it was actually Rheem who was the table captain. He led the way into the final day with the biggest bag, and continued to chip up early. He took some major bites from the stack of Matusow, who, after a bright start to his poker career a couple of decades ago, has slowed in recent years, before the rest of his chips slid across to Guagenti.
Dan Heimiller was next to go. He was looking for Stud bracelet #2 this year after he won the $1,500 version of this event a few days ago, and, while he fell short of that goal, the 7th-place finish proved his earlier win was more than just luck. Friedman followed Heimiller to the rail before Rheem finished off poker hall-of-famer Mori Akandani for 5th place.
Third-place finisher Qiang Xu, from China, was the least experienced stud player at the table, but he still managed to make a race of it against the more well-known opposition. Xu made it to 3rd place after he sent Paul Volpe packing in 4th, and held his own in a three-way battle with Rheem and Guagenti for several levels before ultimately ending his run in 3rd.
That left Rheem and Guagenti heads up for the Championship, with Rheem opening play with a 2.5:1 lead. He was on the verge of the bracelet when Guagenti flushed out on seventh to save his life and shift the momentum.
With the game going very late at that point, Guagenti suggested they bag and finish the game on Monday. Rheem was more interested in finishing it out so he could late-reg the $10k Deuce starting on Monday, so they decided to play it out.
Perhaps Rheem would have been better off bagging up, as from there on, it was mostly Guagenti’s game. Rhemm did jump back into the lead briefly, but Guagenti took several big hands on seventh street to regain the lead. In a move that showed he was dialed into the game, Rheem folded a flush on 7th late in the game — the decision was the correct one as Guagenti had him crushed under the weight of a boat, but it left him with just 3 big bets.
The rest of it went in the next hand, but Rheem hit a bit of a cooler. He had split sixes, but ran into split sevens for Guagenti. The winner improved to two pair by seventh while Rheem was unable to improve, and he fell just short of his Triple Crown (EPT, WPT, and WSOP Bracelet) while Guagenti secured his first bracelet using more than two cards.
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