Cody Stanford appears unstoppable on the reside poker circuit in 2025. The Tupelo, MS resident has already cashed seven instances within the new yr, together with 4 official final-table finishes and three titles. All of these in-the-money finishes have are available in occasions hosted in Stanford’s residence state of Mississippi, with $404,123 in whole earnings accrued alongside the best way. As a outcome, he now sits in first place within the 2025 Card Player Player of the Year race offered by Global Poker. He now has greater than $1.7 million in whole lifetime match earnings to his identify.
Stanford began off his spectacular run taking down the $1 million assured $500 buy-in occasion on the Beau Rivage Heater sequence for $181,487 and ending third within the $1,200 primary occasion on the identical sequence for $168,923. He then made his solution to the World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Tunica sequence and took down back-to-back gold ring occasions to develop his lifetime whole to 6. He turned simply the sixty fifth participant within the tour’s historical past to have gained six or extra rings.
“I feel really grateful,” Stanford advised Poker.org reporters on the scene after the win. “I really appreciate my wife staying home with the kids and letting me do what I do, and I’m really grateful to my friends as well. I also like to always give glory to God.”
The first win on the WSOPC cease noticed Stanford finest a discipline of 160 within the $25,000 assured $400 no-limit maintain’em occasion. He earned $13,075, the {hardware}, and 125 POY factors after defeating Patrick Farnham heads-up.
The very subsequent ring occasion was the $1,100 pot-limit Omaha $50,000 assure. Stanford overcame the sphere of 149 entries to earn his sixth profession gold ring, the $36,423 high prize, and 288 factors.
Stanford first secured a WSOPC win again in 2017 on the WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi cease, taking down a $365 no-limit maintain’em occasion. In 2022 he gained a $400 six-max title on the WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee cease for his second ring. The third and fourth each got here within the spring of 2024. He got here out on high in a $400 pot-limit Omaha occasion at this identical venue in April, after which gained a $2,200 excessive curler at Harrah’s Cherokee the next month.
Check out the ultimate desk outcomes from Stanford’s two newest WSOPC wins beneath:
WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica $400 No-Limit Hold’em $25K GTD
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Cody Stanford | $13,075 | 125 |
| 2 | Patrick Farnham | $8,412 | 104 |
| 3 | David Peterson | $5,601 | 83 |
| 4 | Hunter Payne | $3,866 | 62 |
| 5 | Eric Poole | $2,770 | 52 |
| 6 | Russell Sullivan | $2,063 | 42 |
| 7 | Tai Cao | $1,599 | 31 |
| 8 | Joshua Clanton | $1,293 | 21 |
| 9 | John Houseman | $1,092 | 10 |
WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica $1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha $50K GTD
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Cody Stanford | $36,423 | 288 |
| 2 | Dustin Murphy | $23,701 | 240 |
| 3 | Matthew Higgins | $15,926 | 192 |
| 4 | Daniel Calwayfagen | $11,065 | 144 |
| 5 | Trace Henderson | $7,957 | 120 |
| 6 | Adam Lamphere | $5,929 | 96 |
| 7 | Robert Hankins | $4,585 | 72 |
| 8 | Sokchheka Pho | $3,685 | 48 |
| 9 | Kyle Cartwright | $3,082 | 24 |
Photo credit: WSOP / Poker.org.
