Several of the biggest payouts of the 2025 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown sequence have been awarded through the remaining week of play. The highest buy-in of the pageant was received by Cherish Andrews, who took dwelling $408,265 because the champion in that $25,000 event. The delayed remaining desk was additionally set in the principle occasion, with the champion set to earn $776,000 when that event resumes subsequent month. Below is a better take a look at three extra higher-stakes occasions that handed out six-figure paydays down the stretch at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in South Florida
SHRPS $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six Max Deep Stack
Belgian event star Thomas Boivin emerged victorious within the $10,000 six-max no-limit maintain’em occasion, outlasting a discipline of 99 entries to earn $271,600 and 540 Card Player Player of the Year factors.
This rating simply made the highest ten record for the biggest paydays of Boivin’s profession. The victory elevated his lifetime earnings to greater than $9.5 million.
Brock Wilson completed third for $120,000 simply 4 days earlier than he managed a podium displaying within the $25,000 buy-in occasion for $313,410. Other notables who ran deep included five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Brian Yoon (eighth), 2019 WSOP Europe foremost occasion champion Alexandros Kolonias (sixth), and up to date World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder foremost occasion runner-up Harvey Castro (4th).
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Thomas Boivin | $271,600 | 540 |
| 2 | Neil Warren | $184,600 | 450 |
| 3 | Brock Wilson | $120,000 | 360 |
| 4 | Harvey Castro | $81,600 | 270 |
| 5 | Ryan Mandara | $57,900 | 225 |
| 6 | Alexandros Kolonias | $42,700 | 180 |
SHRPS $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em $1 Million GTD
The remaining $10,000 buy-in even on the schedule sported a $1 million assure. A complete of 122 entries have been made by the point registration closed, leading to a remaining prize pool of $1,159,000 that was paid out amongst the highest 16 finishers.
The largest share went to 2024 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown foremost occasion champion and 16-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner Joshua Reichard. The Wisconsin native earned $288,400 because the final participant standing, the third-largest rating of his profession. He is now near $4.7 million in lifetime cashes.
Reichard overcame a giant heads-up chip deficit to defeat three-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel heads-up on this occasion. There have been a number of different highly-accomplished gamers that made it all the way down to the enterprise finish of this occasion, together with in style poker vlogger Brad Owen (twelfth), WPT champion Matthew Wantman (seventh), bracelet winner Faraz Jaka (4th), and 2015 WSOP foremost occasion Sixteenth-place finisher David Stefanski (third).
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Joshua Reichard | $288,400 | 660 |
| 2 | Martin Kabrhel | $197,000 | 550 |
| 3 | David Stefanski | $146,000 | 440 |
| 4 | Faraz Jaka | $109,000 | 330 |
| 5 | Grant Wang | $83,000 | 275 |
| 6 | Scott Carragher | $63,000 | 220 |
| 7 | Matthew Wantman | $48,500 | 165 |
| 8 | Jeremy Dan | $37,500 | 110 |
| 9 | Rehman Kassam | $29,500 | 55 |
SHRPS $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em $250 GTD
Like Reichard, Brek Schutten is a former champion of the principle occasion at this pageant who managed a giant win this 12 months in a high-stakes aspect event. The 2021 SHRPS foremost occasion champion and bracelet winner got here out on prime on this 12 months’s $5,000 eight-max no-limit maintain’em occasion, incomes $185,400 for the win.
With 164 entries, the $250,000 assure was greater than tripled. $770,800 was paid out throughout the highest 20 finishers, with notables like Kevin Rabichow (ninth), 2023 WPT World Championship winner Daniel Sepiol (4th), and 2025 Lucky Hearts Poker Open foremost occasion runner-up Spencer Champlin (third) all operating deep.
Schutten grew his profession earnings to almost $6.1 million with this victory. Champlin climbed to fifteenth within the 2025 POY standings, with three remaining tables and one title to date this 12 months. His win got here in a $5,000 occasion on the PokerGO Tour Kickoff sequence, simply three days after he secured $425,000 for his second-place displaying within the beforehand talked about LHPO foremost occasion.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Brek Schutten | $185,400 | 624 |
| 2 | Robert Burlacu | $124,000 | 520 |
| 3 | Spencer Champlin | $92,000 | 416 |
| 4 | Daniel Sepiol | $69,000 | 312 |
| 5 | Adam Adler | $52,000 | 260 |
| 6 | Fred Li | $39,500 | 208 |
| 7 | Igor Merda | $30,500 | 156 |
| 8 | Thomas Reynolds | $23,700 | 104 |
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