Allan Le had never played a Razz tournament before the 2025 World Series of Poker. On June 15, Father’s Day, he won one, beat Shaun Deeb heads-up, and collected his second bracelet. A few tables away at the same series, Carlos Leiva of Argentina had entered a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event mostly because his friends told him to. He won that too.
Both finals played out at Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, the joined properties that have hosted the summer series since it left the Rio in 2022.
Event #15: Allan Le’s second bracelet
The $1,500 Razz drew 472 entries and built a prize pool of $626,580. Razz is Seven Card Stud played for the low, with aces low and straights and flushes ignored, so the perfect hand is a wheel, A-2-3-4-5. It rewards patience and memory, because every player’s exposed cards tell you which low cards are already dead. The game sits in the mixed-game rotation and gets only a couple of standalone bracelet events each summer, which keeps its fields small and full of specialists.
Le, a California player, was not one of them. His first bracelet came almost nine years earlier, in 2016, in a Mixed Omaha event that combined Big O and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo. He had also finished third in a $1,500 PLO event in 2017. Nothing on his record pointed to stud.
The final table did not look forgiving. Clint Wolcyn finished third for $57,296, Maxx Coleman fourth for $39,787 and Jeanne David fifth for $28,213. Jason Lipiner, Gabriel Ramos, MengQi Chen and Jackson Spencer filled out places six through nine.
Then there was Deeb, already a six-time bracelet winner and one of the most prolific mixed-game players at the series. Heads-up Razz against him is about as hard a matchup as the format offers. Le won it, taking $126,363, with Deeb collecting $84,221 for second.
Le’s circumstances had changed since 2016. He now had three children, and he told reporters the bracelet was going to his wife, who was in the room. He spent the first minutes after the win on FaceTime with his family.
Deeb’s summer did not suffer
Finishing second cost Deeb a seventh bracelet that night, but it did not slow him down. His cashes kept coming across the schedule, and he went on to win the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year title. He had first won it in 2018, and the 2025 award made him only the second player to take the title twice.
Runner-up finishes like his in Event #15 are exactly what Player of the Year standings reward. The points system counts deep runs across all events, so a mixed-game regular who reaches several final tables can outscore a player with a single big win. You will see the same names near the top of that leaderboard most years for that reason.
Event #42: Carlos Leiva in the $1,000 PLO
The $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha was the opposite kind of tournament. It drew 1,932 entries, built a prize pool of $1,700,160 and paid $237,852 to the winner. Low buy-in PLO events at the WSOP are among the busiest non-Hold’em events on the calendar, and the field is a mix of PLO regulars, Hold’em players trying their hand, and travelers adding a second game to their trip.
Leiva was in the second group. No-Limit Hold’em was his usual game, and by his own account he had not planned to play. Fellow Argentine players encouraged him, and he registered on a whim.
It went well from the start of the final day. Leiva held the chip lead from the first hand of the final table to the last. Dylan Weisman, a former champion of the same event, was among the finalists and went out in fourth. Brian McKain finished third. The rest of the table, players from Canada, France and the United States, went out before the last three.
The final opponent was Hooman Nikzad, who fought back into contention during heads-up play and collected $158,481 for second. The last hand was a straight against a straight: Nikzad made his, but Leiva’s was higher. It was Leiva’s first bracelet and the second-largest score of his career.
Omaha’s four hole cards make this kind of finish more common than in Hold’em. Players can hold the same straight draw with different top ends, and the nut straight matters far more. For a refresher on how those hands rank, see the site’s complete poker hand rankings, and for the language of draws, blockers and nuts, the poker terms glossary.
Father’s Day at the series
Le’s was not the only notable win that Sunday. Coverage of the series’ 20th day grouped his win and Leiva’s with David “ODB” Baker’s fourth bracelet, a busy Sunday early in the summer schedule.
For Le, the bracelet answered a question that hangs over many one-time winners. A first title can come from a single good week. A second, in a game he had never played in tournament form, said something about his range. For Leiva, a player whose results had come in Hold’em, the win put an Argentine name on one of the biggest non-Hold’em fields of the 2025 summer.