NLHE Series – December 3, 2025

This month we played No Limit Hold’em 9 handed Deepstack to continue the 2025 season of our NLHE Championship Series.

jsettem (Jeff S) battled evilroyca (David Westerveld) heads up after defeating the remaining field of 46 players to earn his first NLHE Championship Series title in 2025. This makes 47 total lifetime wins in official Rec.Poker Home Games.

jimmy_boots (Mike Smerdon), EANDERSON85 (Eric Anderson), Bagman723 ([Private]), combinkley (Eric Gin), LLtahoe ([Private]), ABigDeal1992 (Brian DeHaven), and rabman50 (Rob Washam) rounded out the final table.

evilroyca (David Westerveld) has won the 2025 NLHE Championship Series Player of the Year points race with 268 points. This is the second year in the row that evilroyca (David Westerveld) has won this points race. Stueyy13 (Stuart Kerridge) finished in second place with 244 points. 7high11 (John Crowell), bonecrusher14 (Marcel Dusyk), MikeB172 (Mike Baer), Larsensopening (George Borden), JBTwinCities ([Private]), elvida11 (Joe Kulas), kpokerwanabe (Ron Peyton), and jsettem (Jeff S) rounded out the top ten. Only the top 10 scores counted toward the Player of the Year points race. Be sure to join us in 2026 for our NLHE Championship Series.

Check out the NLHE Series page for all the latest stats.


Standings


Results

PokerStars Tournament #3952265866, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: 17000/3000
46 players
Total Prize Pool: 782000
Tournament started 2025/12/03 20:00:00 CT [2025/12/03 21:00:00 ET]
Tournament finished 2025/12/03 23:35:01 CT [2025/12/04 0:35:01 ET]
1: jsettem (United States), 273,700 (35%)
2: evilroyca (Canada), 175,950 (22.5%)
3: jimmy_boots (United States), 117,300 (15%)
4: EANDERSON85 (United States), 78,200 (10%)
5: Bagman723 (United States), 58,650 (7.5%)
6: combinkley (United States), 43,010 (5.5%)
7: LLtahoe (United States), 35,190 (4.5%)
8: ABigDeal1992 (United States),
9: rabman50 (United States),
10: BigDogDay1 (United States),
11: MikeB172 (United States),
12: 7high11 (United States),
13: osloborger (Norway),
14: the_dood_abides (United States),
15: kellis196220 (United States),
16: BruceK54 (United States),
17: Larsensopening (United States),
18: leftie19 (United States),
19: areallymadguy (United States),
20: Karl0621 (United States),
21: shipnfliprec (New Zealand),
22: RickTheGoodDog (United States),
23: Waltonjb (United States),
24: dave_profab (United States),
25: jdcat32 (United States),
26: JBTwinCities (United States),
27: graphex16 (United States),
28: Stueyy13 (Canada),
29: Zen Heartshadow (United States),
30: bonecrusher14 (Canada),
31: JBach71 (United States),
32: MrDzzz18 (United States),
33: Ziva5735 (United States),
34: appleomyi (Canada),
35: MNted (United States),
36: elvida11 (United States),
37: lespaul99 (United States),
38: isnnma (United States),
39: 1JackFlack (United States),
40: kpokerwanabe (Canada),
41: kkkk8e (Canada),
42: FeistyFlopper (United States),
43: PokerGeekMN (United States),
44: Noahhhhh1291 (United States),
45: dandresg (United States),
46: roadstar33 (United States),

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