Updated on 23 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Chris Brewer wins the $250,000 High Roller

Brewer captures his first bracelet in the biggest buy-in event of the Summer, taking the lead in the 2023 Money Rankings.





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Chris Brewer

After Isaac Haxton won his first career bracelet, the 'best-player-without-a-bracelet' conversation moved on and one of the names brought up a lot was High Roller Chris Brewer. 

It looks like we will have to find a new crusher without a WSOP title, as Brewer just won the biggest WSOP event of the year. 

He defeated a stacked field in the $250,000 Super High Roller to capture the biggest prize of the year so far, $5,293,556, and of course the bracelet. 

69 players entered the event and the final table featured Dan Smith, David Peters, and Chance Kornuth. It also featured a very controversial performance from Martin Kabrhel, more on that shortly at PokerStrategy.com. 

Brewer has been knocking on the door of a major title for some time now after bossing the Super High Roller scene for the last two years. He now pulls ahead of Isaac Haxton on the 2023 money list with $9,020,894 in earnings this year alone.

# Player Earnings
1 Christopher Brewer $5,293,556
2 Artur Martirosian $3,271,666
3 Martin Kabrhel $2,279,038
4 Alex Kulev $1,632,005
5 Chance Kornuth $1,202,318
6 Dan Smith $912,022
7 David Peters $712,953
8 Brandon Steven $574,899
9 Steven Veneziano $478,663

Who is the best player without a bracelet? Let us know in the comments:


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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.