Recap: Yale Series of Poker
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! 🍗
Yale’s own YSOP organizer, Gene Lee, took the gold bracelet home – and before you ask: no, it wasn’t rigged!
And congrats to the runner-up who gave Gene a run for his money to win the silver bracelet: DoWon Kim of Princeton!
Go ahead - take a peek at the winning hand! ♣️
The Final 9
In addition to bragging rights for making it to the final table, the Final 9 also won some coveted WSOP swag, including a great WSOP-branded backpack.
The Final 9 (L to R): Brian Kao, Jason “JD” Newitt, Dennis Gao, Paul Yoo, DoWon Kim, Gene Lee, James Lally, Michael Chan, Keith Kim (last year’s winner dethroned!)
The 2025 YSOP Gang
Check out the whole gang with happy smiles (ahem - before the elimination process got started).
And kudos to Noreen Nash for being our sole female player! 👍We’ll try to get more ladies representing next year.
Winner, Winner, Thai Dinner!
Thank you to everyone who participated in making the 4th annual Yale Series of Poker 2025 a great success! It was filled with lots of laughs, (playful) competition, and camaraderie followed by a great dinner and social mixer afterwards.
A huge thank you to Ceasars Entertainment’s Chief Data Analyst Officer, Gene Lee, and Senior VP of Poker Ops and World Series of Poker, Jack Effel, for making YSOP possible!
See everyone next year! 👋
