Overview
- Lavin outlasted 1,299 entrants in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout at the 2025 WSOP in Las Vegas to win $267,373 and his first live bracelet.
- As the inaugural ClubWPT Gold Rush ticket holder to claim a WSOP bracelet event, he added a $1 million bonus for a total prize of $1,267,373.
- The Shootout format required successive single-table sit-and-go victories, and Lavin eliminated seven of his eight final-table opponents.
- Chasing the seven-figure bonus led Lavin to ignore standard ICM pressures and adopt a loose, aggressive game plan at the final table.
- His win was buoyed by a close-knit East Coast rail led by friends from the poker-rich Rust Belt community.