World Series of Poker Unveils 2025 Main Event Bling

By Scott Roeben, on July 07 2025

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While there is some question as to whether the term “bling” is still used by our fellow youths, there is no doubt at all this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event champion bracelet qualifies.

Bussdown? Ice? Sauce? Shine? Take your pick!

The winner of this year’s Main Event will not only get millions in prize money, they’ll get this beauty, valued at $500,000.

Never have so many men been so excited about jewelry since the one ring that ruled them all.

Last year’s winner, Jonathan Tamayo, won $10 million in the WSOP Main Event. And he got a bracelet, which he never wears, because nobody wears these. It’s not about wearing the bracelets, it’s about bragging that you won the WSOP Main Event.

Details about this year’s bracelet are under a veil of secrecy, for some unknown reason.

Typically, WSOP goes on and on about who made the bracelet, how much gold is involved along with how many gems and diamonds. This year’s news release had nothing, zilch.

In fact, there’s been very little conversation about the bracelet this year, possibly because our close personal friend magician Criss Angel was involved in the big reveal.

Awkward.

Anyway, other than the supposed value of the bracelet, there was a photo, and that’s it.

We smell cost-cutting.

Look at the 2024 bracelet. Notice any differences?

Has the belt-tightening at Caesars Entertainment extended to bracelet tightening?

Last year’s jaw-dropping WSOP Main Event bracelet had 445 grams of 10-karat yellow gold with 2,253 various precious gemstones, including 1,948 round genuine diamonds, 230 black onyx stones and 75 genuine red rubies to accentuate the four card suits highlighted in the design.

This year: “With his own studio-produced song ‘Mindfreak’ playing in the background, Angel effortlessly garnered the attention of all the poker players who were currently on break in the WSOP Main Event. After being introduced by Effel, Angel showed off the newest edition of the WSOP Main Event bracelet on his wrist and gushed over its appearance.”

Angel said, “It goes well with my attire and my jewelry!”

The cringe heard round the world.

We can pretty much guarantee Criss Angel has never used the word “attire” in his life.

The WSOP Main Event has a metric butt-ton of entrants, so it’s conducted in “flights.” The Main Event began July 2, 2025.

The Final Table of the Main Event happens July 15–16, 2025.

If you don’t think we asked A.I. to design a better bracelet for the WSOP Main Event, you do not know this blog at all.

Female participation in the WSOP Main Event hovers between 3% and 5%. All that changes with this bracelet!

Caesars Entertainment still hosts the World Series of Poker, but no longer owns it. The WSOP brand was sold to NSUS Group Inc. in a sale valued at $500 million to help pay a portion of Caesars Entertainment’s hefty debt load. They sold Linq Promenade as well, for the same purpose.

Is WSOP avoiding talking about the bracelet in detail because its gold and diamonds have been replaced with pyrite and cubic zirconia? Is the $500,000 value estimate just a ruse? Was including Criss Angel in the unveil just a way to divert attention away from the completely manufactured controversy surrounding the bracelet? Is it obvious we did not know how to end this story, so we’re just asking a bunch of rhetorical questions?

Learn more about the legacy of the World Series of Poker bracelet at the official site.

Fair warning: Guy Fieri, the Criss Angel of chefs, is included in the WSOP’s bracelet history. We don’t make up the news, we just say snarky things about it.

Update (7/10/25): The 2025 bracelet has 2,256 round diamonds, totaling 42.0 carats. The weight is 367.1 grams, or about 13 ounces.