World Series of Parker · Event 4-5
Eric Denny Knocks Out Everybody, Wins the Finale, Wins the Series
Five players, four eliminations, and all four of them were his.
The series closed with Crazy Pineapple — hold'em with three hole cards, one of which you throw away after the flop — and five players took two hours and forty-six minutes over it, the quickest World Series of Parker event ever played. Eric Denny won $135, and he did it by eliminating every other player at the table himself.
No winner has ever taken every elimination in a WSOP event before. It is his tenth WSOP win, his fourth of the five this season, and it makes him the 2025 WSOP Champion on 180.43.
Lance Cain rebought and was second for $95, finishing runner-up in the table as well on 111.56. He won this series outright in 2021.
Where the money went
| Player | Prize | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Denny | $135 |
| 2 | Lance Cain | $95 |
The undercard
Angela Cain bubbled in third, Andrew Shier was fourth and Rick Mazza the first player out — all three sent home by the winner, and all three inside four minutes of each other.
The series
| Game | Date | Field | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-1 | Omaha Hi/Lo | January 24 | 7 | Eric Denny |
| 4-2 | 7 Card Stud | April 4 | 9 | Eric Denny |
| 4-3 | Heads Up | June 6 | 8 | Warren Mervin |
| 4-4 | Dealer’s Choice | August 23 | 7 | Eric Denny |
| 4-5 | Crazy Pineapple | September 26 | 5 | Eric Denny |
| WSOP 2025 — final | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Denny | 180.43 |
| 2 | Lance Cain | 111.56 |
| 3 | Andrew Shier | 83.83 |
| 4 | Rick Mazza | 65.71 |
| 5 | Jeff Ferguson | 61.33 |
| 6 | Warren Mervin | 58.33 |
| 7 | Angela Cain | 57.60 |
| 8 | Charlie Drotar | 33.43 |
The bigger picture
Four of the five events, and the fifth went to Warren Mervin in June — the only thing standing between Eric Denny and a perfect series.
That is a third WSOP Champion trophy for Eric Denny, after 2017-2018 and 2023. Nobody else has more than one. Across twenty World Series of Parker events he has ten wins; the other eleven are shared among eight men.
The series has now run four times in eight years, and the games keep changing — Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Stud, H.O.R.S.E., Big O, Dealer's Choice, Crazy Pineapple and two heads-up brackets. The one constant is who wins.
World Series of Parker, Event 4-5 — Friday, September 26, 2025. Crazy Pineapple, $40 buy-in, 5 entrants, 1 rebuy, two paid from a $230 prize pool. Final event of the 2025 series; Eric Denny takes the WSOP Champion trophy.