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25-year-old poker pro Tyler Brown won his second World Series of Poker gold bracelet on Monday night in Las Vegas, taking down Event #28: $600 Mixed NLH; PLO Deepstack for $178,126. Despite winning, he almost never made it to the final table.
The 25-year-old’s HendonMob poker bio lists him as being from Chicago while his X/Twitter bio says he’s from ‘wherever I am needed’ but he has been in Las Vegas for the 2025 World Series of Poker and already cashed before this win in Event #15: $1,500 Mixed PLO Hi-Lo 8 / Omaha Hi Lo 8 / Big O where he finished in 8th place out of 1,239 players for $26,666. But his biggest cash came last night and there was some drama leading up to it.
When I opened up the new WSOP+ app this morning to check last night’s results I was surprised to see Tyler Brown had won because one of the last posts I saw on Twitter/X last night before logging off social media for the evening was a post from Kevin Mathers of GPI/HendonMob who reshared a post from Robert West.
West’s post talked about a “really nice guy” at his table named Tyler who got into a spat with “the floor” aka a tournament official, who wanted Tyler Brown to ‘chip up’ and trade in his big stacks of chips for higher denominations. The idea here is to speed up the betting process so players are tossing in like 2-3 chips instead of counting out stacks of 20… Tyler *did agree* to chip-up but the official claimed to have not heard him despite everyone sitting at the table hearing it. Here’s that post from Robert West:
Robert West / Threads
In the comments, many people sided with ‘the floor.’ The prevailing idea is when you sign up for a tournament you agree to play by the tournament’s rules and defer to the officials. They’re in charge. But the flip side is the floor appeared to have either lied about not hearing Tyler Brown’s offer or refused to believe him and the others at the table.
Tyler Brown (@TheBestPanda00) has won his second WSOP bracelet in Event #28: $600 Mixed NLH; PLO Deepstack. #WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/c2hrblIRTA
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 10, 2025
Several hours after winning his second WSOP gold bracelet, Tyler Brown addressed the miscommunication/incident/disagreement/spat/whatever you want to call it with the floor, saying he’d need to be on his best behavior for the rest of the Summer:
I'm going to be on good behavior the rest of the series. There's too many people I get along with on the staff and don't want it going nuts. Already hearing it everywhere
— Tyler Brown (@TheBestPanda00) June 10, 2025
Regardless of how it all went down, it appears to have been resolved and Tyler Brown was able to overcome the distraction and go on to win his second World Series of Poker gold bracelet. His first bracelet was won at the 2023 World Series of Poker in Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions – No-Limit Hold’em where he took home an even $1,000,000.