Over the past few years, Spencer Champlin has won big while under the radar in a raft in major poker events. The high roller regular, equally comfortable in high stakes tournaments under the lights of the PokerGO Studio at ARIA as he is in $600 events at the Wynn Las Vegas, has become a sleeper hit on PokerStake. We’ve profiled one of the site’s up and coming players in recent years ahead of a tournament series he could well be the star of yet again.

Champlin’s Previous Record in January

In 2025, Spencer Champlin cashed an incredible 48 times, that’s an average of four times every single month. Given his buy-ins for that period fit between $600 and $10,000, that’s a lot of profit and a huge amount of consistency. Spencer’s best period was easily the four cashes he banked in January, which amounted to an incredible $596,000.

Kicking off the year with a cash worth $10k in the Borgata Poker Open Championship, Spencer then banked $4,000 in a Deepstack event at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. But it was in the LHPO Championship event that Spencer bagged his first six-figure score of the year, winning $425,000 as he came second to Martins Adeniya in Florida.

For some, that kind of result might have led to a short break, with January popular with many in poker for a period of time off. Not so with Spencer. He flew back to Las Vegas, jumped in the PokerGO Tour Kickoff Event #4 and promptly won it for $157,500.  Outlasting players such as Joey Weisman, Martin Zamani and Sam Soverel at the final table alone, Spencer’s win wasn’t just worth a lot of money but rubber-stamped his credentials as one of poker’s elite. Able to switch it up and keep banking profits when hoping from major series to major series in the United States, Spencer had put down a marker for the year.

The Globetrotting Machine

Pushing on through the Spring of last year, Spencer won almost $150,000 in three big-ticket events across a single week in April. Finishing 63^rd in the $3,500-entry WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown’s Main Event for $16,300 was just a warm-up, as Spencer then came third in the Deepstack 8-Max event at the same festival for a much bigger return of $92,000.

In the U.S. Poker Open just 48 hours later, Spencer came eighth, winning $41,200 as he outlasted legends of the felt such as Sam Soverel, Cary Katz, Andrew Moreno and Nacho Barbero along the way. Deep runs followed at the WSOP in Las Vegas last year too, with final tables at the Wynn Las Vegas bumping up the profits as well.

In August, Spencer headed to Barcelona, banking over $87,000 during a fortnight’s stay in the Catalan former European City of Culture. The highlight of that run was a fourth-place finishing in another Deepstack event that yielded $52,274. These were only a few stops on a world tour that saw Spencer win money wherever he lay his hat. Back in Vegas, the Poker Masters series saw another $100,000 in results.

Spencer’s Action in the Big Kickoff

With the PGT Kickoff on the horizon, we’d certainly recommend you check out all the sellers to this spectacular series of tournaments, with PokerStake regulars Cherish Andrews and Jonathan Little both great value. Spencer is selling to the first two of the six scheduled events already and may add more events as the series progresses.

Events #1 and #2 both cost $5,300 to play, fitting in the ‘sweet spot’ of Spencer’s average buy-in (ABI). With the solid structure of the PokerGO Tour events, they have enough play to the levels to replicate those Deepstack NLHE experiences which have proven so profitable to Spencer after all these years.

Sellingthree bullets to each of the two events, Spencer has even priced up his markup accordingly, with bullet #1 costing 1.10 of the stake you wish to buy, bullet #2 being at 1.05 and bullet #3 being at 1.00, or in others words, with no markup at all. Getting a piece of Spencer in each of these events represents great value and if he starts this year the same way he did 2025, you could kick off your year of investing in PokerStake players with profits of your own.