WPT® Global Ambassadors in 2025: Results, Storylines, and What Comes Next

Key ambassadors at a glance

High-stakes headliners

Regional and live-tour faces

Streamers and online grinders

Going into 2026, WPT® Global adds Tony “Ren” Lin and Fintan Hand to that group, which shifts even more attention toward high-roller coverage and online content.

High-Stakes Headliners

Phil Ivey: still central at the very top

Phil Ivey stayed at the front of WPT® Global’s high-stakes image. His 2025 schedule ran through Triton stops, the World Series of Poker, and other major high-roller series.

At the WSOP he posted deep runs in the $25,000 and $100,000 PLO High Rollers, banking more than $1.1 million between those two events alone. Those appearances kept him on feature tables, in highlight clips, and in every “who still runs the nosebleeds?” discussion.

For WPT® Global, he remains the shorthand for serious high-stakes poker.

Poker great Phil Ivey looks set to have an exciting 2026.

Nacho Barbero: Triton wins and a loud WPT® badge

Nacho Barbero’s 2025 looked built for the cameras. He won the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Montenegro for a little over $1.02 million from a 147-entry field.

Later in the year he added a WPT® Global-branded title in Triton Jeju, taking down the $30,000 WPT Global PLO / NLH hybrid for $646,000 and beating Ivey heads-up. Those two wins put WPT® Global branding on two of Triton’s most-watched final tables of the year.

Barbero also arrived with history. He had previously faced RTA-related criticism on a rival site and spoke about that period in public statements. In 2025, the conversation shifted back to the simple fact that he showed up in the biggest games and kept winning.

Xuan Liu: historic Triton and a short but important stint

Xuan Liu joined WPT® Global in 2024 and left in mid-2025, yet delivered one of the brand’s defining moments.

In May she won the $25,000 WPT Global High Roller at Triton Montenegro, widely reported as the first Triton title ever won by a woman. The 155-entry event carried a $3.875 million prize pool and paid $860,000 for first, the biggest score of her career.

For WPT® Global that win ticked several boxes at once: genuine high-roller credibility, visible representation for women at the sharp end of the game, and the WPT Global Slam badge sitting in the middle of one of the year’s most shared winner photos.

Yen Han “Pete” Chen: Asia’s grinder

Taiwan’s Yen Han “Pete” Chen gave WPT® Global a seasoned face in Asia. His ambassador profile leans on both his live record and his work as a coach and content creator.

By 2025 he had passed $4.7 million in live cashes. That year he put in steady work at the WSOP, EPT Monte Carlo, and APPT Manila rather than chasing only one huge score. For many Asian regulars, he was the obvious bridge between regional live tours and the WPT® Global online client.

Latin American and Regional Stars

Latin America sits right at the centre of WPT® Global’s growth plans. The ambassador mix reflects that.

Nacho Barbero and Angel Guillén

Beyond his Triton titles, Barbero anchored Spanish-language and LATAM-facing content. Spanish-speaking media framed his mid-2025 signing as a key step in reaching Latin American high-stakes fans who already followed his live streams and cash-game clips.

Mexican pro Angel Guillén carried the flag on live WPT® stops. Reports from events such as WPT® Australia and regional series list him with multiple festival titles, including a Mad Max event and a Super High Roller during the same stop.

Together they gave WPT® Global two very different Latin profiles. Guillén is the long-term mixed-game and NLH pro who grinds festival schedules. Barbero is the loud, emotional high-roller who produces instant highlight reels.

Daniel “Dan10” Oliveira and Andressa Lincoln: Brazil covered from two angles

Brazil had its own dedicated faces. Daniel “Dan10” Oliveira appeared across Portuguese and Spanish WPT® Global pages, with a key live highlight coming from a “Last Chance” win on WPT® Voyage worth more than $30,000.

Andressa Lincoln fronted a different part of that audience. Her bio mentions more than 150 trophies and a Ladies Event title at BSOP São Paulo, positioning her as a long-term national-tour grinder and community figure.

Together they showed two sides of Brazilian poker life: the travel vlogger who jumps from cruise ships to Vegas, and the player who has spent years in the trenches of local festivals.

Brazilian creators such as Rômulo Dórea, DinTer, and Marcelo Giordano supported that effort from the content side, turning WPT® Global promotions into streams, hand reviews, and community challenges rather than simple banner ads.

Streamers and Online Faces

If Triton regulars gave WPT® Global reach at the very top, the streamers and mid-stakes ambassadors kept the brand present where most users actually play.

Ethan “Rampage” Yau and Brad Owen

Ethan “Rampage” Yau and Brad Owen entered 2025 as two of the most watched YouTube poker creators. Both are official WPT® (tour) ambassadors and also front WPT® Global campaigns.

Rampage’s 2025 was honest and rough. Poker media documented a tough run of live results and a large downswing that he shared with his audience in real time. That willingness to show the downside of the grind is a big part of why he still matters in the ambassador mix.

Owen’s year looked steadier. He logged several WSOP cashes, vlogged the WPT® World Championship from the inside, and kept building the core YouTube audience that many WPT® Global players came from in the first place.

Ethan “Rampage” Yau is one of the most watched Youtube poker content creators.

Patrick “Egption” Tardif

Twitch regular Patrick “Egption” Tardif joined WPT® Global in 2024 as a flagship online grinder.

He spent 2025 playing WPT® Global events, WPT® stops such as Cyprus, and mid-stakes live series. In interviews he leaned into a playful, self-deprecating style, joking that players “know I’m there to dump money” even while posting solid results.

For the brand he fills a clear slot: the relatable MTT regular who plays the same structures many users register in the client each week.

Jordan Banfield and the micro-to-mid ladder

Canadian streamer Jordan Banfield sat even closer to the entry point. WPT® Global has highlighted his story of turning $100 into more than $25,000 on the site, including a big live Monster Stack score for over $120,000.

That kind of path is rare, but it is exactly the kind of story that motivates new players to try satellites and small-buy-in series.

Brazilian streamers and coaches round out this layer, especially in Portuguese markets where streaming often beats static ads for attention.

WPT® Global Stages in 2025: Triton Slam, Summer Festival, Winter Classic

Ambassadors matter more when they have meaningful stages. In 2025 those stages came mainly through Triton WPT Global Slam events and in-house festival series.

Triton WPT® Global Slam events

The WPT Global Slam branding on Triton high rollers carried plenty of weight. In Montenegro, the $25,000 WPT Global High Roller that Xuan Liu won became a headline Triton story and a rare “first woman champion” moment in nosebleed history.

In Jeju, a separate $25,000 WPT Global Slam event drew more than 300 entries and paid over $1.5 million to the winner. Barbero and Ivey both featured heavily in side coverage and highlight reels.

These events linked WPT® Global directly to $25K–$100K live tournaments where most seats are filled by elite regulars rather than casual players.

WPT® Global Summer Festival

Online, the WPT Global Summer Festival showed that the site can support a large, international schedule. The 2024 edition drew almost 16,000 players from roughly 80 countries for $8 million in guarantees, and that benchmark appeared often in 2025 marketing and ambassador content.

Festival leaderboards, themed streams, and promo missions gave the roster something concrete to point at and build stories around, instead of only pushing generic rakeback offers.

Winter Classic and live crossovers

Around the turn of the year, the WPT® Global Winter Classic at Playground and linked live events in Montreal gave ambassadors like Jordan Banfield and Patrick Tardif a live stage in front of North American players.

That blend of online qualifiers, OnLive Day 1s, and live Day 2s is where an online room and a live tour reinforce each other. It is also where ambassadors can show up in both lobby banners and feature-table coverage within the same festival.

Integrity

In early 2026, WPT® Global announced Lin as a new ambassador. The signing highlighted his more than $16 million in live earnings, his 2023 WPT® Alpha8 title at Wynn Las Vegas, and the fact that he had admitted to wrongdoing and paid money back.

WPT® Global stresses zero tolerance for bots, RTA tools, and collusion, and promotes a dedicated Game Integrity Engine and fair-play team. The position is that ambassadors face the same rules and consequences as any other player, while also carrying a higher standard because of their visibility. 

What to Expect from the Roster in 2026

The 2025 season left WPT® Global with a clear trajectory for this coming year.

High-stakes content will stay central. Triton WPT Global events, WSOP high rollers, and the WPT® World Championship give Ivey, Barbero, Lin, Chen and others room to create meaningful clips instead of staged promo spots.

Regional growth will be carried out through local voices. Expect more Portuguese and Spanish content from Barbero, Guillén, Dan10, Andressa, and the Brazilian stream crew as WPT® Global competes in Latin America and parts of Asia.

Streams and vlogs remain an essential funnel for the organisation. Rampage, Owen, Tardif, Banfield, Hand, and the other online faces keep WPT® Global on YouTube and Twitch homepages even when no major series is running.

Integrity will stay under the spotlight. With the Ren Lin signing and Barbero’s past firmly part of public memory, every enforcement action and every new ambassador choice will be judged through a fair-play lens. Players and fans will look for clear bans where needed, transparent communication, and consistency between policy language and real decisions.

In simple terms, 2025 showed that WPT® Global wants ambassadors who actually sit in big events, not only post promo codes. 2026 will show how far that bet on real results and visible personalities can go, and how well it can coexist with a strict game-integrity line.