Spencer Champlin

Spencer Champlin is an American professional poker player who has built one of the most consistent tournament resumes in the modern game. Though he is often listed as based in Nevada, his results have made him a landmark figure in Maine's poker history; in a preliminary event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, he quietly rose to become the all-time money leader from Maine, a mark that stood at $2,675,603 at the time. His lifetime live tournament total now exceeds $4.39 million, built from 471 recorded cashes, and he has ranked around 600th in the global poker standings. To put that Maine record in context, Champlin and Matt Woodward are the only two players from the state with more than $2 million in earnings; Leonard Cortellino is third at $1.57 million, and Randolph Spain follows at $553,408. Champlin spends more than 40 weeks a year on the road, a schedule that has allowed him to turn steady cashes into a seven-figure bankroll.

One of Champlin's signature results came at the 2024 Poker Masters, presented by PokerStars NAPT. He turned a $560 satellite into a victory in Event #1: $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em, earning $160,475 after defeating fellow satellite winner Jessica Vierling heads-up. It was his first PGT Tour cash and first PGT title, his third-largest career score, and his fifth career six-figure score. The win also put him atop the PGT leaderboard with 160 points. Earlier, he had captured the penultimate event of the PokerGO Tour Kickoff series, completing a heads-up comeback to collect $157,500. That final saw Samuel Soverel go out in fifth and Eric Blair in fourth, with Alexandre Vanier holding nearly 12 million of almost 16 million chips in play before heads-up began. Champlin, short-stacked at the start, chipped up after showing the better two pair, then used a pocket kings hand to seize control: he limped the button, Vanier raised, and Champlin spent a time extension before three-betting to maximize the spot.

Champlin's resume also includes deep runs in the WSOP Main Event and a WSOP Circuit ring, results that have made him a familiar face as a "WSOP regular." He has made multiple final tables on the WPT, and his largest WPT cash came in the most recent year. At WPT Choctaw, he came extremely close to another final table but bubbled in seventh place. "I came close last year at Choctaw when I bubbled the final table in seventh place," he said. In addition to these marquee finishes, he has piled up preliminary-event wins and final-table appearances across the country, often using satellite entries to multiply his opportunities. His ability to convert small buy-ins into six-figure wins, as at Poker Masters, has become a recurring theme in his career.

Champlin's tracked tournament totals show a steady upward curve. In mid-2025, his record stood at 434 cashes and $4,027,820 in earnings, with a latest cash of $20,215 on 21-Jun-2025. By the following year, the totals had grown to 471 cashes and $4,390,102, with his most recent listed cash of $5,256 on 22-Jun-2026. That kind of constant movement is no accident: Champlin plays more than 40 weeks a year, and even modest cashes add up over hundreds of events. His consistency across so many tournaments, rather than a single massive score, has been the engine behind his rise in the global rankings.

Champlin is regarded as a solid, patient player who thrives in deep-stacked situations. That doesn't mean he is passive: he has shown a willingness to apply pressure at critical moments, such as his time-extension three-bet with pocket kings during the PokerGO Tour Kickoff heads-up match. He also has the discipline to fire satellites and manage his schedule so that a heavy road calendar of 40-plus weeks remains sustainable. He has worked as a coach for poker training websites, sharing strategic insights on patience, bankroll management, and tournament decision-making. Fans have tagged him as a "solid player" and "WSOP regular," and his career offers a useful lesson: consistent, patient play with occasional aggressive breakthroughs can build a multi-million-dollar record without requiring a single giant lottery-ticket win.