With two players seeing a final board of 8♥6♥7♠3♥8♠ and around 15,000 in the middle, Jacopo Achille had moved all in from the big blind, covering Shaun Deeb who had around 30,000 behind on the button. Deeb made the call.
Achille was bluffing with A♥5♣ for straight and flush blockers while Deeb had two pair with 7♦6♦ and earned a full double up.
David Hu raised the button to 1,000 and Marek Soukup called from the small blind before Georgios Tsouloftas made it 4,500 in the big blind. Hu then four-bet to 10,100, Soukup folded, and Tsouloftas called.
They saw a flop of 7♣10♦J♣ where Tsouloftas checked, Hu bet 12,000, and Tsouloftas shoved for around 65,000. Hu snap-called.
Georgios Tsouloftas: K♦J♦
David Hu: A♣A♠
Tsouloftas was in big trouble and needed to find some help on either the turn or the river in order to survive. The turn brought an 8♠, which gave Tsouloftas some chop outs, then the 9♣ river put a straight on board and they chopped up the pot.
Baktasch Safi opened to 1,000 from under the gun and got called by Zdenek Svoboda in the hijack, Jessica Teusl on the button, & Martin Surovec in the small blind.
All four checked the 10♦K♦10♥ flop to the J♠ turn where it checked to Svoboda, who fired 2,900. Teusl call, then both Surovec and Safi folded.
A 7♣ dropped on the river and Svoboda put in a bet of 5,600, and Teusl beat him into the pot.
Svoboda didn't feel like revealing his cards and mucked, so Teusl was pushed the pot without having to show her cards.
With the board showing 8♠Q♦A♦K♦9♠ and around 31,000 already in the pot, Aliaksandr Shylko, first to act in the small blind, led out with a bet of 26,000.
Mateusz Moolhuizen took his time before deciding to shove all in. The pressure was back on Shylko, who had to choose whether to risk his tournament life. After a brief tank, Shylko folded, allowing Moolhuizen to scoop a solid pot early in the event.
With around 2,500 chips in the pot on a flop of J♦2♦5♣, Omar Eljach checked it over to Paco Kaplan, who fired a bet of 1,100. Eljach then check-raised to 5,000, and Kaplan called.
A J♥ dropped on the turn and Eljach made an overbet by placing a chip worth 25,000 into the pot. Kaplan called.
When the 8♣ landed on the river, Eljach took a while before he shoved for a little under 70,000. Kaplan removed his sunglasses and stared at Eljach, then after around thirty seconds he made the call.
Eljach tabled 2♣2♥ for a full house, and Kaplan's Q♠J♣ went down in flames, which left him with just one percent of the starting stack. A few hands later, Kaplan hit the rail.
Jack Effel did a speech and announced the "Shuffle Up and Deal!" Cards are now in the air for Day 1a of the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.
The 2024 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) has been in full swing for over two thrilling weeks at King's Resort in Rozvadov, and now the moment everybody has been waiting for is finally here as Event #13: €10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship kicks off at noon today.
Since the inception of the WSOPE in 2007, players have flocked to the Old Continent every year seeking one of the most elusive prizes in the poker world — a WSOP Main Event bracelet. Every year, the competition gets fiercer, and the dream of becoming part of poker history drives players to leave it all on the felt in a true test of poker skill and endurance.
Last year, Max Neugebauer battled his way through the record-setting field of 817 entries to claim his first bracelet and the €1,500,000 top prize. Neugebauer made an unforgettable hero call against Taiwan's Eric Tsai which sealed victory and carved his name into the history books. Now, with the Main Event about to begin, the question on everyone’s mind is — who will rise to claim the next crown?
2023 WSOPE Main Event Final Table Results
Place
Player
Country
Prize (EUR)
Prize (USD)
1
Max Neugebauer
Austria
€1,500,000
$1,631,588
2
Eric Tsai
Taiwan
€891,000
$969,163
3
Michele Tocci
Italy
€639,000
$695,056
4
Kasparas Klezys
Lithuania
€464,000
$504,704
5
Michael Rocco
United States
€341,000
$370,914
6
Nils Pudel
Germany
€255,000
$277,370
7
Ruslan Volkov
Ukraine
€193,000
$209,931
8
Alf Martinsson
Sweden
€148,000
$160,983
Max Neugebauer winner WSOPE main event
Neugebauer joined an exclusive list of WSOPE Main Event winners which include Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, Phil Hellmuth, Adrian Mateos, and Jack Sinclair.
Although the number of entries can't be confirmed just yet, the prognosticators out there may look at the previous years and realize that since 2015, the prize pool and number of entries has increased on every occasion that the Main Event has ran. Only time will tell if the 2024 edition of the Main Event can keep the trend going and produce another record-breaking tournament.
Past WSOPE Main Event Champions
Year
Champion
Entries
Prize
Runner-Up
2007
Annette Obrestad
362
£1,000,000
John Tabatabai
2008
John Juanda
362
£868,800
Stanislav Alekhin
2009
Barry Shulman
334
£801,603
Daniel Negreanu
2010
James Bord
346
£830,401
Fabrizio Baldassari
2011
Elio Fox
593
€1,400,000
Chris Moorman
2012
Phil Hellmuth
420
€1,022,376
Sergii Baranov
2013
Adrian Mateos
375
€1,000,000
Fabrice Soulier
2015
Kevin MacPhee
313
€883,000
David Lopez
2017
Marti Roca
529
€1,115,207
Gianluca Speranza
2018
Jack Sinclair
534
€1,122,239
Laszlo Bujtas
2019
Alexandros Kolonias
541
€1,133,678
Claas Segebrecht
2021
Josef Gulas
688
€1,276,712
Johan Guilbert
2022
Omar Eljach
763
€1,380,129
Jonathan Pastore
2023
Max Neugebauer
817
€1,500,000
Eric Tsai
Day 1a of the Main event kicks off at 12 p.m. today. It is one of two opening flights scheduled to play seven 90-minute levels. Late registration will remain open until the end of Level 12 on Day 2, which plays out on Sunday, October 6.
Each player will start with a stack of 100,000 chips, equivalent to 333 big blinds, when play begins at Level 1 (100/300 with a 300 big blind ante). Buying in at the start of Day 2 will give a stack of 63 big blinds at Level 8 (800/1,600 with a 1,600 big blind ante), and max late registration during the break after the end of Level 12 will leave players with 20 big blinds at the start of Level 13 (3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 big blind ante).
As always, PokerNews will be on hand to provide updates throughout the Main Event until a new champion is crowned.
