WSOPE Prague: Everything You Need to Know So Far

The 2026 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) has landed in Prague for the first time in the series’ 17-year history, and it has wasted no time making headlines. Running from March 31 to April 12 at King’s Casino inside the Hilton Prague, this edition has already shattered attendance records, produced five gold bracelets, and served up enough drama to fill a season of television — and the Main Event hasn’t even reached its final table yet.

Bracelet Winners So Far

Event #1: €1,100 Mystery Bounty Opener – Corel Theuma (USA) – In a upw field of 2,195 entries, Corel Theuma claimed the opener after a dramatic final table that saw legend Benny Glaser fall in fifth place. Theuma eventually found himself heads-up against Maksim Paniak , where he spiked a straight on the river with king-nine to overcome Paniak’s ace-eight. The win earned Theuma his first WSOP bracelet and €150,000, making him Malta’s first-ever WSOP bracelet winner, and outlasting the largest field of the festival so far in this high-energy mystery bounty format.

#1 €1,100 The Opener Mystery Bounty (1,100 EUR)

Total Prize USD

$1,265,095

Total Prize

€1,097,500

Entries

2,195

ITM

319

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	€150,000 $172,905	CT Corel Theuma Malta	3,898.94
2	€95,000 $109,505	MP Maksim Paniak Russia	2,756.97
3	€68,000 $78,385	JK Janis Kulikauskis Latvia	2,251.06
4	€47,100 $54,290	CT Christian Tabac Romania	1,949.47
5	€35,100 $40,460	BG Benny Glaser United Kingdom	1,743.66
6	€25,100 $28,935	JS Julien Stropoli France	1,591.74
7	€19,000 $21,900	CV Cesar Veroez Venezuela	1,473.66
8	€14,000 $16,140	GC Gabriel Chiva Romania	1,378.48
9	€11,200 $12,910	CM Chenxiang Miao China	1,299.65

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Event #2: €3,300 Mixed PLO / PLO8 / Big O – Frank Koopmann (Germany) – Recreational player Frank Koopmann claimed his first WSOP Bracelet after a dramatic final hand. While eight-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb held the chip lead during the early stages of the final table, it was ultimately the German veteran of the game who secured the victory. In the final hand, Deeb flopped a flush, but Koopmann turned quad fours to lock up the win. Koopmann earned a career-best cash of €123,879 for his first-place finish, while Deeb recorded his eighth career runner-up result.

#2 €3,300 Mixed PLO / PLO8 / Big O (3,300 EUR)

Total Prize USD

$625,920

Total Prize

€543,000

Entries

181

ITM

28

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	€123,879 $142,795	FK Frank Koopmann Germany	2,006.98
2	€81,784 $94,275	SD Shaun Deeb United States of America	1,419.15
3	€55,518 $63,995	BZ Blaz Zerjav Slovenia	1,158.73
4	€38,779 $44,700	ST Simeon Tsonev Bulgaria	1,003.49
5	€27,894 $32,155	RA Rishi Amin United Kingdom	897.55
6	€20,682 $23,840	DS Dario Sammartino Italy	819.34
7	€15,820 $18,235	DM Dimitrios Michailidis Greece	758.57
8	€12,498 $14,405	SB Scott Bohlman United States of America	709.57
9	€10,208 $11,765	SM Stoyan Madanzhiev Bulgaria	668.99

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Event #3: €565 Colossus NLHE – Gilles Silbernagel (France) – Less than 24 hours after his Event #2 heartbreak, Deeb was back at the Colossus final table as chip leader, chasing a ninth bracelet for the second time in as many days. France’s Gilles Silbernagel  held top pair in the decisive hand, then rivered quad sixes to send Deeb’s full house to the rail once more. Silbernagel took home €165,000 and his first bracelet, and Deeb pocketed €110,000 for another agonising second-place finish.

#3 €565 COLOSSUS NLH (565 EUR)

Total Prize USD

$1,534,250

Total Prize

€1,331,000

Entries

2,662

ITM

400

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	€165,000 $190,195	GS Gilles Silbernagel France	4,293.72
2	€110,000 $126,795	SD Shaun Deeb United States of America	3,036.12
3	€80,500 $92,795	PC Przemyslaw Cebrat Poland	2,478.98
4	€66,000 $76,080	HM Hrvoje Mitrovic Croatia	2,146.86
5	€44,500 $51,295	JM Jakub Michalak Poland	1,920.21
6	€32,000 $36,885	DM Davis Mihelsons Latvia	1,752.90
7	€23,500 $27,090	JO Jerry Odeen Sweden	1,622.87
8	€18,000 $20,750	CG Christoph Graze Germany	1,518.06
9	€13,915 $16,040	MS Markus Schottes Germany	1,431.24

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Event #4: €565 PLOSSUS Bounty PLO – Jules Ayoub (Germany) – The PLO equivalent of the Colossus drew 1,120 entries and produced a fitting winner in Jules Ayoub , a Hamburg-based Omaha specialist with cashes in the format stretching back to 2009. Ayoub defeated Daniel Rezaei heads-up — no small feat, given that the Austrian high roller had arrived fresh from a $1.9 million score at Triton Jeju just weeks earlier. Ayoub held the better two pair on the final board to claim €50,780 plus bounties, and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

#4 €565 PLOSSUS Bounty (565 EUR)

Total Prize USD

$387,310

Total Prize

€336,000

Entries

1,120

ITM

167

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	€50,780 $58,535	JA Jules Ayoub Germany	2,349.03
2	€33,100 $38,155	DR Daniel Rezaei Austria	1,661.02
3	€23,100 $26,625	RG Richard Geyer United States of America	1,356.22
4	€16,400 $18,905	VT Vincas Tamasauskas Lithuania	1,174.52
5	€11,800 $13,600	JP Jaroslav Peter Czech Republic	1,050.52
6	€8,700 $10,030		887.85
7	€6,500 $7,495	NH Niclas Hoeglund Sweden	830.51
8	€4,900 $5,650	ST Simeon Tsonev Bulgaria	783.01
9	€3,800 $4,380	PI Pavel Izotov Belarus	742.83

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Event #6: €1,000 Ladies Championship – Anca Eggenberger (Switzerland) – Anca Eggenberger made history by winning the first-ever gold bracelet awarded in a women’s event on European soil. Starting Day 2 near the bottom of the counts (23rd out of 30), the Swiss newcomer staged a massive comeback to defeat South Korea’s Eunbeen Joo heads-up. Eggenberger took home a career-best €40,298 and a custom-designed gemstone bracelet, marking a breakthrough performance in the most significant milestone for women’s poker in WSOPE history.

#6 €1,000 Ladies Championship (1,000 EUR)

Total Prize USD

$206,645

Total Prize

€179,270

Entries

197

ITM

30

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	€40,298 $46,450	AE Anca Eggenberger Switzerland	1,426.11
2	€26,690 $30,765	EJ Eunbeen Joo South Korea	1,008.41
3	€18,220 $21,000	KS Ksenia Shuali Canada	823.36
4	€12,770 $14,720	SE Sali Elias Netherlands	713.05
5	€9,200 $10,605	DK Daria Krashennikova Russia	637.78
6	€6,810 $7,850	ET Esther Taylor United States of America	582.21
7	€5,190 $5,985	MH Monika Hoffmann Austria	539.02
8	€4,070 $4,690	AL Aylar Lie Norway	504.21
9	€3,300 $3,805	YH Yuxi Huang China	475.37

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Moments That Defined the Opening Week

Shaun Deeb and the Curse That Won’t Quit

Eight bracelets, nine runner-up finishes and counting. Deeb arrived in Prague as the reigning WSOP Player of the Year and the favourite for the newly unified $1 million global POY race — and he has proceeded to demonstrate, in the most painful way possible, why the game’s greatest mixed-game player may never win another bracelet.

Lost to quads again hu this isn’t fun

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) April 4, 2026

The Event #2 heads-up loss to Koopmann’s rivered quads was bad enough. The very next day he was leading the Colossus final table, only to run into Silbernagel’s rivered quad sixes. Two finals, two losses to four-of-a-kind. But his Prague week wasn’t done there. On Day 2 of the Main Event, Deeb found himself all-in on the stone bubble — pocket sevens in the middle, tournament life on the line, with 393 players frozen in hand-for-hand.

Greece’s Symeon Alexandridis busted at another table at the same moment, saving Deeb’s stack and sending the field into the money. He survived, but is nursing a short stack into Day 3. His Prague ledger so far: two final tables, two runner-up finishes, two losses to quads, €192,000 in combined prize money, one Main Event min-cash, zero bracelets. The quest for number nine now heads to Las Vegas this summer.

Prague Smashes Every Record in the Book

The move to Prague and the decision to halve the Main Event buy-in to €5,300 has sparked a massive surge in attendance. The Colossus set a new bar with 2,662 entries, tripling the previous single-tournament record for the WSOPE. The Main Event followed suit, drawing a combined total of 2,621 entries across three starting flights — clearing the €10 million guarantee and setting the largest prize pool in the history of the European series. First place is worth €2,000,000, surpassing the entire prize pool of the 2025 WSOPE Main Event in Rozvadov.

Martin Kabrhel: Five Cards, Warnings, and Chaos as Usual

No WSOPE recap is complete without Czech professional and five-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel , who managed to cause a diplomatic incident before most players had finished their first coffee of the festival.

During Event #1, Kabrhel was accidentally dealt five cards in a PLO hand. The floor initially ruled his hand dead, but Kabrhel protested at length, and the ruling was eventually softened to a chip penalty. He busted Day 1 anyway, re-entered, and advanced with 974,000 chips. Four-time bracelet winner David “ODB” Baker was sufficiently displeased to post on X that Kabrhel had been “screaming every 2 minutes,” with floor warnings being issued and multiple players filing formal complaints. Texas player Kimberly Stone publicly called for the WSOP to “please put him on official warning.”

Martin screaming every 2 mins.
Players complaining (not me)
Floor comes and gives him warning
He gets up to argue with floor

Rinse and repeat 20x a day

This is event 3 of a 150 event wsop year

Warnings with no consequences

Gonna be a long year

— David Baker (@audavidb) April 2, 2026

Love him or despise him Kabrhel generates engagement, which is why he’s featured so regularly on WSOP’s own social channels. With roughly $19 million in career earnings and five bracelets, he is also impossible to dismiss as a player. He is the Czech Republic ‘s all-time leading earner and the undisputed king of psychological warfare at the poker table. Prague is his home, so expect more of the same before April 12.

Big Names Still in Action

Michael Mizrachi : The reigning WSOP Main Event champion ($10 million, eighth bracelet) and newly inducted Poker Hall of Famer has been one of the busiest players at the festival, cashing three times before the Main Event and bagging 344,000 chips heading into Day 2. He needed some help getting there — earlier in Day 1C he shoved second pair and was called by pocket aces, only to turn two pair for the double-up — but he advanced comfortably and is well-positioned into Day 3.

Annette Obrestad : Winner of the very first WSOPE Main Event in London in 2007 at age 18, still the youngest bracelet winner in WSOP history — has returned to competitive poker after eight years away from the circuit. She delivered the ceremonial “shuffle up and deal” for the Main Event’s opening flight, a moment that generated significant coverage on the WSOP’s own social channels, and is playing both the Ladies Championship and the Main Event.

Remaining Schedule

The festival runs through April 12, with the Main Event final table — featuring the first-ever WSOPE champion to be crowned in Prague — as the centrepiece closer.

Why the Move to Prague Matters

The move from the border town of Rozvadov to Prague marks a massive turning point for the WSOPE. After 13 years, the series feels like a major international festival again, attracting massive crowds and a revamped production.

Key Highlights:

• The POY Race: This event is now part of a unified $1 million Player of the Year race, connecting results in Prague to upcoming stops in Las Vegas and Paradise.
• Players to Watch: Shaun Deeb is already a frontrunner after two deep runs, while Benny Glaser remains a top threat despite a recent bubble.
• History in the Making: The Main Event winner on April 10 will become the first-ever WSOPE champion crowned in Prague.