Michal Schuh got here out on prime within the 2024 World Sequence of Poker Europe €550 no-limit maintain’em Colossus occasion, topping the sizable subject of two,799 entries to earn the highest prize of $190,199. The Czech native additionally grew to become simply the eleventh participant from his dwelling nation to safe a WSOP bracelet.
This was the most important recorded rating but for Schuh, topping the $90,192 he took dwelling for a third-place end within the 2017 WSOP Worldwide Circuit predominant occasion held at this similar venue. He now has greater than $595,000 in lifetime earnings to his identify.
Along with the {hardware} and the cash, Schuh was additionally awarded 600 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was his second POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, having additionally positioned eighth from a subject of 6,237 within the Euro Poker Thousands and thousands €590 buy-in occasion at this On line casino in July for $59,235 and 110 factors. With 710 whole factors, he now sits simply outdoors the highest 1,100 within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker.
This occasion ran from Sept. 25 – 30 at Kings Resort Rozvadov. It featured eight beginning flights, together with one held at Kings Resort Prague, alongside two extra days of motion. The sturdy turnout noticed The ultimate day started with 16 gamers remaining and Georgios Tsouloftas within the lead. Schuh sat in fourth chip place to begin.
Tsouloftas remained on prime heading into the ultimate desk, whereas Schuh had climbed into second place within the chip counts. Hong Pham ran A-Q into pocket aces to complete ninth ($27,473). Mousa Awad (eighth – $32,246) then misplaced a race with A-Ok towards the pocket tens of Schuh to see the sector trimmed to seven.
Pascal Pflock was right down to lower than a handful of huge blinds when he bought all-in with 10-8 suited trailing the A-7 of Erik van Hulst. An ace-high runout noticed the German eradicated in seventh place ($38,462).
Schuh continued to surge because of his A-Ok holding towards the A-Q of Tomas Krivsky. Neither participant related and Krivsky headed to the payout window to gather his $47,120 payday because the sixth-place finisher.
The following knockout noticed Schuh come from behind, together with his A
J
overcoming the A
Q suited of Vito Branciforte because of a Q9
3108 runout. Branciforte positioned fifth, incomes a career-best rating of $58,997.
Paul-Adrian Runcan was critically quick stacked when he shoved from the small blind with J-5. He was dominated by the Q-J of Tsouloftas, who referred to as out of the large blind. Each gamers paired their jacks on the flip, however the kicker performed to see RUncan end fourth ($75,314).
Regardless of scoring that knockout, Tsouloftas was finally the subsequent to fall. After a back-and-forth three-handed battle, he misplaced a giant pot with the flopped second nut flush towards the flopped nut flush for Schuh. He then doubled-up the quick stack, three-bet shoving over Schuh’s button open from the small blind with Q-8 solely to run into A-10 from Van Hulst within the large blind. Neither participant improved and Tsouloftas was left with lower than a giant blind after the hand. He was eradicated not lengthy after in third place, incomes $98,069 for his sturdy exhibiting.
Schuh held roughly a 4:3 lead over Van Hulst when heads-up play started. The benefit modified fingers, however Schuh was capable of regain management and draw back forward of the final hand of the event. Within the remaining hand, Van Hulst moved all-in for simply over eight large blinds with Ok4 from the button. Schuh referred to as with AJ and the board ran out AA739 to deliver the occasion to an in depth. Van Hulst was awarded $130,259 because the runner-up.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Michal Schuh
$190,199
600
2
Eric Van Hulst
$130,259
500
3
Georgios Tsouloftas
$98,069
400
4
Paul-Adrian Runcan
$75,314
300
5
Vito Branciforte
$58,997
250
6
Tomas Krivsky
$47,120
200
7
Pascal Pflock
$38,462
150
8
Mousa Awad
$32,246
100
9
Hong Pham
$27,473
50
Photograph credit score: WSOP / Tomas Stacha.
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