WSOP Player of the Year Shaun Deeb Wins His Eighth Bracelet

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Oct 01, 2025 5 min read Last updated Oct 02, 2025

Shaun Deeb is now tied for seventh place with eight WSOP bracelets after taking down the Event #13: €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GGMillion€ at the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) series.

The New Yorker secured another victory and a second bracelet this year. He also took down the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event this summer in Las Vegas for a career-best $2,957,229 score.

Deeb defeated a field of just 38 runners to win his most recent bracelet at King's Resort in Rozvadov. But it all counts the same, and the victory was even sweeter given he got some revenge against Zdenek Zizka a backgammon champion, who denied Deeb back-to-back bracelets in July during heads-up play in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament.

Zizka, this time, went out in third place for €142,000 when he lost a race to Deeb. Coincidentally, the bracelet event in July ended the other way around, with Deeb losing a race.

“ZZ is a great guy. We played together so much in that 1k from 80 people on. We kept talking about the fact that we didn’t want to be at each other’s tables because it was such a soft field. And we just kept ending up at the same table. Then we got heads-up. We knew it was destiny," Deeb told PokerNews. "I was hoping to be heads-up with him here, but we got in a flip, and I’m not a good person to try to flip against.”

Deeb, who hit a lucky ace with his tournament life on the line during heads-up play against Iago Savino on Wednesday, collected €329,000 for the win. The runner-up received €219,000 as a consolation prize.

#13: €25,000 NLH GGMillion€ Final Results

Deeb Joins Elite Company

The victory leaves Deeb one bracelet shy of Poker Hall of Famer Johnny Moss for sixth place all-time. Only Phil Hellmuth (17), Erik Seidel (11), Phil Ivey (11), Doyle Brunson (10), and Johnny Chan (10) have more. Deeb joins reigning world champion Michael Mizrachi and Benny Glaser, who had just five before the summer, in the eight-bracelet club.

The newest WSOP champion now has over $17 million in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob.

Deeb was a controversial WSOP Player of the Year winner, as some argued Mizrachi, who won the two most prestigious events (Main Event and Poker Players Championship), deserved the award. But the actual POY winner posted a banner summer that has continued across the globe at WSOP Europe.

Deeb, a future Poker Hall of Fame lock within a year or two after he becomes eligible at age 40 next year, outlasted the second-smallest live bracelet event field in the modern era. Justin Bonomo beat a field of 27 entrants in the 2018 $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop for $10,000,000.

From a Rough Start to a Winning Finish

If a bet had to be placed at the start of the day on which tournament Deeb would deep-run, it would have obviously been the Lucky 7’s, where he began second in chips. But at the restart… no Deeb at his seat. “Let’s be honest. I went out drinking very hard last night. I literally woke up from my alarm, went back to sleep, came back like an hour and a half after the tournament had restarted, and got three-outed pretty quickly for my stack,” he explained.

Despite this rough start, Deeb jumped in the €25,000 GGMillion€, which didn’t start much better. “I busted two bullets pretty quick. I busted the first bullet, doubled up on the second, and then busted again—all in 20 minutes.”

The environment at King’s Resort also put him in ideal conditions to play at his best: “When I go to a stop, I just want to play poker, and there are no distractions here. It’s just poker, a little drinking, and good food. They really take care of poker players."

Final Day's Action

Though 13 players qualified through Day 1 out of 18 entries, the €25,000 GGMillion€ saw 20 more entries (three of which were Deeb) join the field on Day 2, bringing the total to 38 entrants and building a total prize pool of €920,000. Mariusz Golinski was one of the late registrants, but also the first player eliminated on the final day. Thomas Eychenne followed, despite firing multiple bullets, soon joined by fellow Frenchman Emilien Pitavy and Fahredin Mustafov, who were both eliminated in a three-way all-in.

Late registration closed after the first three levels of the day, which made Alessandro Pichierri’s bustout a few minutes later definitive. The same fate awaited this week’s bracelet winners Martin Kabrhel, who lost with five-four suited against Salih Atac’s queen-ten, and Renji Mao. Ren Lin was also sent to the rail at the same time by “Lady Gaga”, while the only woman in the field, Jessica Teusl, was eliminated despite starting Day 2 second in chips.

All these eliminations, including those of Atac and Patrik Jaros, reduced the field to the final table that Iago Savino entered as the chip leader, closely followed by Ioannis Angelou Konstas. Savino eventually flopped a straight to eliminate the 2023 WSOPE Main Event champion Max Neugebauer, and Jan-Peter Jachtmann then sent Said Madani to the rail in eighth place, bringing the field to the money bubble.

However, no one wanted to leave empty-handed, and for almost three and a half hours, no eliminations occurred. During that stretch, Luka Bojovic doubled up twice, while Sirzat Hissou and Deeb each doubled once.

Luka Bojovic and Sirzat Hissou eventually found themselves at risk again, this time simultaneously against Iago Savino who flopped a set to score a double knockout. With just 5,000 more chips than Bojovic, Hissou managed to secure the min-cash, while the Serbian bowed out on the bubble.

Now officially in the money, Ioannis Angelou Konstas and his three big blinds quickly shoved and doubled up. Meanwhile, Jan-Peter Jachtmann wasn’t as lucky and had to leave with €73,000 for his fifth-place finish.

Angelou Konstas was next to fall in fourth. The highly anticipated rematch between Deeb and Zizka then ended on a flip, with Zizka’s sixes losing to Deeb’s ace-king and Zizka out in third.

That left Deeb to play for the bracelet against Savino, who held a slight lead, but things changed when Deeb doubled up into a commanding lead before taking down the €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GGMillion€ of the 2025 WSOPE.

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