[Removed:569] won the 2023 European Poker Tour (EPT) Cyprus Main Event almost exactly two years ago. This result put him on the poker map and earned him $1,042,000. Last night, [Removed:569] added to his glowing reputation by coming out on top in the 2025 PokerStars WCOOP $10,300 NLHE Main Event, leaving a trail of superstars in his wake and banking the $736,327 first-place prize.

Some 407 players bought into this Main Event for $10,300, creating a guarantee-busting $4,070,000 prize pool that the top 48 finishers shared. Only nine players returned for the final day, with [Removed:569] occupying second place, narrowly trailing Ukraine's "ardonaS."

The eventual finishing positions were not too dissimilar to the start-of-the-final-table chip counts. Mexico's "4435GoldenBoy" bowed out in ninth for $83,544 before Matthew" mjw006" Wakeman, an Australian now living in Indonesia, saw his WCOOP Main Event run finish in eighth place for $108,863.

"AchoBogdanov" of Bulgaria busted in seventh for $143,047, with the 2023 WCOOP Main Event champion Ivan "ILS007" Stokes coming close to being a two-time Main Event winner, but ultimately having to make do with the $187,965 sixth-place prize.

Fifth place and $246,988 went to Preben "prebz" Stokkan, Mexico's "sebasnato" joined the list of eliminated players in fourth, a finish good for $324,545, before Renan "Internett93o" Bruschi ran out of steam and crashed by the wayside in third. Bruschi's latest deep run earned him $426,455.

[Removed:569] battled one-on-one with "ardonaS" for the title of World Champion of No-Limit Hold'em and a nearly three-quarters of a million top prize.[Removed:569] got the job done and sent his Ukrainian opponent to the rail; the runner-up banked $560,366. That final elimination meant [Removed:569] was the $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event champion and recipient of $736,327.

$10,300 NLHE Main Event Final Table Results

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