Shaun Deeb Wins Bracelet Number Eight in WSOP Europe €25,000 GGMillion€ (€329,000)
Where will he stop? After winning WSOP Player of the Year in 2018 and 2025 and already owning seven bracelets, Shaun Deeb still seems hungry for more. And more he found by capturing another title, taking down Event #13: €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GGMillion€ of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), hosted at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
From a field of 38 entries, Deeb claimed the top prize of €329,000 after defeating Iago Savino in heads-up play. Zdenek Zizka finished third — the same Zizka who beat Deeb heads-up this summer in Las Vegas in a WSOP $1,000 NLHE event, denying him back-to-back bracelet wins.
With this victory in Rozvadov, Deeb now joins Benny Glaser and Michael Mizrachi as an eight-time bracelet winner.
Final Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun Deeb | United States | €329,000 |
| 2 | Iago Savino | Brazil | €219,000 |
| 3 | Zdenek Zizka | Czechia | €142,000 |
| 4 | Ioannis Angelou Konstas | Greece | €98,000 |
| 5 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | €73,000 |
| 6 | Sirzat Hissou | Germany | €59,000 |
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 third bullet turned out to be the right one, earning him his eighth WSOP bracelet, and his second this year after winning the WSOP $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in July.
It would have been three this year if Zdenek Zizka hadn’t gotten in his way during heads-up play in WSOP Event #84, a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em this summer. Now on Zizka’s turf, Deeb faced him again at the final table and got his revenge. “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, and I was hoping to be heads-up with him here, but we got a flip, and I’m not a good person to try to flip against.”
This victory marks Deeb’s second no-limit hold’em bracelet after a WSOP $10,000 6-Handed Championship in 2018. “But I’m a realist, I’m not great at no-limit hold’em,” he acknowledges. “There were 38 people, and I was three of the bullets. It’s not that hard to win these smaller fields, especially if you have the bankroll and can gamble up and rebuy, which I obviously did. And I got a bunch of all-ins at this feature table and won all of them, so it made it easy.”
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. But I’m shocked, every year I come, I don’t understand why this place isn’t busier than it is. So I guess that’s their fault, but it gives me smaller and softer fields.”
Now that bracelet number eight is secured, Deeb is already eyeing the next one. “I’ve said for years I’m going to go after Phil [Hellmuth], so getting two in the same year is pretty nice. I obviously got very lucky in this one, but I’m just gonna keep showing off. It’s a lot of fun, and my wife lets me go away when there are bracelets on the line.”
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.
That concludes PokerNews coverage of Event #13. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the 2025 WSOP Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov.