Shaun Deeb wins 1st WSOP Europe bracelet for 8th overall

Shaun Deeb was a force to be reckoned with at the summer’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, notching up 18 live cashes, three more online and a major win in the $100K Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

It was a series-long performance that saw the man from New York state achieve a rare feat, winning the WSOP Player of the Year (POY) title for a second time.

This week he added to his stellar reputation as one of the game’s greatest with another WSOP bracelet win — some 6,000 miles away from Las Vegas in Rozvadov, Czechia — in the €25K GGMillion€ event at the WSOP Europe.

The win was worth €329K and marks his second bracelet of 2025, his first claimed outside the USA, and his 8th overall, bringing him level with Benny Glaser and Michael Mizrachi.

Only six players have won more: Johnny Moss (9), Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Erik Seidel (all 10), Phil Ivey (11) and all-time leader Phil Hellmuth (17).

Deeb: locked in for the win.

Victory for the only American in the field

The 2025 WSOP Europe has been a series dominated by European names, including Deeb’s summer POY rival Martin Kabrhel — winner of the €10K PLO Mystery Bounty earlier this week — and a glance down the player list confirms that Deeb was indeed the only American in the 38-entry field.

With three of those entries coming courtesy of Deeb himself, the field may have been small but it was no cakewalk. The presence of high-caliber players such as Kabrhel, Krasimir Yankov, Ren Lin, EPT Barcelona winner Thomas Eychenne and WSOPE winner Max Neugebauer ensured Deeb would need to bring his A-game.

He would also need to take on Zdenek Zizka, the Czech player who denied him a bracelet in Las Vegas earlier this year. Zizka defeated Deeb heads-up in a $1K NLHE tournament, and the two would once again find themselves doing battle — although this time on Zizka’s home turf.

L-R: Iago Savino, Zdenek Zizka and Shaun Deeb.

A rivalry reignited

Deeb late-regged the tournament on Day 2, firing three bullets in quick succession with the final shot hitting the mark and seeing him build a stack big enough to reach the final table.

Brazil’s Iago Savino entered that final table with the chip lead and set to work thinning out the field, with just 6 of the final 9 players making the money and claiming a share of the €920K prizepool.

Savino continued to build, including a double elimination of Sirzat Hissou and Luka Bojovic to burst the bubble, with Bojovic’s slightly smaller stack meaning he claimed the unwanted position of ‘bubble boy’ as the field went from 7 to 5 in an instant.

Iago Savino had the biggest stack when the final table began.

Jan-Peter Jachtmann and Ioannis Konstas were next to fall, setting up a three-way finale between Savino, Zizka and Deeb, with the American looking for revenge on his old foe from the summer.

Three months on from that heads-up defeat in the Horseshoe, Deeb exacted his vengeance. With their stacks practically equal, Zizka limped from the small blind with a pair of black sixes, Deeb raised from the big blind with and Zizka moved all-in. Deeb snap-called and they were off to the races.

The board was apparently designed for drama. A flop of made Deeb the favorite without yet making a hand, with any ace, king, jack or club good for the win. The on the turn was the very definition of a brick, but the river sent the pot Deeb’s way. A count of the stacks revealed Deeb had Zizka covered by less than a big blind.

Key hand puts Deeb in the driving seat

The crucial moment in heads-up play came just a few hands in, when Deeb moved all-in with against Savino’s . The flop kept Savino ahead before Deeb hit the on the turn, with the river bringing a fourth diamond with the to deliver the pot — and a very healthy lead — to the last American standing.

The hand gave Deeb a commanding lead.

Soon afterwards the two got the chips in again. Deeb flopped two-pair, Savino the gutshot, but the card the Brazilian needed never came.

And with that, 2025 WSOP Player of the Year Shaun Deeb scored the win, the €329K first prize, and added an eighth bracelet to his impressive collection.

You can watch the full final day’s play below.

WSOP Europe €25,000 GGMillion€ — final results

^{Images courtesy of WSOP/Tomas Stacha.}