Michal Schuh Comes Up Big In World Series of Poker Europe Colossus Event

Michal Schuh got here out on prime within the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe €550 no-limit maintain’em Colossus occasion, topping the sizable subject of 2,799 entries to earn the highest prize of $190,199. The Czech native additionally grew to become simply the eleventh participant from his house nation to safe a WSOP bracelet.

This was the most important recorded rating but for Schuh, topping the $90,192 he took house for a third-place end within the 2017 WSOP International Circuit predominant occasion held at this identical venue. He now has greater than $595,000 in lifetime earnings to his title.

In addition to the {hardware} and the cash, Schuh was additionally awarded 600 Card Player Player of the Year 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 Millions €590 buy-in occasion at this Casino in July for $59,235 and 110 factors. With 710 whole factors, he now sits simply exterior the highest 1,100 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global 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 closing 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-Okay towards the pocket tens of Schuh to see the sector trimmed to seven.

Pascal Pflock was all the way down to lower than a handful of massive blinds when he received 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-Okay 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 subsequent knockout noticed Schuh come from behind, together with his AJ overcoming the AQ suited of Vito Branciforte because of a Q93108 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 massive blind. Both gamers paired their jacks on the flip, however the kicker performed to see RUncan end fourth ($75,314).

Despite scoring that knockout, Tsouloftas was in the end the subsequent to fall. After a back-and-forth three-handed battle, he misplaced an enormous 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 massive blind. Neither participant improved and Tsouloftas was left with lower than an enormous blind after the hand. He was eradicated not lengthy after in third place, incomes $98,069 for his sturdy displaying.

Schuh held roughly a 4:3 lead over Van Hulst when heads-up play started. The benefit modified palms, however Schuh was capable of regain management and draw back forward of the final hand of the event. In the ultimate hand, Van Hulst moved all-in for simply over eight massive blinds with Okay4 from the button. Schuh referred to as with AJ and the board ran out AA739 to carry the occasion to an in depth. Van Hulst was awarded $130,259 because the runner-up.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

Photo credit score: WSOP / Tomas Stacha.