Simone Andrian Wins World Series of Poker Europe Main Event For $1.4 Million

This 12 months’s World Series of Poker Europe €10,350 buy-in no-limit maintain’em championship drew a large area of 768 entries, blowing away the occasion’s €5 million assure to create a closing prize pool price greater than $8 million when rendered ins US {dollars}.

The largest share of that cash was captured by eventual champion Simone Andrian, who weathered a grueling heads-up conflict to safe his third profession WSOP gold bracelet and the highest prize of $1,443,000.

This was the primary seven-figure rating for the Italian participant, making it by far his largest payday but. Prior to this career-defining victory, his greatest money was the $177,650 he earned for taking down the 2021 WSOP Europe €1,650 six-max no-limit maintain’em occasion. That was his first bracelet win. His second got here simply over a month in the past within the 2024 WSOP Online International $800 deepstack occasion for one more $156,230.

Andrian now has greater than $2.9 million in profession cashes after this newest win, which accounts for almost half of his recorded earnings.

This victory additionally awarded 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year factors to Andrian. This was his second title and fourth final-table end up to now, having additionally received a $2,200 buy-in occasion on the Merit Poker Western Series again in January for $165,000 and 720 factors. With 3,660 whole factors, he has surged into thirtieth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

This occasion featured two beginning flights and four-more days of mixed area motion inside Kings Resort Rozvadov within the Czech Republic. The high 116 finishers made the cash, with huge names like 2024 WSOP fundamental occasion third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (98th), Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom (forty eighth), World Poker Tour champion David Dongwoo Ko (forty fourth), bracelet winner and WPT champion Dietrich Fast (forty second), six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (thirty fourth), Sirzat Hissou (twenty sixth), and three-time bracelet winner Anson Tsang (tenth) operating deep.

The closing day started with Andrian main and simply six contenders remaining. The first participant to hit the rail was Italy’s Enrico Camosci. The bracelet winner and high-stakes match common was the quick stack to start out. He finally received his final 14 huge blinds in preflop, three-bet calling off with AJ from the small blind. Urmo Velvelt, who opened from the hijack and four-bet shoved over Camosci’s three-bet, held 88. Camosci flopped the nut flush draw, however improved no farther from there and was eradicated in sixth place ($240,870). He now has almost $4.8 million in recorded scores after this newest deep run.

Not lengthy after doubling up by way of Andrian, David Hochheim three-bet shoved with A-4 from the large blind dealing with a small blind open from Andrian. This time round, the Italian ‘had it’. He shortly known as with pocket queens and held by way of a king-high paired board runout ship Hochheim packing in fifth place ($329,670).

Mariusz Golinski’s run on this occasion got here to an finish when his AJ bumped into the AQ of Andrian. The Q978A runout was not with out a twinge of drama, however in the end Andrian made aces as much as drag the pot and eradicate Golinski (4th – $460,650).

When three-handed play started, Ran Ilani had roughly one-fifth as many chips as Velvelt, who was in second on the leaderboard on the time. Ilani received off to a robust begin, although, managing a pair of early double-ups to claw his was out of the hazard zone. Had he received a traditional preflop race in his subsequent all-in, he would have moved into second chip place. His A-Ok was unable to outrun the pocket queens of Velvelt, although, and Ilani was knocked out in third place ($654,900). This was the biggest rating but for the Israeli participant, surpassing the $166,552 he earned because the runner-up within the 2021 WSOP $800 deepstack occasion.

Velvelt held the lead going into heads-up play because of that knockout, sitting with 40,375,000 to Andrian’s 36,425,000. The two traded the lead between them over the course of roughly three hours of one-on-one play with the bracelet hanging within the steadiness.

Andrian finally jumped again out in entrance after profitable a giant pot with high pair in opposition to a pair and gutshot for Velvelt, with the chips entering into on the flip. Andrian improved to jacks up on the river to take greater than a 4:1 chip lead. Not too lengthy after that, Andrian opened for a min-raise to 1,000,000 on the button with 1010. Velvelt three-bet to three,500,000 from the large blind with A10 and Andrian four-bet to 7,000,000. Velvelt shoved for 25,500,000 and Andrian known as. The board got here down 9627Ok and the pocket tens held to deliver the occasion to a detailed. Velvelt earned $947,940 because the runner-up, the biggest rating but for the Estonian.

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

Photo credit score: WSOP / Tomas Stacha.