Solely 16 gamers returned to King’s Resort, Rozvadov right now for the ultimate bracelet alternative of the 2025 World Collection of Poker Europe, as the ultimate occasion of the competition, Occasion #15: €1,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Nearer, headed in direction of its conclusion.
After seven hours of battle, Lukas Timko of Czechia emerged as a deserving winner of the €1,000,000 assured occasion, capturing his first bracelet, a career-best rating, and a €158,000 payday. Timko prevailed over a 645-runner discipline and defeated his fellow countryman Michal Schuh heads-up, denying Schuh his second bracelet within the course of.
The important thing second got here when Timko got here off greatest in a three-way all-in four-handed, regardless of having the worst of it preflop. From there, Timko did not look again, and he received the job performed in opposition to Schuh by holding in a flip, after coming into heads-up play with a 5:1 chip benefit.
Timko’s largest recorded stay money thus far was for lower than $10,000, and he can now cross off the six-figure rating milestone and name himself a WSOP champion. (All stats courtesy of The Hendon Mob.)
€1,000 NLH Nearer Last Desk Outcomes
Last Day Motion
Asaf Adato began the day because the chip chief, narrowly forward of Germany’s Dennis Schaefer and Timko, whereas Shaun Deeb was looking his ninth bracelet, and third of 2025.
Within the first hand of the day, short-stack Sorel Mizzi‘s run got here to an finish as he bumped into the ace-king of Schuh. After Hans Thumann discovered an excellent river hero-call, Schuh claimed one other scalp when he left Fabio Peluso drawing lifeless on the flip. Schuh was additionally the beneficiary of a weird hand, the place Thumann check-raised the river, regardless of having a card uncovered.
With the primary break approaching, there have been a flurry of knockouts to deliver issues in direction of the ultimate desk, with Leonardo Ludovisi hitting a flush in opposition to Roman Isaienko, and continuing to knock out Jose Puertas in fast style. On the similar time, on the opposite desk, short-stack Robert Zipf‘s run got here to an finish versus Timko.
That left proceedings on the ultimate desk bubble on the first break, and it was short-stack Thumann who busted to Schuh shortly after the restart to set the ultimate 9.
Last Desk Motion and Timko’s Highway to Glory
Schaefer led the best way on the remaining desk, carefully adopted by Schuh, whereas Adato, Timko, and Mariusz Klabisch introduced up the rear. Deeb was the primary participant to exit, after Schuh turned a set in what had been a flip.
Play began to tighten up, and Adato, who had gone backwards for the reason that begin of play, gathered some momentum when he doubled twice via Schaefer in fast succession.
Klabisch instantly got here to the fore, getting fortunate to bust Paul Covaciu in eighth, and spiking a miracle two-outer on the river to ship Schaefer to the rail in seventh. Klabisch wasn’t completed there, as he once more discovered himself being dominated in an all-in state of affairs, this time in opposition to short-stack Ludovisi, however once more got here off greatest. Abruptly Klabisch had gone from being in the course of the pack to the runaway chip chief.
Klabisch hit a bump within the highway when Timko hit the river to double, and Timko then spiked the river once more to bust Dorian Melchers in fifth in a race. Timko proceeded to vault into the lead when he got here off greatest in an enormous three-way all-in regardless of having the worst of it, busting Adato in fourth and damaging Schuh within the course of.
That set the stage for a three-handed battle between Timko, Klabisch and Schuh, with Timko simply forward of Klabisch, and with Schuh trailing. Schuh, clearly probably the most skilled participant of the three, shortly doubled via Klabisch to come back again into it.
The trio proceeded to commerce blows, little to separate them, and one thing needed to give. Timko opened up a lead heading into the ultimate break when he raised the river versus Klabisch, and within the first hand again, Klabisch’s luck ran out when he jammed from the button with an ace however couldn’t overcome Timko’s pocket pair.
Timko got here into heads-up play with a considerable lead of just about 5:1, however Schuh extended the competition by flopping prime pair when behind versus Timko’s ace.
The pair battled on, and Schuh virtually drew again to degree when he received paid on the river with two pair. Nevertheless, within the very subsequent hand, all of the chips ended up within the center, Schuh holding ace-king and Timko a low pocket pair, and regardless of Schuh’s pleas to the vendor, the pair held to offer Timko the title.
The Czech natives shared a heat embrace, Schuh congratulating Timko on his achievement, and Timko was left to gather his first piece of WSOP {hardware}.
