Reining World Collection of Poker Participant of the Yr Shaun Deeb checked off one other poker accomplishment by touring to Europe and successful his first bracelet exterior of the US. He received the WSOP Europe’s  €25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em GGMillion€ occasion for €329,000 and his eighth bracelet.
The victory pulled him out of a seven method tie for ninth on the checklist which he left with Daniel Negreanu, Billy Baxter, Brian Rast, John Hennigan, Males Nguyen, Nick Shulman, and Scott Seiver behind. He now joins Micheal Mizrachi and Benny Glaser in eighth.
A WSOP junky, Deeb cashed 28 instances in 2025, and just one didn’t occur in a WSOP occasion — and that was in a $400 occasion on the Electrical Metropolis Poker Collection in Schenectady, N.Y. the place he completed third. He received his seventh bracelet this summer time within the $100,000 Pot Restrict Omaha excessive curler in Las Vegas for a career-best $2,957,229.
It was the smallest area Deeb needed to make it via to win a WSOP bracelet. The occasion, which befell at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, solely attracted 26, and regardless of the 12 rebuys and the event’s identify, the event missed its €1 million assure by €80,000. Solely the ultimate six have been paid.
Brazil’s Iago Savino Peixoto received his career-best for ending in second. Third-place finisher Zdenek Zizka was the person who acquired in the best way of what would have been Deeb’s second bracelet at this yr’s WSOP when he received a $1,000 occasion for $232,498.
Deeb will probably be the front-runner for induction into the Poker Corridor of Fame subsequent yr, which is the primary yr he’s eligible since he turns 40 in March — the minimal age for nomination.
