Ole Schemion Wins Second WSOP Bracelet with European Championship Title

Ole Schemion is well-known as a Triton Poker Series winner and a regular at the highest stakes in live poker tournaments. High rollers are events that Ole Schemion is a known conqueror of, as he has been for many years in building a prize total of over $20 million. Now the German is a double WSOP bracelet winner after winning his latest major title in Prague.

Two Dozen Take on Final Day

With 379 total entries, the €5,300 entry PLO European Championship saw some of the best four-card players in the world take each other on to win a title worth €395,000. The Prague Hilton was packed on the first day’s play in the Czech capital, but the start of the final day saw just 24 players in action. The overnight leader was the Pot Limit Omaha specialist ‘Texas Mike’, also known as Michael Moncek, but he was to miss out on glory – and his third WSOP bracelet – in dramatic circumstances.

While Moncek as at the top of the chipcounts 24 hours before the title was won, the eventual winner Ole Schemion was languishing down in 16^th position. It was near the end of the penultimate day of the event that the Norwegian player Birger Larsen was kicked out of the event for a drunken rant in 30^th place, cashing for €13,000 but missing out on the chance of a WSOP bracelet.

When play resumed on the final day, there were some quick bust-outs, with Julien Sitbon (22^nd), Jessica Teusl (21^st), Ari Engel (19^th) and Punnat Punsri (16^th) all earning $17,500. The American player David Coleman ran to 11^th place but missed out on the final table as he earned $25,700. Only the final nine made it and Schemion had made up a lot of ground as he bid for his second WSOP bracelet.

Swiss Miss for Shagulyamov

After the Chinese player Quan Zhou departed in 10^th place, the final nine were set and no sooner had they sat down did they lose another player. The Swiss player Sardor Shagulyamov cashed for $31,600 as he missed out on the chance of his first-ever WSOP bracelet and he wasn’t alone in falling short in that ambition.

Lithuanian Arunas Sapitavicius (8^th for $40,950) was the next to leave, before Greek player Dimitrios Michailidis won $53,850 in seventh place. With eight different nationalities in the final eight, the Norwegian Joachim Haraldstad busted in sixth for $72,500. His departure was followed by that of Austria’s Andreas Freund (5^th for $100,600) and the Danish player Rasmus Larsen (4^th for $141,600).

With three players left, Moncek was the man to miss out on the heads-up battle, as ‘Texas Mike’ cashed for $204,800 in third place. The podium had only two men left to battle for gold and the Finnish player Santtu Leinonen was the man to miss out on his first-ever bracelet, falling short for $304,300 in second place.

A Long Wait for More Gold

After five years, Schemion finally had the second bracelet of his poker career. Back in 2021, the German high roller regular won $172,499 when he conquered the $1,979-entry Poker Hall of Fame Bounty event. That was the 79^th event of the 2021 World Series of Poker and ended the conversation about how high up the list of players never to win a WSOP bracelet he ranked.

This time around, the victory was worth $462,300. After winning over $20 million in his poker career in live tournaments alone, the intervening years have seen Schemion win millions of dollars, including in the Triton Poker Series along with a plethora of European events.

In 2026, Schemion has cashed four times, with two wins and two other final tables appearances. If he cashes, he generally runs very deep indeed. It is fitting that on the continent where his reputation is strongest, the German Ole Schemion reminded WSOP fans from all over the world just how impressive his poker skills are.