Shaun Deeb Wins 8th Bracelet in WSOP Europe Masterclass

A thrilling finale in the 13^th event of the WSOP Europe festival saw Shaun Deeb take home his eighth WSOP bracelet, making him one of the most decorated players in World Series of Poker history. At a talented final table, Deeb’s fellow Pot Limit Omaha specialist Jan-Peter Jachtmann and his fellow German Sirzat Hissou both made the final six, just missing out on gold.

Short Order Provides High Roller Drama

“I was hoping to be heads-up with him here, but we got a flip, and I’m not a good person to try to flip against.”

Playing any WSOP event for $23,000 in buy-ins signifies expertise, but with 38 entries, the stakes seem even higher than usual. Deeb might have believed he would win a bracelet at the start of the day in a different event, but after beginning play second in chips in the Lucky 7’s NLHE event, Deeb fell short. Entering a €25,000-entry event is no surefire way of returning any money, let alone a deep run, but Deeb outlasted legends to take the crown. Things didn’t start well.

“I busted two bullets pretty quickly,” said Deeb after the event. “I busted the first bullet, doubled up on the second, and then busted again, all in 20 minutes.”

While it didn’t work for two bullets, the third tie was indeed the charm and landed Deeb his second WSOP bracelet this year after he took down the $100,000 buy-in PLO event back in July.

Just a few weeks ago, Deeb’s bracelet haul this year might already have been two. Czech player Zdenek Zizka beat Deeb to glory in Event #84 in Las Vegas, the $1,000-entry event that provided the backgammon player with his first-ever WSOP title. Amazingly, Zizka came third in this event for a score of $123,400.

“ZZ is a great guy,” Deeb said after the event. “We played together so much in that $1k from 80 people on. We kept talking about the fact that we didn’t want to be at each other’s tables because it was such a soft field. And we just kept ending up at the same table. Then we got heads-up. We knew it was destiny, and I was hoping to be heads-up with him here, but we got a flip, and I’m not a good person to try to flip against.”

Final Table Action

When six players were left, everyone was in the money, and that hand took place with three players involved. Iago Savino had the bigger stack and his pocket nines won, catching a set on the flop to prevail when Luca Bojovic lost out with ace-three to crash out for nothing in seventh place. One place further and winning $51,275 was Sirzat Hissou, whose ace-queen paired up was no match for Savino’s pocket pair made into a set.

With five players left, Jan-Peter Jachtmann was the player who missed out, cashing for $63,450. Dominated to defeat with king-six against Zdenek Zizka’s king-jack, the German was followed from the flet by Greek player Ioannis Angelou Konstas, whose fourth-place result was worth $84,150.

Three-handed play lasted until Zizka lost a flip for his life, his pocket sixes unable to hold against Deeb’s ace-king, a flop of Q-T-3 all coming in clubs, with Deeb holding the ace in that suit. Drawing to any club, king, ace and jack across turn and river, Deeb’s rivering of a Broadway straight was not nearly as outrageous odds-wise as it might have looked, and the jovial Czech player Zizka walked away with $123,400.

Heads-up, that hand gave Deeb a foothold more than halfway up the mountain, his stack of 8.5m now closer to Savino’s leading tower of 10.3m chips. Doubling into a commanding lead when ace-six proved good enough to turn top pair and river a flush against the Brazilian Savino’s pocket eights, Deeb pressed home a 14:1 chip advantage to win when his king-ten of diamonds topped Savino’s jack-nine offsuit, a flop of K-T-2 giving the eventual winner two pair before an ace on the turn and deuce on the river denied Savino the miracle gutshot he required to stay alive.

Instead, the Brazilian rail saw their man score a runner-up prize of $190,000 while Deeb took the bracelet and $286,000 up top.

Who Else Has Won Eight WSOP Bracelets?

With such a vast array of WSOP winners, where does Shaun Deeb sit in the pantheon of poker greats? Well, his rival Benny Glaser, who ran Deeb closest in the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year race in the summer, has eight bracelets too, meaning Deeb’s win in the Czech Republic draws him level with his most familiar WSOP POY foe.

The only other player with eight bracelets is perhaps the most famous player ever to win two bracelets in one series, Michael Mizrachi. Scooping not only the WSOP Main Event but the Poker Players Championship too in July, Mizrachi was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame by way an emergency cabal from the voting committee organising a midnight voting panel that included Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu.

Above those three greats sit some of poker’s most famous legends. The late, great Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and Erik Seidel all have 10 bracelets, while Phil Ivey has 11. Phil Hellmuth is still six bracelets clear at the top, however, with an incredible 17 World Series of Poker bracelets. Could Shaun Deeb be the man to chase him down? On this form, who would bet against him?