The 2026 WSOP Europe has already thrilled poker fans around the world and is now setting records to go along with the drama. In the €5,300-entry WSOP Europe Main Event, a total of 2,617 entries represented the largest number of entries in a live poker event costing €5,000 or more ever to be held in Europe. With a total prize pool of €13.08 million, a top prize of €2 million was announced by the floor to rapturous applause in the Czech capital of Prague.

WSOP Europe Breaks Attendance Record

The WSOP Europe festival is set to be the biggest in its glorious history this week as 2,617 entries in the €5,300 buy-in WSOPE Main Event helped create a prize pool of over €13m and a top prize of €2m. The largest event in European poker history burst the bubble on Day 2, leaving plenty of big names and PokerStake players in the hunt for the title and a priceless WSOP bracelet.

Top of the leaderboard after Day 2 was the French player Thomas Eychenne, who was the only player to pile up over 2 million chips on 2.01m. Plenty of big names gathered in the wake of the chip leader, with bracelet winner Yuhan Wang (1.37m), Alan Keating (1.15m), Yuliyan Kolev (1.06m) and PokerStake player Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen (1.04m) all inside the top 20.

Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Jeff Madsen (1.01m), Day 1c chip leader Daniel Rezaei (967,000), former Super Million$ and 2019 WSOP Europe Main Event winner Alexandros Kolonias (854,000) and the Ukrainian bracelet and EPT winner Eugene Katchalov (848,000) all surviving with above average stacks. The back-to-back Ladies Event winner Shiina Okamoto not only made Day 3 but came into the counts in 21^st place on a massive 982,000 chips.

Seven-time WSOP bracelet winner and PokerStake legend Josh Arieh will start Day 3 with 812,000 chips, while the WSOP, WPT and EPT Triple Crown champion Roberto Romanello (803,000) is hot on his heels. Shaun Deeb (689,000) is looking good for yet another deep run, while Nacho Barbero (631,000) will always believe that he can use a big stack to go on and win any tournament he plays.

Fahredin Mustafov Takes Turbo Title

In the €2,200-entry Turbo Bounty NLHE Event #7, the Bulgarian player Fahredim Mustafov took his second WSOP bracelet and a top prize of €142,420. With a total field of 904 entries, the Bulgarian’s win catapulted him to just under $11 million in live tournament winnings and added to his 2025 WSOP Online $25,000 GGMillion$ Super High Roller Championship for $956,138 on GGPoker.

There were more cashes for Chris Hunichen (63^rd for €2,640) and Jesse Lonis (48^th for €2,920) before PokerStake’s Josh Arieh (39^th) and Jessica Teusl (35^th) both won €3,830 outside the final table places. Once there, players such as Matthew Wantman (6^th for €24,430) and Jose Severino (4^th for €46,450) fell before Iran’s Bahram Chobineh made it to heads-up. It didn’t take long for Mustafov to defeat Chobineh heads-up, turning a big 4:1 chip lead into victory.

With every bounty worth €1,000, Mustafov piled up plenty of those, eliminating five of his eight final table opponents along the way.

WSOP Europe €2,200 Turbo Bounty NLHE Event Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	€142,420
2nd	Bahram Chobineh	Iran	€94,400
3rd	Mateusz Szymanski	Poland	€65,680
4th	Jose Severino	Panama	€46,450
5th	Frederik Reinert	Denmark	€33,400
6th	Matthew Wantman	United States	€24,430
7th	Massimo De Mario	Italy	€18,180
8th	Allan Tirel	Allan Tirel	€13,770
s9th	Jana Helmig	Jana Helmig	€10,620

Other Big Winners

There have been six WSOP bracelet winners so far in the 2026 WSOPE festival. Frank Koopman took the PLO Mixed event, defeating Shaun Deeb to capture his first-ever WSOP bracelet in Event #2.  The opening event finished a little later when Corel Theuma took the gold bracelet, beating Maksim Paniak heads-up to win €150,000.

In Event #3, the €565 Colossus event, French player Gilles Silbernagel took the honors, and a top prize of €165,000 while Jules Ayoub was the victor in the €565 PLOSSUS, the PLO variant of the preceding event. In the Ladies Event, it was the Swiss player Anca Eggenberger who took the bracelet and a top prize of over €40,000 after she defeated Eunbeen Joo heads-up, with Esther Taylor (6^th for €6,810), Kitty Kuo (15^th for €2,370) and PokerStake’s Jessica Teusl (22^nd), Lexy Gavin-Mather (26^th) and Olga Iermolcheva (27^th) all min-cashing for €2,010 along the way.

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