WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!

WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!
Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen (GER)

At the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2026 at King’s Casino Prague, two more bracelet events were started yesterday.

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Event #11: €20.800 Super High Roller NLH – Day 1

In Event #11, the big guns were brought out. The €20.800 buy-in has been paid 167 times so far, resulting in a €3.360.000 prize pool. However, registration is still open until the end of the tenth level.

51 players survived the first day and were able to bag up for today’s final. The most chips went into the bag for the American Alex Keating. With 141 Big Blinds, he is quite a bit ahead of Christopher Nguyen (DE) with 125 Big Blinds in 2nd place.

WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!
Alex Keating (USA)

Other DACH names in the field include Austrians Armin Rezaei in 17th place, Manuel Fritz in 29th place, Jessica Teusl in 37th place, and Josef Schusteritsch. Big international names in the field include Punnat Punsri from Thailand, Jesse Lonis, Shaun Deeb, and John Juanda from the USA, Viktor Blom from Sweden, Jon Kyte from Norway, and YoH ViraL from France.

Here are the current standings:

PosNameCountryChips
1Alex KeatingUS1,129,000
2Christopher NguyenDE1,004,000
3Paulius VaitiekunasLT973,000
4Punnat PunsriTH941,000
5Pedro MarquesPT924,000
6Jesse LonisUS834,000
7Jonas HagstromSE828,000
8Chinwei LimMY786,000
9John JuandaID776,000
10Mike WatsonCA747,000
11Shaun DeebUS711,000
12Byron KavermanUS680,000
13Johannes StraverNL663,000
14Ihar SoikaBY660,000
15Ran IlaniIL638,000
16Kayhan MokriNO634,000
17Armin RezaeiAT627,000
18Alex AntonUS621,000
19Viktor BlomSE603,000
20Jon KyteNO570,000
21James ChenTW539,000
22Jon VallinasES518,000
23Espen OeyeNO506,000
24Xuan LiuCA475,000
25Andras NemethHU474,000
26Anton SuarezSE457,000
27Aliaksandr ShylkoBY436,000
28Nikita KuznetcovRU427,000
29Manuel FritzAT419,000
30Moonho SeoKR411,000
31Mehdi ChaouiMA410,000
32Dejan KaladjurdjevicME410,000
33Johan GuilbertFR407,000
34Chenxiang MiaoCN395,000
35Alexandros TheologisGR341,000
36David ColemanUS305,000
37Jessica TeuslAT281,000
38Mustapha KanitIT244,000
39Jovan KenjicRS237,000
40Johan Schultz-PedersenDK222,000
41Michail ManolakisGR220,000
42Bernard LarabiHU208,000
43Pavel BinarCZ205,000
44Ren LinCN204,000
45Laszlo BujtasHU196,000
46Mike LeahCA193,000
47Mounir TajiouSE150,000
48Sven AnderssonSE134,000
49Josef SchusteritschAT122,000
50Enrico CamosciIT104,000
51Myles MullalyUS93,000
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WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!
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Event #12: €1.500 European Circuit Championship – Day 1A & 1B

The €1.500 European Circuit Championship offers a total of four starting days. Two of them ran yesterday and two more are scheduled for today, before Day 2 starts tomorrow at 12:00. The final for the tournament will be held on Saturday at 12:00.

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Day 1A brought 956 entries yesterday, Wednesday, of which 144 remained, and Day 1B in the evening had 197 entries with 30 survivors. Thus, we have a total of 1.153 so far with two more starting days today, Thursday.

A total of 174 players from yesterday’s match day moved into Day 2, led by the Romanian Adrian State.

Top DACH representatives are Adi Rajkovic (AT) in 9th place, Marcel Kessler (DE) in 11th place, and Nils Ortgiese (DE) in 21st place.

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Here are the chip counts so far for Day 2 from 1A+1B:

PosNameCountryChips
1Adrian StateRO1,709,000
2Michel LeibgorinFR1,209,000
3Aleksandras RusinovasLT1,010,000
4Ruben CorreiaPT982,000
5Victor FrydaFR937,000
6Zdenek ZizkaCZ935,000
7Ryan JohnsonUS915,000
8Govert MetaalNL863,000
9Adi RajkovicAT844,000
10Jinhoon LeeKR840,000
11Marcel KesslerDE815,000
12Brian BattistoneUS793,000
13Lukas TimkoCZ758,000
14Roberto RomanelloUK741,000
15Martin ZamaniUS729,000
16Lulei HuIT724,000
17Daniel CiancioUS718,000
18Bruno LopesFR703,000
19Roman StoikaRU688,000
20Gab Yong KimKR649,000
21Nils OrtgieseDE648,000
22Edgaras KausinisLT635,000
23Kai YangUS630,000
24Denis De fariaFR618,000
25Gabriele GuerriniIT609,000
26Dohyeok KimKR597,000
27David „ODB“ BakerUS578,000
28Esther TaylorUS578,000
29Blaz ZerjavSI562,000
30Pascal VosNL560,000
31Dawid SmolkaPL549,000
32Gerald KarlicAT536,000
33Nuno DuartePT527,000
34Wojciech BarzantnyAT524,000
35Martin TsvetanovBG516,000
36Yohan RascarFR513,000
37Davidi KitaiBE489,000
38Tanupat PunjarojanakulUS487,000
39Nils PudelDE475,000
40Charlie ChiuTW475,000
41Diego ZeiterCH450,000
42Paloma Dos SantosBR446,000
43Omar LazraqFR435,000
44Antonio GalianaES417,000
45Attila IvacsonRO417,000
46Julijan RadosHR412,000
47Thai HaVN412,000
48Fabio PelusoIT411,000
49Andreas StaschewskiAT407,000
50Andrew HanAU403,000
51Davit MikhanashviliGE399,000
52Aaron OlechnowiczMX392,000
53Giulio GalloIT389,000
54Luigi PignataroIT388,000
55Tobias PetersNL387,000
56Dmitrii Shchepkin387,000
57Samuel JuDE385,000
58Michal Zagrodnik377,000
59Maik Jeckel372,000
60Seungmook JungKR355,000
61Kristo Gjoni354,000
62Yueqi ZhuCN350,000
63Davis MihelsonsLV347,000
64Christian SteindelAT338,000
65Claudio Di GiacomoIT331,000
66Matteo IntisoIT323,000
67Arkadiy TsinisUA323,000
68Pedro FaustinoPT321,000
69Christophe PanettiCH319,000
70Hayato KitajimaJP315,000
71Artur ShupaPT309,000
72James Craig308,000
73Archie SeatonUK303,000
74Philipp ZukernikCA292,000
75Rifat PalevicSE290,000
76Leonor MargetsES286,000
77Mario ColavitaIT280,000
78Mateusz SzymanskiPL273,000
79Dohang NaKR272,000
80Ramon Fernandez MunozES270,000
81Iulian BlebeaRO268,000
82Kacper PawlowskiCZ262,000
83De Han KimKR258,000
84Tom TalboomNL256,000
85Pawel BrzeskiPL250,000
86Rune Hauger249,000
87Lars KamphuesDE249,000
88Michael AllenUK249,000
89Rafael Jarufe239,000
90Julian SelingerDE239,000
91Bjorn GravlienNO239,000
92Mykhailo DemydenkoUA237,000
93David von SchnehenUK233,000
94Monika HrabecPL231,000
95Erik BauerNL226,000
96Davide MarchiIT226,000
97Gabriel AndradeEC225,000
98Marek Dlouhy221,000
99Arsenii KarmatckiiRU215,000
100Mark HuelkDE212,000
101Ivan BurmistrovAM210,000
102Leonard HerrmannAT210,000
103Audrius StakelisLT205,000
104Radoslav StoyanovBG203,000
105Keshu Peng201,000
106Yohwan LimKR200,000
107Jan ZupecSI195,000
108Thibaut MoussaFR194,000
109Oscar CobosBG192,000
110Giorgio DonzelliIT191,000
111Zhao Xiaowen185,000
112Symeon AlexandridisGR185,000
113Manuel Moser185,000
114Ryan MandaraUK184,000
115Jan KrahulikCZ183,000
116Boris VelevBG180,000
117Marek OhniskoCZ178,000
118Poseidon HoTW175,000
119Anton MamaevRU175,000
120Mohamed HammiTN172,000
121Ninos FrancisDE171,000
122Yehonatan BehorIL166,000
123Mauricio Ferreira PaisDE166,000
124Josef SnejbergCZ166,000
125Jake Greenbaum165,000
126Dylan SnyderUK164,000
127Jaromir HanelCZ160,000
128David KozmaHU159,000
129Stephan KlamDE158,000
130Oleksandr SybirtsevUA156,000
131Lawend Himmo155,000
132Alan EngelCA151,000
133Jaegeol ChoKR151,000
134Naum BaruliaUA150,000
135Fabian NiederreiterDE149,000
136Esteban IsmailovCH145,000
137Simeon TsonevBG143,000
138Pedro Amaro140,000
139Marcin Kamieniarz138,000
140Steven RohrAT138,000
141Ante CetinicHR129,000
142Ole AskelandNO120,000
143Maurice Giesberg119,000
144Vadzim GodzdankerBY118,000
145Marius MoldoveanuRO117,000
146Nikolay BilykIT117,000
147Michal SchuhCZ112,000
148Mathieu HisFR111,000
149Bogdan JontulovicRS111,000
150Stephan Jasper109,000
151Sergey BagirovRU109,000
152Vivian SalibaBR106,000
153Vincas TamasauskasLT105,000
154Rui BouquetPT103,000
155Simeon SpasovBG101,000
156Alexandre MantovaniBR99,000
157Eduardo Da SilvaPT96,000
158Maksim PaniakRU96,000
159Andrey GolubevKZ94,000
160Joao De Araujo90,000
161Armen Sarkisov87,000
162Wojciech FrankowskiPL87,000
163Seunghun Ko86,000
164Sebastian Metzger85,000
165Chengxu Hu83,000
166Marcin PuczylowskiPL76,000
167Alberto SperanzoniIT73,000
168Eimantas AdomaviciusLT71,000
169Jaesung Kang64,000
170Jakub MichalakPL64,000
171Knut KarnappDE62,000
172Lexy Gavin-MatherUS42,000
173Liutauras ArmanaviciusLT41,000
174Dimitrios GkatzasGR19,000

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You can find the details of the bracelet events at the WSOP here!

The full schedule on the King’s website can be found here!

Bracelet Schedule:

DateEventBuy-InEntry Fee
Mar 31st#1The Opener Mystery Bounty1,000 €100 €
Mar 31st#2Mixed PLO / PLO8 / Big O3,000 €300 €
Apr 2nd#3COLOSSUS NLH500 €65 €
Apr 3rd#4PLOSSUS Bounty500 €65 €
Apr 3rd#5Europe Main Event – €10M GTD5,000 €300 €
Apr 4th#6Ladies Championship910 €90 €
Apr 5th#7Turbo Bounty NLH2,000 €200 €
Apr 6th#8MONSTER STACK NLH1,500 €150 €
Apr 6th#9PLO European Championship5,000 €300 €
Apr 7th#10Rounder Cup NLH (EU vs. World)2,500 €250 €
Apr 8th#11Super High Roller NLH20,000 €800 €
Apr 8th#12European Circuit Championship – €1.5M GTD1,350 €150 €
Apr 9th#13GGMillion$ High Roller NLH8,000 €400 €
Apr 10th#14PLO Double Board Bomb Pot1,000 €100 €
Apr 10th#15The Closer Turbo Bounty – Presented by GGPoker2,500 €250 €

Full Schedule:

WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!
WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!

WSOPE #11 & #12 – Christopher Nguyen starts from 2nd place in the €20k SHR Final!

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