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Only 16 players returned to King’s Resort, Rozvadov today for the final bracelet opportunity of the 2025 World Series of Poker Europe, as the final event of the festival, Event #15: €1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Closer, headed towards its conclusion.
After seven hours of battle, Lukas Timko of Czechia emerged as a deserving winner of the €1,000,000 guaranteed event, capturing his first bracelet, a career-best score, and a €158,000 payday. Timko prevailed over a 645-runner field and defeated his fellow countryman Michal Schuh heads-up, denying Schuh his second bracelet in the process.
The key moment came when Timko came off best in a three-way all-in four-handed, despite having the worst of it preflop. From there, Timko didn’t look back, and he got the job done against Schuh by holding in a flip, after coming into heads-up play with a 5:1 chip advantage.
Timko’s largest recorded live cash to date was for less than $10,000, and he can now cross off the six-figure score milestone and call himself a WSOP champion. (All stats courtesy of The Hendon Mob.)
€1,000 NLH Closer Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lukas Timko | Czechia | €158,000 |
| 2 | Michal Schuh | Czechia | €105,000 |
| 3 | Mariusz Klabisch | Poland | €71,500 |
| 4 | Asaf Adato | Israel | €49,700 |
| 5 | Dorian Melchers | France | €35,300 |
| 6 | Leonardo Ludovisi | Italy | €25,600 |
| 7 | Dennis Schaefer | Germany | €18,900 |
| 8 | Paul Covaciu | Romania | €14,300 |
| 9 | Shaun Deeb | United States | €11,025 |
Final Day Action
Asaf Adato started the day as the chip leader, narrowly ahead of Germany’s Dennis Schaefer and Timko, while Shaun Deeb was hunting his ninth bracelet, and third of 2025.
In the first hand of the day, short-stack Sorel Mizzi‘s run came to an end as he ran into the ace-king of Schuh. After Hans Thumann found a superb river hero-call, Schuh claimed another scalp when he left Fabio Peluso drawing dead on the turn. Schuh was also the beneficiary of a bizarre hand, where Thumann check-raised the river, despite having a card exposed.
With the first break approaching, there were a flurry of knockouts to bring matters towards the final table, with Leonardo Ludovisi hitting a flush against Roman Isaienko, and proceeding to knock out Jose Puertas in rapid fashion. At the same time, on the other table, short-stack Robert Zipf‘s run came to an end versus Timko.
That left proceedings on the final table bubble at the first break, and it was short-stack Thumann who busted to Schuh shortly after the restart to set the final nine.
Final Table Action and Timko’s Road to Glory
Schaefer led the way at the final table, closely followed by Schuh, while Adato, Timko, and Mariusz Klabisch brought up the rear. Deeb was the first player to exit, after Schuh turned a set in what had been a flip.
Play started to tighten up, and Adato, who had gone backwards since the start of play, gathered some momentum when he doubled twice through Schaefer in quick succession.
Klabisch suddenly came to the fore, getting lucky to bust Paul Covaciu in eighth, and spiking a miracle two-outer on the river to send Schaefer to the rail in seventh. Klabisch wasn’t finished there, as he again found himself being dominated in an all-in situation, this time against short-stack Ludovisi, but again came off best. Suddenly Klabisch had gone from being in the middle of the pack to the runaway chip leader.
Klabisch hit a bump in the road when Timko hit the river to double, and Timko then spiked the river again to bust Dorian Melchers in fifth in a race. Timko proceeded to vault into the lead when he came off best in a massive three-way all-in despite having the worst of it, busting Adato in fourth and damaging Schuh in the process.
That set the stage for a three-handed battle between Timko, Klabisch and Schuh, with Timko just ahead of Klabisch, and with Schuh trailing. Schuh, clearly the most experienced player of the three, quickly doubled through Klabisch to come back into it.
The trio proceeded to trade blows, little to separate them, and something had to give. Timko opened up a lead heading into the final break when he raised the river versus Klabisch, and in the first hand back, Klabisch’s luck ran out when he jammed from the button with an ace but could not overcome Timko’s pocket pair.
Timko came into heads-up play with a substantial lead of almost 5:1, but Schuh prolonged the contest by flopping top pair when behind versus Timko’s ace.
The pair battled on, and Schuh almost drew back to level when he got paid on the river with two pair. However, in the very next hand, all the chips ended up in the middle, Schuh holding ace-king and Timko a low pocket pair, and despite Schuh’s pleas to the dealer, the pair held to give Timko the title.
The Czech natives shared a warm embrace, Schuh congratulating Timko on his achievement, and Timko was left to collect his first piece of WSOP hardware.
