Matous Skorepa, an amateur player from the Czech Republic, just scored the biggest win – by a factor of 10 – in his short career as a live tourney player.
The young Czech bested a field of 4,115 entries to win the Euro 550 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe Colossus event at Kings Casino in Rozvadov and claim the main prize of Euro 270,000 and his first WSOP winner’s bracelet.
In his non-poker life Skorepa is a restaurant manager who started playing poker five years ago and has learned to remain cool and collected when the pressure is on.
That capability, along with his obvious talent for the game, served him well as he powered through the field and the final table to ultimately beat Florian Fuchs in the heads up, sending him home with a runner upprize worth Euro 166,855.
Other final table cashes included:
Jonathan Khalifa – Euro 123,241
Ivaylo Sivinov – Euro 91,711
Makarios Avramidis – Euro 68,771
Roman Motovsky – Euro 51,968
Pascal Pflicks – Euro 39,576
Nebojsa Ankucic – Euro 30,386
Gaetan Cauchy – Euro 23,499