Michael Mizrachi bagged 344,000 chips on Day 1C of the €5,300 WSOP Europe Main Event in Prague. The reigning WSOP Main Event champion enters Day 2 as the 24th-largest stack in the field.

If he wins, he becomes the first player in poker history to hold both the WSOP and WSOPE Main Event titles at the same time.

The three Day 1 flights drew a combined 2,169 entries, obliterating the previous WSOPE Main Event record of 817. The prize pool stands at €11,511,600 with late registration still open through the first two levels of Day 2.

That figure already exceeds the €10,000,000 guarantee by more than €1.5 million. For a full rundown of the opening days of WSOP Europe’s Prague debut, see our earlier coverage.

A total of 904 players return today (April 6) at noon CET. Day 2 plays six 90-minute levels before bagging for the night.

Mizrachi’s Path to a Historic Double

Day 1C performance

The four-time Poker Players Championship winner entered Day 1C (April 5) and built his stack through two critical pots. In the first, he shoved with second pair on a seven-high board, got called by pocket aces, and turned two pair to survive.

Later in the session, he eliminated Paulina Loeliger in a pot where Loeliger had flopped Broadway. Mizrachi’s two pair improved to a full house on the turn to seal the knockout.

His 344,000 chips ranked 8th among Day 1C survivors and 24th across all three flights. The Day 1C flight drew 713 entries with 299 advancing. Daniel Rezaei of Austria topped all flights with 639,000.

A record that doesn’t exist yet

Only one player in history has won both the WSOP Main Event and the WSOPE Main Event: Phil Hellmuth. He took the WSOP title in 1989 and the WSOPE crown in Cannes in 2012, beating Sergii Baranov heads-up for €1,022,376 and his 13th of a record 17 WSOP bracelets.

The key difference: Hellmuth won those titles 23 years apart. He was not the reigning WSOP champion when he captured the European title.

If Mizrachi wins this week, he would be the first player ever to hold both crowns simultaneously. No player in the 56-year history of the WSOP has done it.

Record Field Smashes €10M Guarantee

The three Day 1 flights produced the largest WSOPE Main Event field in history by a wide margin.

The 2025 WSOPE Main Event in Rozvadov drew 659 entries at a €10,350 buy-in, making this year’s field 3.3 times larger. The previous all-time WSOPE Main Event record was 817 entries in 2023. Prague’s 2,169 is 2.65 times that number.

The lower buy-in played a role. At €5,300 (€5,000 entry plus €300 fee), this is the most accessible WSOPE Main Event in years. Players had up to two re-entries per flight.

Late registration remains open through the first two levels of Day 2 (approximately 3:30 PM CET). The final entry count and prize pool will be higher than the current figures. Based on 2,169 entries, approximately 325 players (15% of the field) will cash.

Deeb Denied by Quads Twice in One Week

Shaun Deeb has had a brutal week in Prague. As we covered in our WSOPE results and Deeb’s quads saga, the eight-time bracelet winner lost the Event #2 heads-up final to Frank Koopmann when quad fours crushed his king-high flush.

What happened next was worse. In Event #3, the €565 Colossus (2,662 entries, €1,331,000 prize pool), Deeb again reached heads-up for the bracelet and lost.

France’s Gilles Silbernagel took the title and €165,000. Reports indicate Silbernagel hit quads in the final hand as well.

Two consecutive heads-up bracelet losses to quad hands in the same week. That is the kind of variance that tests even the two-time POY with $10.6M in earnings.

Deeb bagged 105,000 chips on Day 1B and is among the 904 returning for Day 2. A deep run would go some way toward easing a painful opening to the festival.

Kabrhel’s Controversy Count Keeps Climbing

Czech local Martin Kabrhel added to his list of floor incidents during the Main Event’s opening flights.

On Day 1A, four-time bracelet winner David “ODB” Baker posted that Kabrhel was screaming every two minutes, prompting player complaints and warnings from the floor manager. Player Kimberly Stone called on WSOP to issue formal punishment.

When told he was being moved to the feature table for the livestream, Kabrhel repeatedly asked the floor what would happen if he refused. He eventually accepted after his third attempt. He reportedly had his own camera crew following him, which could not accompany him to the TV table.

Kabrhel busted Day 1A but returned on Day 1B and bagged 322,000 chips. He and Baker are both in the Day 2 field.

Three WSOP Champions and a Record Field Enter Day 2

The Day 2 field reads like a WSOP history lesson. Three former WSOP Main Event champions and three former WSOPE Main Event champions are all in action.

Phil Hellmuth, Espen Jorstad (2022 WSOP ME champion), Alexandros Kolonias, and John Juanda (2008 WSOPE ME champion) also survived their Day 1 flights. Exact chip counts for these players were not confirmed at the time of writing.

One subplot to track: Mizrachi and John Wasnock, the man he defeated heads-up for the 2025 WSOP title, are both in the Day 2 field. Wasnock bagged 55,000 on Day 1C.

Annette Obrestad’s return is another storyline worth watching. The 2007 WSOPE Main Event champion gave the ceremonial shuffle-up-and-deal on Day 1A after an absence of more than eight years from competitive poker. She bagged 189,000.

GGPoker Satellites Already Running for WSOP 2026 Las Vegas

GGPoker’s WSOP Express satellite system fed a significant portion of this record Prague field. Over 100 players had already qualified through the platform by late February, and the final number is likely much higher given five additional weeks of qualifying ran before the Main Event.

The same system is already active for WSOP 2026 Las Vegas (May 26 to July 15 at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas). The $10,000 Main Event starts July 2 with four Day 1 flights. This year features a delayed final table running August 3 to 5, the first since 2017.

WSOP Express runs a four-step ladder from $0.50 to a $10,000 Bracelet Pass, with weekly Sunday finals guaranteeing 100 passes. Free entry points include daily login rewards and cash game milestones. For a full breakdown of every step, see our full WSOP Europe schedule and satellite pathways.

Players starting their satellite grind can lock in the best GGPoker rakeback deal and welcome bonus before firing their first qualifier.

What to Watch on Day 2

Day 2 starts at noon CET today (April 6) with 904 players and late registration still open. Six 90-minute levels are scheduled. The Main Event plays through to a winner on April 10, with the broader WSOP Europe festival running until April 12.

The money bubble should burst on Day 3, with approximately 325 places paid from the current field. First place is projected to be worth well over €1,000,000.

All eyes will be on Mizrachi’s chase for an unprecedented double. But with three WSOP Main Event champions, three WSOPE Main Event champions, and 900 other players standing in the way, the road from 344,000 chips to the finish is a long one.

For the latest results as Day 2 unfolds and the Main Event pushes toward its April 10 final, follow our poker news coverage.