WSOP Europe: Shaun Deeb Foiled By Four Of A Kind, Again

Shaun Deeb came within one spot of his ninth career World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the first event to wrap at the 2026 WSOP Europe festival, losing in the final hand with a flush against quads for champion Frank Koopman in that €3,300 mixed pot-limit Omaha event.

Incredibly, just three days later, Deeb managed to battle his way back to the final two in another event. Even more unbelievable was the fact that his quest for his latest piece of WSOP hardware was once again ended by four of a kind. This time around, Deeb placed second from a field of 2,662 entries in the €565 Colossus event, earning $126,500.

In the final hand, Gilles Silbernagel limped from the button and Deeb checked his option from the big blind. The flop came down Q♣10♠6♥ and Deeb checked. Silbernagel bet 1,500,000 and Deeb check-raised to 4,000,000. Silbernagel called and the 6♣ rolled off on the turn. The 40-year-old American poker pro check-called for 3,000,000 and the 6♠ completed the board. Deeb checked again and Silbernagel moved all-in.

“I am going to lose another bracelet to quads, aren’t I?” said Deeb, according to WSOP live updates. After plenty of thought, he made the call for around 40,000,000 with Q♥3♠ for sixes full of queens, only to be shown Q♦6♦ by Silbernagel for quads. With that, the bracelet and the top prize of $189,750 went to the Frenchman.

Lost to quads again hu this isn’t fun

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) April 4, 2026

🥶 @shaundeeb is tanking with a full house. Surely he’s not up against quads AGAIN…

RIGHT?! pic.twitter.com/V2uv1hjs81

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) April 4, 2026

This was the first bracelet win for Silbernagel (pictured above, right), whose top score before this was a $246,000 win in a 2018 Italian Poker Open Campione event at a similar price point of €550. He now has more than $637,000 in career scores to his name.

Thinning The Colossal Field

The massive turnout of more than 2,600 entries to the Hilton Hotel Prague made for a prize pool worth over $1.5 million USD. The top 258 finishers made the money, with all of them advancing to day 2 action in this lower-stakes no-limit hold’em affair.

From that sizable sea of players, only six bagged up chips to move onto the final day. Silbernagel held the chip lead when day 2 concluded, with Deeb hot on his heels.

Deeb scored the first two knockouts of the day, busting Davis Mihelsons (6th- $36,800) before picking up pocket aces against the A-7 of Jakub Michalak. The board brought five spades, and Deeb won with the A♠ in his hand. Michalak earned $51,175 for his fifth-place showing.

Silbernagel’s first elimination on day 3 pitted  A♥2♠ against the Q♠J♦ of Hrvoje Mitrovic. The board came down A♠J♠8♥5♣2♦ and Silbernagel made aces up to take the pot and narrow the field to three. Mitrovic earned $75,900 for his efforts.

Poland’s Przemyslaw Cebrat made his last stand with A♣7♦. Unfortunately for him, he was up against A♥Q♥ for a surging Deeb. Cebrat never connected with a 6♣5♥3♣Q♠K♦ runout, while Deeb made a pair of queens to set up the heads-up showdown with Silbernagel. Cebrat took home $92,575 as the third-place finisher.

Heads-Up For The Gold, Again

The final showdown began with 80,400,000 for Deeb and 52,700,000 for Silbernagel, with blinds of 500,000-1,000,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000,000.

The early action seemed to go Silbernagel’s way, and he soon overtook the lead. He then began to pull away, only for Deeb to bounce back and nearly even the stacks.

Silbernagel stalled that momentum when he won a big pot with a turned flush, though. Soon enough, the final hand arose that saw Deeb run into quads for the second time in a 72-hour span with a bracelet on the line.

After he made the call with his full house and saw the bad news, Deeb went to collect his second runner-up payout of the young series. The two-time WSOP Player of the Year award winner is off to a strong start in his quest for a third. His $220,552 in earnings across the pair of deep runs at the WSOPE increased his career tournament earnings to nearly $19.1 million.

 Final Table Results

Photo credits: WSOP.