Michael Sklenicka
The tentpole tournament of the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic has wrapped up, and in dramatic fashion. The $10,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em event drew a massive field of 1,537 total entries to surpass the lofty $10 million guarantee by more than $5 million.
That resulted in a first-place prize of $2,339,200. That sum is headline-worthy in its own right, but the manner in which the top prize was ultimately awarded took this tournament to a whole new level.
An Unbelievable Final Hand
With three players remaining, chip leader Michael Sklenicka jammed from the button, committing around 17 percent of his stack with 8♠7♣. Jun Obara, who was in second chip position with 9,800,000 in the small blind, looked down at K♠K♦ and called off his last 16 or so big blinds.
Daniel Rezai called from the big blind with 10♦10♣, having the shortest stack with 5,000,000 (around 8 big blinds).
Obara was in great shape to knock out Rezai and significantly close the gap between himself and Sklenicka going into heads-up. Things looked even better for Obara after the flop came down K♥8♦7♥, making Obara more than a 96 percent favorite to drag the pot by Card Player Poker Odds Calculator’s reckoning. Sklenicka had just 0.22 percent likelihood of winning at that point, but those odds jumped considerably when the 8♥ hit the turn to give him eights full of sevens. Even though this card also improved Obara to kings full of eights, Sklenicka now had a 2.38 percent chance to win. Only the 8♣ on the end would give him the win in this hand, and incredibly, that is exactly the card the dealer produced on the river.
The most insane run out I’ve ever seen! 3 handed chipleader jams 40bb button with 78 off, SB calls 14bb with KK, BB all in 1010 for 10 bbs flop K87 turn 8 river 8! Tournament over! Millions in the line. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Oa4avaciEo
— Jesse Lonis (@JesseLonis) July 3, 2025
With that, Rezai finished third for $1,181,360 while Obara settled for $1,594,677 as the runner-up. These were career-best scores for both players.
Sklenicka, an online poker pro from the Czech Republic, nearly doubled his recorded live earnings with this triumph. The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise main event runner-up now has more than $5 million in career earnings.
By The Numbers
This event ran from June 26 through July 2. There were four starting flights to choose from, and then three more days of combined-field action at Wynn Las Vegas.
The top 199 finishers made the money in this event, with big names like Wynn Millions champion Tony Sinishtaj (37th), two-time bracelet winner Kahle Burns (36th), bracelet winner Tyler Cornell (18th), four-time bracelet winner Michael Gathy (17th), bracelet winner Faraz Jaka (12th), and 2023 WPT Everyone for One Drop third-place finisher Niko Koop (11th) among those who ran deep.
The final table included the likes of poker triple crown winner Roberto Romanello (8th – $274,139), Card Player contributor and Table 1 Podcast co-host Art Parmann (7th – $359,544), and recent World Series of Poker millionaire maker final tablist Jonah Labranche (4th – $875,589).
Sklenicka was also awarded 2,700 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion, enough to move him inside the top 50 in the POY rankings presented by Coin Poker.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Michael Sklenicka | $2,339,200 | 2700 |
| 2 | Jun Obara | $1,594,677 | 2250 |
| 3 | Daniel Rezaei | $1,181,360 | 1800 |
| 4 | Jonah Labranche | $875,589 | 1350 |
| 5 | Mario Navarro Arrocha | $648,294 | 1125 |
| 6 | Roeland Peeks | $481,099 | 900 |
| 7 | Julian Parmann | $359,544 | 675 |
| 8 | Roberto Romanello | $274,139 | 450 |
| 9 | Yulian Bogdanov | $213,437 | 225 |
Winner photo via Wynn Poker Room X account.
