Riccardo Trevisani Leads 175 Survivors as Record 1,160 Entries Smash the €1M Guarantee at WSOP Circuit Bratislava

The 2026 WSOP Circuit Bratislava €1,500 Main Event has shattered records at Card Casino Bratislava. After the final two of the five opening flights concluded on Sunday, the Main Event attracted 1,160 entries to generate a €1,472,120 prize pool, blowing past the €1,000,000 guarantee and setting a new venue record. Last year’s edition drew 882 entries for a €1,039,216 prize pool. This year’s field is bigger by 278 players and €432,904 in prize money.

Italy’s Riccardo Trevisani leads the 175 players advancing to Day 2 with 1,600,000 chips. He is closely followed by Austria’s Shihong Chen with 1,300,000 and Romania’s Paul-Vlad Craciunas with 1,200,000. Day 2 gets underway at 2 p.m. local time. The winner takes home €235,000 and a WSOP Circuit Ring.

A Record-Breaking Field

The record was already in sight after Day 1d on Saturday, when 337 players registered to push the running total past 900 entries. Day 1e on Sunday added another 203, bringing the final count to 1,160. Romania’s Paul-Vlad Craciunas led the Day 1d survivors with 1,171,000, while Poland’s Mateusz Szymanski topped Day 1e with 1,114,000. Both are in contention heading into Day 2, sitting third and fourth overall in chips.

The previous record at Card Casino Bratislava for any tournament was set by last year’s WSOP Circuit Main Event with 882 entries. This year’s field surpassed that by a wide margin and pushed the prize pool from a projected seven figures into genuinely life-changing territory for the winner. The top prize of €235,000 is the largest first-place prize in Card Casino Bratislava history.

For context: last year’s champion, Slovakia’s Robert Obrtlík, won €180,200 for taking down the event. Whoever wins on Monday will collect €54,800 more than that.

Day 1d: 337 Entries, Craciunas Leads

Saturday’s Day 1d was the biggest single flight of the series, drawing 337 entries and providing the moment it became clear that the €1,000,000 guarantee was going to be smashed. Romania’s Paul-Vlad Craciunas bagged the flight chip lead with 1,171,000, followed closely by Serbia’s Srdan Milicevic with 1,049,000. Slovakia showed up well in its home series, with Martin Bartos, Peter Kusnirik, and Jozef Cibicek all among the survivors. Czech Republic’s Michal Schuh, the runner-up at last year’s WSOP Circuit Bratislava Main Event who went on to finish third and collect €84,800, is back and bagged 413,000 heading into Day 2.

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Paul-Vlad Craciunas	Romania	1,171,000
2	Srdan Milicevic	Serbia	1,049,000
3	Rostyslav Sabishchenko	Ukraine	821,000
4	Martin Bartos	Slovakia	732,000
5	Peter Kusnirik	Slovakia	641,000
6	David Kozma	Hungary	594,000
7	Myumyun Izet	Bulgaria	588,000
8	Alexandru Popa	Romania	536,000
9	Sebastian Kos	Czechia	519,000
10	Zonglei Zhao	China	507,000
11	Jayson Midey	France	494,000
12	Matte Karjalainen	Finland	479,000
13	Tambet Nugin	Estonia	447,000
14	Jozef Cibicek	Slovakia	445,000
15	Dmitri Dudakov	Estonia	415,000
16	Markus Bonus	Switzerland	414,000
17	Michal Schuh	Czechia	413,000
18	Martin Korman	Slovakia	335,000
19	Sebastian Szychulski	Poland	315,000
20	Lukas Zaskodny	Czechia	296,000
21	Jakub Skurzynski	Poland	295,000
22	Alexandar Skobelev	Bulgaria	293,000
23	Samuel Klocker	Austria	289,000
24	Zsolt Vasvenszki	Hungary	271,000
25	Gemanariu Traian Niko	Romania	266,000
26	Julian Primisser	Austria	255,000
27	Roberto Agus	Italy	234,000
28	Paolo Erriques	Italy	230,000
29	Wissam Ouertani	Italy	225,000
30	Darius-Valentin Neagoe	Romania	220,000
31	Angel Dimitrov	Bulgaria	207,000
32	Alexander Neumann	Germany	204,000
33	Goran Mitrovski	North Macedonia	203,000
34	Vitali Saviuk	Belarus	201,000
35	Sergii Karpov	Ukraine	186,000
36	Daniel Craig	United States	184,000
37	Filip Filipovic	Austria	180,000
38	Cristian-Alexandru Veres	Romania	178,000
39	Marco Bognanni	Italy	170,000
40	Darko Svesko	Serbia	169,000
41	Alessandro Siena	Italy	155,000
42	Nicolae Suciu	Romania	153,000
43	Christian Zeindlhofer	Austria	153,000
44	Radoslaw Kopec	Poland	152,000
45	Tor Sandstroem	Sweden	140,000
46	Robert Marcu	Romania	120,000
47	Michal Gadawski	Poland	100,000
48	Anh Do	Czechia	87,000
49	Quentin Destoky	Belgium	83,000
50	Georgios Dallas	Greece	63,000
51	Borislav Yosifov	Bulgaria	57,000

Day 1e: 203 Entries, Szymanski Leads

Sunday’s final opening flight drew 203 entries to push the total field past 1,100 and set the new Card Casino record. Poland’s Mateusz Szymanski ran up a dominant 1,114,000 chip count to lead all Day 1e survivors, almost double the second-placed Hungary’s Bence Paris with 683,000. The flight had strong international representation, with players from 22 countries making it through. Three US players survived, Daniel Cabrera, Peter Fox, and Guy Taylor, continuing a trend of American players making the trip to central European circuit stops. Lithuania’s Jonas Lapinskas, familiar to Baltic poker regulars, bagged 54,000 as the shortest stack through the flight.

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Mateusz Szymanski	Poland	1,114,000
2	Bence Paris	Hungary	683,000
3	Lukasz Gorzkiewicz	Poland	593,000
4	Patrik Jaros	Czechia	531,000
5	Janos Virag	Hungary	490,000
6	Alin Micula	Romania	471,000
7	Asko Muratovic	Austria	455,000
8	Bernard Larabi	Hungary	450,000
9	Gabi Livshitz	Israel	420,000
10	Martin Sladek	Czechia	417,000
11	Peter Svoboda	Slovakia	357,000
12	Mark Gonzales	United States	338,000
13	Andreas Lundin	Sweden	337,000
14	Norbert Kerepesi	Hungary	326,000
15	Petr Lepka	Czechia	312,000
16	Daniel Cabrera	United States	300,000
17	Peter Fox	United States	279,000
18	Ferenc Vardai	Romania	273,000
19	Jakub Janosovsky	Slovakia	212,000
20	Beniamin Sumandan	Romania	205,000
21	Vasyl Kozlov	Ukraine	203,000
22	Dimitar Syarov	Bulgaria	202,000
23	Jose Carrasco	Spain	190,000
24	Andrej Cintula	Slovakia	182,000
25	Guy Taylor	United States	166,000
26	Jakub Koleckar	Czechia	130,000
27	Mark Adams	United Kingdom	123,000
28	Stephane Tortorella	Switzerland	111,000
29	Martin Muller	Austria	64,000
30	Gil Arenstein	Israel	62,000
31	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	54,000

Top 10 Day 2 Chip Counts

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Riccardo Trevisani	Italy	1,600,000
2	Shihong Chen	Austria	1,300,000
3	Paul-Vlad Craciunas	Romania	1,200,000
4	Mateusz Szymanski	Poland	1,100,000
5	Srdan Milicevic	Serbia	1,000,000
6	Maksym Ronshyn	Ukraine	1,000,000
7	Lorenzo Arduini	Italy	975,000
8	Laszlo Janoszki	Hungary	899,000
9	Tomas Kubaliak	Slovakia	837,000
10	Rostyslav Sabishchenko	Ukraine	821,000

Full chip counts for all 175 surviving players are available at the WSOP LIVE app.

Main Event Payout Structure

All 175 returning players ended their opening flights securing at least a min-cash of €3,000. Day 2 will play deeper into the money as the stage is set for the final two days with Tuesday’s eventual champion to be crowned on the Card Casino live stream hosted by this author, Jason Glatzer and poker pro, coach, and commentator Bobby James.

The winner will not only be entered forever into the poker history books as a Main Event champ but also go home with a record-breaking top prize for a WSOP Circuit in Slovakia of €235,000. This is in addition to the coveted gold ring and a package to WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas in December valued at $5,000.

Place	Prize
1st	€235,000
2nd	€155,000
3rd	€109,000
4th	€77,300
5th	€56,000
6th	€41,100
7th	€30,400
8th	€23,000
9th	€17,390
10th-11th	€13,740
12th-15th	€11,100
16th-23rd	€9,000
24th-31st	€7,450
32nd-39th	€6,260
40th	€5,360
41st-47th	€5,370
48th-55th	€4,660
56th-63rd	€4,160
64th-71st	€3,770
72nd-79th	€3,500
80th-99th	€3,300
100th-117th	€3,150
118th-177th	€3,000

Albania’s Adhurim Llajaj Wins the €770 NLH KO Bounty

While the Main Event flights were running, Albania’s Adhurim Llajaj topped a 91-player field in the €770 NLH Knockout Bounty to claim €6,305 from a combined prize pool of €28,665 in standard prizes plus €31,850 in bounties. Israel’s Ben Hershkovich finished runner-up for €5,260, with Armenia’s Mikayel Balabekyan third for €5,060. A notable heads-up at the final table saw two Armenian players finish third and fourth, with Armenak Abgaryan collecting €2,430 in fourth.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Adhurim Llajaj	Albania	€6,305
2	Ben Hershkovich	Israel	€5,260
3	Mikayel Balabekyan	Armenia	€5,060
4	Armenak Abgaryan	Armenia	€2,430
5	Ovidiu-Dorin Barna	Romania	€1,780
6	Darko Vracevic	Serbia	€1,360
7	Daniel Farago	Hungary	€1,080
8	Dmytro Smyrnov	Ukraine	€900
9	Brigitte Hauenstein	Switzerland	€790
10	Peter Dekany	Hungary	€740
11	Timur Sattarov	Russia	€740
12	Johnny Hofseth	Norway	€740
13	Andrea Agus	Italy	€740
14	Simeon Tsonev	Bulgaria	€740