Maintaining his composure and trusting on his gut instincts, Neugebauer made a heroic call with a third pair against Tsai’s aggressive multi-barrel bluff, culminating in a river shove. Neugebauer’s win was sealed in a nail-biting final hand against his heads-up opponent, Eric Tsai. This year’s event marked a significant uptick from last year’s 763 entries, with the prize pool soaring to €7,761,500 ($8,300,148), far exceeding the €5,000,000 guarantee. At just 26 years old, he outplayed a record-breaking field of 817 entries in the €10,350 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and a whopping $1,590,000. Max Neugebauer, an Austrian former professional basketball player, took home a big win at the World Series of Poker Europe.
