Italy’s Simone Andrian holds a sizable chip lead in Rozvadov as six players remain in the hunt for the 2024 WSOP Europe Main Event title and a first place prize of over $1.4 million.
What was once a field of 768 is down to just six in the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, and after a Day 4 for the ages in Rozvadov Simone Andrian is in prime position to make a run at the €1,300,000 ($1.42 million) first-place prize and the WSOP bracelet that awaits the champion on Wednesday.
Andrian is one of two players from Italy still vying for the 2024 WSOPE Main Event title, along with short stack Enrico Camosci. Camosci, a regular in EPT High Roller events in recent years, is the only remaining WSOP bracelet winner in the field other than Andrian.
In the middle of the pack sit Urmo Velvelt of Estonia and Mariusz Golinski of Poland, and though their stacks combined don’t quite add up to what Andrian carries into six-handed play on Wednesday, they’re both one timely double from being on the leading edge.
The chasing pack rounding out this final table includes Ran Ilani, David Hochheim and Camosci, with Ilani and Hochheim having locked up career-best results as they look to mount a comeback.
Play will resume at 2 p.m. local time in Rozvadov, Czechia (8 a.m. EST), with live streaming coverage beginning on a one-hour delay.
Here’s what the final six players have at stake when play resumes:
- €1,300,000 ($1,427,075)
- €854,000 ($937,479)
- €590,000 ($647,673)
- €415,000 ($455,566)
- €297,000($326,032)
- €217,000 ($238,212)
Before Wednesday’s restart, here’s what you need to know about each of these final six players.
Player stats courtesy of The Hendon Mob and Cardplayer.
Simone Andrian – 33,500,000 (209 BB)
Home Country: Italy
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $1,323,765
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $179,653, 1st, 2021 WSOP Europe €1,500 6-Max No Limit Hold’em
Other Notable Results: $168,129, 1st, 2023 PokerStars Summer Festival Malta Main Event; $165,000, 1st, 2024 Merit Poker Western Series $2,200 No Limit Hold’em; $159,200, 29th, 2023 WPT World Championship; $157,318, 1st, 2023 WPT Prime San Remo
Simone Andrian started Day 4 without much to lose. He was one of the shortest stacks in the room, sitting in 45th out of 47 when cards went into the air on Tuesday afternoon, and Andrian quickly found himself all in and in trouble. He got his money in good with 
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put him behind. A king landed on the turn, though, and from there it was off to the races. By the time Andrian recorded the final elimination of the night, sending Robin Berggren out in seventh place, he had 63 times as many chips as he started the day with.
This is the biggest spot of Andrian’s career to date, but he knows something about closing out tournaments. He won a WSOP gold bracelet during this festival in 2021, and also counts himself as a WPT Prime champion, having won WPT Prime San Remo in his home country in 2023. Andrian also turned the seat that he won to the 2023 WPT World Championship into something big, making a deep run last December before bowing out in 29th place.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: 274,000 (52/412)
Day 2: 924,000 (9/185)
Day 3: 530,000 (45/47)
Urmo Velvelt – 15,600,000 (98 BB)
Home Country: Estonia
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $142,772
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $214,051, 4th, 2020 WSOP Online $5,000 6-Max Championship
Other Notable Results: $19,739, 1st, 2019 Unibet UDSO Cup Tallinn Main Event
By making the final six of the 2024 WSOP Europe Main Event, Urmo Velvelt has already set a new high score for his career, and he could blow that total away with a few more pay jumps on Wednesday.
Most of Velvelt’s success to date has come in online poker, where he’s won a WSOP Circuit ring and made the final table of a major WSOP $5K bracelet event.
If Velvelt is able to win this event, he would be just the second Estonian after to capture WSOP gold, and the first to do so in a major live event. Back in 2020, Ranni Sootla became the first in a $400 online Colossus event for a payday of $595,930.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: 87,900 (297/412)
Day 2: 385,000 (83/185)
Day 3: 1,375,000 (29/47)
Mariusz Golinski – 13,525,000 (85 BB)
Home Country: Poland
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $31,725
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $22,729, 3rd, 2016 WPT National Brussels €750 No Limit Hold’em
Mariusz Golinski is one of two true wild cards remaining in this tournament. With even a sixth place finish, Golinski would multiply his lifetime live earnings by at least eight times once he goes to the payout cage.
Golinski’s one true live result of note came in a WPT-branded event back in 2016, when he took third in a side event in Belgium.
If Golinski were to win, he’d be just the third player from Poland to win a WSOP bracelet, joining Henry Orenstein (1996) and Marcin Horecki (2023). He’d also crack Poland’s top 10 on The Hendon Mob’s all-time money list with a victory.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: 133,100 (212/412)
Day 2: 515,000 (48/185)
Day 3: 2,200,000 (14/47)
Ran Ilani – 6,425,000 (40 BB)
Home Country: Israel
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $879,239
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $166,552, 2nd 2021 WSOP $800 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Other Notable Results: $88,000, 2nd, 2018 CPPT Venetian $1,100 No Limit Hold’em; $50,900, 151st, 2021 WSOP Main Event
When the chip leader has five times as many chips as you to start a final table, you’ll typically find yourself as the short stack and in some measure of peril. But Ran Ilani, despite the major gap between himself and Andrian, is still well within a reasonable comeback range when play resumes.
When cards do go into the air, Ilani will have already locked up a career-best cash. He’ll have to progress considerably farther to match his career-best finish in a bracelet event, however, as he narrowly missed out on a gold bracelet in 2021 in an $800 Deepstack event as the runner up. Ilani will hope to break through that threshold as well.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: 174,800 (142/412)
Day 2: 610,000 (30/185)
Day 3: 1,370,000 (30/47)
David Hochheim – 4,525,000 (28 BB)
Home Country: Germany
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $47,921
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $25,155, 7th, 2014 EPT Barcelona €1,100 No Limit Hold’em
The other remaining wild card in contention for the 2024 WSOP Europe Main Event title is David Hochheim of Germany. Hoccheim has just 13 recorded live cashes to his name, with those results dating back as far as December 2013. All of those results have either come in Rozvadov, on a variety of tours, or in side events at EPT Barcelona, including a career-best cash of just over $25,000 in Barcelona back in 2014.
His comeback wasn’t quite as dramatic as Andrian’s on Day 4, but after bagging fewer chips to end Day 3 than he did on Day 2, Hoccheim made the most of it and managed to navigate his way all the way to the end of the night on Tuesday.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: 82,400 (304/412)
Day 2: 1,018,000 (7/185)
Day 3: 600,000 (42/47)
Enrico Camosci – 3,675,000 (23 BB)
Home Country: Italy
Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $4,546,037
Biggest Lifetime Cash: $814,934, 2nd, 2024 EPT Barcelona €10,300 No Limit Hold’em
Other Notable Results: $511,193, 3rd, 2024 EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 No Limit Hold’em; $488,117, 1st, 2024 EPT Paris €25,000 No Limit Hold’em
Enrico Camosci enters Wednesday’s final table with the most experience, most results and fewest chips. 2024 has already been a career year for the ages, as Camosci has banked over $1.8 million across three high roller cashes on the EPT in Paris, Monte Carlo and Barcelona. A come-from-behind win would put a bow on a true breakout year for the Italian.
Like Andrian, Camosci could become a two-time WSOP bracelet winner with a victory on Wednesday. Camosci’s first WSOP bracelet came back during a WSOP Online series in 2020, as he won a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em bounty event for $327,319.
End of Day Chip Counts:
Day 1: N/A
Day 2: 275,000 (128/185)
Day 3: 1,450,000 (28/47)