Daniel Pidun Wins One Million Euro in the WSOP Europe Main Event

Author

Vargoso

Published

10/9/2025

Updated

10/9/2025

On October 9, 2025, the new WSOP Europe Main Event champion was announced: German businessman Daniel Pidun. He earned €1,140,000 for first place.

Daniel Pidun Wins 2025 Wsop Europe Main Event

Seldom, but on target

The culmination of the poker autumn in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, was the final of the WSOPE Main Event. The €10,350 tournament attracted 659 entries.

Daniel Pidun from Germany took home first place and €1,140,000 in the 2025 WSOP Europe Main Event.

Daniel rarely appears live: since 2009, he has only 11 career ITMs. He has already won one Main Event, the 2013 EPT Berlin.

Pidun owns his own company manufacturing mobile phone parts. He runs the business with his brother, Tomer, who also plays poker and is a WSOP bracelet winner (first place in the $2,000 Eight-Game Mix in 2022).

In the history of the World Series of Poker, only seven pairs of siblings have ever won bracelets.

Final Table

Daniel Pidun advanced to the top eight of the tournament with the third stack. Matthias Gude was the first to be eliminated, starting the final table with a short stack of 6BB.

After a couple of double-ups, he eventually lost all his chips to Murilo Garcia with AQ against KK. Interestingly, Gude first scored his first five-figure win of the series (€51,300 for third place in the €1,500 NLHE Mystery Bounty), and then his first six-figure win (€110,000 for eighth place).

After Gude's elimination, Gerald Karlic took over the initiative at the table. The Austrian made two outs and, in the top four, accumulated more than half of the tournament's chips. Interestingly, one of those eliminated by his hand was Max Neugebauer, the 2023 WSOPE Main Event champion and former basketball player.

Karlic entered the heads-up match against Pidun with a 2.5x chip lead, but that didn't stop the game from lasting nearly two hours. During that time, the lead bounced back and forth several times.