Tobias Schwecht Wins World Series of Poker Super Circuit London Main Event

The 2023 World Series of Poker International Super Circuit London £3,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted a field of 910 total entries across four starting flights. After three more days of tournament action, that sea of players was narrowed down to one champion: Tobias Schwecht. The German poker pro was awarded his first WSOPC gold ring and £480,000 ($609,600 USD) for the victory.

This was the largest live tournament score for Schwecht, surpassing the $254,000 he earned with a cash in the Triton London series that was held at the same venue just a week earlier. He now has more than $2.1 million in recorded cashes to his name.

This event featured a £3,000,000 guarantee and did end with a bit of an overlay. The top 136 finishers ultimately made the money. Plenty of big names running deep, such as bracelet winner and Aussie Millions champion Ami Barer (49th), World Poker Tour winner Taylor von Kriegenbergh (41st), two-time bracelet winner and WPT champion Chris Moorman (18th), 2023 WSOP main event sixth-place finisher Dean Hutchison (15th), and high-stakes regular David Yan (10th).

Recent WSOP main event seventh-place finisher Toby Lewis was the first to fall at the final table. The British poker pro lost a classic race with QQ against the AK Catalin Pop, with three hearts hitting the board to give Pop the nut flush. Lewis earned $38,100 as the ninth-place finisher, growing his career earnings to over $9.9 million.

David Miscikowski also fell at the hands of a turned nut flush. He got all-in with A-8 leading the A-6 suited of Kattapong Thanarattrakul, but was unable to dodge the diamonds and was sent to the rail with $45,720.

Thanarattrakul continued to accumulate, knocking out Pop in seventh place ($57,150) to surpass 21 million in chips. Schwecht did his best to keep pace, eliminating bracelet winner Christian Rudolph in sixth ($76,200), but Thanarattrakul soon busted another player to continue his surge. Philip Ward’s A-K was unable to hold up against the A-J suited of Thanarattrakul, with a jack on the river ending Ward’s run in fifth place ($114,300).

Ravi Sheth got his last chips all-in with A9 leading the A7 of Schwecht. The German hit a seven on the turn to take the lead but had to fade clubs and nines on the end. The J completed the board, though, and Sheth was finished in fourth place ($177,800).

WPT champion and 2023 WSOP ‘millionaire maker’ event winner Pavel Plesuv was left short after correctly folding the bottom end of a straight during three-handed action, He soon got his final handful of big blinds in with 9-8 facing A-10 suited for Schwecht. Plesuv hit a pair and a flush draw on the flop, but was trailing the top pair of Schwecht. The turn and river brought him no further help and Plesuv was knocked out in third place ($266,700). He now has nearly $7.9 million in career earnings after this run.

With that, Thanarattrakul entered heads-up play with 35,100,000 to the 19,500,000 of Schwecht. Thanarattrakul extended his lead early, but Schwecht won a big pot with fours full of sevens to even things out. He then began to pull away.

In the final hand, Schwecht limp-shoved with K5 over a raise from Thanarattrakul out of the big blind. Thanarattrakul, who had JJ, made the call for around 16 big blinds and the board came down KQ7K10 to bring the event to a close. Thanarattrakul secured $387,350 as the runner-up, growing his earnings to just shy of $5 million in the process.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Winner photo provided by WSOP.

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