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Marek Uharcek has captured the €1,500 PLO Championship at the 2026 King’s Million European Poker Championship, topping a field of 286 entries for a career-best €95,000 payday. The Slovakian led from the start of the final day and never relinquished the top spot on the leaderboard.
The tournament, split across two starting flights, built a €500,000 prize pool. Uharcek entered the final 44 players already in the lead after finishing atop the counts on Day 1b, and he maintained a commanding stack as the field thinned throughout the nearly 12-hour finale.
Despite his dominant chip position, Uharcek downplayed any inherent edge, noting that tournament success still requires calm decision-making and a bit of luck. He described his approach as applying pressure on shorter stacks while making steady, incremental decisions rather than relying on aggression alone.
Uharcek’s run to the title included knocking out bracelet winner Jan-Peter Jachtmann in fourth place with a better two-pair hand, extending his lead heading into heads-up play against Lucas Giebing.
The heads-up battle proved lengthy and dramatic. Giebing survived an all-in with a turned straight to flip momentum, but Uharcek doubled back before ultimately sealing the win when Giebing missed a straight draw in the final hand.
Uharcek, who says he plays only about ten tournaments a year and prefers cash games, called the victory his first tournament win. He had previously finished eighth in the same event a year earlier and has two European Poker Tour final tables to his name.
