Vito Branciforte Wins WSOP Super Circuit KINGS Main Event in Rozvadov
The GGPoker satellite qualifier earned €370,000 and his first Circuit ring after entering the final table as chip leader.
- Branciforte won €370,000 and his first WSOP Circuit gold ring at King’s Resort.
- He qualified online through a GGPoker Ring Pass satellite and entered the final table as chip leader.
- The €2 million guaranteed Main Event generated an estimated €485,000 overlay before staffing costs.
- The Oct. 28-Nov. 11 festival produced 17 WSOP Circuit ring winners.
Italy-born, Germany-based Vito Branciforte won the €3,000 No-Limit Hold’em WSOP Super Circuit KINGS Main Event at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, on Nov. 11. He collected €370,000 and his first WSOP Circuit gold ring after topping a field of 505 entries.
The winner had secured his seat through a GGPoker Ring Pass satellite, then arrived at the nine-handed final table with the chip lead. He had also placed fifth in a Monster Stack event earlier in the series, and the Main Event score lifted his career live earnings beyond $833,000.
Branciforte took a 5-to-1 chip lead into heads-up play against Stanislaw Miadzel after his pocket aces held against Mohsen Borhani’s pocket tens. Miadzel mounted an early comeback, but Branciforte sealed the title in a flush-over-flush hand. Miadzel earned €245,000 as runner-up, while Borhani received €171,000 for third.
The Main Event carried a €2 million guarantee, leaving an estimated €485,000 overlay before staffing costs. PokerNews calculated that the tournament needed 323 more entries to meet that guarantee. An updated schedule had listed a €3 million guarantee shortly before the event, as we reported Nov. 7, but the final-event coverage from WSOP, PokerNews and Card Player identifies the guarantee as €2 million.
The shortfall was part of a broader pattern at the Rozvadov stop. Twelve of the festival’s 13 guaranteed ring events overlaid, according to PokerNews, which attributed the outcome to several European WSOP Super Circuit stops running in close succession, including events in Madrid and Nottingham. The smaller Main Event field also meant the final table was played a day earlier than planned.
The inaugural WSOP Super Circuit KINGS ran from Oct. 28 through Nov. 11 and produced 17 ring winners. Every 2026 WSOP Circuit ring winner receives a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package, including entry to the $2,750 Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty and complimentary accommodation at Baha Mar Resort in The Bahamas.
