Seat 2: Yannick Schumacher, 26, Germany - 6,050,000
Yannick Schumacher discovered poker when he was a student in Sheffield, in the United Kingdom, in 2017. Then, he used the long layoff due to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve his skills further, gradually moving up the online stakes. By November 2021, he was ready to explore the tables of Las Vegas and picked up a few small scores during his first World Series.
Before this trip to Cyprus, Schumacher had only modest results in Europe, but he has truly come out of the shadows with this Main Event performance. Despite being a short stack for a long time on Day 5, he took the lead during seven-handed play and consolidated the position with some tricky big-stack play, including a huge bluff with 3♥2♥ on an all-club board. Only a cooler against Tasyurek pegged him back again later on.
Schumacher has already secured his biggest live score, comfortably surpassing the $70,700 he earned for finishing 53rd at the PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas in January. In common with many German poker pros, Schumacher now lives in Vienna, Austria, only leaving his computer to attend some poker live events occasionally.