Artur Rudziankov has won the first bracelet for the Czech Republic this summer after outlasting 1,763 players in Event #58: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em.

It hasn’t been an easy time for poker players living in the Czech Republic, after the government’s decision to regulate the online poker business, resulting in players staring at closed for business signs the same way a farmer looks at withered vegetables during a bad season.

But all the fuss hasn’t created any ring rust in the mind of Artur Rudziankov after the 29-year old student from the Czech Republic won the top prize of $395,918 in Event #58: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em.

Rudziankov came into the final as the chip leader, but he began to crash and burn like an unknown asteroid allowing Mario Prats and Christian Rudolph to take charge. But it was only a temporary blip as Rudziankov used every inch of his 2015 $1k runner-up experience to recover.