Jean-Côme Haye Leads Final 24 of the 2025 Winamax Sismix

The 2025 Winamax Sismix Main Event trophy has never been closer for the 24 remaining players who qualified today for tomorrow’s Day 3. Out of a record-breaking 3,390 entries in this event, 562 players returned at noon with hopes of making it through an emotion-filled Day 2.

“It swung a lot,” Jean-Côme Haye admitted after bagging the chip lead with a massive 20,335,000 stack. “I won a few big pots,” he explained. “I had this hand where I called three barrels with ace-jack, and another one on the feature table that helped me build my stack. But nothing is done yet, I have to stay calm and focused tomorrow,” he added.

While Haye topped the overall chip counts in the main poker room, Jérôme Crantz claimed the title of the biggest stack among the three tables under the dome, where the feature table is set up. With 15,140,000 chips, he was nearly caught by the end of the day by Maxime Bossard (13,575,000), who eliminated Thomas Bus with queens to close out the day.

Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Jean-Côme Haye	France	20,335,000	102
2	Jerome Crantz	France	15,140,000	76
3	Maxime Bossard	France	13,575,000	68
4	Lucas Lago	France	12,805,000	64
5	Leo Choquelle	France	10,005,000	50
6	Victor Guinand	France	9,950,000	50
7	Victor Rials	France	8,705,000	44
8	Nolan Madene	France	8,575,000	43
9	Dario Alonso	Spain	8,245,000	41
10	Mohamed El Wely	Mauritania	8,035,000	40

Léo Choquelle (10,005,000) became the fifth player to bag more than 10 million chips after a day that saw him eliminate Aurélien Guiglini (35th – 53,500 MAD), who had just previously knocked out Gaëlle Baumann (45th – 37,000 MAD) at the feature table. That same TV table also proved fatal for the Day 2 chip leader François “POG” Dequidt, who reached over 4,000,000 chips before losing two massive pots in a row and ultimately busting off-camera.

Those cameras, however, will be focused on Marc Bougaret (5,400,000) on Day 3. Known online as “Lima.Europa,” the French professional is a familiar name to the Winamax community thanks to his online results, and he’ll enter Day 3 as one of the main contenders. “I’m not feeling any pressure,” he said. “But live events are very different from online tournaments. I don’t have as much live experience as some of the others. The real challenge for me is staying focused on those differences.”

Despite that, Bougaret acknowledged having a solid day, "more preflop than post flop". “I doubled up several times with premium hands,” he explained. One such example came when he doubled through 2015 Sismix champion Jérôme Sgorrano, who was eliminated shortly after.

Among the remaining players, Victor Guinand (9,950,000), Nolan Madene (8,575,000), and Mohamed El Wely (8,035,000) will be strong contenders on Day 3. They’re joined by Raphaël Davidou (4,910,000) and Julien Veyssiere (4,900,000), who won a 8,000,000-chip pot with ace-king against kings and ace-seven. “That hand saved me from suffering today, but I still suffered anyway,” he joked.

Said Abdel Attey was involved in that same hand but still managed to bag 4,395,000 chips, one million more than Patrick Faraut (3,080,000), who got lucky cracking aces in the final hands of the day to double up.

Last but not least, Lucas Vervey (2,480,000), Victor Marques (1,500,000) and Mathis Livolant (895,000) will return with the shortest stacks, but no shortage of motivation.

Play is set to resume at 12:30 p.m. local time, with blinds at 100,000/200,000 and a 200,000 big blind ante and 40-minute levels. The 24 remaining players have already locked up a minimum cash prize of 65,500 MAD, but all have their sights set on much more.