€500 Main Event Day 2 | 2026 Winamax Poker Open Aix-les-Bains

After four starting flights drew a massive field of 2,873 entries at the Casino Grand Cercle, the €500 Winamax Poker Open Aix-les-Bains Main Event moves on to Day 2.

With the 475 remaining players now guaranteed a share of the €1,185,974 prize pool, they will return this Saturday to battle for a place on Day 3 and the trophy. While the first-place prize and detailed payouts will only be revealed at the restart, one player has already emerged as a major contender. And that player is none other than Winamax Team Pro Adrian Mateos, who bagged a massive 906,000 chips after Day 1b. Not only is he widely regarded as one of, if not the best players in the world, but he also won the SISMIX back in 2018, which followed the exact same structure.

However, his opponents will be looking to deny him another victory, starting with the five players at the top of the counts: Julien Archer (1,191,000), Claudio Patronaggio (1,120,000), Baptiste Annen (1,116,000), Othman Bouraoui (1,060,000) and Sasha Bertin (1,000,000).

Day 1s Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Julien Archer	France	1,191,000	149
2	Claudio Patronaggio	Switzerland	1,120,000	140
3	Baptiste Annen	Switzerland	1,116,000	140
4	Othman Bouraoui	France	1,060,000	133
5	Sasha Bertin	France	1,000,000	125
6	Ouajdi Oueslati	France	982,000	123
7	Matthieu Rigolot	France	932,000	117
8	Adrian Mateos	Spain	906,000	113
9	Gabriel Favre	France	898,000	112
10	Antoine Crepeau	France	894,000	112

Alongside Mateos, his teammates Leo Margets (830,000), Pierre Calamusa (460,000), Mustapha Kanit (101,000), Bruno Lopes (93,000) and Julien Sitbon (74,000) have also qualified for Day 2.

Among the rest of the field, plenty of names are to follow, including Julien Gadanho (804,000), who finished ninth last year, biathlete Florent Claude (701,000), Hervé Gouzil (609,000), Lorenzo Arduini (588,000), 2024 champion Aliosha Staes (480,000), 2025 winner Jeremy Cauchard (391,000), Loris Corbelli (339,000) and Julien Montois (314,000).

Former Winamax Team Pro Gaelle Baumann (296,000) and Koh-Lanta adventurer Jonathan Guez (284,000) are also in contention, along with WSOP bracelet winner Mourad Amokrane (281,000), Heni Mokni (268,000), Matthieu Lamagnere (266,000), Jose Quintas (215,000), Moundir Zoughari (188,000), Florian Pesce (169,000), 2026 Winamax Poker Tour champion Sacha Cohen (157,000) and Benjamin Chalot (150,000), all the way down to poker streamer Hadrien Gallois, who will return with just 21,000.

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Play is set to resume at noon local time with just a few minutes remaining in Level 20, with blinds of 4,000/8,000 and an 8,000 big blind ante. Levels will then increase to 35 minutes.

The detailed prize pool and payouts will be revealed at the restart, but as always at Winamax Events, all remaining players have already secured a minimum cash of €1,000.

Stay tuned as PokerNews follows along and provides live updates throughout the day.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Aliosha Staes Antoine Crepeau Baptiste Annen Benjamin Chalot Big Blinds Bruno Lopes Claudio Patronaggio Florent Claude Florian Pesce Gabriel Favre Gaelle Baumann Hadrien Gallois Heni Mokni Hervé Gouzil Jeremy Cauchard Jonathan Guez Jose Quintas Julien Archer Julien Gadanho Julien Montois Julien Sitbon Leo Margets Lorenzo Arduini Loris Corbelli Matthieu Lamagnere Matthieu Rigolot Moundir Zoughari Mourad Amokrane Mustapha Kanit Othman Bouraoui Ouajdi Oueslati Pierre Calamusa Sacha Cohen Sasha Bertin

Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count
1	1	Adlene Hernoune	240,000
1	2	Faycal Duc	249,000
1	3	Thibaut Moussa	890,000
1	4	Sergio Pinto Teixeira	162,000
1	5	Leni Martinez	275,000
1	6	Benjamin Chalot	150,000

2	1	Nicolas Lepaul	152,000
2	2	Alban Romanier	362,000
2	3	Leo Bonassi	124,000
2	4	Thibaud Martin	269,000
2	5	William Monteiro	577,000
2	6	Gilles Boulard	476,000

3	1	Adrian Mateos Diaz	906,000
3	2	Julien Wachowiak	238,000
3	3	Gaetan Goublaire	109,000
3	4	Fahd Boudaouine	170,000
3	5	Ferhat Negri	149,000
3	6	Mourad Shaimi	660,000

107	1	Joeffrey Moreaux	506,000
107	2	Guillaume Klinguer	295,000
107	3	Patrick Afonso	267,000
107	4	Herve Ponthet	295,000
107	5	Dervis Yildirim	197,000
107	6	Jordane Richard	59,000

108	1	Nicolas Ceconi	155,000
108	2	Frederic Miceli	169,000
108	3	Frederic Belle	283,000
108	4	Florian Patruno	200,000
108	5	Laurent Rupp	372,000
108	6	Domone Sirpane	93,000

109	1	Alexis Olivier	404,000
109	2	Frederic Arnoux	195,000
109	3	Raphael Bilger	137,000
109	4	Amjad Magharni	460,000
109	5	Lemy Meddour	249,000
109	6	Julien Ponche	463,000

110	1	Lola Vuilleumier	207,000
110	2	Colin Bonnet	195,000
110	3	Baptiste Annen	1,116,000
110	4	Azzedine Khairani	842,000
110	5	Jeremy Malod	174,000
110	6	Jerome Vittoz	103,000

111	1	Louis Bouillon Vassard	374,000
111	2	Alexandre Ritzu	293,000
111	3	Alexandre Viatte	759,000
111	4	Lucas Defer	148,000
111	5	Julien Archer	1,191,000
111	6	Vlad Eskenasy	226,000

112	1	Kenji Amoretti	492,000
112	2	Karim Anthony Oumohand	312,000
112	3	Cedric Gomes	112,000
112	4	Teddy Ascenzi	417,000
112	5	Adrien Decramer	392,000
112	6	Herve Gouzil	609,000

113	1	Come Thevenin	404,000
113	2	Cedric Liotard	245,000
113	3	Sylvain Maillard	129,000
113	5	Nicolas Marin	658,000
113	6	Clement Penet	225,000

114	1	Cedric Buldo	60,000
114	2	Johann Couturier	220,000
114	3	Lionel Da Rocha	180,000
114	4	Amedee Sirejol	396,000
114	5	Fatih Kilic	89,000
114	6	Lucas Vervey	492,000

115	1	Moundir Zoughari	188,000
115	2	David Bohlen	42,000
115	3	Marc Jean Hansens	198,000
115	4	Alexandre Luscher	517,000
115	5	Antoine Crepeau	894,000
115	6	Elliot Anthonioz	239,000

116	1	Gaetan Godof	136,000
116	2	Marc Holbing	272,000
116	3	Franck Romero	291,000
116	4	Viktor Bensemcha	351,000
116	5	Patrice Canonne	108,000
116	6	Theo Da Silva Santos	65,000

117	1	Maugan Gheysens	105,000
117	2	Baptiste Billon Grand	640,000
117	3	Siriano Manuel Da Rocha	151,000
117	4	Jpierre Meysselle	82,000
117	5	Stephane Bance	495,000
117	6	Cedric Pierson	343,000

118	1	Remi Besseyrias	108,000
118	2	Sam Da Costa	245,000
118	3	Alexis Leneveu	166,000
118	4	Sandro Alves Fortunato	267,000
118	5	Nicolas Jodet	70,000
118	6	Francois Geffroy	116,000

119	1	Maxime Blanquet	350,000
119	2	Yann Jolissaint	393,000
119	3	Valentin Fagart	220,000
119	4	Samy El Idrissi	154,000
119	5	Jean Charles Morisseau	450,000
119	6	Vincent Comesse	18,000

120	1	Romain Demirdjian	115,000
120	2	Claudio Misseroni	233,000
120	3	Hugo Jouathel	517,000
120	4	Guillaume Morrone	80,000
120	5	Iulian Calagiu	175,000

120	6	Benjamin Goudard	366,000
121	1	Yohan Bensoussan	525,000
121	2	Paul Bachelier	260,000
121	4	Benoit Dupont	146,000
121	5	Adrien Pincemin	139,000
121	6	Axel Jonnekin	151,000

122	1	Mustapha Kanit	101,000
122	2	Mourad Amokrane	281,000
122	3	Clement Ballet	740,000
122	4	Jean Luc Caluori	186,000
122	5	Brice Gauthier	242,000
122	6	Jerome Ybghi	277,000

123	1	Aurelien Boisson	589,000
123	2	Jean Pierre Pieri	425,000
123	3	Paul Bigot	271,000
123	4	Jean Luc Crouzat	102,000
123	5	Cyril Fabre	266,000
123	6	Julien Sitbon	74,000

124	1	Aliosha Staes	480,000
124	2	Aimadina Lempereur De Saint Pierre	182,000
124	3	Lorenzo Couder	244,000
124	4	Maxime Eury	633,000
124	6	Hadrien Gallois	21,000

125	1	Aymane Mamoun	844,000
125	2	Matthieu Bazoin	252,000
125	3	Thomas Dupuis	212,000
125	4	Coline Fortin	212,000
125	5	Matthieu Gallois	81,000
125	6	Camille Guenette	595,000

126	1	Martynas Brazdzionis	88,000
126	2	Felix Rapoport	321,000
126	3	Laurent Massot	71,000
126	4	Laurent Dourlens	232,000
126	5	Matthieu Rigolot	932,000
126	6	Pierre Courcoul	87,000

127	1	Mark Echtermann	341,000
127	2	Jules Preuvot	763,000
127	3	Adrien Sappey	228,000
127	4	Benjamin Girard	103,000
127	5	Zoltan Ban	619,000
127	6	Leo Lenoir	96,000

128	1	Marcin Jaworski	392,000
128	2	Eric Delcourt	151,000
128	3	Gino Gimenez	515,000
128	4	Florent Baudevin	341,000
128	5	Sam Ol Nguon	63,000
128	6	Mathieu Forgeneuf	90,000

129	1	Sasha Bertin	1,003,000
129	2	Cherif Chafaa	150,000
129	3	Leo Philippe	146,000
129	4	Thomas De Leiris	299,000
129	5	Maxime Landerieux	313,000
129	6	Maxime Rapp	255,000

130	1	Israel Garcia	100,000
130	2	Alexandre Malod	315,000
130	3	Jean Jacques Pascual	165,000
130	4	Geoffrey Ohayon	103,000
130	5	Maxime Large	640,000
130	6	Emmanuel Plotard	366,000

131	1	Alexandre Pellet	141,000
131	3	Florent Colin	511,000
131	4	Timothee D Anfray	271,000
131	5	Christophe Charlet	269,000
131	6	Andrea Binotto	437,000

132	1	Loic Joseph	143,000
132	2	Louis Chaumoitre	472,000
132	3	Antoine Malle	308,000
132	4	Vincent Tuet	802,000
132	5	Luciano Di Stefano	517,000
132	6	Jerome Romain	47,000

133	1	Alban Leber	322,000
133	2	Yann Maillard	270,000
133	3	Sylvain Amara	238,000
133	4	Arthur Reuillon	75,000
133	5	Mickael Athias	481,000
133	6	Niels Bianchini	228,000

134	1	Pierre Leduc	238,000
134	2	Thomas Bus	691,000
134	3	Leo Joseph	396,000
134	4	Timur Guven	110,000
134	5	Gregory Bucci	163,000
134	6	Mikael Bouchard	174,000

135	1	Marc David Delimal	178,000
135	2	Michel Daviet	212,000
135	3	Daniel Jose Duarte	301,000
135	4	Hugo Blaison	99,000
135	5	Christophe Monnin	74,000
135	6	Florent Claude	701,000

136	1	Tristan Berrod	93,000
136	2	Gregory Chenet	99,000
136	3	Yovan Jeauneaux	141,000
136	4	Victor Roudovski	382,000
136	5	Jerome Negro	148,000
136	6	Julien Da Silva	50,000

137	1	Benoit Reynaud	178,000
137	2	Hadi Khawandy	266,000
137	3	Leonor Margets	830,000
137	4	Nathalie Vecchio	401,000
137	5	Theo Bijaoui	263,000
137	6	Remi Vaschalde	183,000

138	1	Matthieu Cartillier	592,000
138	2	Maxence Vie	323,000
138	3	Jerome Beruti	112,000
138	4	Marine Khamvongsa	326,000
138	5	Richard Tremblay	47,000
138	6	Anthony Morand	625,000

139	1	Bruno Lopes	50,000
139	2	Boris Dupuis	187,000
139	3	Arthur Philippon	543,000
139	4	Yann Abitbol	359,000
139	5	Florian Sebileau	631,000
139	6	Nicolas Ehrath	56,000

140	1	Gytis Juskevicius	175,000
140	2	Jerome Muller	241,000
140	3	Cyrille Flourieusse	465,000
140	4	Julien Bidault	491,000
140	5	Patrick Balestrieri	356,000
140	6	Abel Pruchon	252,000

141	1	Leo Viales	461,000
141	2	Anthony Di Zazzo	183,000
141	3	Nordine Afalah	764,000
141	4	Jeremy Cauchard	391,000
141	5	Arnaud Poulain	106,000
141	6	Alexandre Schouller	417,000

142	1	Paulo Vieira Goulard Fernandes	139,000
142	2	Dimitri Pocheron	183,000
142	3	Silvere Thiery	431,000
142	4	Julien Montois	314,000
142	5	Bastien Alles	579,000
142	6	Vincent Tonizzo	37,000

143	1	Jeremy Lyard	38,000
143	2	Philippe Trouillet	211,000
143	3	Slim Lahimer	169,000
143	4	Loris Corbelli	339,000
143	5	Yannick Monnier	156,000
143	6	Flavio Dos Santos	139,000

144	1	Clement Gernigon	705,000
144	2	Guillaume Grivelle Dacheux	210,000
144	3	Mickael Boechie	293,000
144	4	Thierry Chanson	468,000
144	5	Lucas Lago	127,000
144	6	Matthieu Repiton	381,000

145	1	Erich Tedeschi	137,000
145	2	Pierre Houssemand	492,000
145	3	Adrian Guillamon De La Cruz	198,000
145	4	Loic Guille	175,000
145	5	Christophe Bernaert	302,000
145	6	Benjamin Legrusley	801,000

146	1	Yannick Souchois	111,000
146	2	Heni Mokni	268,000
146	3	Sebastien Studer	60,000
146	4	Gaelle Baumann	296,000
146	5	Youssef Azaghagh	93,000
146	6	Hugo Wetter	71,000

147	1	Alois Mauron	236,000
147	2	Jonathan Marie	126,000
147	3	Kim Teng	148,000
147	4	Fabien Royer	146,000
147	5	Salah Essersi	746,000
147	6	Jonathan Guez	284,000

148	1	Clement Poletti	577,000
148	2	Kacem Riahi	220,000
148	3	Marko Petrovic	201,000
148	4	Chloe Dufour	250,000
148	5	Yanis Kifouche	240,000
148	6	Quentin Lombrici	95,000

149	1	Clement Genon Catalot	253,000
149	2	Julien Gadanho	804,000
149	3	Lucas Archeny	467,000
149	4	Silvio Steenbergen	165,000
149	5	Benoit Lesage	145,000
149	6	Lucas Beisel	259,000

150	1	Tiziano Alessandro Bianchi	134,000
150	2	Neils Exposito	110,000
150	3	Mathieu Alciato	495,000
150	4	Romain Villar	220,000
150	5	Lari Urpo	261,000
150	6	Caroline Foulon	595,000

151	1	Anthony Augier	197,000
151	2	Theo Erard	39,000
151	3	Anthony Maspoli	348,000
151	4	Mathieu Gaessler	204,000
151	5	Arnaud Abbet	128,000
151	6	Etienne Richard De Soultrait	252,000

152	1	Jordan Charousset	809,000
152	2	Adrien Burgniard	248,000
152	3	Lorenzo Santos Rodriguez	604,000
152	4	Alexis Machabert	276,000
152	5	Mathieu Salas	268,000
152	6	Remi Debord	120,000

153	1	Steven Hazan	197,000
153	2	Bruno Henisse	549,000
153	3	Mathieu Granjon	579,000
153	4	David Spir	549,000
153	5	Cedric Monnier	242,000
153	6	Dylan Lourenco De Castro	120,000

154	1	Francky Sadani	232,000
154	2	Clement Gouges	92,000
154	3	Benjamin Meyer	315,000
154	4	Sacha Berthon	440,000
154	5	Thomas Avice	102,000
154	6	Stephane Di Pascale	70,000

155	1	Amilcar Marty	861,000
155	2	Christopher Chevallier	388,000
155	3	Antonio Miguel Soares Leite	864,000
155	4	Philippe Schwob	430,000
155	5	Amaury Walter	50,000
155	6	Florian Pesce	169,000

156	1	Samuel Zissler	231,000
156	2	Pierre Emmanuel Germain Thill	156,000
156	3	Mathieu Morel	104,000
156	4	Valentin Ipas	79,000
156	5	Gregory Balard	245,000
156	6	Victor Vacher	105,000

157	1	Brice Chervier	622,000
157	2	Dan Chikly	245,000
157	3	Guillaume Emonin	76,000
157	4	Jerome Charret	115,000
157	5	Maxime Ponnelle	244,000
157	6	Shahine Matthias Ramdjee	466,000

158	1	Alexandre Mebs Salze	546,000
158	2	Olivier Piana	83,000
158	3	Arthur Lacroix	341,000
158	4	Steve Decimo	321,000
158	5	Julien Mielcarek	117,000
158	6	Christian Diasparra	183,000
159	1	Sylvain Carrot	153,000
159	2	Gabriel Favre	898,000
159	3	Thomas Djennetian	84,000
159	4	Adrien Romeuf	414,000
159	5	Quentin Le Dissez	341,000
159	6	Quentin Declercq	74,000

160	1	Hugo Duplain	39,000
160	2	Laurent Leger	52,000
160	3	Boris Morand	289,000
160	4	Nourreddine Chinek	126,000
160	5	Julien Srenscik	333,000
160	6	Gavancho Nuno	316,000

161	1	Florian Jouvenet	322,000
161	2	Nicolas Payet	694,000
161	3	Jean Marc Valle	329,000
161	4	Yannick Obermayer	309,000
161	5	Florian Vachez	75,000
161	6	Raphael Cudina	154,000

162	1	Pierre Labitte	256,000
162	2	Lorenzo Arduini	588,000
162	3	Vincenzo Maio	176,000
162	4	Djamel Rezai	484,000
162	5	Paul Bourdon	99,000
162	6	Luca Ruto	354,000

163	1	Matthieu Lamagnere	266,000
163	2	Olivier Vinet	214,000
163	3	Alain Thetaz	640,000
163	4	Mattis Sidhoum	89,000
163	5	Mathieu Calvez	198,000
163	6	Theodore Cochin	518,000

164	1	Dany Dupont	30,000
164	2	Laurent Roquin	266,000
164	3	Emma Gaucher	346,000
164	4	Richard Barbier	559,000
164	5	Alexandre Bouquerod	172,000
164	6	Andreas Faucher	155,000

165	1	Lorenzo Carrato	820,000
165	2	Sullivan Nicolas	141,000
165	3	Julien Leideck	128,000
165	4	Martin Angli	67,000
165	5	Boris Conte	173,000
165	6	Xavier Salcede	203,000

166	1	Alexis Delgorgue	400,000
166	2	Antoine Degris	460,000
166	3	Ludovic Gratte	119,000
166	4	Salah Ahmed Obad	472,000
166	5	Dimitri Callonnec	417,000
166	6	Diogo Vieira Moreira	498,000

167	1	Florian Russo Mangione	243,000
167	2	Eric Garcia	191,000
167	3	Sacha Cohen	157,000
167	4	Ouajdi Oueslati	982,000
167	5	Gregory Prelaz	495,000
167	6	Zaki Hamani	575,000

168	1	Julien Da Silva	364,000
168	2	Kevin Naegelen	529,000
168	3	Bruno Jolivel	245,000
168	4	Naime Caulet	473,000
168	5	Soel Tahar Belkoraichi	185,000
168	6	Alin Alexandru Sava	208,000

169	1	Pierre Calamusa	460,000
169	2	Simon Thomas	244,000
169	3	Michael Defuans	414,000
169	4	Cindy Mendes	87,000
169	5	Yolan Gaillard	164,000
169	6	Louis Nicolaudie	297,000

170	1	Laurent Amri	649,000
170	2	Vincent Montigny	128,000
170	3	Doo Jin Bourqui	391,000
170	4	Veronique Pery	209,000
170	5	Jerome Barone	273,000
170	6	Florent Villanchet	199,000

171	1	Selim Agrebi	136,000
171	2	Clement Liard	265,000
171	3	Mickael Brigatti	546,000
171	4	Lucas Charpenne	590,000
171	5	Ignacio Martinez Costales	41,000
171	6	Lionel Chesnais	56,000

172	1	Alexandre Pinol	132,000
172	2	Nassim Rais	650,000
172	3	Mathieu Nunziata	217,000
172	4	Ernestas Taunys	134,000
172	5	Johan Robert	286,000
172	6	Nicolas Picard	368,000

173	1	Florian Chevalier	428,000
173	2	Norman Renard	574,000
173	3	Jose Pimentel Quintas	215,000
173	4	Clement Albert	81,000
173	5	Franck Bergdoll	155,000
173	6	Enzo Nicolas	50,000

174	1	Eric Ravier	239,000
174	2	Julien Mespoulede	50,000
174	3	Baptiste Lagier	415,000
174	4	Clement Lombrici	410,000
174	5	Pascal Groshens	94,000
174	6	Anthony Fagot	184,000
175	2	Romain Guenot	30,000
175	3	Talal Soweif	94,000
175	4	Corentin Mathez	380,000
175	5	Titas Gancierius	850,000
175	6	Fabien Tarragon	229,000
176	1	Damien Chaignat	393,000
176	2	Shamshir Karimi	481,000
176	3	Youssef Djelilate	319,000
176	4	Gregory Campagnol	133,000
176	5	Walid Kebir	452,000
176	6	Stephane Journet	110,000

177	1	Sam Jakubowicz	440,000
177	2	Adelino Ferreira Dos Santos	436,000
177	3	Nicolas Hardy	89,000
177	4	Franck Ruiz	135,000
177	5	Marc Negron	511,000
177	6	Patrick Girard	573,000

178	1	Henry Galoustov	81,000
178	2	Mathieu Pontin	487,000
178	3	Olivier Baeten	348,000
178	4	Othman Bouraoui	1,069,000
178	5	Gabriel Loriquer	50,000

179	1	Thibault Linguet	381,000
179	2	Damien Mecheri	151,000
179	3	Robin Bugarel	220,000
179	4	Dingeman Slagmolen	461,000
179	5	Philippe Cinquin	103,000
179	6	Kevin Dedner	270,000

180	1	Thomas Ristorcelli	397,000
180	2	Aymeric Carsi	143,000
180	3	Fabrice Ferrando	214,000
180	4	Aurelien Hornick	183,000
180	5	Stephane Poisson	41,000
180	6	Claudio Patronaggio	1,130,000

181	1	Baptiste Lepauvre	55,000
181	2	Loumick Labaye	178,000
181	3	Fabien Carreel	269,000
181	4	Fernando Alberto Lopes Vieira	259,000
181	5	Hugo Menant	407,000
181	6	David Moton	453,000

182	1	Jason Cossio	161,000
182	2	Florent Jeannin	250,000
182	3	Mael Dupuy	431,000
182	4	Nicolas Dubois	128,000
182	5	Ricardo Graells	56,000
182	6	Thibaud Gerboin	535,000

183	1	Guillem Bianchi	603,000
183	2	Maxime Broutier	747,000
183	3	David Leger	106,000
183	4	Fabien Cuq	262,000
183	5	Marc Anthony Sequeira	207,000
183	6	Arthur Leroy	202,000