Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event Day 1d | 2025 WSOP Paradise

12-14-2025 13:14 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Theodore McQuilkin	500,000 500,000	500,000

Patrick Devlin	500,000 500,000	500,000
Jon Pardy	500,000 500,000	500,000

Joel Gola	500,000 500,000	500,000
John Kenny	500,000 500,000	500,000
Joe Hachem	500,000 500,000	500,000

Ryan Hall	500,000 500,000	500,000
Paulo Drummond	500,000 500,000	500,000
Michael Loncar	500,000 500,000	500,000
Dohyeok Kim	500,000 500,000	500,000
Jared Ingles	500,000 500,000	500,000
Jessica Teusl	500,000 500,000	500,000

Sanjeev Kapoor	500,000 500,000	500,000
Dov Markowich	500,000 500,000	500,000
Davide Suriano	500,000 500,000	500,000

Winston Downing	500,000 500,000	500,000
Juan Pardo	500,000 500,000	500,000
Pedro Marques	500,000 500,000	500,000
Sebastian Toro	500,000 500,000	500,000
Jon Kyte	500,000 500,000	500,000
Arkadiy Tsinis	500,000 500,000	500,000

Daniel Ghionoiu	500,000 500,000	500,000
Robert Cowen	500,000 500,000	500,000

Chad Eveslage	500,000 500,000	500,000

Erik Lemarquand	500,000 500,000	500,000

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Josh Noy

Level 1 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The clock shows 88 entries to begin the day, and action is underway.

Level: 1

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

12-14-2025 13:05 UTC-4

Play Starting Shortly

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Josh Noy

Players are taking their seats, and the YouTube stream tables are being sorted. Action will begin shortly.

12-14-2025 11:30 UTC-4

Final Day 1 of WSOP Super Main Event Begins at 12 p.m.

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Calum Grant

With Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event edging ever closer to its headline target, Day 1d of the record-setting tournament takes center stage today at the World Series of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) inside Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas.

Action again begins at 12 p.m. local time, with the field sitting at 2,026 entries and climbing toward the all-important 2,400-entry mark needed to lock up the tournament’s massive $60 million guarantee.

Momentum continued to build on Day 1c, where 476 players took their shot and 138 survivors punched their ticket to Day 2. Leading the way was high roller standout and two-time bracelet winner [Removed:564], who bagged the biggest stack of the flight with 5,400,000. He was joined by a stacked group of notables, including Martin Zamani, Triton Invitational champion Kayhan Mokri, Daniel Zack, Kristen Foxen, and reigning $100,000 Triton Main Event winner Aleksejs Ponakovs.

Poker Hall of Fame credentials were also well represented, with 2025 inductee Nick Schulman safely through alongside John Juanda. However, Day 1c proved unforgiving for WSOP Main Event champions, as Greg Raymer, Espen Jorstad, Scott Blumstein, Scotty Nguyen and Ryan Riess all fell short and will need to reload if they want a piece of the action.

Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	[Removed:564]	Netherlands	5,400,000	180
2	Raoul Kanme	Netherlands	4,930,000	164
3	Tobias Garp	Sweden	4,020,000	134
4	Ramiro Petrone	Argentina	3,970,000	132
5	Andre Moreira	Portugal	3,890,000	130
6	Martin Zamani	United States	3,840,000	128
7	Florian Lohnert	Germany	3,800,000	127
8	Chanracy Khun	Canada	3,800,000	127
9	Hui Chen	China	3,765,000	126
10	Sergio Da Silva Veloso	Portugal	3,700,000	123

Like other flights, Day 1d will kick off at noon local time with blinds of 1,000/2,000/2,000 and will play ten 60-minute levels. Players will start with 500,000 chips in their stack, with unlimited reentries available until the start of Level 14 on Day 2b. Those who bag Day 1d will combine for Day 2b on Monday, December 15.

Day 1 Structure

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Big Blind Ante
1	60 Minutes	1,000	2,000	2,000
2	60 Minutes	2,000	3,000	3,000
Break	20 Minutes
3	60 Minutes	2,000	4,000	4,000
4	60 Minutes	3,000	6,000	6,000
Break	20 Minutes
5	60 Minutes	4,000	8,000	8,000
6	60 Minutes	5,000	10,000	10,000
Break	60 Minutes
7	60 Minutes	6,000	12,000	12,000
8	60 Minutes	8,000	16,000	16,000
Break	15 Minutes
9	60 Minutes	10,000	20,000	20,000
10	60 Minutes	15,000	25,000	25,000

WSOP Paradise Parlay

The WSOP has a new Paradise Parlay promotion, that could see players pocket an extra $250,000 on top of regular tournament winnings in the $25,000 Super Main Event.

The initiative offers a tiered bonus structure for players who’ve already enjoyed strong results in 2025. Any eligible participant who cashes in the Super Main Event earns an additional $25,000, while those who reach the final table will receive $100,000. If any eligible player goes on to win the event outright, they'll take home the ultimate prize: $250,000.

Paradise Parlay Qualifications

Eligibility is reserved for those who have:

Cashed in seven or more live bracelet events during the 2025 WSOP in Las Vegas,
Cashed in the WSOP Main Event, or
Won a WSOP bracelet this year, including those from WSOP Europe or WSOP Online.

Last year in Paradise, the most-decorated player in WSOP history, Phil Hellmuth, was eliminated on the stone bubble of the $25,000 Super Main Event.

Will we see fireworks again at Atlantis this year? Don't miss a moment of the action, as the PokerNews live reporting team will be inside the ropes for full coverage of the largest guarantee in poker history.

Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event

Day 1d Started