Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2025 WSOP Paradise
Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2025 WSOP Paradise
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$72,275,000
Entries
2,891
Level
40
Blinds
8,000,000 / 16,000,000
Ante
16,000,000
Entries
202
Players Left
24
Players Left 1 / 2,891
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Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Day 3 of Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event at 2025 World Series of Poker Paradise in the Bahamas wrapped up late Wednesday morning as the record-setting event reached its final three tables.
Leading the final 24 players is Canada's Pascal LeFrancois, while fellow Canadian William Blais is second in chips after running kings into the aces of Alex Kulev and flopping a set in the biggest pot of the tournament so far.
Other big stacks include Daniel Reijmer, who scored a double knockout to end the day, as well as Day 2b chip leader and elder Frenchman Jean-Noel Thorel.
Also in contention are eight-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser, poker coach Faraz Jaka, GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos, Natasha Mercier, high-stakes pros Eric Wasserson and Leonard Maue, former PokerNews live reporter Terrance Reid, and recent $50,000 PLO High Roller winner Charles Hook.
Each returning player has locked up at least $335,000, while all eyes are on the glimmering bracelet and $10 million top prize that await the eventual champion. Should LeFrancois keep up the pace, he could treat the poker world to another shirtless bracelet winner's photo, as he did in 2010.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pascal LeFrancois | Canada | 126,400,000 | 63 |
| 2 | William Blais | Canada | 123,300,000 | 62 |
| 3 | Daniel Reijmer | Netherlands | 115,400,000 | 58 |
| 4 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 101,200,000 | 51 |
| 5 | Charles Hook | United States | 94,200,000 | 47 |
| 6 | Bernhard Binder | Austria | 89,500,000 | 45 |
| 7 | Natasha Mercier | Lebanon | 88,000,000 | 44 |
| 8 | Belarmino De Souza | Brazil | 86,500,000 | 43 |
| 9 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 70,000,000 | 35 |
| 10 | Faraz Jaka | United States | 63,300,000 | 32 |
Heroes, Villains & All-Ins
It would be hard to match the drama of Day 2b after a rowdy 10-minute hand centered around chaos agent James Caputo, but there was no doubt there would be exciting moments with poker villain Martin Kabrhel having the chip lead.
Kabrhel was on message and then some on Day 3. At one point, he tried out a new catchphrase — "This guy is on fiiiiiiiireeeeeeee" — but it didn't seem to stick. After some time on both the feature tables and main floor, Kabrhel was eventually eliminated by Wasserson, whom he had been calling "Wassy boy."
There was a potential shake-up in the GPI Player of the Year race as Jesse Lonis, according to GPI, needed to finish in 61st place or better to re-take his POY lead over Punnat Punsri after Punsri's 99th-place finish worth $92,500. Despite being the victim of a bold bluff by Ryuta Nakai that saw Lonis folding a set of kings, the apex predator made it deep into the evening and finished in 55th place to maintain his spot at the top of the poker food chain.
In another highlight, Gustavo Silva Campos won the $10,300 buy-in GGMillion$ High Roller for $223,824, which he was playing online before finishing 53rd in the Super Main for $180,000 — quite the day for the Brazilian.
With more than a billion in chips in play, it didn't take long for eight-figure pots to start forming. Perhaps the biggest of the day took place between Blais and Kulev, an aces versus kings cooler with a twist as Blais flopped a set of kings to put a gross beat on the stoic Kulev.
The big hands kept coming as the event reached its last five tables, as reigning GPI Player of the Year David Coleman doubled up Natasha Mercier. He would later complete his swing from over 80 million in chips to out at the hands of Mercier in a double knockout that also involved Ivan Stokes.
Double knockouts became a bit of a theme late in the evening as Reijmer picked up pocket queens to eliminate Tomas Kubaliak and Lautaro Guerra.
Other players who were eliminated on Day 3 include 20-time Circuit ring winner Ari Engel, Alejandro Lococo (86th - $92,500), recent Triton Invitational winner Kayhan Mokri (88th - $92,500), defending champion Yinan Zhou (94th - $92,500) and Joe Cada (103rd - $80,000), who was the last Main Event champ standing.
WSOP Paradise Super Main Event Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,350,000 |
| 6 | $1,800,000 |
| 7 | $1,400,000 |
| 8 | $1,100,000 |
| 9 | $850,000 |
| 10-11 | $665,875 |
| 12-15 | $520,000 |
| 16-23 | $415,000 |
| 24 | $335,000 |
Action will resume at 1 p.m. local time with 36:02 left in Level 31 with blinds of 1,000,000/2,000,000/2,000,000 for the penultimate day of action ahead of a winner being crowned on Thursday.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on site and ready to provide updates on the WSOP Super Main Event here on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | 1 | Franco Spitale | Argentina | 16,500,000 | 8 |
| 133 | 2 | Terrance Reid | United States | 32,500,000 | 16 |
| 133 | 3 | Natasha Mercier | Lebanon | 88,000,000 | 44 |
| 133 | 4 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 70,000,000 | 35 |
| 133 | 5 | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | 62,600,000 | 31 |
| 133 | 6 | Daniel Reijmer | Netherlands | 115,400,000 | 58 |
| 133 | 7 | Faraz Jaka | United States | 63,300,000 | 32 |
| 133 | 8 | Lukas Rutkauskas | Lithuania | 33,200,000 | 17 |
| 134 | 1 | Isaiah Goldman | United States | 32,000,000 | 16 |
| 134 | 2 | Eric Wasserson | United States | 57,500,000 | 29 |
| 134 | 3 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 16,000,000 | 8 |
| 134 | 4 | Taran Parmar | Canada | 9,300,000 | 5 |
| 134 | 5 | Julian Pineda Lozano | Panama | 36,600,000 | 18 |
| 134 | 6 | Peter Chien | Canada | 14,800,000 | 7 |
| 134 | 7 | Pascal LeFrancois | Canada | 126,400,000 | 63 |
| 134 | 8 | Iuri Ribeiro | Brazil | 53,400,000 | 27 |
| 135 | 1 | William Blais | Canada | 123,300,000 | 62 |
| 135 | 2 | Luke Martinelli | Australia | 51,500,000 | 26 |
| 135 | 3 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 43,500,000 | 22 |
| 135 | 4 | Ravid Garbi | Israel | 26,100,000 | 13 |
| 135 | 5 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 101,200,000 | 51 |
| 135 | 6 | Charles Hook | United States | 94,200,000 | 47 |
| 135 | 7 | Belarmino De Souza | Brazil | 86,500,000 | 43 |
| 135 | 8 | Bernhard Binder | Austria | 89,500,000 | 45 |
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
126,400,000
81,700,000
|
81,700,000 |
|
||
|
123,300,000
23,600,000
|
23,600,000 |
|
115,400,000
72,300,000
|
72,300,000 |
|
101,200,000
45,200,000
|
45,200,000 |
|
||
|
94,200,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
||
|
89,500,000
13,000,000
|
13,000,000 |
|
|
||
|
88,000,000
4,000,000
|
4,000,000 |
|
86,500,000
5,500,000
|
5,500,000 |
|
70,000,000
18,800,000
|
18,800,000 |
|
63,300,000
11,500,000
|
11,500,000 |
|
||
|
62,600,000
8,700,000
|
8,700,000 |
|
||
|
57,500,000
18,800,000
|
18,800,000 |
|
|
||
|
53,400,000
11,200,000
|
11,200,000 |
|
51,500,000
18,500,000
|
18,500,000 |
|
43,500,000
13,500,000
|
13,500,000 |
|
36,600,000
9,000,000
|
9,000,000 |
|
33,200,000 | |
|
32,500,000
1,300,000
|
1,300,000 |
|
32,000,000
9,000,000
|
9,000,000 |
|
26,100,000
17,400,000
|
17,400,000 |
|
||
|
16,500,000
29,100,000
|
29,100,000 |
|
|
||
|
16,000,000 | |
|
||
|
14,800,000
48,700,000
|
48,700,000 |
|
9,300,000
7,300,000
|
7,300,000 |
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Tomas Kubaliak had lost a crucial flip with ace-jack against the pocket tens of Iuri Ribeiro and then open-jammed the rest of his stack from early position. Daniel Reijmer then three-bet jammed on the button and Lautaro Guerra called off in the big blind with around 30,000,000.
Tomas Kubaliak: A♦5♣ 
Lautaro Guerra: A♣J♣
Daniel Reijmer: Q♥Q♠
Reijmer's queens held up for a double knockout to end the evening as the board ran out a clean 8♣8♥J♥3♦2♠.
With that, the event is down to 24 players and the day is over. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
115,000,000
41,000,000
|
41,000,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
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|
Busted | |
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Pascal LeFrancois opened to 4,000,000 from the hijack, and it folded to Peter Chien to in the small blind who three-bet to 12,000,000. LeFrancois then four-bet to 22,000,000, before Chien five-bet all in for LeFrancois's stack of 61,200,000, which he snap-called.
Pascal LeFrancois: K♠K♥
Peter Chien: Q♦Q♣
It was a cooler for Chien who ran into the kings of LeFrancois, and when the board ran out K♣7♣10♥A♦A♣, LeFrancois made kings full of aces to double up into the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
126,400,000
81,700,000
|
81,700,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
56,000,000
7,500,000
|
7,500,000 |
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Daniel Reijmer opened to 4,000,000 from under the gun, with Franco Spitale sliding out a three-bet to 9,500,000 in the hijack. Reijmer then moved all in for 36,100,000, and Spitale made the call.
Daniel Reijmer: A♦Q♦
Franco Spitale: J♠J♥
The classic flip saw Reijmer hit a pair on the Q♥8♦2♣3x7♠ runout, earning a big double through Spitale.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
74,000,000
30,900,000
|
30,900,000 |
|
|
21,500,000
35,700,000
|
35,700,000 |
|
|
||
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Alejandro Ganivet was all-in for 30,500,000 from the hijack with Faraz Jaka from under the gun putting him at risk.
Alejandro Ganivet: A♦J♥
Faraz Jaka: J♠J♣
Ganivet would need to find an ace to double up, but when the board ran out 9♥2♦8♦Q♠4♣ the pocket jacks of Jaka held strong to eliminate Ganivet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
83,000,000
31,200,000
|
31,200,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 30
: Blinds 800,000/1,600,000, 1,600,000 ante
Iuri Ribeiro checked the 3♥8♠3♣ flop from the big blind, and Franco Spitale fired a bet of 4,000,000 in the cutoff.
Ribeiro called to see the K♠ turn, where both players checked. Ribeiro tapped the table again on the 7♥ river, and Spitale announced a bet of 7,000,000.
After using a time bank card, Ribeiro made the call. Spitale showed K♦J♣ for two pair, taking down the pot as Ribeiro mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
57,200,000
9,400,000
|
9,400,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
23,000,000
39,800,000
|
39,800,000 |
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Ren Lin was all in-for 43,200,000, with Jean-Noel Thorel putting him at risk.
Ren Lin: 10♠10♣
Jean-Noel Thorel: J♥J♣
Lin ran into the bigger pocket pair, but picked up extra outs in the form of a straight draw despite Thorel flopping a set on the 9♣8♣J♠. The 6♣ on the turn took away some outs as Thorel picked up a higher flush draw, and the 10♥ river improved Lin, but his set was not good enough, as he was sent to the exit in 28th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
102,000,000
46,000,000
|
46,000,000 |
|
|
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|
Busted | |
