Ravid Garbi raised to 20,000,000 in early position, leaving just a single 100,000 chip behind. Bernhard Binder made the call in the small blind, and the 5♥3♦5♣ flop saw Garbi's last chip sent into the middle.
Ravid Garbi: Q♥9♥
Bernhard Binder: A♣K♣
Garbi watched as Binder hit the K♠ turn, standing up before the J♥ river completed the board to see him out in 22nd place.
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Felipe Ramos
Pascal LeFrancois raised in the hijack and made the call after Felipe Ramos moved all in for 14,000,000 in the big blind.
Felipe Ramos: J♥J♦
Pascal LeFrancois: K♣9♣
Ramos saw a safe flop of 5♣10♠8♠, and his pocket jacks remained in front after the 2♠ turn. LeFrancois then spiked the K♥ river, making top pair to send Ramos out in 23rd position.
Level 31
: Blinds 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante
Taran Parmar
Taran Parmar was all-in for his last 9,800,000 in the cutoff, and Julian Pineda Lozano made the call on the button. The rest of the table folded, leaving Parmar at risk heads up.
Taran Parmar: 6♠6♥
Julian Pineda Lozano: J♠J♣
Lozano was the only one to catch the 5♠J♥3♦K♠8♠ runout, improving to a set of jacks and sending Parmar out in 24th place.
The penultimate day of Event #11: $25,000 Super Main Event at the 2025 World Series of Poker Paradise in the Bahamas kicks off today at 1 p.m. local time as the fight continues for the Super Main bracelet and $10 million top prize.
Team Canada has the best shot of claiming the bracelet as Pascal LeFrancois and William Blais lead the chip counts, while other big stacks include Dutchman Daniel Reijmer and Frenchman Jean-Noel Thorel, whose trademark LED table light earned him the Day 2b chip lead that helped carry him to the final three tables.
Also in contention are poker coach Faraz Jaka, $50,000 PLO High Roller champion Charles Hook, Natasha Mercier, poker media's Terrance Reid, GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos and Benny Glaser, who is after his fourth bracelet of the year and ninth overall. For insight into Jaka's poker strategy, check out his interview on the Life Outside Poker podcast at the 2024 WSOP.
WSOP Paradise Super Main Event 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
Action will resume with 36:02 left in Level 31 with blinds of 1,000,000/2,000,000/2,000,000 for the second-to-last day of action ahead of a winner being crowned on Thursday.
The plan is to play down to eight players, meaning there will be plenty of collisions throughout the day. That was certainly the case on Day 3, where a combo of double knockouts helped the event get down to 24 players in the early morning hours.
Jean-Noel Thorel
PokerNews will be providing updates on a delay as to avoid spoilers of the WSOP stream.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is here at Atlantis and ready to provide more updates on the Super Main Event.
