The hand, which took practically ten minutes to resolve with a number of flooring rulings, noticed common vlogger Ryan Depaulo triple up in dramatic vogue, a lot to the chagrin of newbie James Caputo.
Now, Caputo — if the Hendon Mob profile is the appropriate one — has solely $275 on his stay event document, which means that the element of what follows is an comprehensible mistake on his half.
Additionally it is a a lot bigger error than he was concerned in on Sunday night with David Benyamine which we are going to get to in a bit.
Tripled up once more earlier within the craziest hand ever which is why the stress on stream proper now. the entire desk hates me however the dude folded.
When Somebody says “so that you fold?”And man says “sure”
That’s a fold.
He didn’t understand he’d nonetheless owe my smaller all through which he had…
— Ryan Depaulo (@depaulo_ryan) December 16, 2025
How the Hand Went Down
In Stage 15 (blinds 25,000/50,000), the motion exploded in a three-way confrontation:
Andre Moreira opened the motion to 100,000 and Depaulo made a rapid name. Caputo then comes again excessive with A♦ 5♦ for 200,000 and Moreira calls.
CoinPoker ambassador Depaulo now shoves over each of them for his final 1,175,000 and Caputo makes the decision. However to muddy the waters even additional, Moreira goes for the back-raise, too, for greater than 3,000,000.
Caputo then confirmed his inexperience by making an attempt to elucidate to the seller that he was solely all-in towards Depaulo and never Moreira, at which level his hand was collected and mucked.
Moreira and Depaulo then flipped over J♠ J♣ and Ok♣ Ok♠ respectively whereas an apparently barely drunk Caputo stared confused at what simply transpired.
The arguments that adopted had been nearly not possible to comply with as everybody tried to talk on the identical time with Caputo repeatedly insisting that he by no means folded.
However whereas he by no means verbally folded his hand, his incapability to comply with the actions within the hand and in addition to guard his holecards led to the ground not solely declaring his hand useless but in addition pressured him handy over 1,175,000 chips to cowl Depaulo’s shove.
All that and he would by no means even get to see a flop — it couldn’t have gotten any worse, or might it?
The board nonetheless needed to be rolled out and a king got here off on the flop to offer Depaulo prime set, however by the river the unpaired board confirmed three diamonds which might have given Caputo a flush and a treble up. Ouch!
Group Response
The poker world rapidly weighed in on X with nearly all of posters feeling that Caputo’s inexperience price him.
After all many sympathised with him however it is a $25,000 event, not a coaching floor for elementary particulars.
Ryan Depaulo maintained his composure all through all of the shouting, together with an onslaught from Martin Zamani who appeared to offer a unique account from everybody else concerned.
And this different hand which came about on the weekend involving James Caputo, that additionally highlighted his inexperience, and possibly that he must both pay nearer consideration or go away the booze alone whereas taking part in.
Argentina’s Manuel Pochat jammed from early place for 255,000 after which Caputo tried to open-raise to 65,000 with legendary participant David Benyamine rapidly making the decision earlier than the error was identified.
Benyamine was now pressured right into a pot with A♥ 7♥ towards Pochat’s A♠ J♠ that he had no enterprise being in. However the poker gods had been in sympathetic temper and the flop got here down5♥ Ok♥ 10♥ to lock the hand up.
Everybody on the desk owes an enormous apology that didn’t facet with you. Both they’re dumb as fuck and missed practically each a part of the motion, through which case they shouldn’t be including of their two cents, or they’re clearly simply making an attempt to show it in to a name and hope you busted
— Alan (@SoupsCrisp) December 16, 2025
WSOP Paradise Tremendous Essential Occasion Hits Document Prize Pool
On a extra constructive observe, the €25,000 WSOP Paradise Tremendous Essential Occasion is now formally the largest ever non-WSOP Essential Occasion event of all time.
When late registration ended, the sector had reached an unthinkable 2,891 entries to smash the $60,000,000 assure and construct a prize pool of $72,275,000 to combat over.
This makes the occasion the eighth largest stay poker event in historical past, solely overwhelmed by six of the final seven WSOP Essential Occasions plus the 2006 version which held the document for a very long time.
