Jean-Noel Thorel Leads Final Eight of WSOP Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event

The penultimate day of the 2025 World Sequence of Poker Paradise appeared to have just a little little bit of the whole lot, as Occasion #11: $25,000 Tremendous Primary Occasion performed all the way down to the ultimate eight contenders at a quick and livid tempo.

The day started with simply 24 gamers getting back from a document discipline of two,891 entries at Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas, which created a large $72,275,000 prize pool with a cool $10,000,000 up prime.

It took lower than seven hours of play to succeed in the ultimate desk, and never for much longer to set the sphere for the ultimate day of the collection on December 18.

Sitting in a well-recognized place atop the chip counts is Jean-Noel Thorel, who additionally bagged up the biggest stack of Day 2b. The 78-year-old French biologist noticed his outstanding run proceed, scoring the ultimate elimination of the day to open a large lead and holding practically 40 % of the chips in play.

The ultimate hand of Day 4 completed with Thorel’s pocket aces holding in opposition to the kings of Leonard Maue, sending the German professional out in ninth to cap off a dramatic day in Paradise.

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Thorel’s closest competitor is Bernhard Binder (211,000,000), who pulled even in chips over the last stage earlier than shedding a giant pot late within the day. Sitting in third place is the final girl remaining within the discipline; Natasha Mercier (165,000,000) will return to her seat with 41 large blinds.

Mercier is seeking to higher the run of Liv Boeree, who earned a fourth-place end in final 12 months’s WSOP Paradise Tremendous Primary Occasion. Mercier had a worthwhile closing stage, together with a double-up with a full home to climb the leaderboard.

The remainder of the ultimate desk consists of WSOP bracelet winners Eric Wasserson (130,500,000) and Franco Spitale (33,000,000), who will return because the quick stack with eight large blinds.

They’re joined by Belarmino De Souza (150,000,000), Terrance Reid (114,500,000) and Peter Chien (76,000,000), all seeking to chase down Thorel on the ultimate day.

Dramatic Day 4

The primary two ranges of the day delivered loads of eliminations, together with GG Poker Ambassador Felipe Ramos. The Brazilian professional was despatched to the rail on a merciless river, ending one other quest for a primary WSOP bracelet with a Twenty third-place end.

Thorel took care of some eliminations on his personal, flipping out Charles Hook in 14th place. Hook earned one other deep run at Atlantis simply days after incomes his first profession bracelet in Occasion #13: $50,000 Excessive Curler Pot-Restrict Omaha.

Faraz Jaka was the subsequent participant out when his set of nines on the flip misplaced to an even bigger set on the river. The inconceivable runout despatched Jaka to the rail in thirteenth, incomes $520,000.

Not lengthy after, Benny Glaser was despatched out on the ultimate desk bubble in a controversial hand that noticed the eight-time bracelet winner shove into Wasserson’s pocket aces.

That sorted the sphere all the way down to the ultimate 9, needing to take away another earlier than bagging for the ultimate day. It appeared De Souza can be that one after beginning the ultimate desk with simply 4 large blinds, however the Brazilian bounced again by doubling up earlier than taking a giant pot from Binder to complete with a wholesome stack.

Gamers will return at 12 p.m. native time, with 10:51 remaining in Stage 34 and blinds of two,000,000/4,000,000/4,000,000. Play will proceed with 90-minute ranges adopted by 15-minute breaks till a champion is topped.

Every of them has already locked up $1,100,000, with all eyes on the $10,000,000 first-place prize together with the WSOP Tremendous Primary Occasion bracelet.

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It is positive to be an thrilling end to the collection right here in Paradise, and you may comply with the entire closing desk motion on PokerNews. Simply eight stay within the battle to take down the ultimate WSOP Primary Occasion bracelet of 2025.