2025 Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 28
$1,100 Triple Stack Six-Max NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries: 95
Prize Pool: $92,150
March 27-28, 2025
There were 95 entries in the two-day $1,100 Triple Stack Six-Max event, with 12 finishing in the money and seven players advancing to the final table on Day 2. Eventual winner Chris Da-Silva amassed a gigantic chip lead on Day 1, beginning the final table with more than 45% of all the chips in play, worth 260 big blinds.
If it hadn’t been for Da-Silva, Sebastian Toro Henao would have had a big lead of his own with 127 big blinds. (The other five players had between 19 and 49 big blinds each.) So it was no surprise that Da-Silva and Henao ended up heads-up against each other at the end.
After the elimination of Max Stevens in third place, Da-Silva started heads-up play with a 2.5-to-1 lead over Henao.
Then, in the first hand of heads-up play, Henao bet every street on a board of 
, moving all in on the river for 570,000. Da-Silva eventually called with 
for two pair, nines and sixes, but Henao turned over 
to double up into the lead with a full house.
That was the first time that Da-Silva didn’t have the lead at the final table, but Da-Silva managed to keep it close over the next 20 minutes.
The key hand came after a flop of 
, with Da-Silva check-raising to 100,000, and then betting 140,000 on the 
on the turn.
The river card was the 
, Da-Silva checked, Henao bet 600,000, and Da-Silva check-raised all in for 1,120,000. Henao tanked for several minutes before he called with 
for trip aces. But Da-Silva turned over 
to win the pot with a full house, doubling up to an 80-to-1 chip lead.
Down to two big blinds, Henao doubled up the next hand before Da-Silva won it all with pocket nines against six-deuce suited. Da-Silva won the title, the trophy, and $27,825.
Da-Silva is from England, and has more than $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, though this is his first trophy here at Seminole Hard Rock.
Congratulations to Chris Da-Silva!
RESULTS:
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris | Da-Silva | $27,825 |
| 2 | Sebastian Toro | Henao | $18,350 |
| 3 | Max | Stevens | $12,200 |
| 4 | Ben | Ludlow | $8,300 |
| 5 | Donald | Manns | $5,855 |
| 6 | Kevin | Ordet | $4,260 |
| 7 | Jayden | Krnyaich | $3,200 |
| 8 | Anatoly | Nikitin | $3,200 |
| 9 | Vaughn | Steeves | $2,480 |
| 10 | Adam | McLaughlin | $2,480 |
| 11 | Bryce | McVay | $2,000 |
| 12 | Joseph | Molitor | $2,000 |
, and Henao needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
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, and needed to improve to stay alive.
, and Henao flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Da-Silva won the pot — and the trophy, the title, and $27,825 — with two pair, queens and nines.
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, and needed to improve to stay alive.
, and Stevens bet 20,000. Henao and Da-Silva both called.
, and it checked to Da-Silva, who bet 210,000. Stevens thought for a while before he called, and Henao quickly folded.
, and Da-Silva turned over 
. Ludlow needed his jacks to hold to stay alive.
— Da-Silva flopped a pair of kings to Ludlow’s jack-high flush draw, but no more clubs appeared. Da-Silva won the pot with his pair of kings to eliminate Ludlow in fourth place.
