One of Canada’s top online players, Pascal Lefrancois, has added to his already extensive tournament resume by winning the latest $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller for $443,221 ($610,894 CAD).
Lefrancois topped a field of 226 entries in the $2M guaranteed, 2-day event, defeating WSOP Paradise Super Main Event champion Bernhard Binder heads up for the title.
Pascal Lefrancois, pictured celebrating his 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona Main Event win.Lefrancois upped his lifetime tournament earnings on GGPoker to over $7M ($7,066,990) with the win, including just under $1.71M in the GGMillion$ alone. Lefrancois’ previous best result in four previous appearances at the prestigious online tournament’s final table was a runner-up finish in 2025 for $251,000.
While this was the Canadian’s first GGMillion$ title, he had to outlast a final table filled with 16 wins spread among it, headlined by six-time winner Ole Schemion and five-time champ Jens Arends, who have a combined $44M+ in earnings on GGPoker.
WSOP Super Main Event winner Bernhard Binder was Lefrancois' final victim en route to his GGMillion$ win.$10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller final table results:
- Pascal Lefrancois (Canada) - $443,221
- Bernhard Binder (Austria) - $341,770
- Jens Arends (Netherlands) - $263,541
- Ole Schemion (Germany) - $203,218
- Anton Yakuba (Russia) - $156,702
- Daniel Lakerveld (Netherlands) - $120,834
- Barak Wisbrod (Israel) - $93,175
- Tamas Adamszki (Hungary) - $71,848
- Alejandro ‘PapoMC’ Lococo - $55,402
Premiums push Lefrancois to the lead
Six-handed, with Binder holding a sizeable lead at 40K/80K/80K, he opened to 160K from his 9.3M stack in the hijack and was met with a 3-bet to 440K by Lefrancois from the small blind. Binder 4-bet jammed for 2.85M effective, and Lefrancois called off his 35bb stack.
- Bernhard Binder:
- Pascal Lefrancois:
The 
flop brought plenty of drama, giving Binder a set of sixes, but Lefrancois was drawing to the nut flush.
Lefrancois took the lead with the 
on the turn and now needed to fade a board pair, which he did with the 
river.
That win moved Lefrancois into second place with 5.8M to Binder’s 6.4M.
Down to three-handed with Arends now leading, Lefrancois was on the right end of the ultimate preflop cooler as Arends opened to 320K from 11.2M on the button at 80K/160K/160K. Lefrancois 3-bet to 1.6M from 8.09M in the big blind before Arends clicked back to 2.88M. Lefrancois jammed and was snap-called.
- Pascal Lefrancois:
- Jens Arends:
The board ran out jack-high with no drama, and Lefrancois found himself with over two-thirds of the chips in play.
Online legend Jens Arends finished 3rd in his latest deep run in the GGMillion$.Another comeback heads-up
Following Arends’ elimination in third place, Lefrancois entered heads-up play with Binder holding an over 5-1 chip lead, but the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event champ doubled twice to regain the lead.
With Binder now holding a nearly 2-1 lead, Lefrancois won a huge flip with another premium hand, holding against Binder’s 
. The Canadian flopped a gutshot to Broadway and hit it on the river to take a lead he wouldn’t relinquish.
A dagger on the river denied Binder the win.Just a few minutes later, Lefrancois sealed the victory.
At 150K/300K/300K, the duo limped and checked to a flop of 
. Holding top pair with 
, Binder elected to check, leading to a bet of 300K from Lefrancois, holding a better top pair with 
.
Binder check-raised to 675K, leaving himself 11bb behind. Lefrancois flatted, leading to the 
turn. Binder checked again, and after a half pot bet of 1.01M, Binder just called, leaving 2.39M behind with the pot now sitting at 4.04M.
On the river, Binder checked a final time and faced a jam for the rest. With no time bank remaining, Binder had to make a quick decision for his tournament life and elected to make what would be his final call of the tournament.
Lefrancois finished Binder with a superior top pair.Ticket to Paradise
Along with his latest six-figure score, Lefrancois earned a ticket into the live $10,000 GGMillion$ at this winter’s WSOP Paradise, which will be held at the Baha Mar resort in The Bahamas. He’ll look to add to his over $2M in live WSOP earnings, which includes a 2010 bracelet in a $1,500 no-limit hold ‘em event.
You can check out a replay of the entire final table on GGPoker’s YouTube channel.
Additional images courtesy of WSOP/Miguel Cortes/partypoker.
