With 19 players left, Spain’s Leo Margets was the last woman standing — again — in the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event.
And now, with 18 left, she’s still in there fighting, with a bigger stack now thanks to a big preflop confrontation with Diego Ponce.
The hand left Ponce on the rail, out in 19th with $360,000 in prize money. It also rocketed Margets up to 35M chips, in the top third of the chipcounts as the tournament reaches its final two tables.
Queens come to the rescue
With black queens, 
, Margets opened the pot with a min-raise to 1.6M from the cutoff. Ponce, in the big blind had a hand — 
. After some time to chew it over, the man from Mexico slid in his entire stack, some 9.6M chips.
Starting the hand with some 27M chips, Margets was quick to make the call and the two turned over their cards.
Ponce needed a jack or a minor miracle. With the flop of 
, he was all out of miracles — it was going to have to be a jack, or nothing. The 
and 
were as close to nothing as it gets.
Ponce left the scene to cheers from his rail.
Margets has added chunks to her stack in the past hour or so, and is looking good heading into the final two tables with close to 35M chips. The top three at time of writing are:
- Braxton Dunaway: 80.3M
- Adam Hendrix: 69M
- Michael Mizrachi: 43.7M
Overnight chip leader Kenny Hallaert is down to 5th, with 40.3M.
