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.
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.
$10,000 GGMillion$ 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.
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.
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.
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.
