Chris Da-Silva Dominates the Final Table to Win the Triple Stack Six-Max for $27,825

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

Chris Da-Silva
Event 28 Champion Chris Da-Silva

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 9s6h5sKh6c, moving all in on the river for 570,000. Da-Silva eventually called with Js9h for two pair, nines and sixes, but Henao turned over Ks6d 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 Ad8c3c, with Da-Silva check-raising to 100,000, and then betting 140,000 on the 7c on the turn.

The river card was the Ah, 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 AcJs for trip aces. But Da-Silva turned over 7s7d 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:

PlaceFirst NameLast NamePrize Amount
1ChrisDa-Silva$27,825
2Sebastian ToroHenao$18,350
3MaxStevens$12,200
4BenLudlow$8,300
5DonaldManns$5,855
6KevinOrdet$4,260
7JaydenKrnyaich$3,200
8AnatolyNikitin$3,200
9VaughnSteeves$2,480
10AdamMcLaughlin$2,480
11BryceMcVay$2,000
12JosephMolitor$2,000