After all the dust and sand settled in the Bahamas, it was Austria’s Bernhard Binder who would end up with the $10 million and the gaudy World Series of Poker bracelet that brought everyone to Paradise in the first place.

Yes, the $25,000 WSOP Super Main Event at the Atlantis in the Bahamas has its winner. The tournament with the record-breaking $60 million guarantee prize pool began Dec. 10. The prize pool was easily surpassed by 2,891 entries.

Binder is a high-stakes cash game player from Austria who has been playing poker for barely three years, but he came up humungous in the Caribbean by taking down the biggest poker tournament of the year outside of the Horseshoe Las Vegas.

The prize pool topped $72,275000.

Runner-up was Jean-Noel Thorel of France, who cashed $6 million for failing to win a bracelet. The 51 year-old brought more than $20 million in tournament cashed to the final table. The pharmacist-biologist who founded the pharmaceutical company NOAS, he scored his best live cash here.

It was his sixth seven-figure cash of his poker career. He also finished eighth in the $106,000 high roller event in this series for $597,000.

Brazil’s Belarmino De Souza finished third for $4 million. His next highest cash came in 2010 and was for $261,249 online, like most of his other cashes. He brought $414,000 to the final table.

Terrance Reid’s fourth-place finish was good for $3 million. His best cash before this was for $192,755 for winning a $2,500 RUNGOOD Poker Series event in 2024.

Eric Wasserson bumped his lifetime tournament earnings to $8.8 million with a fifth-place finish in this big one. The $2,350,000 he won here inched out his recent best cash of $2,287,000 he secured with a fourth place finish in the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series invitational in May.

Natasha Mercier, wife of Jason Mercier, took home $1.8 million for a sixth-place finish. She doubled her life-time tournament earnings with the cash.

Peter Chien of Canada brought $456,000 in tournament winnings to the final table and added $1 million to it with a $1.4 million cash for seventh place.

And rounding out the final table was Franco Spitale, who scored his second million-dollar or more cash here. The $1,100,000 he won for finishing eighth was worth only a little bit less than the $1,250,125 he won in 2024 for taking down the $1,500 WSOP Millionaires Maker.

$25,000 Super Main Event Final Table Results