The hand, which took nearly ten minutes to resolve with multiple floor rulings, saw popular vlogger Ryan Depaulo triple up in dramatic fashion, much to the chagrin of amateur James Caputo.
Now, Caputo — if the Hendon Mob profile is the right one — has only $275 on his live tournament record, meaning that the detail of what follows is an understandable mistake on his part.
It is also a much larger error than he was involved in on Sunday evening with David Benyamine which we will get to in a bit.
Tripled up again earlier in the craziest hand ever which is why the tension on stream right now. the whole table hates me but the dude folded.
When Someone says “so you fold?”
And guy says “yes”That’s a fold.
He didn’t realize he’d still owe my smaller all in which he had…
— Ryan Depaulo (@depaulo_ryan) December 16, 2025
How the Hand Went Down
In Level 15 (blinds 25,000/50,000), the action exploded in a three-way confrontation:
Andre Moreira opened the action to 100,000 and Depaulo made a quick call. Caputo then comes back over the top with A♦ 5♦ for 200,000 and Moreira calls.
CoinPoker ambassador Depaulo now shoves over both of them for his last 1,175,000 and Caputo makes the call. But to muddy the waters even further, Moreira goes for the back-raise, too, for more than 3,000,000.
Caputo then showed his inexperience by trying to explain to the dealer that he was only all-in against Depaulo and not Moreira, at which point his hand was collected and mucked.
Moreira and Depaulo then flipped over J♠ J♣ and K♣ K♠ respectively while an apparently slightly drunk Caputo stared confused at what just transpired.
The arguments that followed were almost impossible to follow as everyone tried to speak at the same time with Caputo repeatedly insisting that he never folded.
But while he never verbally folded his hand, his inability to follow the actions in the hand and also to protect his holecards led to the floor not only declaring his hand dead but also forced him to hand over 1,175,000 chips to cover Depaulo’s shove.
All that and he would never even get to see a flop — it couldn’t have gotten any worse, or could it?
The board still had to be rolled out and a king came off on the flop to give Depaulo top set, but by the river the unpaired board showed three diamonds which would have given Caputo a flush and a treble up. Ouch!
Community Reaction
The poker world quickly weighed in on X with the majority of posters feeling that Caputo’s inexperience cost him.
Of course many sympathised with him but this is a $25,000 tournament, not a training ground for fundamental details.
Ryan Depaulo maintained his composure throughout all the shouting, including an onslaught from Martin Zamani who seemed to give a different account from everyone else involved.
And this other hand which took place at the weekend involving James Caputo, that also highlighted his inexperience, and maybe that he needs to either pay closer attention or leave the booze alone while playing.
Argentina’s Manuel Pochat jammed from early position for 255,000 and then Caputo attempted to open-raise to 65,000 with legendary player David Benyamine quickly making the call before the error was pointed out.
Benyamine was now forced into a pot with A♥ 7♥ against Pochat’s A♠ J♠ that he had no business being in. But the poker gods were in sympathetic mood and the flop came down5♥ K♥ 10♥ to lock the hand up.
Everyone at the table owes a huge apology that didn’t side with you. Either they’re dumb as fuck and missed nearly every part of the action, in which case they shouldn’t be adding in their two cents, or they’re clearly just trying to turn it in to a call and hope you busted
— Alan (@SoupsCrisp) December 16, 2025
WSOP Paradise Super Main Event Hits Record Prize Pool
On a more positive note, the €25,000 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event is now officially the biggest ever non-WSOP Main Event tournament of all time.
When late registration ended, the field had reached an unthinkable 2,891 entries to smash the $60,000,000 guarantee and build a prize pool of $72,275,000 to fight over.
This makes the event the eighth largest live poker tournament in history, only beaten by six of the last seven WSOP Main Events plus the 2006 edition which held the record for a long time.
