Pascal Lefrançois

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Pascal Lefrançois
Pascal Lefrançois (2018)
Pascal Lefrançois (2018)
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1987
place of birth CanadaCanada Montreal
Nicknames
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Pass_72PokerStars

Pass_555Full Tilt Poker
place of residence CanadaCanada Montreal
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 2,097,211
Total prize money $ 5,265,276
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 8th
Best main event 11. ( 2010 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 5
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 6th
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 1
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 3
Last updated: August 11, 2020

Pascal Lefrançois (also LeFrançois ; * 1987 in Montreal , Québec ) is a professional Canadian poker player . He won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in 2010 and the main event of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona in 2018 .

Poker career

Lefrançois at the WPT in Montreal (2012)

Lefrançois started playing poker in 2005. He has been playing online since July 2006 under the nicknames Pass_72 ( PokerStars ) and Pass_555 ( Full Tilt Poker ) . His online tournament winnings on PokerStars be more than 3 million US dollars . There Lefrançois won the Sunday Warm-Up in mid-August 2008 with a prize of over 100,000 US dollars. At the end of May 2020 he prevailed in the Main Event of the Spring Championship of Online Poker and received around 415,000 US dollars. Since 2009 he has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

Lefrançois was mid-June 2009 for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money. At the 2010 WSOP , he won a tournament with a prize money of almost 570,000 US dollars and received a bracelet in addition to the prize money . He then reached the eighth day of the tournament in the main event . After leading the field with 18 remaining participants as the chip leader, he was eliminated shortly before reaching the final table in eleventh place for around 635,000 US dollars. In late November 2012, Lefrançois reached the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) main event in Montreal and earned around $ 470,000 for second place. In mid-January 2014, he finished seventh at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures main event in the Bahamas for just under 250,000 US dollars. At the beginning of May 2014, Lefrançois finished ninth at the high roller event of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo for more than 110,000 euros in prize money. At the Playground Poker Fall Classic in Kahnawake at the end of November 2014 , he finished second in the high roller event, but received most of the prize money of almost 150,000 Canadian dollars due to a deal with Matt Jarvis and Darren Elias . In April 2017, Lefrançois won the Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions in Nottingham with a bonus of just under 200,000 US dollars. In mid-April 2018, he also won the main event of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona . For this he prevailed against 1174 other players and received a prize of 1.7 million euros.

In total, Lefrançois has earned more than $ 5 million in poker in live tournaments. From April to December 2016 he played as part of the Montreal Nationals in the Global Poker League and won the title with his team.

Web links

Commons : Pascal Lefrançois  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WSOP Champ Pascal Lefrancois: The Ingredients That Create a Successful Poker Player on pokernews.com on May 21, 2014, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Canadian Pro Pascal Lefrancois Scores $ 2M Victory at Partypoker Millions Grand Final in Barcelona on cardschat.com on April 18, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Pascal Lefrançois in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Pass_72 in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Sunday Warm-Up [$ 750,000 guaranteed] in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ SCOOP-96-H: $ 5,200 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event 2nd Chance], $ 1.5M Gtd in the PocketFives database, accessed June 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b Pascal Lefrançois in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  9. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 5, 2018.
  10. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  11. ↑ WPT Montreal ($ 3,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 5, 2018.
  12. ↑ PCA - 2014 ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 5, 2018.
  13. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  14. ↑ The Playground Poker Fall Classic / WPT Montreal (C $ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018.
  15. ↑ partypoker Millions (£ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 5, 2018.
  16. ↑ partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event # 7) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ Montreal Nationals on the Global Poker League website, accessed May 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lefrançois, Pascal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pass_72 (nickname); Pass_555 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada