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Pierre Chevalier, a player who typically competes in only one or two tournaments a year, has claimed his first WSOP Circuit ring after winning the €1,500 buy-in Main Event at Partouche Pasino Club in Paris. The victory came from a record 1,282-entry field, the largest ever recorded for a WSOP Circuit Main Event in Europe.

The tournament generated a prize pool of €1,661,472, with Chevalier collecting €260,000 for first place along with a €5,000 package to the upcoming WSOP Paradise.

To secure the title, Chevalier had to get past a stacked final table that included Hervé Gouzil (2nd, €175,000), Luca Bernardi (3rd, €123,000), Davidi Kitai (5th, €63,000) and Natasha Mercier (9th, €20,500). Chevalier credited a mix of aggression when chip-heavy and patience when short-stacked as the key to his deep run.

He pointed to two pivotal hands as turning points, including a call against Mercier and a decisive pot against Bernardi that boosted his stack from four million to twenty million in chips, setting up his aggressive late-game play.

Heads-up against Gouzil, Chevalier trailed early but rallied with a large flush to seize the lead before closing out the match soon after with a favorable river card.

Despite the milestone win, Chevalier indicated this could mark the end of his competitive career. Having cashed in roughly 13 or 14 of the 15 or 16 tournaments he has ever entered, he said he now intends to prioritize family life over poker, though he did not rule out playing occasionally in the future.