Three Lessons from Thomas Boivin, Who Won $3.3 Million at the 2025 WSOP

Lesson #1: How to Use Big Bets on the Flop in Multi-way Pots

There are some boards where you should bet hands worse than a top pair for your own protection — and you should use smaller sizes to include more value/protection hands in your range.

Small-bet boards multiway: J 5 2 and 8 4 2

On other boards, you’ll only bet top pair+ or strong draws. Here, you can go bigger with a more polar range.

Big-bet boards multiway:

A K 5 and K Q 3

Finding these big bets is crucial to make sure you win enough chips off your opponents when you have good hands.

Lesson #2: Why You Should Cut Down Your C-Bets

A lot of professional poker players share the same mistake: they make too big c-bets in late position — specifically Cutoff and Button — while the most profitable action here is to size c-bet down.

Thomas gave two examples:

• A K Q → 2/3 pot from early position… but only 1/2 pot from late.
• Q 7 2 → 1/3 pot from early… but 1/4 or even 1/5 pot from late.

The reason to cut down sizing for continuation bet there for CO and BU is quite simple. According to Thomas, with strong EP ranges your whole range benefits from building the pot — but in late position your range is weaker, so you need more checks and smaller bets.

If you bet too big or too often from a late position, you’re just bloating the pot with a range that won’t win the pot often enough. And this benefits your opponent but never you.

Lesson 3: When and Why to Jam 2x Pot

In 3-bet pots on boards like J 10 6 or 9 8 3 the out-of-position player can often go 2x pot jam — either as the c-bettor or when check-raising a c-bet.

In 3-bet pots, your opponent’s range is condensed around those boards — lots of overcards, straight draws, and backdoors. These hands have plenty of equity.

A 2x pot jam forces them to fold a big chunk of that equity, denying them the chance to realize it.