Lithuania’s Audrius “A Stakelis” Stakelis scooped last night’s GGMillion$ Super High Roller for his maiden win and a $426,339 score. The victory takes him past the $10million milestone on GGPoker.
There were 213 entries to the weekly $10k buy-in MTT on GGPoker, with a prizepool of $2,130,000 and 6-figure payouts for the top half dozen.
By the time Tuesday night’s final table came around, there were crushers mixed with relative newbies (to the highroller scene, that is) still in the mix.
Stakelis was leading the way with 82BBs but he had legendary online beast Ole Schemion just behind him. Ren “Tony” Lin and Duco Haven were middle of the pack, while bringing up the rear was Andrii Derzhypilskyi, at his 20th GGMillion$ FT.
Joshua Hopkins was first to hit the rail, his 7♠ 7♣ racing with Neves’ A♥ Q♣ A queen on the flop was followed by a 3♦ on the turn to offer Hopkins a gutshot sweat, but the river blanked.
Arthur Conan, playing under the Andorran flag, was next to fall, his demise shared as the first mystery hand of the GGPoker livestream. Jeff Gross was host as usual, this week joined by Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas.
Lin just flatted Conan’s UTG open, and the latter must have loved the J♥ K♠ J♠ flop. The turn and river were 7♣ 7♦ but when all the chips went in Lin revealed the K♦ K♥ to fell the Frenchman.
Derzhypilskyi tried to bully fellow short-stack Schemion button on big blind but the 32-year-old Berliner had the answer…
Derzhypilskyi: K♣ 9♣
Schemion: K♥ J♣
Flop: 8♠ 7♠ 2♣
Turn: K♠
River: 6♠
Down to six and with $116,231 locked up, Neves was now shortest and a “sick cooler” heralded the Portuguese pro’s demise.
Lin would have been hoping to double up when he got it all-in with A♦ J♠ against Stakelis’ A♥ 7♥ but another 7 on the flop ended his fun in 5th spot, the Chinese pro pocketing $150k for his trouble.
Paulius Vaitiekunas somehow avoided a flip and then got his stack in good against Haven, but A♦ K♥ doesn’t always beat A♣ 10♣ as he found out.
Three-handed, Schemion was looking for his 7th GGMillion$ title, Haven his 5th and Stakelis his first, the latter having close to $10million on GGPoker cashes, but barely 10% of that from the weekly SHR.
Schemion was the first to have to wait for another trophy, his A♥ Q♥ running into Stakelis’ A♠ K♥ and this time the better hand holding up.
That left us heads-up, and with a no-deal rule in place, we had half-an-hour of poker to enjoy, Haven and Stakelis playing for a $100k difference.
Play ebbed to and fro, but when the end came it was Stakelis who emerged with the win, the final hand seeing a pre-flop all-in and call…
Final results
| 1 | A Stakelis | Lithuania | $426,339 |
| 2 | Duco Haven | Netherlands | $328,752 |
| 3 | Ole Schemion | Germany | $253,503 |
| 4 | P Vaitiekunas | Lithuania | $195,477 |
| 5 | Tony Lin | China | $150,733 |
| 6 | Pedro Neves | Luxembourg | $116,231 |
| 7 | A Derzhypilskyi | Ukraine | $89,626 |
| 8 | Arthur Conan | Andorra | $69,111 |
| 9 | Joshua Hopkins | Canada | $53,292 |
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