Ilia Streltsov Scoops $1,661,695 with GGMillion$ Victory

Russian pro Ilia Streltsov last night scooped the $1,661,695 top prize in the GGMillion$ SHR. Phil Nagy was the big surprise making the final table.

With it being GGMillion$ week on GGPoker, a whopping field of 1121 entrants at $10k per head produced a $11,210,000 prizepool. That meant two $million+ payouts up top and close to $200k just for making the final table.

Leading the way with a massive 120BB stack was the anonymous “Dafaniu” playing under the Singapore flag, with 4-time champion Juan Pardo Dominguez second from bottom.

First to depart was Austrian-based Frenchman Emilien Pitavy, an unfair battle of aces seeing him KO’d in 9^th spot. Next to fall was ACR boss Phil Nagy…

FUGG: J♦ J♥

If_i_persist: A♠ A♦

Nagy ripped in almost 20 bigs from the cut-off with his pocket jacks, much to the dislike of Fedor Holz in the livestream commentary booth, who felt he could have got away from it with Kalinin likely to 4-bet from the big blind with A♣ J♣

Instead, Nagy was looking for one of the two remaining jacks, but they failed to appear…

Flop: 7♦ 4♦ 2♠

Turn: 5♠

River:  3♥

Tkatschew was out next, getting it in good with A♠ 10♣ against Streltsov’s Q♣ J♠ but the runner, runner jacks that Nagy would have loved to see spelled disaster for Tkatschew.

When Kalinin’s fumes went to Golinski the remaining five players had locked up $550k+ paydays and the first of those went to “Dafaniu”, losing a blind-on-blind call with AQoff against pocket 8s.

Dominguez soon found himself short and shoved Q♦ 8♣ against Streltsov but the Russian’s raggedy ace was enough to call. The Spanish pro missed all his outs on the river and hit the rail in 4^th spot for $721,898.

Big stack Streltsov then took out Golinski in an ace-over-ace battle, which left him one good hand away from GGMillion$ victory and it appeared soon enough…

Final table results

Andrew Burnett

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