Markkos Ladev Defeats Michael Addamo for Maiden GGMillion$ title

Estonia’s Markkos Ladev felled Aussie crusher Michael Addamo heads-up to scoop his maiden GGMillion$ SHR title last night – and with it a $400,423 payday.

There was a $1,970,000 prizepool collected when the weekly $10k flagship SHR on GGPoker attracted 197 players, with six six-figure spots up top.

By the time Tuesday night’s final table of nine came about, for once there were no Brazilians or Russians in the mix.

The players who did make it ranged from 8-time winner Michael Addamo (boasting $7.6million from the weekly nosebleed MTT), to anonymous Ukrainian “filthiest” (with zero GGMillion$ cashes to his name).

It took more than an hour for the first bustout to arrive, Mario Navarro getting short and finding his cut-off open and subsequent shove with Q♥ J♠ had run into Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas’ pocket kings. No drama and Navarro was out in 9^th spot for $57,203.

Andrii Novak suffered an almost identical fate one round later, although at least the flop (the GGPoker livestream was as usual hosted by Jeff Gross, joined this week by special guest Shannon Shorr) gave us all a good sweat…

Novak: A♦ 3♦

“Beriuzy”: A♠ A♥

Flop: 7♦ 4♠ K♦

Turn: 8♥

River: 10♠

The two Austrian flag-flying Chris’ – Puetz and Nguyen – fell in 7^th and 6^th respectively, leaving the top 5 with $150k locked up. Beriuzy had the chip lead but nobody was really short, so play settled for a while.

Eventually, “filthiest” was coolered in a blind vs blind showdown, Ladev producing kings against the Ukrainian’s A♠ 7♠ the cowboys holding up and giving Ladev the chip lead.

Addamo, playing under the Hong Kong flag, survived a huge scare when he was all-in and at risk pre-flop…

Addamo: 6♠ 6♣

Dongshizhang0: J♠ J♥

Flop: 9♥ 6♦ Q♣

Turn: 3♥

River: 2♣

That reverse left the Chinese player seriously short and he fell a few hands later, Addamo again delivering the blow.

Down to three, and it would be Beriuzy taking bronze on the podium, the twitch streaming pro’s aggression backfiring. A flop check-raise was followed by a shove (seen below) but the board bricked and it was a 3^rd spot $246,175 for the Canadian.

That gave Ladev a 3:1 chip lead entering heads-up, which he soon stretched and although Addamo survived one all-in at risk he couldn’t avoid the final execution…

Addamo: 10♠ J♣

Ladev: A♣ 7♦

Ladev shoved pre and Addamo decided to call…

Flop: 4♣ 6♦ 4♥

Turn: 7♠

River: A♦

…and that was the end of the Australian’s hopes of a 9^th GGMillion$ SHR. Ladev, for his part, had just bagged his maiden title.

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