Samuel Vousden Crowned GGMillion$ Champion

Samuel Vousden Crowned GGMillion$ Champion Samuel Vousden
Samuel Vousden became champion of the GGMillion$

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This Tuesday, February 3rd, a new final table of the GGMillion$ was played, the classic high roller tournament that takes place weekly on GGPoker for US$10,300 and brings together several of the best online poker players in the world. On this occasion, the title went to the renowned Samuel Vousden

Finland
, who emerged victorious in a competitive final table to take home a prize of US$504,973.

The tournament had registered 267 entries, which formed a prize pool of US$2,149,500. As usual, the largest part of the accumulated prize pool was reserved for the finalists, who turned out to be 8 this time, after the 9th and 10th places were eliminated simultaneously at the end of Day 1.

The first elimination from the final table came quite quickly, within 15 minutes of its start. Aliaksei Boika

Belarus
, the short stack, went all-in with A J against the 7 7 of Arie Muller
Israel
, and the board showed A 7 Q A K, leaving the Belarusian out of the competition.

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The First Elimination From The Final Table

Just a few hands later, Aleksandr Blokhin

Russia
would be eliminated after running his pair of 10 10 into the pair of Q Q of Mark Radoja
Canada
. Later, it was the turn of Alexander Zubov
Russia
, who fell after going all-in with A 8 against the pair of J J of Hannes Jeschka
Germany
.

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It took almost an hour and a half to find the next eliminated player. Finally, Guillaume Nolet

Canada
was eliminated in 5th place after going all-in with A 7 against Muller’s A K.

Samuel Vousden had remained calm regarding eliminations, but when there were 4 players left, he started to put on a show. First, he eliminated Mark Radoja with A A against 6 6. A few minutes later, he managed to hit an 8 on the river to bad beat and eliminate Arie Muller in a hand of A 8 against A K. Thus, Samuel Vousden reached the heads-up against Hannes Jeschka with a chip lead of almost 4 to 1.

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The 8 On The River Was The Turning Point In The 3-Handed Showdown

The heads-up lasted only five minutes. Finally, Vousden won it thanks to a failed bluff from his opponent. The board had shown K 7 J 4 Q, and the pot had accumulated 3,060,000 when Hannes Jeschka went all-in for 6,210,602 with 6 8. After thinking for a few moments, Vousden called with K 2 and became the champion of the GGMillion$ High Rollers.

GGMillion$ High Rollers

Buy-in: US$10,000
Entries: 267
Prize Pool: $2,149,500

Finalists

1st

Finland
Samuel Vousden – US$504,972
2nd
Germany
Hannes Jeschka – US$389,387
3rd
Israel
Arie Muller – US$300,258
4th
Canada
Mark Radoja – US$231,531
5th
Canada
Guillaume Nolet – US$178,534
6th
Russia
Alexander Zubov – US$137,669
7th
Russia
Aleksandr Blokhin – US$106,257
8th
Belarus
Alikasei Boika – US$81,858

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