Lithuanian pro Dominykas Mikolaitis took down his third GGPoker Million$ SHR last night, his latest victory worth $339,445 and taking him past the $6million lifetime milestone on the site.
The $10k buy-in weekly SHR attracted 167 entries, producing a prizepool of $1,670,000 and the top six guaranteed six-figure payouts. Chasing the big money at the final table were the likes of Wiktor Malinowski, Joao Vieira and Sergio Aido.
Malinowski, with $5.5million from 53 cashes, 34 final tables and 5 titles from the GGMillion$ tournaments alone, was surprisingly the first to fall.
Picking up kings in middle position, he 4-bet Vaskresenski’s open and snapped off the shove but the runout was less than kind to him…
Vaskresenski: A♠ 5♠
Malinowski: K♠ K♥
Flop: 6♠ A♣ 8♥
Turn: 2♣
River: Q♦
A “big, big start for the chip leader” was Jeff Gross’ summation in the commentary booth, alongside Nick Petrangelo for the livestreamed final table.
Signs that it might be a very good evening for Vaskresenski continued when he tangled with Pavel Plesuv for all the Moldovan’s chips, both players with big slick but Plesuv with the suited version…
Vaskresenski: A♠ K♦
Plesuv: A♣ K♣
Flop: 2♠ Q♥ 6♠
Turn: Q♠
River: 3♠
A brutal runout and an early bath for Plesuv, and Rui Ferreira suffered a similar fate, his big slick runner-runnered by Sven Andersson’s A4offsuit, who himself fell to a nasty backdoor flush shortly afterwards.
Four down and barely a hand holding up at the critical points, though Aido’s aces vs jacks for his tournament life saw set over set on the flop to buck the trend.
An 11million chip pot between Vieira and Mikolaitis left the Brazilian reeling when his king-high flush was beaten by the ace-high flush, sending him from top of the pack to 4th out of 5. But he’d soon bounce back.
Germany’s Alexander Tkatschew was still looking for his first GGMillion$ title, despite more than $1million in winnings in the SHR, and was doubtless hoping it was a tilt call on the very next hand when Vieira snapped off his shove… no such luck!
Tkatschew: K♠ Q♣
Vieira: K♦ K♥
Flop: J♠ 6♣ 2♦
Turn: Q♦
River: 7♦
Vieira couldn’t build up any real momentum, however, and soon bowed out with A♠ 4♠ against Vaskresenski’s queens, although two spades on the flop made it a good sweat.
With three left and $800k+ still to be shared out, Mikolaitis took a huge hit when he represented the nut flush only to have his bluff called with a real flush, but he watched on with glee as Vaskresenski then took out Aido in a race… and it wasn’t even close!
Vaskresenski: 6♠ 6♥
Aido: A♦ Q♣
Flop: 6♣ 5♥ 3♣
Turn: 6♦
River: 3♠
Heads-up saw Vaskresenski holding a 4:1 chip lead, but he was soon clawed back and, with no timebanks left, it was a fast and furious finale…
Vaskresenski was forced all-in and the flop hit both hard, but Mikolaitis was still ahead…
…and that was enough for his third GGPoker Million$ SHR title and a $339,445 payday.
Final Table Payouts
| 1 | D Mikolaitis | $339,445 |
| 2 | M Vaskresenski | $266,153 |
| 3 | Sergio Aido | $208,687 |
| 4 | Joao Vieira | $163,628 |
| 5 | A Tkatschew | $128,298 |
| 6 | Sven Andersson | $100,596 |
| 7 | Rui Ferreira | $78,876 |
| 8 | Pavel Plesuv | $61,845 |
| 9 | W Malinowski | $48,492 |
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