Anonymous Argentinian online player “Be Myself” scooped this week’s GGMillion$ Super High Roller ahead of a host of big names, winning $410,427 after satelliting their way into the week’s biggest buy-in tournament.
Big numbers dominated the event, running during the GGPoker WSOP Online festival, which you can find more about at the end of this article.
With 203 entries at $10k per head, that meant a total prizepool of $2,030,000 and six-figure payouts for the top six players, with a final table spot worth a $50k cash, a tidy 5x ROI.
Leading the way as the final table kicked off, Israel’s Barak Wisbrod, with Michael Addamo, Rodrigo Sirichuk and Alexander Tkatschew among the contenders, along with a couple of Russian highstakes online players and three anonymous hopefuls.
Kings for the win
With Jeff Gross and Jonathan Jaffe (featured above) calling the action on the GGPoker livestream it took a while before we saw our first casualty, a cooler as short-stacked “lospob4res” shoved blind on blind with pocket 7s only to run into Addamo sporting kings.
Tkatschew was next to fall, 3-betting all-in but a slight dog in the race that followed…
Tkatschew: A♥ K♦
Wisbrod: J♠ J♦
Flop: 3♠ 5♥ 9♣
Turn: 7♦
River: 7♣
Addamo was looking for his 8th GGMillions SHR victory but he’d come up short this week, a nasty turn card ending his hopes after Wisbrod had shoved blind-on-blind…
Hand in the cookie jar
Romashka’s short stack wouldn’t last much longer, ending in 5th spot for a $145,108 cash, and then it was Rodrigo Sirichuk who departed. The Brazilian pro attempted to steal his fellow short-stacked neighbour’s blind but it backfired badly…
Sirichuk: 6♥ 3♥
K Maslak: A♣ 6♣
The runout was no help…
Flop: 10♥ 6♦ 8♦
Turn: J♦
River: 4♦
…and Sirichuk departed in 4th spot for a nonetheless very tidy $188,182 payday.
Down to just three and close to $1million still to be divvied up, “Be Myself” had a chip lead (8.9million) over Maslak (5.2million) and Wisbrod (6.5million) with the blinds at 100k/200k/25k BBante.
Aces and aces and…
Russian player Maslak decided 7s were good enough to go with when Wisbrod got aggressive on the button, but he soon found out the Israeli had the goods…
Maslak: 7♥ 7♣
Wisbrod: A♦ A♥
Flop: 10♦ 10♥ A♣
River: 2♥
Maslak’s remaining few bigs disappeared shortly afterwards when he again ran into aces, this time belonging to Argentina’s “Be Myself” and were heads-up for the GGPoker SHR title.
Wisbrod was a 3:1 dog but despite winning a couple of small pots, he couldn’t match his opponent when it mattered, ripping it in with a raggedy ace only to get the bad news…
That meant it was impressive sattie win all the way to glorious SHR victory for “Be Myself”, an unusual feat against the world’s leading highstakes pros.
Final results
| 1 | BeMyself | Argentina | $410,427 |
| 2 | Barak Wisbrod | Israel | $316,483 |
| 3 | K Maslak | Russia | $244,041 |
| 4 | Rodrigo Sirichuk | Brazil | $188,182 |
| 5 | R Romashka | Russia | $145,108 |
| 6 | Ehhhh Pinnnggg | Romania | $111,893 |
| 7 | Michael Addamo | Hong Kong | $86,281 |
| 8 | A Tkatschew | Austria | $66,532 |
| 9 | lospob4res | Austria | $51,303 |
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