Anonymous Austrian player “basjorke5” Bags GGMillion$ SHR

Anonymous Austrian player “basjorke5” fended off a stacked field to scoop this week’s GGMillion$ super high roller tournament and the $390,260 top prize.

With 192 entries at $10k per head the maths was simple enough – a prizepool of $1,920,000 (almost double the $1million guarantee) with close to $400k up top and again six-figure scores for the top six finishers.

Among the contenders at the final table of nine, Belarus crusher Mikita Badziakouski (playing under the Slovakian flag), Brazil’s Bruno Volkmann, and Ukraine’s Andrii Novak, who can boast over $15million in GGPoker winnings.

Topping the chip counts, however with 90 and 91BBs respectively, Austrian unknown, “basjorke5” and Russia’s Nikita Kuznetsov, playing under the Montenegro flag.

Corey Thompson fell almost immediately when a blind-on-blind steal backfired, and then Bruno Volkmann hit the rail after “basjorke5” showed he was willing to gamble, 5-bet shoving the button against the Brazilian’s early position open…

Volkmann: K♠ K♥

basjorke5: A♠ Q♣

Flop: Q♠ 7♦ A♥

Turn: 3♦

River: 4♥

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Short-stacked, Badziakouski picked up queens and shoved (which prompted a fold) and then aces which he just flatted in the big blind against Novak’s UTG raise…

Novak: J♥ J♦

Badziakouski: A♦ A♠

Flop: 6♦ 10♥ 9♥

All the chips inevitably went in and Badziakouski was at risk…

Turn: 4♣

River: J♠

Seventh spot and $90,684 for the beast from the east and six-figures locked up for the remaining half-dozen.

Juan Pardo Dominguez ended up on fumes when trip kings appeared against his AQ and “basjorke5” finished him off on the next hand, continuing his (or her!) fine run by backdooring the diamond flush to oust Petersen in 5^th spot.

Novak would have to settle for 4^th spot after his pot-size river bluff was picked off by the Austrian, Andrew “LuckyChewy” Lichtenberger in the livestream commentary alongside Jeff Gross explaining why it was a reasonable play.

Three-handed play saw Kuznetsov survive an all-in with AQ against AK and it helped him to reach heads-up play when Tondeur’s top pair lost out to the flopped two pair of “basjorke5”.

Heads-up for the GGMillion$ title saw Kuznetsov trailing 2:1 in the chip counts and things didn’t really improve, surviving twice before eventually falling…

basjorke5: K♥ 8♣

basjorke5: A♣ 7♦

Flop: K♣ 10♥ Q♦

Turn: 3♣

River: A♦

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Andrew Burnett

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An avid poker player, he dreams of one day playing the WSOP Main Event and has promised himself he will fold aces and kings if he gets them on the first hand to avoid front-page headlines. [more]