Benjamin Rolle fought back twice to bag his second GGMillion$ title last night, scooping the $310,746 top prize in the weekly Super High Roller on GGPoker.
The $10k buy-in weekly staple of the online highroller MTT specialists attracted 143 entries, the easy math making the prizepool $1,430,000 and promising 6-figure paydays to the top 5.
By the time Tuesday night’s final table arrived, Rolle was leading the remaining nine contenders, a 68BB stack closely followed by young Portuguese star Pedro Neves.
Bringing up the rear was Andrii Derzhypilskyi and indeed the Ukrainian player was first to fall, but it took almost an hour for his last 12 bigs to disappear, and only then due to a horror flop when all-in and at risk…
The Austrian flag dominated the table but the players were a disparate bunch, Darie from Romania and Tkatschew from Germany falling in 8thh and 7th respectively, the latter in a crazy hand…
Casimir Seire’s open was met by a Tkatschew shove in the small blind and then a (very) small overshove in the big blind, both blinds on about 20BB stacks. Seire came along for the ride, the turn giving everyone a good sweat…
Seire: Q♠ Q♥
Tkatschew: K♣ 10♣
Schusteritsch: A♠ A♦
Flop: J♣ 4♥ 10♥
Turn: K♦
River: J♠
It was the anonymous ‘Austrian’ “Golden Seagull who bubbled the 6-figure cashes, A10 off as a short stack on the button coolered by Josef Schusteritsch’s AQoff in the big blind.
Schusteritsch’s fun was short-lived, though, as he found himself on the other side of that sharp coin against Rolle, his AJoff unable to catch Rolle’s A♠ Q♠ .
Three-handed saw Haven, Neves and Rolle fighting over $700k+ in prizemoney and it was the Dutch flag flying duo who would clash and decide Rolle’s heads-up foe…
Haven: 8♠ 8♥
Neves: A♠ 9♦
Flop: A♥ K♣ 7♥
Turn: 7♦
River: 10♥
Rolle’s near 2:1 chip lead was quickly overturned, running 6s busting pocket kings and reversing the stacks but the German crusher fought back twice from near tournament-death.
The GGPoker livestream with Jeff Gross and guest Aram Zoblan made it even more interesting for viewers as Rolle somehow clawed his way into the lead. Eventually, perhaps at the end of his tether with Rolle’s escape antics, Neves self-destructed, shoving with nothing and no story to tell…
Final table results
| 1 | Benjamin Rolle | Austria | $310,746 |
| 2 | Pedro Neves | Netherlands | $242,679 |
| 3 | Duco Haven | Netherlands | $189,522 |
| 4 | J Schusteritsch | Austria | $148,009 |
| 5 | Casimir Seire | Finland | $115,589 |
| 6 | Golden Seagull | Austria | $90,270 |
| 7 | A Tkatschew | Austria | $70,497 |
| 8 | Vlad Darie | Austria | $55,065 |
| 9 | A Derzhypilskyi | Ukraine | $42,996 |
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