Espen Jorstad scooped this week’s GGMillion$ SHR, the 2022 WSOP Main Event champ seeing off a stacked final table for a $363,836 payday.
The weekly $10k buy-in SHR on GGPoker pulled in 179 entries on Sunday night, producing a $1,790,000 prizepool. By Tuesday night’s final table, only nine players remained in the hunt for one of the most prestigious online MTT titles.
Three players were flying the Brazilian flag, one from neighbouring Argentina, and a mix from the rest of the world, including one of the most successful online players of all time, Swedish crusher Niklas Astedt.
As usual, fans of the game could follow along on the GGPoker livestream, Jeff Gross in charge and this week’s guest Bryan Paris helping to call the action.
Death by Quads
Stacks ranged from Duco Haven’s 80BBs down to Hernan dapra’s 17BBs and it was the latter who fell first, with 6s losing out to Vieira’s Qs. The very next hand saw the kind of luck you still need to win at the highest level…
Garagnani: 10♠ 10♣
Haven: 8♠ 8♥
Garagnani’s big blind shove against Haven’s button open was called, but the flop was as brutal as it gets…
Flop: 9♠ 8♦ 8♣
Turn: 4♦
River: 2♠
Out in 8th for Garagnani and an extended chip lead for Haven.
Kiat Lee, runner-up in last week’s GGMillion$ SHR, found himself out in 7th courtesy of three straight losing hands, the final one a race against Padilha who flopped a set.
That left the remaining sextet with more than $100k locked up, and play settled down for a while, but when Garbi ran short he was picked off by Padilha.
When Scandis Clash
The next bustout was courtesy of a Scandinavian clash, the 2022 WSOP Main Event champ Jorstad shoving on short-stack Astedt’s big blind…
Jorstad: A♦ 7♥
Astedt: K♥ 10♥
The flop gave Astedt hopes of a double…
Flop: 3♠ Q♣ J♦
…but the runout was of no help…
Turn: 7♣
River: 6♣
Brazil’s title hopes would have been high with two of the final four, but it wasn’t to be, Padilha falling in an ace over ace battle and then Vieira running into a brutal river from which there was no escape…
“A pretty fair fight” was the commentary booth’s description of heads-up, both players sitting with roughly 9milllion chips and blinds at 100k/200k.
Fifth or First?
Haven was looking for his 5th GGMillion$ win, Jorstad his first, and it came down to the following hand, a 5-bet shove from Haven seeing all the chips go in pre…
Haven: K♣ Q♣
Jorstad: Q♦ A♦
Flop: 4♠ 7♦ 8♦
Turn: 3♠
River: 5♥
…and Espen Jorstad had added another notable crown to his poker resume.
Final results
| 1 | Espen Jorstad | Norway | $363,836 |
| 2 | Duco Haven | Netherlands | $285,278 |
| 3 | Joao Vieira | Brazil | $223,682 |
| 4 | Pedro Padilha | Brazil | $175,385 |
| 5 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $137,517 |
| 6 | Ravid Garbi | Israel | $107,825 |
| 7 | Kiat Lee | Malaysia | $85,544 |
| 8 | Pedro Garagnani | Brazil | $66,289 |
| 9 | Hernan dapra | Argentina | $51,976 |
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