Juan Pardo Dominguez took down his fourth GGMillions SHR win last night, a $361,804 scoop cementing his second spot on the all-time GGMillion$ moneywinners list.
The weekly $10k buy-in Super High Roller on GGPoker attracted 178 players this time round, the maths made easy with $1,780,000 in the pot and a final table appearance worth $50k+.
Among those who made it, one of the winningest online players of all time, Sweden’s Simon Mattsson, his “C.Darwin2” nickname revered in online poker as an 8-time world number one.
Joining him, Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet, the ever-popular Ren “Tony” Lin, Belarus crusher duo Mikalai Vaskaboinikau and Artsiom Lasouskii, with Benjamin Miner, Alexander Tkatschew and Jacopo Olivieri all playing under the Austrian flag.
The first curious feature of the GGMillion$ final table is that the players get to choose their seat, from smallest to largest stack. Livestream commentators – Jeff Gross and special guest Maria Konnikova – had tagged Juan Pardo Dominguez as “a player you don’t want on your direct left” and that role fell to Olivieri.
It was Lin who would depart first, A♠ J♦ unable to improve enough against Vaskabonikau’s kings, with Olivieri joining him on the sidelines, AJ again unable to find an escape against Pardo’s big slick.
Pardo was in fact a bit fortunate that the biggest stack Van Fleet, with pocket 10s, didn’t come along for the ride.
Olivieri: A♥ J♦
Pardo: A♣ K♦
Board: 8♠ Q♥ 8♣ 6♣ 2♣
When Tkatschew fell in seventh it was a painful exit, pocket rockets in the big blind facing an open from Lasouski and flat from Vaskaboinikau seemingly the perfect spot.
A big 4-bet prompted a fold from the first Belarusian and a shove from the second, who turned over queens. The finale was as dirty as it gets…
Tkatschew: A♠ A♣
Vaskaboinikau: Q♠ Q♣
Flop: 6♥ 2♦ J♦
Turn: 7♥
River: Q♥
That meant 6-figure paydays for those left, and Mattsson’s short stack also fell to Vaskaboinikau, while Miner lost a race to Pardo to depart in 5th, almost doubling his GGMillion$ winnings in one fell swoop.
Van Fleet punted off his stack in three straight hands, all of his chips going to Pardo whose AKoff was more than good enough to call the final hand 4-bet shove.
The podium spots and almost $900k still had to be decided, and Pardo flopping a full house when racing with Vaskaboinikau got half the job done.
Lasouskii was a tougher nut to crack, pulling back from a 5:1 chip deficit to even take the lead, but Pardo didn’t wilt, instead regaining the lead and then enjoying a flush over flush victory hand…
Lasouskii: 5♠ 6♠
Pardo: 7♠ 4♠
Pardo bumped it up pre in the big blind and the players took a flop…
Flop: 8♠ J♣ 9♠
With exactly one million chips in the middle play went check-check…
Turn: :9:
…followed by 2/3rds pot from Pardo and a call…
River: 3♠
“Ooooh, that’s GG,” was Konnikova’s gasped call as the mutual flush appeared, Pardo snapping off Lasouskii’s shove to capture his fourth GGMillion$ victory.
Final Table Results
1 | Juan Pardo Dominguez | $361,804 |
2 | A Lasouskii | $283,685 |
3 | M Vaskaboinikau | $222,432 |
4 | Jon Van Fleet | $174,406 |
5 | Benjamin Miner | $136,749 |
6 | Simon Mattsson | $107,222 |
7 | A Tkatschew | $84,071 |
8 | Jacopo Olivieri | $65,919 |
9 | Tony Lin | $51,686 |
As mentioned, Juan Pardo Dominguez sits second in the all-time GGMillion$ SHR money standings, with 28 final tables and 52 cashes from his 205 appearances – an ITM of 25% equating to almost $7.5million in winnings. His total GGPoker earnings are over $25million.
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