Sergio Aido Wins World Series of Poker Online GGMillion$ Event

The closing occasion of the 2024 World Series of Poker Online International pageant on GGPoker was the $10,000,000 assured $10,300 buy-in GGMillion$. The event drew 1,433 whole entries, smashing the assure to construct a closing prize pool of greater than $14.3 million.

In the top, the biggest share of that cash was captured by Sergio Aido. The Spanish poker professional emerged victorious with $1,935,575 and his second profession WSOP gold bracelet, having gained his first earlier this yr in a $50,000 buy-in excessive curler in Las Vegas. He now has greater than $23.5 million in recorded scores to his title.

Full real-name outcomes for this event haven’t but been posted, however the closing desk contenders are all recognized. This occasion ran over the course of three days, with the ultimate 9 being featured on a live-stream broadcast on GGPoker’s YouTube channel, with Jeff Gross and seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu doing commentary. Check out the total replay of that stream under:

The closing desk started with Jovan Kenjic main with 124 huge blinds, whereas Aliaksei Boika had only a single huge blind when playing cards acquired within the air. Boika was understandably the primary to fall, incomes $243,577 for his efforts after his Ok-2 bumped into pocket jacks for Kenjic and pocket nines for James Hopkins, who flopped a set to attain the knockout.

Aido earned a double-up by Kenjic early on on the closing desk. He then gained an enormous all-in with A-7 suited outrunning the pocket jacks of two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs to additional climb the leaderboard. Ponakovs earned $315,324 because the eighth-place finisher after shedding that showdown.

Christopher Nguyen was despatched packing in seventh place because of a preflop cooler, with JJ operating into the QQ of Daniel Peterson. Nguyen discovered no assist and the sector was narrowed to 6.

Aido’s surge continued because of selecting up pocket kings within the huge blind dealing with a shove from brief stack Jinlong Hu within the small blind. Hu held Ok-10, which picked up a gutshot straight draw on the flop, however improved no additional. Hu earned $529,029 because the sixth-place finisher, whereas Aido climbed to second within the chip counts.

Daniel Peterson’s run got here to an finish in fifth place ($685,508) when his A-6 got here up in opposition to A-10 for Aido. Both gamers paired their ace on the flip, however Aido’s kicker was sufficient to ship Peterson to the digital rail.

Aido picked up A-10 in one other key pot. It held in opposition to the A-5 suited of Hopkins, who flopped a flush draw however bricked out from there to complete fourth ($888,436). After dragging that pot, Aido sat with practically twice as many chips as his two remaining opponents had between them.

Roman Emelyanov acquired all-in with A10 from the small blind, solely to obtain a name from Kenjic and his AQ within the huge blind. Emelyanov failed to attach and was knocked out in third place ($1,151,601).

With that, Aido entered heads-up play with 89,238,861 to Kenjic’s 52,284,883. It didn’t take lengthy for him to transform that lead into the title. Just a couple of arms into the match, Kenjic limped with J9 from the button for 1,400,000 whole and Aido raised to 4,879,000 with A10. Kenji referred to as and the flop got here down A106. Aido wager 2,537,000 along with his prime two pair and Kenjic referred to as along with his flush draw. The flip introduced the J and Aido wager 6,160,000. Kenjic referred to as and the 5 accomplished the board. Aido moved all-in, an efficient wager of 35,393,883. Kenjic went into the tank however finally made the decision, solely to be proven aces up by Aido. Kenjic was awarded $1,492,885 because the runner-up.

Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded on the closing desk: