Teun Mulder Wins $10,000 GGMillion$ for $476,561

A field of 243 entrants created a $2,357,100 prize pool in the latest edition of the $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller event online at GGPoker. After two days of intense poker action, only Teun Mulder had chips in front of him. He exchanged those for the title of champion, a cool $476,561 in prize money, plus a $10,000 GGMillion$ Live Paradise ticket.

Day 1 of the star-studded GGMillion$ ended with only nine players in the hunt for the nearly half a million dollar top prize. Twenty-five places were paid, with the likes of Mikita Badziakouski, Simon Mattsson, Pavel Plesuv, and final table bubble boy Barak Wisbrod all seeing a return on their five-figure investments.

Mulder reached the final table with the largest stack; his 6,053,124 chips were the equivalent of 86 big blinds. Mulder led from Enrico Camosci (5,380,742), and the popular Alejandro Lococo (4,277,445). Slovenia-based Italian Gaspare Sposato (1,111,864) brought up the rear.

$10,000 GGMillion$ Final Table Chip Counts

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More than an hour passed before the final table lost its first player. Down to a shade over 9.5 big blinds, Nikita Kalinin open-shoved with ace-king from late position and will consider themselves unlucky to run into Camosci’s pocket aces in the next seat along.

Kalinin’s fellow Russian, Ivan Ilichev, busted in eighth place a few minutes later. Unlike Kalinin, Ilichev got his 9.3 big blinds into the middle in good shape, his ace-queen dominating the ace-eight of Mulder, who had opened from the cutoff. However, an eight on the flop flipped the hand on its head, and Mulder sent Ilichev to the rail.

The first six-figure prize of the evening went to Matheus Machado of Brazil just as the clock ticked past the two-hour mark. Machado open-shoved for a little over 7.5 big blinds from under the gun with pocket tens. The action folded to Lococo in the cutoff, who reshoved for a few big blinds more with ace-king. Damir Gabdullin then cold-called in the small blind with ace-king, creating an almost 5 million-chip pot. That pot was split because an ace flopped and another arrived on the turn to gift Lococo and Gabdullin trip aces, and to send Machado home in seventh.

A battle of the blinds resulted in Sposato heading for the showers. Sebastian Gaehl jammed from the small blind with king-five of spades for 7.5 big blinds effective. Sposato looked down at six-five of clubs and decided to call all-in for his tournament life, much to the bemusement of Jeff Gross and Dylan Weisman in the commentary booth. A jack-high board did nothing for Sposato’s hand, and the GGMillion$ final table was down to five players.

Those five became four when Gabdullin ran out of steam in a hand against Camosci. Gabdullin opted to complete the small blind with pocket jacks, and Camosci checked with eight-seven. Gabdullin led on a nine-eight-eight flop showing two hearts, and Camosci called with his trip eights. Gabdullin then check-called a small bet on the queen of diamonds turn before checking the offsuit ace on the river. Camosci moved all-in and, after much consideration, Gabdullin couldn’t find a fold and called. Game over for the Estonia-based Russian.

Fourth-place and $218,504 went to Camosci in a clash with Mulder. From the small blind, Mulder raised three times the big blind with ten-eight of diamonds, Camosci three-bet half of his stack with ace-jack of diamonds before calling Mulder’s jam. Camosci looked set to become the chip leader thanks to a 10 million pot awaiting the hand’s winner. His chances of topping the chip counts improved on a seven-high flop, only for a ten to send Camosci’s elation to devastation. A nine on the river was not one of Camosci’s outs, and he bowed out of the GGMillion$.

That hand improved Mulder’s chip stack to more than 16.5 million, almost double the combined chip stacks of his remaining opponents. Mulder used his big stack and ICM implications to perfection, further improving his dominant position during three-handed play.

Something had to give eventually, and it did when Gaehl pushed all-in from the button for around eight big blinds from the button with king-nine. Lococo called with ace-nine of clubs from the small blind before proceeding to flop an ace to leave Gaehl drawing thin. Gaehl was drawing dead on the turn, and Mulder (18,258,216) to lock horns with Argentinian superstars Lococo (7,553,784) in a heads-up battle.

Lococo was streaming his final-table antics on his own channel, but he would not be able to take down this event in front of his loyal fanbase. Lococo clawed his way back to even before becoming the chip leader, yet it was Mulder who ultimately came out on top.

The hand that changed the direction of the heads-up battle saw all the chips go flying into the middle on the turn of a jack-ten-jack-ace board. Lococo held ace-king but Mulder had flopped trips with his king-jack. A brick on the river returned Mulder’s three-to-one chip lead.

It was all over a few hands later when Lococo limped with ace-ten of clubs before instantly calling Mulder’s jam, which he made with the lowly five-four of spades. Mulder flopped a full house to leave Lococo needing running cards; he was dead in the water on the turn.

Lococo banked $367,478 for his runner-up finish, leaving Mulder to take home the $476,561 top prize and a $10,000 GGMillion$ Live Paradise ticket.

$10,000 GGMillion$ Final Table Results

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The GGMillion$ returns this weekend, with satellites running around the clock. A couple of weeks ago, Austria-based grinder “72oooo” somehow turned a $10 satellite entry into a GGMillion$ title and a massive $411,843 payday.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.