China's Yayun Liu Wins the WSOP Super Circuit GGMillion$ High Roller for $1.7M
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Four months ago. China's Yayun Liu fell at the final hurdle in the $2,500 WSOP Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty event at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise festival. Liu lost heads-up to Mark Darner, narrowly missing out on his first WSOP bracelet.
On March 31, Liu topped an all-star field of 1,297 in the $10,000 GGMillon$ High Roller, the 18th and final event of the GGPoker WSOP Super Circuit, and got his hands on a gold WSOP Circuit ring plus $1,702,088 in prize money.
The four-figure field was trimmed to a more manageable final table of nine, with those finalists sitting down on the evening of March 31 to conclude the tournament. They went into battle under the watchful eyes of the GGPoker Twitch and YouTube streams, which Jeff Gross and the legendary Daniel Negreanu hosted and gave their expert opinions on.
#18: $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller Final Table Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kirill Shcherbakov | Russia | 38,704,752 | 111 |
| 2 | Checo Pacheco | Mexico | 21,931,750 | 63 |
| 3 | Matheus Machado | Brazil | 13,318,504 | 38 |
| 4 | Joshua McCully | Thailand | 13,012,769 | 37 |
| 5 | kikilala88 | Malaysia | 10,056,094 | 29 |
| 6 | Joao Vieira | Brazil | 9,804,100 | 28 |
| 7 | Rayan "Beriuzy" Chamas | Canada | 9,120,719 | 26 |
| 8 | Yayun "littlepapi" Liu | China | 8,211,488 | 24 |
| 9 | Daniel Petersen | Austria | 5,258,128 | 15 |
Russia's Kirill Shcherbakov sat down at the nine-handed final table with a commanding chip lead. Shcherbakov's stack contained 111 big blinds, close to double Checo Pacheco's 63 big blinds. Place three-through-eighth were tightly packed. Joshua McCully, Joao Vieira, and Rayan "Beriuzy" Chamas were among those players.
Liu, playing under the alias "littlepapi," started the final day eighth in chips with 24 big blinds, while Daniel Petersen's 15 big blinds ranked him bottom of the pile at the restart.
$10,000 GGMillon$ High Roller Final Table Payouts
- $1,702,088
- $1,313,415
- $1,013,788
- $782,745
- $604,586
- $467,206
- $361,271
- $279,586
- $216,596
Forty minutes passed without an elimination, and it was Daniel Petersen who broke the deadlock. "kikilala88" opened in the cutoff with queen-ten of hearts, and Petersen defended his big blind with jack-eight. On the six-four-seven flop, which showed to hearts, Petersen ripped in his short-stack for a little over a pot-sized bet. "kikilala88" called to put Petersen at risk of busting.
Petersen drilled a straight on the turn, but the river was a flush-completing heart for "kikilala88" and the final table lost its first player.
A couple of hands later, Joshua McCully opened from early position with pocket queens, Kirill Shcherbakov three-bet from the next seat along with king-jack, only for Liu to make up in the small blind with pocket aces. Liu jammed for 14 big blinds, McCully four-bet all-in, and Shcherbakov ducked out of the way. Liu flopped a set, which held, and McCully was left with a sub-10 big blind stack.
McCully crashed out five minutes later, pushing all-in for four big blinds with king-ten under the gun and losing to Checo Pacheco's pocket queens.
The dangerous Joao Vieira busted in seventh place. Vieira raised more than half his stack, leaving around three big blinds behind, with pocket fours. Matheus Machado three-bet enough to set Vieira all-in, and Vieira called. Machado turned over ace-six of diamonds, and hit an unnecessary ace on the river to send Vieira packing.
Sixth-place and close to half a million dollars went to Canada's Rayan "Beriuzy" Chamas as the clock ticked around to the one-hour mark. Chamas lost a huge coinflip with ace-king against Liu's pocket tens and was left with 3.5 big blinds. That micro-stack went into the middle with king-seven on the next hand, which lost to the pocket sixes of "kikilala88."
Five-handed play lasted around 40 minutes, ending with the elimination of "kikilala88." The action folded to "kikilala88" on the button, and they opened with ace-queen. Liu called in the big blind with seven-six of diamonds, and it was off to an eight-ace-seven flop. Liu check-called a continuation bet, leading to a queen on the turn, which also put two diamonds on the board. Liu check-called another bet on the turn. Liu then jammed on the eight of diamonds river, and "kikilala88," getting four-to-one pot odds, couldn't find a fold.
Mexico's Pacheco was the next player heading for the showers after making a move with suited connectors. Liu raised on the button, Pacheco three-bet more than half of their stack in the small blind with ten-nine suited, and went with it after Shcherbakov four-bet all-in in the big blind with ace-jack. Liu folded, and Shcherbakov's ace-jack held.
The surviving trio of players was now guaranteed more than $1 million for their efforts, such was the size of the $12,580,900 prize pool. Machado was the first of those three players to bank a seven-figure score.
Machado came unstuck in cruel circumstances. He opened on the button with ace-king and called all-in after Shcherbakov three-bet jammed with the dominated king-jack of spades. An ace on the flop looked to have doubled Machado's stack, but it wasn't meant to be. Shcherbakov, who used the "one time" emote, missed the turn but hit a ten on the river to improve to a Broadway straight, and send Machado to the rail in third-place, a finish good for $1,013,788.
Liu held a 72,117,631 to 57,300,673 chip lead over Shcherbakov going into the one-on-one battle that would decide the champion. No deal was struck despite a near $400,000 difference in prize money between first and second place.
The chip lead changed hands several times before Shcherbakov forged a massive chip lead for himself, at least nine-to-one. Amazingly, Liu won two all-in hands in a matter of minutes and found himself with the chip lead once again.
Liu extended his lead and was a substantial favorite to capture the title. The final hand happened during thr 800,000/1,600,000 level and saw Shcherbakov limp with king-ten of diamonds, leading Negreanu to comment that the Russian had limped too much during heads-up. Liu checked with nine-three, and the dealer fanned a nine-eight-ace flop. Both players checked, and Liu hit the three on the turn, improving to two pair. Liu bet almost the pot and was called. Another three on the river gifted Liu a full house, and he moved all-in. Shcherbakov had a little more than one big blind more than the pot left in his stack, and he made a hero call.
Shcherbakov busted in second for $1,313,415, leaving Liu to claim the tournament's coveted WSOP ring and a career-best $1,702,088 in prize money.
$10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yayun "littlepapi" Liu | China | $1,702,088 |
| 2 | Kirill Shcherbakov | Russia | $1,313,415 |
| 3 | Matheus Machado | Brazil | $1,013,788 |
| 4 | Checo Pacheco | Mexico | $782,745 |
| 5 | kikilala88 | Malaysia | $604,586 |
| 6 | Rayan "Beriuzy" Chamas | Canada | $467,206 |
| 7 | Joao Vieira | Brazil | $361,271 |
| 8 | Joshua McCully | Thailand | $279,586 |
| 9 | Daniel Petersen | Austria | $216,596 |
GGPoker WSOP Super Circuit Ring Events Results
| Event | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1: $500 WSOP Super Circuit Kickoff | 4,096 | $1,945,600 | Gabriel Bardini | $213,934 |
| #2: $300 Deepstack NLH Championship | 4,846 | $1,352,034 | Nissim ohayon17 | $142,447 |
| #3: $1,050 Mystery Bounty PLO | 1,148 | $1,148,000 | Santuu Leinonen | $92,054 |
| #4: $1,500 Monster Stack NLH | 1,629 | $2,321,325 | flikkflakk | $291,856 |
| #5: $525 Mystery Millions | 21,891 | $10,945,000 | Alexei Ivashchenkov | $502,709 |
| #6: $1,050 Bounty NLH Championship | 2,044 | $2,044,000 | PerV7 | $220,644 |
| #7: $525 Five Card PLO Bounty | 1,670 | $835,000 | Nupurbole | $110,255 |
| #8: $600 Ultra Stack NLH | 3,852 | $2,195,640 | Tuttu Huttula | $215,949 |
| #9: $250 Mini Main Event | 26,684 | $6,137,320 | Leonardo "tadifacil" Nascimento | $715,096 |
| #10: $1,050 6-Handed NLH Championship | 1,570 | $1,570,000 | Simon Lofberg | $208,914 |
| #11: $800 Double Stack NLH | 2,425 | $1,843,000 | Stone Face | $161,501 |
| #12: $1,500 Monster Stack PLO | 881 | $1,255,425 | Barak Wisbrod | $142,112 |
| #13: $1,700 WSOP Super Circuit Main Event | 10,690 | $17,264,350 | Alan "ContinUuUuUm" Goasdoue | $2,234,319 |
| #14: $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship | 620 | $1,472,500 | Bernard Larabi | $233,549 |
| #15: $5,250 Bounty High Roller NLH | 345 | $1,725,000 | Ottomar Ladva | $311,429 |
| #16: $1,050 Masters Freezeout Championship | 2,487 | 2,487,000 | Lucky_Bear | $322,957 |
| #17: $525 Series Saver Turbo Bounty NLH | 3,670 | $1,835,000 | Brtz | $133,842 |
| #18: $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller | 1,297 | $12,580,900 | Yuyan "littlepapi" Liu | $1,702,088 |
GGPoker players have more chances to win massive sums of money during the upcoming Bounty Hunters Series. It runs from April 5-28 and boasts $80 million worth of guaranteed prize pools, including a $5 million guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event.
