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GGPoker seems to have a knack for turning its players into millionaires. Earlier this week, three more customers of the online poker giant reeled in seven-figure prizes in the $1,500 GG World Championship event.
The $1,500 GG World Championship, part of the $300 million guaranteed GG World Festival, drew 7,309 entrants across several flights. All of those buy-ins resulted in a $10,415,325 prize pool, well above the advertised $10 million guarantee.
Day 2 of this massive event saw 726 players return to the virtual felt, each guaranteed $3,087 for their efforts thus far. Lex Veldhuis, Kelvin Kerber, Daniel Petersen, Jans Arends, Martin Jacobson, Espen Jorstad, Jessica Teusl, Francisco Benitez, and Amit Ben Yacov were just a selection of stars who cashed in this event but who also fell short of a final table appearance.
$1,500 GG World Championship Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lord Given | Serbia | $1,091,345* |
| 2 | Max Rotko | Finland | $1,094,691* |
| 3 | filthiest | Ukraine | $1,109,637* |
| 4 | SIR NAPKINS | Finland | $638,653 |
| 5 | Sergi Reixach | Mexico | $492,500 |
| 6 | Denys Chufarin | Ukraine | $379,801 |
| 7 | mofo0637 | Canada | $282,898 |
| 8 | Tobias Eichenseher | Austria | $225,886 |
| 9 | Rafael Loiola | Brazil | $174,213 |
*Reflects a three-handed deal
The prize pool was so large that $174,213 was the least that any of the nine finalists would take home. Brazil's Rafael Loiola was the player who was the first out of the door at the final table, and who secured that sum.
Tobias Eichenseher's run ended in an eighth-place finish worth $225,886 before "mofo0637" of Canada crashed out in seventh, a finish good for a cool $282,898.
Sixth-place prize money weighed in at $379,801, and that is the prize Denys Chufarin received when his latest deep run ended prematurely. Mexico-based Spaniard Sergi Reixach finished in fifth for $492,500, narrowly missing out on a half-million-dollar payday, but only just.
The final four had now locked in almost $640,000 for their $1,500 investment. A Finnish player known as "SIR NAPKINS" ran out of steam in fourth place, earning $638,653 to their GGPoker account.
With "SIR NAPKINS" out of the way, the final three players struck a deal that saw them all become millionaires, if they weren't already. Ukraine's "filthiest" busted in third for a $1,109,637 prize, the largest of the entire tournament.
The Ukrainian's elimination left Max Rotko heads-up against Serbia's "Lord Given." The one-on-one battle went the way of "Lord Given," and they became the $1,500 GG World Championship champion and received an impressive $1,091,345. Rotko raked in $1,094,691 for his runner-up finish.
While "filthiest," Rotka, and "Lord Given" became millionaires, a shout-out must go to Elias Suhonen, too. Suhonen bought 10% of Rotka's action via the in-built staking software, meaning he won $109,469 while sitting and refreshing the GGPoker tournament lobby. Nice work if you can get it.
GG World Festival Enters Its Final Stage
The GG World Festival continues until June 9, with events costing between $3 and $1,050 remaining. Those value hunters among you may want to check out the $150 buy-in GGWF Mystery Closer, which comes with a $5 million guarantee on its prize pool.
Dozens of Day 1s are in the pipeline, each feeding into Day 2 at 7:30 p.m. BST on June 8. Mystery bounties come into play once the money is reached on Day 2, and at least $2.5 million worth of bounties will be won.
