H-15: $10,300 Super Tuesday | 2021 GG Spring Festival

04-06-2021 22:53 UTC

"ElkY" Out on a Bad Beat

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Jason Glatzer

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 1,500 ante

GGPoker Ambassador Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was short on chips before Jargo Alavali eliminated him on a bad beat.

Grospellier jammed for 82,032 from the hijack with and was called by Alavali with from the big blind.

The board gave Alavali trips and Grospellier was eliminated short of the money in 40th place. Stphen Chidwick and Darren Elias went to the rail soon after to leave 37 players remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	783,682 39,950	39,950

Joakim Andersson	484,932 302,800	302,800

Jargo Alavali	409,830 78,915	78,915
Rui Ferreira	403,526 1,500	1,500

Seth Davies	290,179 62,442	62,442

Eelis Parssinen	178,250 33,908	33,908

Artur Martirosian	133,266 90,517	90,517

Stephen Chidwick	Busted

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	Busted

Darren Elias	Busted

04-06-2021 22:47 UTC

Daniels Leads to Start Level 18 (40 Remaining)

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Jason Glatzer

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Shawn Daniels	1,066,106 85,330	85,330

David Peters	823,632 204,625	204,625

Wiktor Malinowski	709,179 15,500	15,500
Andrii Novak	680,237 174,482	174,482
judd trump	646,263 3,750	3,750
David Coleman	Busted
Samuel Vousden	Busted

Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,500

04-06-2021 22:46 UTC

Bad Beat for Ladva

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Jason Glatzer

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante

Niklas Astedt opened for 20,000 from the cutoff and called a jam by Ottomar Ladva to 62,579 from the small blind.

Ottomas Ladva:
Niklas Astedt:

Ladva was ahead but it didn't last as Astedt improved to a flush on the board. Adrian Mateos and Michael Watson followed Ladva to the virtual exit door shortly after Ladva lost his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joni Jouhkimainen	487,247 28,366	28,366

Lev "LevMeAlone" Gottlieb	470,988 370,988	370,988
Ivan Zufic	411,700 330,979	330,979
Niklas Astedt	361,987 66,371	66,371
Marius Gierse	239,438 183,924	183,924
Alex Foxen	147,160 109,750	109,750

Michael Watson	Busted
Ottomar Ladva	Busted
Adrian Mateos	Busted

Elio Fox	Busted

04-06-2021 22:42 UTC

Quad Fours on the Board on the Turn?

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Jason Glatzer

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante

It's not every day you see quads on the board let alone after the first four cards, but that just happened in a hand between "QuantumKey" and Damian Salas.

Damian Salas opened to 20,000 from under the gun before he called a three-bet by "QuantumKey" from the big blind to 79,775.

Both players checked two streets as quads rolled out on the board after the turn. The completed the board on the river and Salas folded to a small bet of 15,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Greenwood	532,556 211,608	211,608

QuantumKey	520,600 85,815	85,815
xyzpoker	471,332 386,236	386,236
Damian Salas	297,575 212,489	212,489

Laurynas Levinskas	173,500
Adrian Mateos	104,500 104,500	104,500

Amichai Barer	99,500 121,300	121,300

Ole Schemion	Busted

04-06-2021 22:36 UTC

Elias Doubles Filatov

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Jason Glatzer

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante

Anatoly Filatov open-jammed for 106,184 from the cutoff and was called by Darren Elias from the big blind.

Anatoly Filatov:
Darren Elias:

Filatov won the race to stay alive and double after Elias failed to connect with the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anatoly Filatov	226,118 41,158	41,158
Darren Elias	220,887 172,103	172,103

Isaac Haxton	193,802 177,983	177,983

Ole Schemion	161,212 129,280	129,280

Timothy Adams	159,665 48,138	48,138

Mikita Badziakouski	90,500 90,500	90,500

Jans Arends	Busted

Matthias Eibinger	Busted

Jean-Noel "OscarBrown" Thorel	Busted
Pedro Garagnani	Busted

04-06-2021 22:33 UTC

Peters Leads to Start Level 17 (50 Players Remaining)

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Jason Glatzer

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	1,028,257 100	100

Shawn Daniels	980,776 452,560	452,560

Wiktor Malinowski	724,679 12,000	12,000
judd trump	650,013 55,400	55,400
Fugazy	522,008 378,117	378,117

Level: 17

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,250

04-06-2021 22:32 UTC

Peters Takes Out Two to Catapult Into the Lead

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Jason Glatzer

Level 16 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

David Yan opened to 17,600 from the cutoff. Urmo Velvelt jammed from the small blind for 86,000. David Peters then jammed for 558,500 and Yan called off for about 370K in total.

Urmo Velvelt:
David Yan:
David Peters:

The board gave Peters the best hand and he eliminated two opponents. Peters took the lead and was also the first player in this event north of 1 million in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	1,028,357 795,082	795,082

Seth Davies	227,737 102,050	102,050

Joakim Andersson	182,132 114,750	114,750

David Yan	Busted
Michael Addamo	Busted

Jason Koon	Busted

Daniel Dvoress	Busted

Nick Petrangelo	Busted

Bruno Volkmann	Busted
Urmo Velvelt	Busted

04-06-2021 22:26 UTC

Late Registration Closed

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Jason Glatzer

Level 16 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Late registration is now closed. The field reached 141 entries including 58 re-entries to generate a $1.41 million prize pool to smash the $1 million guarantee.

First place will go home with a whopping $320,729 with the top 20 getting paid at least a min-cash of $18,783.

This means about one-third of the remaining field will finish in the money with 59 players left after late registration closed.