The official numbers for the GGSF Super MILLION$ Main Event are in. With 267 players in the final flight, a total of 1,089 players have created a total prize pool of $10,890,000 for this event. Payouts are to follow.
Isaac Baron raised to 14,000 in middle position and Daniel Dvoress called one seat over. Action folded to Aliaksandr Hirs in the small blind, who three-bet shoved all in for 91,300.
Baron came over the top for 301,700, almost all of his remaining stack, Dvoress shoved, and Baron called it off for 26,758 more.
Aliaksandr Hirs:
Isaac Baron:
Daniel Dvoress:
The flop kept the kings of Hirs in the lead, while Baron was trailing Dvoress for the side pot. The on the turn was a brick, but the on the river certainly not. Baron spiked one of his three outs, crippling Dvoress and eliminating Hirs in the process.
The field is on their third break of the day. Play will continue until 22 levels have been played and all survivors will directly continue on to play Day 2.
The current chip leader in the tournament is Taiwan's Chin Wei "FanChihWei" Fan, who's the only player sitting over 800k in stack on 2/3rds of the day. One of Fan's key hand to climb the leaderboard was with , when he sneakily hit the river on Georgios Sotiropoulos on a seemingly safe looking board.
Sotiropoulos, holding , bet 43,024 on the river and called off about 75k or so more when Fan check-raised the river all in. The Greek subsequently rebought himself back into the event.
With level 15 now underway, players have two more levels to jump in this event. Currently, 217 have registered for the final day with 124 still trying to make it to Day 2.
Note that Day 2 will begin shortly after this event, starting at 8:05p GMT.
A few hands ago, Wiktor Malinowski picked up a pair of aces to send "sibel chan" to the rail who held sixes. Now, the Polish cash gamer got it in again, this time holding against the of "ULMFKR".
The board ran out for Malinowski to river the nut flush and crest half a mill in the process.
Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema made it 7,200 in middle position and Mikhail "Freez112" Kovalyuk peeled from the small blind. The flop was and Kovalyuk check-called 7,128 from Crema.
The turn brought another ace, the , and Crema upped the ante to 28,800. Kovalyuk check-raised to 61,200 and Crema called.
On the river, Kovalyuk went all in for 68,642 and Crema snapped him off. Kovalyuk shoved but was second best to Crema's to end his run.
The first of two $10,000,000 events during the GG Spring Festival has broken the eight-figure mark to surpass it's lofty guarantee. Late registration will be open until level 17, after which the payouts will be finalized.