Sergio Aido steamrollered his way through the final table of the GGMillion$ Super High Roller tonight to bag a WSOP Online bracelet and the $1,935,575 top prize – his biggest-ever online scoop almost equaling his $2million live victory at this year’s live WSOP.
The WSOP Online bracelet version of the weekly nosebleed MTT bumped up the entries and the subsequent prizepool, 1433 entries at $10k per head offering up three $1million+ payouts up top.
Aido found himself sitting 8th in chips at the start of play, the likes of Australia’s James Hopkins and Latvia’s Aleksejs Ponakovs in the mix and Serbia’s Jovan Kenjic out front. Meanwhile, Belarus’ Aliaksei Boika was hoping to spin up his solitary big blind in ‘chip and a chair’ style.
Boika didn’t make it past his first hand as Hopkins flopped a set and then his Latvian namesake watched on helplessly as his and Aido’s tournaments went their separate ways after a pre-flop all-in…
Aido: A♣ 7♣
Ponakovs: J♦ J♥
Flop: 9♦ Q♠ 9♠
Turn: A♥
River: 9♥
For those who don’t watch the weekly livestreamed GGMillion$ SHR final table, host Jeff Gross is joined by a guest, this week the turn of Daniel Negreanu, who had streamed his own tilt at the event the previous day from Vancouver.
Back in Vegas, Daniel added his experience to the mix by explaining the small 3-bet technique used by Daniel Petersen (with queens) against Christopher Nguyen (holding jacks).
“I’ll tell you where it came from, because I’ve adopted it. The Brazilians came with this strategy where they were 3-betting to 4.5 (big blinds).”
The flop ensured all the chips went in anyway and Nguyen couldn’t escape, 7th spot and $408,366 still an excellent result.
NguyenBustoutChina’s Jinlong Hu was next to fall, running his short-stack into Aido’s kings, and then Russia’s Roman Emelyanov crippled Petersen in a monster pot.
Emelyanov: K♥ K♣
Petersen: Q♦ J♦
Petersen’s blind-on-blind jam into kings looked to have got lucky after the flop and turn…
Flop: Q♠ 10♣ 9♣
Turn: K♦
…but the river was a crushing blow…
River: 9♥
With less than one big blind, Petersen somehow produced three straight double ups but the epic comeback was a step too far, eventually falling in 5th to Aido.
The Spanish pro’s evening sun-run continued by busting Hopkins in a similar ace over ace showdown, leaving the final trio with seven-figure paydays.
“Give me some of that, whatever this is!” exclaimed Negreanu of Aido, who was closing in on 100million chips and could afford to watch on as Kenjic’s A♠ Q♠ took out Emelyanov with A♣ 10♥
Heads-up – with no deal-making – was worth almost $500k between first and second. It didn’t last long, with Kenjic not believing Aido on the river…
Kenjic: 9♠ J♥
Aido: 10♥ A♣
Flop: 6♠ A♠ 10♠
Turn: J♣
River: 5♣
Aido shoved and Kenjic, with 25 bigs behind, couldn’t get away from his second pair…and that was all she wrote!
Final table results
1Sergio Aido$1,935,5752Jovan Kenjic$1,492,8853Roman Emelyanov$1,151,6014James Hopkins$888,4365Daniel Petersen$685,5086Jinlong Hu$529,0297Christopher Nguyen$408,3668Aleksejs Ponakovs$315,3249Aliaksei Boika$243,577Get the best rakeback dealsSee the best poker promotionsView the latest poker newsGet the best No Deposit Poker BonusesBenefit from the biggest poker bonusCalculate your rakeback with the rakeback calculatorTerms and conditions apply. New customer offer and 18+ only. Should you require help regarding your betting pattern, please visit www.begambleaware.org.
