2024 WSOP Online: Sergio Aido routs GGMillion$ final table for $1.9m

The 2024 WSOP Online $10,300 GGMillion$ concluded Tuesday after three days of high-stakes tournament play. A total of 1,433 entries generated a prize pool of $14,330,000, with nearly $2,000,000 for the eventual winner. 

The final table streamed live, with cards-up coverage and commentary from Jeff Gross and Daniel Negreanu, on the GGPoker YouTube channel. The final nine players — from nine different countries — started the final table with an array of stack sizes ranging from 124BBs to just 1BB.  After just over three hours of play, Spain's own Sergio Aido stood atop the winner's podium, claiming the GGMillion$ title, his second WSOP bracelet, and the $1,935,575 top prize. 

Jovan Kenjic, of Serbia, held the chip lead to start proceedings with 124BBs. The only player even remotely close to his stack was Australia's James Hopkins with 96BBs. The middle of the pack was made up of Russia's Roman Emelyanov (42BBs), Denmark's Daniel Petersen (39BBs), Latvia's Aleksejs Ponakovs (34BBs), and China's Jinlong Hu (27BBs). The bottom third of the chip counts saw Germany's Christopher Nguyen sitting on 26BBs, good for a slight lead on Aido (15BBs) and Belarus' Aliaksei Boika (1BB). 

Three quick eliminations

Boika, understandably, exited the final table first. The first hand off the deck saw him commit his final big blind with . On the board, he improved to bottom pair, but his hand was no good at showdown against Hopkin's and his run ended in a ninth-place finish. 

After starting the day in the middle of the pack, Ponakovs slipped down in the counts to find himself in the danger zone. Still, with a chip and a chair, anything was possible and when he picked up in early position, Ponakovs was primed for a full double. The action folded around to the big blind after Ponakovs committed the majority of his stack. Aido, with , had a hand he could go with and put the rest of the chips in the middle. Ponakovs called it off and the two players headed to a runout. 

Aleksejs Ponakovs needed a miracle two-outer after the turn improved Sergio Aido to top pair.

The flop kept Ponakovs' hand best, but the on the turn left him with just 5% equity in the hand. The river improved both players to a full house, but Aido's hand remained the winner and Ponakovs' run ended in an eighth-place finish. 

Nguyen found himself next up on the chopping block after running his into Petersen's . After raising preflop, Nguyen was faced with a small three-bet from Petersen, which he opted to flat call. The flop provided him with additional outs to a straight, but still left his hand second-best. Petersen's continuation bet was met with an all-in shove from Nguyen and the cards hit their backs. The turn left Nguyen with just over 13% equity in the hand and the river confirmed his elimination in seventh place. 

Flurry of bustouts

The start of six-handed play saw the pace of play slow a bit as the pay jumps grew even more extreme. With the seven-figure scores on the horizon, no one wanted to be the next player out. Unfortunately for him, Hu ran into it next, exiting in sixth place after jamming straight into Aido's off of a short stack. Hu's would need a great deal of help to down Aido's pocket pair and the flop provided a pathway to the win via a gutshot straight draw. The turn kept Hu's hopes alive, but he would need to connect with the river, and the wasn't the card he needed. 

Jinlong Hu needed a lot of help to win this one, but couldn't pull it off.

Petersen, now on the short stack, committed the majority of his chips with , only to see a re-jam from Aido in the big blind. Petersen called off for his tournament life and would need to improve against Aido's . The board offered the Dane possibilities, but none came to bear and his run ended in a fifth-place finish. 

A couple of hands later, Aido scored another knockout with the same holding, in different suits. This time, his went up against Hopkins' in a blind versus blind confrontation. Like Petersen before him, Hopkins would need to improve to survive and the flop provided plenty of outs to do just that. The turn and river, however, improved only Aido and Hopkins' day ended in a fourth-place finish. 

It was a blind versus blind battle that spelled the end for Emelyanov as well. Having laddered up significantly without much involvement, Emelyanov moved all-in with from the small blind, only to see his jam get snap-called by Kenjic in the big blind with . The Serbian had the Russian in a bad way and the runout kept Kenjic's hand best to score the knockout and end Emelyanov's run with a third-place finish. 

Heads up... for three hands

Heads-up play saw Aido start with just about a 2:1 chip advantage over his opponent. With roughly 35 big blinds as the effective stack, one would think there was still a lot of room to play. Instead, the battle lasted only three hands. The first two were relatively inconsequential, but the third brought the fireworks. After Kenjic limped from the button with , Aido bumped it up with – the magic hand at this final table. Kenjic made the call and the two went to the flop. 

Aido's top two pair held the lead, but Kenjic's flush outs kept him interested in the face of a continuation bet. The turn paired Kenjic but kept Aido well ahead and he bet once more. Kenjic, still drawing to the best hand, made the call and the river changed nothing for either player.

Sergio Aido tops the podium.

With a little more than a pot-sized bet remaining in his opponent's stack, Aido pulled the trigger on the overbet jam. Notably, Kenjic only had three seconds remaining on his virtual time bank and had to act quickly. As his timer hit 00:00, Kenjic made the last-second call, only to see the bad news. 

2024 WSOP Online $10,300 GGMillion$ final table results