$2M up top: Ponakovs & Aido make final 9 of WSOP Online GGMillion$

Aleksejs Ponakovs
Dave Woods
Posted on: October 1, 2024 03:05 PDT

GGPoker is generating some serious numbers online. Its WSOP Online GGMillion$ High Rollers event boasted a $10 million guarantee, and that was smashed, with 1,433 entries generating a $14,330,000 prize pool and almost $2 million up top

Daniel Negreanu was still in the mix come Day 2 and streamed his action from Vancouver, but was card dead until a late spurt at the end saw him threaten a comeback. 

He was down to four big blinds when he picked up and doubled against JUGGLER19's

The next hand he got dealt and picked up the blinds and antes. 

Straight after that, he got but picked up a call from Ren Lin with just 6.4 big blinds left. Negreanu guessed he was in trouble and Lin showed which improved to a set on the flop. Negreanu had a gutshot but couldn't find the jack and was left with 6.5 big blinds. 

Down and out: This was not the flop that Negreanu was looking for Down and out: This was not the flop that Negreanu was looking for

And Negreanu was out the next hand in 71st spot ($44,185). He shoved with and picked up two callers: JUGGLER19 with and Chris Nguyen with .

"Alright, we're doing fine!" Negreanu said when he saw what he was up against. 

That lasted until the runout. "Oh god, there's a queen, f**K me, club, club or a king... f**k, not that club, now it's just a king, son of a bitch. That's not it. That's the end of our tournament, that's the end of our streams, that's the end of us. You know what, I might just fly out tonight and do the stream from the comfort of Las Vegas tomorrow. Frustrating day, as you saw. We just didn't get dealt in until the end there, it was card dead central."

Watch the final table on Tuesday

Sergio Aido added a gold bracelet to an already long list of poker accolades. Sergio Aido will be looking for his second WSOP bracelet this evening

Negreanu is set to do commentary on the final table, which plays out tonight. 

Nine players are left in and have locked up a minimum of $243,577, with a monster $1,935,575 up top for the winner.

Niklas Astedt (61st), Ren Lin (40th), Michael Watson (35th) and Mikita Badziakouski (19th), all fell before the final table. Jovan Kenjic is the big chip leader with a stack of 43,241,443 (123.5BBs) and he's had a brilliant 2024 so far, with his two biggest (and only six-figure) scores. He finished fourth at the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event and won the high roller at the Mediterranean Poker Party shortly after. 

James Hopkins is second with high-stakes crusher Aleksejs Ponakovs in midfield. Sergio Aido has 14 big blinds, and Aliaksei Boika is looking for the ultimate spin-up with just 1.4 big blinds. 

The action resumes at 2pm ET on Tuesday, and you can watch all the action with Negreanu on commentary on the GGPoker YouTube channel.  

$10,300 GGMillion$ High Rollers final table

Place Player Chips
1 Jovan Kenjic 43,241,443 (123.5BBs)
2 James Hopkins 33,365,783 (96.1BBs)
3 Roman Emelyanov 14,741,472 (42.1BBs)
4 Daniel Petersen 13,657,862 (39BBs)
5 Aleksejs Ponakovs 12,051,472 (34.4BBs)
6 Jinlong Hu 9,404,184 (26.9BBs)
7 Christopher Nguyen 9,135,998 (26.1BBs)
8 Sergio Aido espina 5,162,074 (14.7BBs)
9 Aliaksei Boika 493,456 (1.4BBs)