Vladimir Minko Wins GGMillion$ High Roller Tournament

Russia's Vladimir Minko finished first in the 10,000 dollar GGMillion$ High Roller tournament held at GGPoker. With 202 players taking part, Minko won the 404,362 dollar prize along with his second GGMillion$ title. Beating Spaniard Juan Dominguez heads-up in the final, Minko prevented his opponent's sixth GGMillion$ victory.

Minko's earnings from GGPoker tournaments have surpassed 19 million dollars. Of that, more than 3.3 million dollars comes from GGMillion$ tournaments. Minko started the final table with the third-largest stack.

The first elimination at the final table came minutes after the table was formed. When Minko opened with pocket tens, David Kaufmann made a set with a pair of kings. Yahor Dambrouski, the short-stacked player on the button, called an all-in with eights, with fewer than three big blinds behind, and Kaufmann's kings held on a board without an ace. Minko folded.

Finland's Juho Suutari went all-in for about 13 big blinds with sixes. Dominguez, in the small blind, called with eights, and the board came out safe for him.

Artur Martirosian, a 13-time GGMillion$ champion, was eliminated with the last five-figure prize of the evening. Martirosian flopped top pair with king-jack but lost to Kaufmann's pair of aces. Then 'unelmavavy' beat the kings with ace-king. Martirosian's last stack lost with suited king-seven to Osmirko Artem's nines.

'unelmavavy' flopped a set with ace-four when Dominguez opened from late position, then went all-in for 38 big blinds after Dominguez made a four-bet. Dominguez called with ace-king, and when a king came on the board, he was eliminated.

Sebastian Gaehl played short-stacked for about 40 minutes after Martirosian's elimination and was knocked out by Kaufmann. Kaufmann opened with jack-queen from under the gun, and Gaehl defended from the big blind with ace-ten. The board came jack-ten-jack, Gaehl check-raised all-in for 12 big blinds, and the turn and river did not save him.

Osmirko Artem was eliminated before the second scheduled break. Artem went all-in for 11 big blinds with ace-jack, and Minko called with ace-jack. Minko flopped a jack and made trips.

Kaufmann was eliminated in third place after a three-handed battle that lasted more than 70 minutes. Having fallen below seven big blinds after Dominguez won the large pot, Kaufmann lost with pocket tens in the next hand to Dominguez's jack-nine.