Sergio Aido Wins World Series of Poker Online GGMillion$ Event

The final event of the 2024 World Series of Poker Online International festival on GGPoker was the $10,000,000 guaranteed $10,300 buy-in GGMillion$. The tournament drew 1,433 total entries, smashing the guarantee to build a final prize pool of more than $14.3 million.

In the end, the largest share of that money was captured by Sergio Aido. The Spanish poker pro emerged victorious with $1,935,575 and his second career WSOP gold bracelet, having won his first earlier this year in a $50,000 buy-in high roller in Las Vegas. He now has more than $23.5 million in recorded scores to his name.

Full real-name results for this tournament have not yet been posted, but the final table contenders are all known. This event ran over the course of three days, with the final nine being featured on a live-stream broadcast on GGPoker’s YouTube channel, with Jeff Gross and seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu doing commentary. Check out the full replay of that stream below:

The final table began with Jovan Kenjic leading with 124 big blinds, while Aliaksei Boika had just a single big blind when cards got in the air. Boika was understandably the first to fall, earning $243,577 for his efforts after his K-2 ran into pocket jacks for Kenjic and pocket nines for James Hopkins, who flopped a set to score the knockout.

Aido earned a double-up through Kenjic early on at the final table. He then won a big all-in with A-7 suited outrunning the pocket jacks of two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs to further climb the leaderboard. Ponakovs earned $315,324 as the eighth-place finisher after losing that showdown.

Christopher Nguyen was sent packing in seventh place thanks to a preflop cooler, with JJ running into the QQ of Daniel Peterson. Nguyen found no help and the field was narrowed to six.

Aido’s surge continued thanks to picking up pocket kings in the big blind facing a shove from short stack Jinlong Hu in the small blind. Hu held K-10, which picked up a gutshot straight draw on the flop, but improved no further. Hu earned $529,029 as the sixth-place finisher, while Aido climbed to second in the chip counts.

Daniel Peterson’s run came to an end in fifth place ($685,508) when his A-6 came up against A-10 for Aido. Both players paired their ace on the turn, but Aido’s kicker was enough to send Peterson to the virtual rail.

Aido picked up A-10 in another key pot. It held against the A-5 suited of Hopkins, who flopped a flush draw but bricked out from there to finish fourth ($888,436). After dragging that pot, Aido sat with nearly twice as many chips as his two remaining opponents had between them.

Roman Emelyanov got all-in with A10 from the small blind, only to receive a call from Kenjic and his AQ in the big blind. Emelyanov failed to connect and was knocked out in third place ($1,151,601).

With that, Aido entered heads-up play with 89,238,861 to Kenjic’s 52,284,883. It didn’t take long for him to convert that lead into the title. Just a few hands into the match, Kenjic limped with J9 from the button for 1,400,000 total and Aido raised to 4,879,000 with A10. Kenji called and the flop came down A106. Aido bet 2,537,000 with his top two pair and Kenjic called with his flush draw. The turn brought the J and Aido bet 6,160,000. Kenjic called and the 5 completed the board. Aido moved all-in, an effective bet of 35,393,883. Kenjic went into the tank but eventually made the call, only to be shown aces up by Aido. Kenjic was awarded $1,492,885 as the runner-up.

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:

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