Icons of Online Poker: The $10,300 GGMillion$

How It Started

The $10,300 GGMillion$ emerged during poker’s boom in popularity, aided by the COVID-19 pandemic back in 2020. With grinders of all stakes being told to stay home, high-stakes players needed a place to play and juicy action to get stuck into. Brick-and-mortar casinos remained closed, and travel restrictions were in place, meaning virtual cardrooms were the only option.

GGPoker was beginning to assert its dominance in the online poker market in 2020. Not resting on their laurels, GGPoker introduced the $10,300 GGMillion$ as a weekly high-roller, with no branding, streaming, or promotion. Initially, GGPoker posted a $1,000,000 guarantee for the event, then upped it to $2,000,000.

The tournament became a hit off the bat, attracting fields of 80 to 150 players every Sunday. It was aided by its start time, as it runs at the peak of the weekend’s online poker session, starting at 6 p.m. GMT, making it accessible to players from a variety of time zones. Adding to the excitement of the tournament is the freezeout format, meaning it is a single bullet for those who enter.

German Online crush Ole “wizowizo” Schemion won his first title and around $300,000 in what is one of the earliest confirmed results in the GGMillion$. It certainly became a regular fixture in Schemions schedule, as he has gone on to win the tournament six times.

Continued Growth in the High Roller Scene

American Poker pro Darren Elias won the first GGMillion$ of 2021, banking $448,842 for his efforts. He topped an incredible final table lineup, including the Online MTT G.O.A.T Niklas “Lena900” Åstedt, who finished in second for $346,104, and four of the best of a generation across the live and virtual felts, Adrian Mateos (6th – $122,366), Aleks Ponakovs (7th – $94,357), Bert Stevens (8th – $72,759) and Seth Davies (9th – $56,105).

It didn’t take long for the $10,300 GGMillion$ to become a staple in the schedules of online grinders around the world. To help grow their high-stakes player pool, GGPoker launched a High Rollers Week in June 2021. The schedule featured 27 events with approximately $15 million in total guaranteed prize pools, as well as an Anniversary edition of the $10,300 GGMillion$ with a $5,000,000 guarantee.

The $10,300 GGMillion$ Anniversary had five starting flights and satellites available, opening up the opportunities for more players on lesser bankrolls. The tournament was won by a Chinese snooker enthusiast who plays under the alias “judd trump”, who topped a total of 567 entrants and made his third FT in five weeks. This achievement is no easy feat considering the strength of his opposition, and he was rewarded with $976,379 for the win, besting Sweden’s Joakim Andersson heads-up. The star-studded final table included Adrian Mateos again (4th – $447,672), Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski (7th – $205,258) and Thomas Muehloecker (9th – $122,047).

Both Michael Addamo and Juan Pardo scored wins, with the former claiming $450,000 and Pardo around $280,000. Addamo claimed a substantial portion of the $3,000,000 prize pool, with Pardo’s tournament share coming from a prize pool of over $2,000,000

The results proved hard to find from the early years, as they were not documented or archived by major sources. One result from 2022 was a $363,836 score for the WSOP Main Event Champion of the same year, Espen Jørstad, who bested Duco Haven heads-up. Åstedt made another final table appearance, cashing for $137,517.

The Million$ Goes Mainstream

In 2023, the tournament was thrust into the mainstream, as final-table streaming with cards-up coverage became a weekly occurrence. Jeff Gross hosts and will be joined by a variety of high-stakes pros to provide valuable insights into the unfolding game. This proved a hit with poker fans across the world, as they were able to catch a glimpse at one of the best in the business for free via GGPoker’s YouTube Channel. GGPoker also implemented a leaderboard to track the players’ performance for each event.

The biggest winners of the year were ‘redpillgame’ of Austria, who binked $998,294 of the $6,500,000 prize pool for winning in September 2023. He denied David Peters victory heads-up for his maiden victory. Malinowski won his third title, also in September, scoring $339,445 in the process. He bested Mixed Game crusher and online legend Yuri “theNERDguy” Dzivielevski heads-up, denying the Brazilian an at the time record-equaling fifth title.

David Yan made multiple final tables throughout the year, winning four times out of five attempts, including a score of $1,538,400 in the $10,300 WSOP Online GGMillion$ High Rollers Edition.

This year was the clear marker when the tournament became the jewel in GGPoker’s crown and established itself as a must-play tournament for all high-stakes pros, established or up-and-coming.

Continued Involvement With WSOP

Like PokerStars and the EPT, GGPoker became involved with WSOP to provide online tournaments to GG players, and vice versa.

2024 wasn’t the first year GGPoker and WSOP collaborated. In 2023, the $25,000 GGMillion$ High Roller Championship ran at Atlantis Paradise Island, The Bahamas, which was won by prodigious talent Samuel Mullur, and he banked $2,736,300. The $25,000 edition has also graced the halls of King’s Resort, Europe’s largest poker room. However, it returned to Paradise the following year as a $10,000, and Johannes Straver took down the title and $807,430.

The biggest winner of the year was Spanish pro Sergio Aido, who won the $10,300 WSOP Online GGMillion$ for a massive score of $1,935,575, despite coming into final table play second last in chips. The tournament attracted a big field of 1,433 total entrants.

Dejan Kaladjurdjevic of Montenegro won the biggest weekly edition of the tournament in 2024, winning $1,588,584, defying the odds and mounting an incredible comeback to scoop the huge score. Aido (5th – $563,886) featured at the final table, as did his countryman, Juan Pardo (4th – $730,236).

A Bright Future Ahead

2025 saw new ground being made, with three seven-figure scores awarded for wins in online poker’s premier $10,000 tournament.

Russian player Ilia Streltsov banked $1,661,695 in June of 2025, and a few months prior in April, Belarusian Dmitri Kravchenko won $1,751,384, two massive scores for a weekly tournament. Aido’s score of $1,935,575 was toppled the following summer, as Brazilian online crusher Rodrigo Selouan topped the payouts table, claiming $2,003,850 and a WSOP Bracelet in the process.

2026 has already seen a strong start to GGMillion$ proceedings. The biggest weekly prize record for this tournament has been eclipsed. One of the game’s greatest, Mikita Badziakouoski, banked $1,755,815 for winning the GGMillion$ just a few days ago, besting Nikita Kuznetsov heads-up. This sets the tone for the year, and it would be no surprise to see Badziakouoski’s record score be topped before the year ends.

Biggest Winners and Stats

Here is a look at the stats for the GGMillion$ so far. Super crusher Artur Martirosian leads the way with 12 titles and has banked $10,582,674 from this tournament series alone. The Russian high-stakes crusher has made the final table 49 times at the time of writing, and has cashed 92 times.

Samuel “€urop€an“ Vousden has the highest Final Table percentage of the top 10, reaching it 56.5% of the time. He is second in the standings for final table appearances with 35, and Michael Addamo rounds out the podium with 34. Below is the top 10 in the rankings based on winnings, titles and final tables.

Best Performing $10,300 GGMillion$ Players

Rank	Player	Titles	Final Tables	Cashes	Total Winnings
1	Artur Martirosian	12	49	92	$10,582,674
2	Michael Addamo	8	34	63	$8,459,477
3	Ole Schemion	6	32	62	$7,672,916
4	Samuel Vousden	6	35	62	$6,109,587
5	Ognyan Dimov	6	13	25	$4,497,314
6	Juan Pardo	5	21	43	~$4,000,000
7	Niklas Astedt	4	20	40+	~$3,500,000
8	Yuri Dzivielevski	4	18	35+	~$3,000,000
9	Adrian Mateos	4	17	30+	~$3,000,000
10	Andras Nemeth	4	15	30+	~$2,800,000

What’s Next?

The GGMillion$ is here to stay, and if anything, it’s only going to get bigger and better. This week, the world’s best will be battling it out for a slice of the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. If you fancy a sweat, consider buying action from your favourite players in the tournament lobby before it starts at 6 p.m. GMT. At the time of writing, popular streamer Lex Veldhuis has shares available on his first bullet at no markup.

That’s all for now, folks. Stay tuned to pokerlistings.com for poker content and news from around the world.

Until next time.