Aleks Ponakovs Shows Some Street Poker On The Way To GGMillion$ Win

5-Bet with WHAT? Aleks Ponakovs Shows Street Poker

Ponakovs played the most memorable hand of the final table against Sven Andersson in 5-max. At the start of the hand, Ponakovs had 54 BB, while Andersson had 38 BB.

Andersson opened from the BTN with KJs.

Ponakovs was in the BB with K3o.

Fold?

No way!

3-bet to 7.3 BB.

Andersson 4-bet to 12.6 BB.

Okay, now he definitely folds K3o, right?

No! 5-bet to 18 BB.

Andersson folded.

Bryan Paris said during the hand: “I feel pretty comfortable making solver-based predictions about all of these guys but with Ponakovs. He could just do freaking anything!”

And that’s absolutely true.

Ponakovs Knocks Out Four Opponents In A Row

Barak Wisbrod finished in 5th place after getting it in on the 3 9 K flop with K 8 against K 3 for a 16 BB pot.

GGMillion$ final-table debutant Ramon Kropmanns finished in 4th place after getting it in with A7s against 99 for a 33 BB pot.

Sven Andersson finished in 3rd place after getting it in with KQs against AQo for a 34 BB pot.

Ponakovs started heads-up with 72 BB, while Nolet had 32 BB. They battled for more than an hour. It was one of the longest heads-up matches in GGMillion$ history.

In the final hand, both players had 25 BB. Ponakovs was dealt tens, while Nolet had fours. The tens held.

GGMillion$ Final Table Payouts (252 Entries Total)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Aleks Ponakovs	$476,603
2		Guillaume Nolet	$367,511
3		Sven Andersson	$283,390
4		Ramon Kropmanns	$218,523
5		Barak Wisbrod	$168,504
6		Max Buschmann	$129,935
7		Marco Perez	$100,193
8		SuperFish5555	$77,259
9		Johannes Straver	$59,575