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GGMillion$ Live at WSOP Paradise

The French Game of Gold star, Johan ‘YoH ViraL’ Guilbert, won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet at Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas last night, finally ending his long wait for the prestigious title. Guilbert, an established poker pro at both the live and online felt, captured gold and $1.5 million the day after Gustavo Silva Campos took down the online GGMillion$ while simultaneously finishing 53rd in the $25,000-entry Super Main Event.

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Final Table Chipcounts

The penultimate bracelet event of the 2025 WSOP Paradise festival saw a total of 287 entries in the $25,000-entry GGMillion$ Single Day Turbo Event #14. With the $5 million guarantee smashed, a prize pool of $7,318,500 allowed for a top prize of $1,534,645 to be confirmed long before the final day.

Reaching the nine-handed final table, in what should have been a single-day WSOP event, ended its first day with six players still in seats. When the final nine were reached, however, it was Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek who led the field on 38 big blinds, and was closely followed by the Argentinian player Ramiro Petrone on 34 big blinds. The blinds were as short as you would expect in a turbo format NLHE event.

Other hopefuls included Finnish pro Eelis Parssinen (21BB), Serbian Andrija Robovic (19BB), and frequent GGMillion$ online co-commentator Denys Chufarin, who began with 18 big blinds. 

The remaining players joined the Ukrainian in having less than half of the chip leader’s stack, with Brazil’s Iago Sturzeneker (17BB), Eric Yanofsky (13BB), and David Chen (10BB) all ahead of the short-stacked Guilbert, who started the final with just nine big blinds to his name.

Key Moments from the Felt

While Guilbert got off to a great start, the opposite was true for the luckless Ukrainian Chufarin. All-in and at risk with king-four, he fell to Sturzeneker’s ace-eight for a score of $123,400 in ninth place. Soon, the field was down to seven players, after Eric Yanovsky busted in eighth place for $157,300. Committing his stack with king-queen, he couldn’t hit against Sturzeneker, who had shoved with pocket tens, which held on a nine-high board to condemn the American player to an exit.

David Chen began the final table short and continued to bleed chips until he looked down at ace-seven and figured the time was right to make a stand. The hand was a good one, but it looked like a poor cousin next to Sturzeneker’s ace-eight when the Brazilian once again turned into the Grim Reaper, holding with ease to reduce the field to six and sent Chen home with $205,000.

As Day 1 ended, a huge pot went the way of Sturzeneker. ‘Texas Mike’ made an audacious bluff on the river that put Sturzeneker to the test for almost half of the chips on the table between the remaining six players. Sturzeneker made the call, crippling Moncek in the process.

When players returned the next day, a quick exit for Serbia’s Andrija Robovic for $272,600 in sixth was followed by Moncek’s own elimination in fifth place for $370,200. Well behind both Sturzeneker’s pocket sevens and Guilbert’s pocket aces, Moncek paired his queen-four’s bottom card, but it wasn’t enough.

Down to four, the Brazilian busted when he ran short, then lost a coinflip to Guilbert’s pocket nines. Sturzeneker’s jack-ten couldn’t hit as the board came down 6-6-2-4-A, and he left with $512,800. Ramiro Petrone soon followed in third for $724,500, the Argentinian departing after his king-six of hearts was unable to hold against the jack-eight of Guilbert, a jack arriving on the river to give the Frenchman a 5:1 chip lead going into heads-up play. 

In the final duel, a board of T-6-5-3-9 played out before Finnish high roller Eelis Parssinen shoved with king-nine and Guilbert snapped it off with ace-ten, his top pair earning him the first WSOP bracelet of his illustrious career at the felt.

The Champion Speaks

At the moment of his incredible accomplishment, the Frenchman was in a reflective mood. 

“When I was trying so hard back in the days, I would never get it,” Guilbert said to reporters. “Now that I don’t try – I play like ten tournaments a year – this happens. It’s absurd.”  

‘YoH ViraL’ said that despite building a big lead when preparing for the final battle, he still had doubts, after previously finishing as runner-up in three WSOP events. 

“When I got heads-up, I had five times [his] stack, but I still didn’t think I would win the bracelet!” he laughed. “I was just expecting to finish second, like I always did in those. I told myself I’m not going to be too disappointed if it happens again.”

After sealing victory, Guilbert, a star of Season 1 of Game of Gold, revealed that he no longer sees poker as his profession. 

“The grind is done; poker became a hobby,” he said. “I’m not trying to lose, but I’m playing streams like Hustler Casino Live, the Commerce, my own stream. I play invitational events. I play Triton. Ten years ago, poker was my job. I used to stream online every Sunday. I used to play cash games every day in the casino. And I never had big wins when it was like that. Now they give me this big win and this bracelet when I’m the least prepared. It sounds funny to me, and I love it!”

Who Won at the GGMillion$ Live Final Table?

A stunning comeback for Guilbert meant he had returned from nine big blinds to capture not only his first WSOP bracelet but a top prize of $1.53 million. In doing so, he also outlasted some of the best in the business at a thrilling GGMillion$ Live final table, including Eelis Parssinen, the only other player to bank over a million dollars. 

Here are the results from the final table from an entertaining GGMillion$ Live in The Bahamas.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Johan ‘YoH ViraL’ Guilbert	France	$1,534,645
2nd	Eelis Parssinen	Finland	$1,043,400
3rd	Ramiro Petrone	Argentina	$724,500
4th	Iago Sturzeneker	Brazil	$512,800
5th	Michael Moncek	United States	$370,200
6th	Andrija Robovic	Serbia	$272,600
7th	David Chen	United States	$205,000
8th	Eric Yanovsky	United States	$157,300
9th	Denys Chufarin	Ukraine	$123,400

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About the Author: Paul Seaton has written about poker for over 10 years, interviewing some of the best players ever to play the game such as Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth. Over the years, Paul has reported live from tournaments such as the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and the European Poker Tour. He has also written for other poker brands where he was Head of Media, as well as BLUFF magazine, where he was Editor.