The Daily Scoop – GGMillion$ Season 2025 Episode 30 – September 4, 2025

The overnight leaders clashed at the felt in this week’s GGPoker GGMillion$, and there was one hand that divided viewers. The $10,300-entry weekly event saw life-changing sums of money awarded to the winners as a $302,000 top prize went to the Hong Kong-based player ‘jinx34’ after he beat Teun Mulder heads-up. But did the Italian overnight leader blow it?

Pre-Match Odds

With two massive chip stacks at the top the final table, it was a case of two big favorites when the GGPoker Betting Odds were represented in the pre-match show by regular host Jeff Gross and special guest and high-stakes poker pro Rayan ‘Beriuzy’ Chamas. Italian chip leader Enrico Camosci began with an incredible 99 big blinds and was the pre-match favorite at 3.44. A short distance behind him in terms of chips and odds was Hong Kong player ‘jinx34’, available at 4.4 with 94 big blinds. 

The chasing pack featured one of the most successful online poker players on the planet, Linus Loeliger. The Austrian player began on 54 big blinds, but his formidable reputation made him just a 6.22 shot to win outright, despite being 40 bigs behind second in chips. Montenegrin ‘fatfrumos’ (48BB) started out a 9.76 bet, with Israeli players Ravid Garbi (35BB/11.16) and Barak Wisbrod (23BB/11.7) both good bets, with Garbi’s stack giving him the greater value. 

The three remaining players, Dutch player Teun Mulder (29BB/11.7), Canadian hopeful Guillaume Nolet (19BB/17.86), and Austria’s ‘Clickwork’ (14BB/25.36) all looked to have a big mountain to climb. From all of this, we felt Camosci was the best pick from the top two players, but Linus Loeliger and Ravid Garbi were the best choices from the chasing pack.

The Key Action Unfolds

Early hands went against Canada’s Guillaume Nolet, as he busted in ninth place for $43,169. Fortunate to chop with ace-ten against ace-queen, Nolet then shoved pre-flop from the small blind with ace-jack and was looked up by the Montenegrin ‘fatfrumos’ with pocket sevens. The latter won that flip, and soon after, eight was seven. The short stack at the start of play, Austria-based ‘Clickwork’ shoved with king-queen into Ravid Garbi’s ace-queen. The dominating hand held to send the at-risk player home with $55,057.

Garbi was looking strong, but a decisive hand of the early stages would end his chances in dramatic fashion (1:22:22). Holding pocket nines, the Israeli saw a flop of T-T-7 land, as Camosci struck gold with ace-ten. His bet pushed ‘jinx34’ out of the way but kept Garbi along for the ride to an ace on the turn that completed the Italian’s full house and left Garbi drawing dead. Camosci checked to the river and a nine landed to make a full house for the Israeli player, albeit a weaker one. 

“It’s the biggest cooler you could get!” Jeff Gross said, and he wasn’t wrong. This time, Camosci bet just 75,000 into the 667,000 pot. Garbi took the bait and raised it to 458,000, leading to Camosci’s predictable shove. Garbi called it off, and the massive hand went the Italian’s way, making him the new chip leader and sending Garbi home with $70,218 in seventh place.

Bad beats were a theme of the day, with Montenegro’s ‘fatfrumos’ losing with jacks against Teun Mulder’s pocket tens, a ten coming on the flop with all the money in pre-flop. Mulder then took out Loeliger, the Swiss player’s pocket kings (3:12:30), falling to the Dutch player’s rivered ace to reduce the field to four. 

Three-handed play got underway when Barak Wisbrod lost a huge flip for the chip lead with ace-queen as ‘jinx34’ held pocket jacks that survived the board to take a massive lead into the latter stages. Mulder came back at the expense of Camosci and the overnight chip leader busted in third when (3:51:45) his ace-ten busted to the pocket nines of ‘jinx34’. 

With a 2:1 chip lead, ‘jinx34’ had all the momentum when heads-up play started. And when the leader woke up with pocket eights (4:04:40), a call from Mulder with ace-nine put the pair on a collision course with two overcards. A safe board played out for the leader, and the player who came into play second in chips had won the day.

GGMillion$ Results – September 2nd, 2025

A thrilling final table ended with just one of the major chip stacks at the start still in with a chance, and ‘jinx34’ did not miss their shot, winning the $302,186 top prize at the expense of Teun Mulder, who should still be happy with a second-place finish given he came into play with the seventh biggest stack. 

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	‘jinx34’	Hong Kong	$302,586
2nd	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	$236,939
3rd	Enrico Camosci	Italy	$185,780
4th	Barak Wisbrod	Israel	$145,667
5th	Linus Leoliger	Switzerland	$114,215
6th	‘fatfrumos’	Montenegro	$89,554
7th	Ravid Garbi	Israel	$70,218
8th	‘Clickwork’	Austria	$55,507
9th	Guillaume Nolet	Canada	$43,469

Was Camosci Too Loose as Chip Leader?

After an exciting conclusion, many players at the felt will point to losing flips as a reason they didn’t win, but that can sometimes cover other points of improvement. Enrico Camosci came in with the chip lead but frequently put himself in a position where luck would play too big a part; the big hand he lost to ‘jinx34’ is a prime example. 

In the classic flip against the eventual winner, Camosci’s experience might have told him to fold pre-flop and give himself a chance to outplay his less experienced opponent post-flop. Indeed, at times the GTO Wizard often recommended a check when the Italian bet. Sometimes, this wasn’t too costly, but other times, it weakened the equity of his stack to the point where later pots were more dangerous for him than his opponents. 

A good example of this was the hand where a board of J-J-8-4-A fell, with Camosci holding ace-ten and Mulder having ace-queen. He is out of position, but does not know he’s behind. GGWizard recommended the check, not the bet for value that, as we knew as viewers, simply wasn’t there. 

Maybe next week for Camosci – after a session with the solver.  

Watch all the action in the company of host Jeff Gross and co-commentator Rayan Chamas right here: 

GGMillion$ Final Table Results

GGMillion$ Season 2025 Episode 31 – September 10, 2025

This week’s GGMillion$ saw a prize pool of $1.54m on the line as nine great players battled it out for a top prize of over $294,000 under the watchful eye of regular host Jeff Gross and co-commentator Adrian Pora. A thrilling final table played out across three hours, as Dutchman Jans Arends came from a long way behind the opening leaders to finish top dog and win well over a quarter of a million dollars.

Gaehl the Odds On Favorite

At the start of play at the final table, Sebastian Gaehl from Germany was the big chip leader, with his stack of 100 big blinds meaning he was the favorite on the GGPoker platform at odds of 3.92. A short distance behind him in chips and odds was Greek player Alex Theologis, who was available at odds of 4.08 with 93 blinds. Of the two players, both of whom had super-strong records on GGPoker in general as well as in the GGMillion$ event series in particular, Gaehl seemed the outsider, at least by the amount of money invested, but this was more a nod to the experience of Theologis rather than any weakness in Gaehl’s game.

Of the chasing pack, Dutch player Jans Arends was most fancied by GGPoker investors, who bet on him at odds of 8.96. Starting with 43 big blinds, Arends was a tiny bit clear of Brazil’s Pedro Padilha (42BB / 9.06) and Russian ‘GREPoker’ (31BB / 9.54). With Arends’ vast experience, particularly in the GGMillion$, he was a great pick to get back into contention, and before the action, we made him our player to watch. 

From the remaining field, Lithuanian pro Deividas Daubaris (30BB / 10.22) had the biggest stack, but Simon Mattsson was guaranteed the busiest night, no matter the result. Competing in the GGMillion$ final table with 29 big blinds, Mattsson would usually be a terrific choice for a winner at odds of 11.04, but with the Swede also playing at the final table of the $1,500-entry Millionaire Maker on GGPoker for WSOP Online, the chance of winning seven figures in that final meant he might struggle to focus on the GGMillion$ action. 

Of the two short stacks, we liked Spanish player Juan Dominguez (12.44) for the win if he could turn 25 big blinds into glory, not least because he had made the final table so regularly in the past few months. He was also some way clear of Chris Klodnicki’s stack of 14 big blinds, with the Canadian available at rank outsider odds of 25.34.

Key Moments from the Felt

All those reasons to believe in Dominguez disappeared in one early hand. He was all-in with ace-queen and ran into Deividas Daubaris’ ace-king. Big Slick held to eliminate Dominguez in ninth place for $42,008, while Chris Klodnicki suffered the opposite fate to bust in eighth place for a score of $53,575, his ace-king cracked by Simon Mattsson’s ace-queen. 

After two hours of play, Simon Mattsson was still running deep in both of his final tables, and his shove with jack-ten from the small blind hinted at as much. Called quickly by the at-risk Pedro Padilha (2:00:20), the Brazilian’s luck was out, as a board of T-8-2-9-Q sent Padilha home with $68,329 in seventh place. 

‘GREPoker’ was all in with ace-ten but was dominated and knocked out by Sebastian Gaehl’s ace-king on a nine-high board. The Russian went home with $87,145 in sixth. The GTO Wizard was in its element soon after, when Gaehl rivered a flush, leading to a shove that put Theologis into the tank with king-ten, top pair on the flop with one flush blocker. (2:34:21) The Greek player made the fold, but the end result didn’t change. Exactly 1 level later, his ace-king busted to Gaehl’s ace-queen, a ‘nasty’ runout in the words of Jeff Gross, the board of J-T-8-K-4 giving the chip leader Broadway on the turn as Theologis was sent to the rails in fifth for $111,142.  

Into a considerable lead, Gaehl held with ace-king to take out Daubaris’ ace-queen in fourth place for $141,748, before a big flip took out Simon Mattsson. The Swede, who won big in the Millionaire Maker WSOP Online event at the same time, crashed out in third (3:04:30) when his ace-king lost a big flip for the chip lead against Jans Arends’ pocket fours. The A-8-4 flop was a nightmare for Mattsson, and after a ten on the turn, the at-risk player was drawing dead to the ineffectual king that landed on the river, as he headed to the rail with $180,781.

Heads-up, the overnight leader Gaehl was almost level with Jans Arends, the much-fancied player from the chasing pack. A long-hand saw Arends shove with a straight with a flush was available on the board. Gaehl was able to make the call holding the same straight. Another shove from Arends when both men were playing the board got through, however, (3:24:00), and that pot gave Arends a 13-to-1 chip lead. Two hands later, Gaehl had his chips in with the best of it, doubling up with pocket kings against Arends’ pocket eights. But the German’s call for his stack with ace-ten of clubs saw him behind Arends’ ace-queen of diamonds (3:25:50), and the overnight leader wasn’t able to catch up, seeing the Dutchman grab the title and top prize of $294,055.

GGMillion$ Results – September 9th, 2025

This week’s GGMillion$ began with two players with stacks over 90 big blinds. Neither of those players won the day, as Netherlands player Jans Arends triumphed against the odds, rewarding anyone who backed him at odds of 8.96 in the GGPoker client. 

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jans Arends	Netherlands	$294,055
2nd	Sebastian Gaehl	Germany	$230,564
3rd	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	$180,781
4th	Deividas Daubaris	United States	$141,748
5th	Alex Theologis	Greece	$111,142
6th	‘GREPoker’	Russia	$87,145
7th	Pedro Padilha	Brazil	$68,329
8th	Chris Klodnicki	Canada	$53,575
9th	Juan Dominguez	Spain	$42,008

Did Gaehl or Theologis Blow their Chance of Glory?

In previous weeks, we’ve advocated for players who have made great plays, called bluffs that were virtually impossible to spot, or raised their enemies off the pot when all hope looked lost. Is there room in our analysis of this week’s action for the simple promotion of taking play post-flop? 

In an age where push-fold charts have been taken to even narrower lengths with GTO theory, are the margins in which the top players take each other on becoming more binary? If everyone plays GTO poker, the correct way is naturally exploitative of optimal plays, raising when you know that your opponent is GTO-bound to fold.

Were the optimal plays to take a pre-flop flip so often during the final table, particularly for the two chip leaders? We’re not so sure. With such a major advantage in pure chip terms, the leaders had many chances to hold their opponents at arm’s length. Instead, Arends flipped his way back into contention, and eventually, that decision led to Gaehl paying for it. Theologis fell even shorter, cashing in fifth place after having begun the action with 93 big blinds. 

After another exciting week of GGMillion$ action, perhaps Simon Mattsson will be happiest with his work. Coming into the action in seventh place, the Swede finished third for $180,781, all while playing the Millionaire Maker final table at the same time!

You can watch all the action on the GGPoker YouTube channel with Jeff Gross and Adrian Pora right here:

 

GGMillion$ Final Table Results

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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. * The pre-game pick is the sole opinion of the author. It in no way reflects or affects the outcome of the final table.

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Edited by Shawn A.