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Comeback of the Year in Latest GGMillion$ Victory – GGMillion$ Season 2026 Episode 13

This week, the GGMillion$ action saw the shortest stack of all come back from the brink to reign supreme, taking home the top prize of $411,843. With regular host Jeff Gross joined in the virtual commentary booth by the Danish GGMillion$ regular Daniel Petersen, the action was fast and frantic from the very first card, with an evenly spread set of chipcounts at the start of play. 

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Pre-Match Betting Odds

Heading into the action at the final table, it was the Armenian-American player Aram Oganyan who had the chip lead on 77 big blinds. It was no surprise that he was the betting favorite at 4.04 in the GGPoker client. That was only a marginal advantage over recent Triton Jeju and WSOP Super Main Event champion Bernhard Binder. At 4.16, the Austrian was our pick to take the title, given his recent success and stack of 75 big blinds. 

Panamanian player ‘Calitox’ (62BB/5.58) wasn’t far behind the leaders, while Brazil’s seemingly traditional representative Lucas Rocha (46BB/7.58) also had an above average stack. Russian player ‘Dimmmmm’ (33BB/10.96) was followed in the chipcounts by Portuguese player Manuel Carvalho (25BB/10.68).

Aleks Borovkov from Russia sat on 21 big blinds at odds of 10.89, but we liked the odds of GGMillion$ regular Christopher Rudolph. The German professional was only on 14 big blinds, but an early double-up in a crowded field would make his odds of 17.96 seem like extreme value. The same size stack of 14 bigs was held by the Austrian player ‘72oooo’ who had qualified through the 3 satellite steps, starting with just $10. But without Rudolph’s experience, the long shot’s odds were 22.92, a juicy bet for anyone with the belief to back their bet.

Key Moments from the Felt

It was a while before the first elimination this week. Nearly 50 minutes of action had passed before the Portuguese player Manuel Carvalho took his final bow. All-in pre-flop with pocket jacks, he ran into Borovkov’s king-queen. A king landed on the turn, which was enough to send Carvalho home with $51,480 in ninth place.

Next to go, almost 1 hour later, was the chip leader at the start of play. Aram Oganyan slid from hero to zero, his tournament ending when he was all-in with ace-seven and fell to the pocket 8’s of ‘Dimmmmm’ for a score of $66,761 in eighth place, a long way from his target of outright victory and six figures. He was soon joined on the rails by Bernhard Binder (2:26:30), who shoved with king-queen and was called by ‘Dimmmmm’ with ace-three of spades. The Russians’ run continued despite a king on the flop, as an ace dropped onto the turn to send play six-handed, while Binder went home with $86,579. 

After some time without a bust-out, Brazilian Lucas Rocha got unlucky to see his tournament hopes perish. All-in after using the ‘Just One Time!’ avatar on GGPoker, Rocha’s pocket queens were shot down by the ace-jack of ‘72oooo’ when a board of 8-7-5-A-2 played out to reduce the field to five, Rocha ending his play with $112,279 in sixth place.

At this point, play had been going for over two hours, but only four players had left the party. While the players did not know at the time, there was less than one hour left of action, meaning the event would be over quickly, and a fast finish would provide fans with all the thrills. In one big hand, ‘Dimmmmm’ should have busted to Borovkov in an all-Russian clash, but ace-ten found a miracle three-outer on the river to survive the threat from the ace-jack. Minutes later, Borovkov was on the rail, losing with pocket eights to cash for $145,608 in fifth. It was the ace-queen of fellow short stack Calitox that did for the Russian, who lost the flip and drew dead when an ace and queen both fell on the flop, an unnecessary ace on the river giving the Panamanian player a full house. 

With four players left, it was ‘72oooo’ who held a massive lead with 12.4 million chips, with ‘Dimmmmm’ (3.85m), Calitox (3.42m), and Chris Rudolph (2.3m) all trailing well behind the leader’s wake. Next out was Rudolph, who was unlucky to bust in fourth place for $188,830 (3:17:30) when his ace-nine of diamonds was shot down by Calitox’s king-ten of the same suit. A nine-high flop meant Rudolph was a 74.65% favorite to double up, but after an innocuous seven on the turn, an eight on the river gave the Panamanian the unlikeliest of runner-runner straights to send play three-handed.

Soon, the lights went out on the tournament for ‘Dimmmmm’ (3:19:30). All-in with king-nine just three hands later, the Russian needed to hit against the pocket sixes of ‘72oooo’ but couldn’t. Despite missing the flop and turn, ‘Dimmmmm’ still had 20% equity to the river but wasn’t able to hit a king, nine or seven to counterfeit the Austrian chip leader, and play was heads-up with ‘72oooo’ holding a near 2:1 chip lead as ‘Dimmmmm’ departed for $244,883. 

The final duel was over in just a few hands, the first big confrontation proving to be the final one (3:24:22). ‘Calitox’ committed their chips with ace-ten and needed help against the pocket fours of ‘72oooo’. A flop of Q-7-2 was followed by a deuce on the turn and when an eight landed on the river, it was all over. The shortest stack of all had risen highest, with ‘72oooo’ winning the $411,843 top prize, as ‘Calitox’ claimed $317,574 as runner-up.

Who Won This Week’s GGMillion$? – April 7th, 2026

A stunning victory for ‘72oooo’ was not the only comeback of the final table, where several players who started with small stacks overcame the big names near the top. It was a show of poker mastery as ‘72oooo’ took the long road to the championship. Originally buying into a $10 satellite, winning to step up to a $108 satellite, which turned into a $1,050 satellite that ended with a seat in the $10,000 GGMillion$. Forget Chris Moneymaker, this is the true dream-come-true poker story. 

While ‘72oooo’ was living the high life, both Aram Oganyan and Bernhard Binder were unable to turn their superior starting stacks into any serious momentum, busting in eighth and seventh places, respectively. 

By contrast, the bottom two players, each of whom had 14 big blinds when play began, rose to the top half of the eventual leaderboard. Chris Rudolph won six figures in fourth place, and the German’s achievements were still put in the shade by the eventual winner, Austria’s ‘72oooo’. 

Here are the final results from a thrilling week at the GGMillion$ felt.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	’72oooo’	Austria	$411,843
2nd	‘Calitox’	Panama	$317,574
3rd	‘Dimmmmm’	Russia	$244,883
4th	Christopher Rudolph	Germany	$188,830
5th	Aleks Borovkov	Russia	$145,608
6th	Lucas Rocha	Brazil	$112,279
7th	Bernhard Binder	Austria	$86,579
8th	Aram Oganyan	Armenia	$66,761
9th	Manuel Carvalho	Portugal	$51,480

Did the Chip Leader Blow it?

With 77 and 75 big blinds, the top two players had an advantage over the rest of the field but failed to make those stacks count. Oganyan was the first of those two big stacks to bust after playing a very high percentage of early hands at the table. Losing a big pot with king-jack when Binder’s pocket tens were better was folly, but worse was to come minutes later. 

Blind-on-blind, Oganyan open-shoved with king-four offsuit with 1.9m chips. Borovkov called it off with pocket sixes, which held with ease, and left the Armenian crippled as he faced an uphill battle to survive in future hands. That, of course, didn’t happen as he slid out of contention in eighth place. After that, every short stack had hope, but it was ‘72oooo’ who pushed it to the limit, winning a huge top prize and the title of GGMillion$ winner for the week.

Watch all the action in the company of Jeff Gross and Daniel Petersen on the GGPoker YouTube channel right here: 

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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.

Edited by: Shawn Altbaum