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Linus Loeliger Involved in Deciding Hand of Latest GGMillion$ – GGMillion$ Season 2026 Episode 9

A thrilling conclusion to this week’s GGMillion$ on GGPoker saw one of the world’s most respected online poker players, Linus Loeliger, involved in a crazy hand at the end of a thoroughly entertaining final table. The weekly $10,000-entry event, which, as always, featured plenty of satellite qualifiers, reached a dramatic end at a final table packed with talent and drama in every deal.

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Pre-Match Betting Odds

With the GGMillion$ having a clear leader at the top, there was a short-odds favorite in the betting odds this week. Brazilian player ‘Isildur’ had 102 big blinds and was priced up at 3.18 in the GGPoker client for anyone who wanted to bet on the winner. Second in chips was Roeland Peeks from Austria (62BB/5.14), but we preferred his countryman Linus Loeliger. The online poker legend was at odds of 5.7 despite having a very playable stack of 59 big blinds, and we loved the value. 

Elsewhere, final table regular Dejan Kalajurdjevic from Montenegro was on 40 big blinds at a very reasonable 8.7, with Austrian Max Buschmann a little way back on 38 bigs at 9.1. Brazil’s second player at the final table, ‘morgota’ (32BB/12.02), was closely followed by Mexico’s Checo Pacheco (29BB/13.42) with short stacks Ravid Garbi from Israel (11BB/30.46) and Bulgarian pro Ognyan Dimov (8BB/34.28) looking like extreme long-shots.

Key Moments from the Felt

Ognyan Dimov’s departure (46:20) might not have been unexpected, but when it came, it was an unlucky runout that sent him from the felt in ninth place for $60,284. All-in with ace-ten against the jack-nine of Roeland Peeks, the Austrian stayed behind on the T-8-3 flop as Dimov paired his ten, but with two clubs to match one in his hand and an open straight draw, Peeks wasn’t out of it. A deuce of clubs on the turn opened up flush outs, but it was an offsuit queen that spelled doom for Dimov, fulfilling Peeks’ straight and reducing the field to eight players.

Next to go was ‘morgota’, as Peeks once again hit gin on a superb board for him. All the chips went in a board showing K-8-3-J with Peeks holding pocket threes, and that bottom set was enough to knock out the Brazilian, whose king-jack had turned two pair but still remained behind. That was true through the six on the river, meaning morgota went for $78,179 as two knockouts came in the first 15 minutes of action.

Ravid Garbi was slightly unfortunate to bust in seventh place for $101,386 when his pocket queens lost a flip to Loeliger’s suited ace-king. It wasn’t a pure 50/50 shot, with Buschmann folding an ace-jack, meaning the Israeli was actually a favorite, but a king on the river ruined Garbi in cruel fashion for $101,386, with six players left and Loeliger on the rise.

Checho Pacheco (1:11:15) became the next victim of a brutal river when he busted in sixth place for $131,481. All-in correctly with ace-jack according to GTO Wizard on a board of J-T-8-2 with two spades, Peeks once again had a call to make, which he did with king-jack of spades. He may have only been a 23% shot, according to the in-game odds graphics on GGPoker, but that shot hit. A spade on the river flushed Pacheco’s hopes away. 

The final five were the top five when the last day began, but soon they were four. Dejan Kalajurdjevic has a great reputation in GGMillion$ events, but this time the results wouldn’t be in his favor. He lost his stack with ace-four of clubs to the pocket jacks of Roland Peeks, a dry board sending one Austrian to the rail, earning $170,510 in fifth place. 

It was just 50 minutes for the final table to be whittled down to four. It would be even longer before the next bust, as four became three when Max Buschmann bowed out. Shoving ace-six into the ace-king of Peeks, it wsa the bigger hand that held with ease to send the short-stacked Bushmann out with $221,125.

That hand gave Peeks the chip lead with 11.8 million as three-handed play started, but his lead was a slim one over ‘Isildur’ with 10m. Linus Loeliger, the only previous GGMillion$ champion, lagged behind as the new short stack with just 4.8m chips. Peeks went from zero to hero, dropping most of his stack to ‘Isildur’ before getting in his final chips with ace-five against the ace-ten of Loeliger to finish for $286,763.   

Heads-up, ‘Isildur’ had a marginal lead, with almost 60% of the chips in play. A full twenty minutes into play, a massive hand developed where ‘Isildur’ hit top two pair. Unfortunately, Loeliger was sitting with Broadway to vault him into the lead. Holding 15.9m chips to ‘Isildur’s 10.8m, the tables had turned. But that wasn’t the end.

Back came ‘Isildur’, who fought back to recover most of his deficit before a sensational hand virtually ended the event. On a board showing A-8-6-J-4 with three spades, Loeliger bet out strong on the river with ace-five of diamonds. ‘Isildur’ shoved with pocket fours having rivered bottom set. Loeliger hero-called with his paired ace, losing the hand and almost the tournament in one crucial moment. The next hand, Loeliger was all-in by default for less than a single blind and lost to another paired four for ‘Isildur’. 

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After the event, Jeff and Mathias broke down the action after a superb hand one from the end turned out to be definitive. 

“[‘Isildur’] was the chip leader coming in and played great,” said Mathias Joelsson in post-match analysis. “He deserves his first win in the GGMillion$. Hopefully everyone tunes in next week and then the week after it’s the big one, the WSOP GGMillion$!”

“He’s into the first-time [winner] column and Linus will have to wait for his third title,” exclaimed Jeff Gross. 

While Loeliger banked another $371,886, it was the debut winner ‘Isildur’ who got it done for a very handsome top prize of $482,277. Here are all the final table payouts after a dramatic night of action at the GGPoker online felt.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	‘Isildur’	Brazil	$482,277
2nd	Linus Loeliger	Austria	$371,886
3rd	Reoland Peeks	Austria	$286,763
4th	Max Buschmann	Austria	$221,125
5th	Dejan Kalajurdjevic	Montenegro	$170,510
6th	Checo Pacheco	Mexico	$131,481
7th	Ravid Garbi	Israel	$101,386
8th	‘morgota’	Brazil	$78,179
9th	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	$60,284

Could Loeliger Have Made An Epic Fold?

The penultimate hand defined so much of what happened at the final table, with over $90,000 in prize money effectively hanging on that crucial river call for a lot of Linus Loeliger’s chips. The board had three spades and no pairs, but should it have looked scarier to one of the masters of online tournaments? 

Loeliger made the crying hero-call on the river to his doom, only having a pair of aces and being crushed by a set of fours, but in truth, ‘Isildur’ making that set on the river was extremely lucky and almost impossible to detect. The way the Brazilian had bet throughout the hand lent itself beautifully to what could easily look like a triple barrel bluff, and Loeliger had more than enough to call that off with a bluff-catching pair of aces. 

In the end, the cards simply didn’t play ball.  

Watch all the action in the company of Jeff Gross and Mathias Joelsson right here as Linus Loeliger came close to glory only to lose to the overnight chip leader… eventually. 

 

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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.