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Tobias Schwecht Claims Maiden GGMillion$ Victory – GGMillion$ Season 2026 Episode 10

The latest GGMillion$ final table featured legendary players from around the world and ended with a stunning conclusion. A quick-fire GGMillion$ was on the menu, as nine brilliant players battled to a top prize of over $427,000. In the end, it was the German player Tobias Schwecht who beat an online poker legend to glory and the biggest score of his GGPoker career. 

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Pre-Match Betting Odds

Heading into the action, the Canadian player Guillaume Nolet led the field with 89 big blinds, meaning he was the betting favorite at 3.58 in the GGPoker client. The Austrian player Tim Kramer (79BB/4.42) was second in chips, but despite this, we liked the chances of the Portuguese player Joao Vieira. The Portugal pro was sitting on a dangerous stack of 77 big blinds, and with his odds at 4.72, he was pretty irresistible given his vast tournament experience. 

Next in the chip counts, and less than half the chips of Vieira was the former online poker world number one and GGMillion$ winner, Swedish pro Niklas Astedt, available at odds of 8.42, largely because he had a stack of 30 big blinds. The Finnish player ‘Und3rdogg’ (29BB/15.04) was only one big blind but way behind in the betting odds thanks to Astedt’s legendary status.

Russian players Alexander Kirichenko (24BB/15.34) and Garik Tamasian (15BB/25.84) both faced battles from the bottom half of the chipcounts, while Germany’s Tobias Schwecht (24BB/15.88) and GGMillion$ regular and Hong Kong player ‘jinx36’ (17BB/17.06) were also short-stacked as they battled to get back into the reckoning. 

Key Moments from the Felt

A very early all-in and call saw the Finland-based ‘Und3rdogg’ live up to his name. Shoving with pocket fours on the second hand of the night, he wasn’t able to survive against the ace-king belonging to the chip leader, Nolet, who turned the nut flush to end the event. Co-commentator Marthijn Lakerveld, who had the Finnish player in his dinner bet against host Jeff Gross, said ‘Underdog, my friend. Why?!’ after the 28-big blind shove was called, and saw him eliminated for $53,441 in ninth place.

The middle of the order started falling hard, and next to go was the Russian player Alexander Kirichenko. All-in pre-flop with ace-king, (44:30), he was a massive underdog when Tobias Schwecht called with pocket kings. And while the Russian was live to a ten or ace on the river, neither came to leave him on the outside looking in with $69,305 in eighth place. 

Russia lost its second runner soon afterwards when Garik Tamasian busted for $89,878. He shoved pre-flop with king-jack into another pair of pocket kings, this time belonging to Niklas Astedt. The Swedish online poker legend claimed the pot as Tamasian laddered two places from being the shortest stack coming into play.

Just over 5 minutes later, play was down to five-handed, as ‘jinx36’ suffered a horrible beat with a hand that really showed the value of GTO Wizard as a poker tool (1:20:30). Holding pocket queens, the at-risk Hong Kong player turned a third queen, but Niklas Astedt had flopped a nine-high flush and managed to elicit all of his opponent’s chips on the river with a shove. The Hong Kong player busted for $116,557 in sixth place as Astedt continued his march up in the chipcounts.

Portuguese player Joao Vieira never really got going in the final and busted in fifth place for a score of $151,155. Raising it up with pocket sixes, he committed his stack after Schwecht re-raised with ace-king. The German player called it off and sent the two men off to the races. Vieira needed to fade the top two cards for a 6 million chip pot, but a king on the flop left him nearly drawing dead, with only one of the remaining 2 sixes able to help. Neither came as Vieira left the party. 

The top four were relatively evenly matched, apart from one player. Astedt led with 7m chips, with Schwecht on 6.5m and Nolet close behind on 6.4m. The Austrian player Tim Kramer was short-stacked by comparison on 2.9m, but still had a lot of play left with over 36BB. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough, and he would soon be out of the tournament. All-in with pocket threes, he was looked up by Astedt holding eights. The snowmen ended Kramer’s run with him cashing for $196,024 just outside the podium places.

It took just over an hour to get down to three-handed play, and just as long again to get down to two, where the overnight chip leader lost his chance of victory. (2:57:30) On a flop of Q-3-2, Astedt shoved with queen-seven and the bigger stack. Nolet called it off with ace-king but couldn’t hit either of his overcards as he busted in third place for $254,212. 

Heads-up, Astedt led with 13.6m to Schwecht’s stack of 9.3 million, but everything changed on a pivotal pot that needed unpicking from both Marthijn and Jeff. On a board showing 6-3-3-Q with two diamonds, Astedt bet big, and Schwecht called with ace-nine of diamonds. A ten of diamonds on the river was the perfect card to bluff if you were Astedt, but the Swede’s quick shove was snap-called by the German, who held a hand that would only lose to a full house or better. 

Astedt’s big bluff left him almost a 4:1 underdog, but the online legend battled back only to lose almost all of it again by shoving with ace-five on an ace-high board against Schwecht’s ace-queen where the kicker played. (3:40:00) On the next hand, with just 2 big blinds remaining, five-deuce was good enough for Astedt to go all in with on what would be the final hand. Schwecht’s ace-four easily held to give the German his first-ever GGMillion$ title.

This Week’s GGMillion$ Results – March 17th, 2026

It was an incredible victory for Schwecht, not least in terms of the betting odds, with the German available at an astronomical 15.88 pre-game in the GGPoker client. Niklas Astedt claimed $329,672 as runner-up, but for Schwecht, a dream came true as he took home $427,532 as the newest GGMillion$ champion.

With others such as Joao Vieira and overnight leader Guillaume Nolet also cashing for six figures, the bumper GGMillion$ prize pool of well over $2m left several big names counting their blessings for playing the epic $10,000 weekly event on GGPoker.

Here are all the winners from this week’s final table:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Tobias Schwecht	Germany	$427,532
2nd	Niklas Astedt	Sweden	$329,672
3rd	Guillaume Nolet	Canada	$254,212
4th	Tim Kramer	Austria	$196,024
5th	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$151,155
6th	‘jinx36’	Hong Kong	$116,557
7th	Garik Tamasian	Russia	$89,878
8th	Alexander Kirichenko	Russia	$69,305
9th	‘Und3rdogg’	Finland	$53,441

Did Astedt’s Big Bluff Cost Him?

It’s easy to look at the hand where Astedt represented the bluff and pin his ultimate defeat on it entirely. After all, the Swedish player had all the experience, previous GGMillion$ wins, and a lot of the momentum heading into the final battle behind him. In truth, however, running into the very hand he was representing was a tough beat for the Swede, and while Schewecht did absolutely nothing wrong in his gameplay, neither did Astedt. 

The hand where we think the Swede lost it was after he got back into a marginal lead, then shoved for value with a poor ace in the penultimate hand. Of course, it is unlucky to run ace-five into ace-queen when heads-up, but in that hand specifically, what was Schwecht calling with if not a better ace? The board was such that ace-queen or better would both snap-call and play the kicker, so the move was fraught with danger and never looked like returning value if Astedt had held the better hand. 

In the end, that tiny miscalculation of risk and reward cost the Swedish poker legend more than the legitimate bluffing hand in the previous showdown. That’s the reason Tobias Schwecht is our latest GGMillion$ winner. 

Watch all the action here in the company of GGMillion$ host Jeff Gross and his special guest co-commentator this week, Marthijn Lakerveld.

 

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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.