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Pedro Neves Stars in Superb GGMillion$ Victory – GGMillion$ Season 2026 Episode 6

The Portuguese player Pedro Neves won this week’s GGMillion$ on GGPoker as he came from back in the pack to leap to the top of the leaderboard and claim over $480,000 as the winner. With a final table featuring stars of the online felt such as Christoph Vogelsang, Wiktor Malinowski, and Volodymyr Palamar, regular host Jeff Gross and his co-commentator Marcelo Aziz Jr. brought the action to life as a thrilling GGMillion$ final table for the ages played out on GGPoker. 

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Pre-Match Betting Odds

With nine great players in the mix at the final table, no one had less than 20 or more than 60 big blinds as an evenly spread set of players went into battle. That was, apart from the chip leader, with Belarusian Ilya Anatski starting the final table with 95 big blinds at odds of 3.54 in the GGPoker client. While it was tempting to back the Belarusian, his nearest challenger, Sweden’s Sven Andersson (57BB) had every chance at victory, and we rated him better than his 6.02 odds, making him our bet of the week. 

Behind Andersson, the Russian player Alexander Kirichenko (52BB/6.84) also had a very playable stack, while German Christoph Vogelsang (50BB/6.34) was at slightly shorter odds due to his massive experience. Behind the frontrunners, Portuguese players Joao Tomas (31BB/12.14) and Pedro Neves (27BB/12.08) came into the action with similar odds despite the difference in stacks due to Neves’ recent results in the format. 

British player Patrick Brooks had 25 big blinds and was available at odds of 14.28, the longest odds of anyone at the final table. The Ukrainian Volodymyr Palamar had reached the final table on multiple occasions recently, and his 24 big blind stack made him a threat at 13.96, while Wiktor Malinowski at 13.7 was the short stack with a very playable 21 big blinds.

Key Moments from the Felt

The action was red hot from the very first card, but it was almost an hour before the earliest elimination came to pass. The hand after Patrick Brooks had a walk with pocket queens, Ilya Anatski raised from middle position. Brooks shoved for 12 big blinds total with jack-nine of hearts, but the timing was terrible, as the Belarussian chip leader snap-called with pocket kings. The board came with a king on the flop and only one heart by the turn, as Brooks was drawing dead to the river and cashed for $60,048 in ninth place. 

Next to go was the Russian pro Alex Kirichenko, who earned $77,872 in eighth. Beating Anatski with a nut flush two hands earlier, Kirichenko (1:52:40) was delighted to see the Belarusian shove pre-flop with queen-ten, which he quickly – and correctly – called off his stack with a dominating ace-queen. The board was a cruel one, a ten landing on the river to send Kirichenko home and further boost Anatski’s chances of going wire-to-wire.

Joao Tomas was the first player to cash for six figures, all-in with pocket queens, only to lose to Plamar’s pocket aces for $100,988 in seventh place. Soon, the field was down to five, after the short stack coming into play finally fell off the ladder. Wiktor Malinowski took $130,966 when he lost a flip for his tournament life, ace-king of spades shot down by the pocket jacks of Sven Andersson, which flopped a third, as the Swede was now the chip leader.

Anatski’s reign ended in fifth place as the Belarusian found himself short and shoved with king-queen (2:33:30). Andersson had a tricky decision with ace-seven of clubs and found the fold but the initial raiser Pedro Neves had the chips to call with jack-ten and made that crying call, getting lucky when a board of 8-5-3-3-J paired up the Portuguese player on the river, sending Anatski home with $169,842.

With four players left, the overnight chip leader was gone, and Neves now led the field with 12 million chips. Andersson was sitting second on 7.34m chips, with Vogelsang (5.36m) and Palamar (2.08m) both playing catch-up. Soon, there were only three, as Palamar’s king-jack couldn’t hit against the ace-seven of Neves, and the Ukrainian departed in fourth place for $220,258.

A blind-on-blind battle defined the stage before heads-up, as, with just 20% of the chips in play, Sven Andersson moved all-in from the small blind with ace-seven of hearts (3:08:10). Pedro Neves had pocket tens and an easy call, but the flop was anything but sweat-free. It came 8-6-5 to give the Swede a shot at an ace, four or nine. Neves was sweating but faded all of the Swede’s outs on a three turn and queen river to go into heads-up with almost 16m chips, while Christoph Vogelsang, his challenger, had 10.8m, and Andersson cashed for $285,639.

The final battle wasn’t a long one, despite the closeness of the stacks. When a board of A-7-4-K-6 played out, Vogelsang, who had slipped a little to 8.5m chips, shoved the river holding eight-three of spades (3:16:00). 

“He is making an ill-advised play, because this is not going to work for him.” Jeff Gross said on comms. 

Neves held ace-six and snap-called, not thinking for a second about the chance of the straight, which was as improbable as it was unfounded as a bluff story. That call gave Neves the title, and for the Portuguese player, it wasn’t just the $480,386 he could celebrate. His comeback win from sixth in the overnight counts was highly impressive, and he earned every cent of his winnings, while Vogelsang’s doomed bluff condemned the German to a second-place finish still worth an immense $370,428.

This Week’s GGMillion$ Results – February 10th, 2026

A stirring final table ended with Pedro Neves winning the heads-up in double-quick time. Heads-up was a brutal affair and after the win, Jeff could only congratulate his fellow commentator Marcelo Aziz, whose first pick when the final table began was the eventual champion. 

“You stuck with him the whole way, why Pedro, how did you know?”

“Pedro is a very talented player,” said Marcelo. “I like his style and he’s a very good person too – I like him as a person. We are colleagues and help each other when we get to the live events. He’s a humble guy, a nice guy. He’s got momentum and winning everything this year. He was on the show a few weeks ago and he’s been crushing lately.”

Backable at 12.08 on the GGPoker before the action got underway, if you picked Pedro Neves too, then you’ll be celebrating just as hard today.

Here are all the winners from a dramatic final table on GGPoker in the $10,000-entry GGMillion$:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Pedro Neves	Finland	$482,277
2nd	Christoph Vogelsang	Ukraine	$371,886
3rd	Sven Andersson	New Zealand	$286,763
4th	Volodymyr Palamar	Belarus	$221,125
5th	Ilya Anatski	Brazil	$170,510
6th	Wiktor Malinowski	Germany	$131,481
7th	Joao Tomas	Russia	$101,386
8th	Alexander Kirichenko	Austria	$78,179
9th	Patrick Brooks	Russia	$60,284

Did Vogelsang’s Bluff Make Sense?

It’s always easy to point out a mistake with the benefit of both hindsight and being able to see the cards in real time, but Vogelsang’s bluff with just eight-high heads-up seemed the stuff of madness. While Pedro Neves clicked the call button in record time to book his victory, the story of the bluff simply didn’t make sense. 

The only hand that got there from the flop was an open-ended straight draw but the way the betting had gone until the river didn’t back that story up at all. The river was like seeing a building explode at the end of a period drama, it made no sense whatsoever, and Neves’ call was simple to arrive at thanks to Vogelsang’s flawed storytelling.

Make your own mind up on the play and watch as Pedro Neves came from sixth in the deck to top the lot in this week’s GGMillion$ 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.