GGMillion$ Classic Plays Out as World Champion ‘The Grinder’ Calls the Action!
The Daily Scoop – GGMillion$ Season 2025 Episode 26
This week’s GGMillion$ was a very special event. It’s not often that the reigning world champion sits down to co-commentate on a $10,000 event, but this week, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi was co-commentator alongside guest host Felipe Ramos in the weekly GGMillion$ spectacular.
With over $29 million in live earnings alone, the latest inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame won both the WSOP Main Event and the $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the 56th annual WSOP just a few short weeks ago. As nine terrific players battled down to a winner, it was pure poker paradise for the passionate Brazilian Felipe Ramos to watch, with three of the finalists hailing from his home country.
Padilha Leads Brazilian Trio
As nine finalists drew seats at the final table, it was the Brazilian Pedro Padilha who held the chip lead with the equivalent of 77 big blinds to his name. A short distance behind him was the Frenchman Ivan Deyra (67 big blinds), with two more Brazilians in close attendance, Bruno Botteon (63BB) and ‘gtavares10’ (42BB) both chasing hard.
Others in the race included German player Leonard Maue (54BB), Russian GGMillion$ legend Artur Martirosian (52BB), and Austria’s Bernhard Binder (35BB), with the popular Triton Poker Tour regular Wai Kiat Lee from Malaysia on 26 big blinds and Serbian Jovan Kenjic (18BB) as the official short stack.
The first player out of the action was ‘gtavares10’, who got into a raising war pre-flop with Ivan Deyra forty-five minutes into the final table. Despite being second in chip stack, he five-bet shoved with ace-king and ran into Ivan Deyra, the only player with a bigger stack, holding pocket aces. A flop of Q-T-5 opened up the possibility of a gutshot Broadway straight. Those outs were reduced from four to three on the deuce turn, which gave Deyra a superior diamond flush draw. An offsuit jack was all that would save ‘gtavares10’. The eight that fell on fifth street was no help, and Deyra, who now had over 35% of the chips in play, knocked out the Brazilian who earned $47,911 in ninth place.
GGMillion$ Legend Martirosian Departs
It is a brave player who takes on Artur Martirosian at the GGMillion$ felt, especially with the worst hand. Wai Kiat Lee shoved with ace-five of hearts pre-flop and Martirosian snapped him off with ace-king, doubling through his Malaysian opponent to a stack of 2.1 million chips. That left Lee short, and in the next hand, his six big blinds were in the middle pre-flop, defending his pocket eights. Lee needed to hold to double up against Kenjic’s ace-nine of clubs, but a board of Q-7-6-9-A played out to tease Lee with false hope, only to dash it, leaving him on the virtual rail with $61,104 in eighth place.
Russian poker legend Artur Martirosian busted in seventh place for a score of $77,931 as his bid to extend his record for the most GGMillion$ fell short. All-in with pocket eights and a slightly bigger stack, Martirosian lost out to Bruno Botteon’s pocket tens, leaving himself with just over 4 blinds. At risk for the rest of his stack with ace-seven on a flop of J-7-5, the Russian lost to the dominating ace-jack of Pedro Padilha, who saw a king and three fall to complete the board, and reduce the field to six.
Jovan Kenjic busted next in sixth for $99,391, his suited king-seven losing to the ace-nine of Binder. The 7-3-2 flop gave hope, but running 9’s ended his tournament. Pocket tens had been the power hand of the table and again proved their value when German player Leonard Maue shoved pre-flop for under three bigs with ace-seven of clubs. Bernhard Binder held the tens and the Austrian and across a hand of T-6-5-2-A, had Maue drawing dead to the river on his way to collecting $126,761 in fifth place.
A Bluff Catcher to Beat Them All
With four players left, Ivan Deyra had the chip lead on 6.63 million, with Bernhard Binder closest on 4.48m chips. Both Pedro Padilha (3.11m) and Bruno Botteon (3.07m) were still in striking distance, having a great chance of victory. A protracted battle played out, with no one busting for 75 minutes before a massive pre-flop all-in and call. Deyra put his tournament life on the line with ace-ten against Binder’s pocket fives. A board of 7-2-2-4-4 sent Deyra home with $161,688 in fourth as Binder took a big lead into the final three.
Having taken nearly three hours to get down to three-handed, the action only took eight hands to reach heads-up. Binder shoved with jack-seven of clubs, and Botteon, at risk, was correct to call him off with the shorter stack holding ace-queen. The board favored the chip leader. Unfortunately, the board landed J-9-3-7-J to give the Austrian a full house on the river and send the Brazilian home with $206,187.
Binder Closes The Book on Padilha
Heads-up, Binder’s stack of 12.9m was almost three times the size of Padilha’s 4.38m chips. The Austrian kept his Brazilian opponent at arm’s length for 15 minutes until a board of K-9-7-T-K played out, with two spades on the flop and a third landing on the river. Padilha spotted the chance to bluff his way back into contention and, holding the eight-five, including the eight of spades, moved all-in. Sadly for him, Binder had turned the full house with king-nine and had the easiest of calls to claim an unlikely victory.
At the start of the final table play, Binder had started way down the list of hopefuls on just 35 big blinds. Padilha had been chip leader, but in the end, Binder claimed the $335,380 top prize, with the Brazilian runner-up banking $262,966.
Watch all the action play out with Brazilian GGPoker Global Ambassador Felipe Ramos and the 2025 WSOP Main Event world champion Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi calling the action here:
GGMillion$ Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bernhard Binder | Austria | $335,380 |
| 2nd | Pedro Padilha | Brazil | $262,966 |
| 3rd | Bruno Botteon | Brazil | $206,187 |
| 4th | Ivan Deyra | France | $161,688 |
| 5th | Leonard Maue | Germany | $126,761 |
| 6th | Jovan Kenjic | Serbia | $99,391 |
| 7th | Artur Martirosian | Russia | $77,931 |
| 8th | Wai Kiat Lee | Malaysia | $61,104 |
| 9th | ‘gtavares10’ | Brazil | $47,911 |
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.
