As we wrap up the fourth week of the 2024 GGPoker World Festival, it’s time to recap the thrilling action and monumental wins so far. This past week, players participated in tournaments boasting guarantees of nearly $60 million, and even more was won in total. There is still more than $100 million guaranteed, and the festival promises a plethora of excitement ahead.
Since our last update, approximately 160 events have concluded. This recap will focus on two major events from each tier, but first, let’s review the four leaderboards, which offer a combined $2,500,000 in prizes.
Leaderboard Updates
At the pinnacle of the competition, the Super High Leaderboard awards $1,000,000 to the top 100 players. Leading this leaderboard is R Romanovskyi with 3,218.49 points, as he continues his dominance at the super high stakes, having earned over 400 points since the last update. Trailing Romanovskyi by over 300 points is well-known pro Niklas Astedt, a GGPoker Team Champion, with David Peters in third place, 225 points further behind. While the competition remains fierce, it now looks like Romanovskyi could go wire to wire on the leaderboard, a very impressive feat.
Andrii Derzhypilskyi remains in fourth place, having climbed to 2,305 points, while Jans Arends, completes the top five with an increase to 2,211 points. Bert Stevens continues to close the gap and is now up to 2193 points, and holding in sixth place. Alex Theologis, sits in seventh with 2,166 while Pedro Padilha is in eighth place with 2,090 points. Vladimir Minko jumps into 9th place with 1,936 and Juan Dominguez rounds out the top 10 with 1,877 points.
The High Stakes Leaderboard shows a more condensed race between third and fifth place, with just 132 points separating them, while the top 2 have started to pull away. At the top of the leaderboard is Jacopo Olivieri with 4,626.52 points, while ‘AyrtonSenn@’ is close behind in second with 4,514.98. It’s more than a 400-point drop down to third, with ‘Iambeggar’ sitting in with 4,090.09 points. Sitting in fourth place is ‘Chicharito14’ with 3,987.54, while high stakes regular N Maimone maintains fifth place with 3,968 points. Everyone is still in the race for the biggest share of the $750,000 prize, but will anyone be able to catch the leaders?
The Medium Leaderboard, which pays out $500,000 to the top 500 players, saw a lot of movement this past week. ‘Zemachess’ jumped from fifth to take the lead with 5,548.30 points. Just 20 points behind is the previous leader, ‘Bowrot-’ who sits comfortably in second with 5,528.30 points. ‘SzwamyChlapiec’ fell to third with 5,213.91 points while ‘buenaonda’ maintained their fourth place position with 5,195.90 points. ‘SpicyTaco’ rounds out the top 5, dropped one position, having accumulated 5,136.42 points so far through the competition. This is looking to be an exciting race heading into the last week of the competition as the top spot on the leaderboard will receive a bonus of $40,000.
On the Low Stakes Leaderboard, which awards $250,000 to the top 1,000 players, ‘Survivor39’ earned nearly 800 points to maintain the lead with 5,992.82 points. In second place, 211 points behind, is ‘Marin win’ with 5,781.63 points, having closed the gap by nearly 100 points. The leaderboard is completed by ‘maruzzz’ in third with 5,700.21 points. Sitting in fourth place is ‘Farsaa’ with 5,535.65 points, and ‘Zlurrsk’ rounds out the top 5 with 5,358.55 points.
Super High Stakes
The big event from the last few days was the Super High Roller tier $1,500 GG World Championship. This $10,000,000 guaranteed tournament brought in 7,513 entrants over the multiple Day 1’s, with just 788 advancing to Day 2 and the money. A three-way chop at the end saw ‘rieeson’ finish third for $788,891, ‘Depaulainspt’ finish second for $847,852, and ‘B Botteon’ earning the victory and $757,017.
Another Super High Roller tier highlight was Event 245: Monday Super HR. With a $10,300 buy-in and a $500,000 guarantee, this High-Stakes event saw 91 players generate a $910,000 prize pool. The event ended at the seven-hour make when Brazillian ‘NeverBluff369’ beat well known high stakes grinder A Martirosian for the top prize of $209,255.70.
High Stakes
In the High tier, Event 244-H: $525 Bounty Hunters HR [Mega GTD] on May 27th drew 2,424 entrants, creating a $1,212,000 prize pool, well over the $1M guarantee. After more than 11 hours of play, Ale Mantovani claimed the top prize of $61,032.65 and additional bounties totaling $59,249.99.
Event 245-H: $1,050 Monday Monster Stack HR, another High Tier, Deep Stack event, offered a $700,000 guarantee and attracted 901 participants. David Peters emerged victorious after 10 hours and 24 minutes, earning $115,272 after a chop with Roman Hrabec, who earned $104,897.
Medium Stakes
The Medium tier events saw significant participation. Event 244-M: $54 Bounty Hunters Daily Main [Mega GTD] exceeded its $500,000 guarantee with 10,919 entries. Player ‘Leibox’ won the top prize of $21,127.20 after almost 10 hours of play. In addition, they collected $13,952.63 in bounties.
Another notable Medium tier event was Event 245-M: $150 Monday Monster Stack, which exceeded its $400,000 guarantee with 2,986 players. This deep stack event was won by ‘Santino Reg’, who earned $47,953.89 for 10.5 hours of play.
Low Stakes
In the Low tier, Event 274-L: $25 Thursday Mini Throwdown [Bounty] on May 30th drew 7,258 players, creating a $168,385.60 prize pool, surpassing the $150,000 guarantee. ‘Shogunovski’ won the top prize of $6,681.11 plus earned $4,844.50 in bounties.
Event 245-L: $25 Monday Mini Monster Stack on May 27th exceeded its $100,000 guarantee with a $109,687 prize pool from 4,769 players. ‘g0ntijo’ secured the top prize of $11,863.40 after just over 8.5 hours of play.
Stay Tuned!
With the festival reaching the final quarter, the action is still hot and heavy. Plenty of tournaments are still to come as we surpass the record-setting total series guarantee. Keep an eye on upcoming highlights; maybe your name will be featured next week.
- 295-H: $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event $1.5M GTD
- 295-M: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event $1M GTD
- 284-L: $25 Saturday Mini Secret KO [Mystery Bounty] $250K GTD
And the big one for this weekend is the $10,300 GGMillion$ Super Main Event Day 2 $10,000,000 GTD event on June 3rd, but Day 1’s and qualifiers are running all weekend!
We’ll be back on Tuesday to cover this weekend’s events, so stay tuned for more updates and highlights as the GGPoker World Festival continues to deliver more world-class poker action!