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The Brazilian player Kelvin Kerber took down this week’s GGPoker $10,000 GGMillion$ for a top prize just shy of half a million dollars. Incredibly, the player, who was featured in this month’s Online Poker Millionaires documentary on the GGPoker channel, did so using the new GGPoker ‘Streamer Mode’ where online content creators can collaborate with GGPoker to live-stream their action. Having got so close to victory before, Kelvin Kerber is now a GGMillion$ champion, and the result stands as one of the finest in his career so far.

As Kerber battled for his eventual crown, Jeff Gross was joined in the virtual commentary booth by a Belgian poker legend to bring it to life. Thomas Boivin has almost $17m in live tournament earnings and is a legend in WSOP tournaments. His poker knowledge was priceless on a night where surprises lay around every corner and one of poker’s rising stars confirmed his status in the game. 

Pre-Match Betting Odds 

Before play got underway, the betting odds were posted in the GGPoker client for players and fans to invest in, and it was the Russian player ‘allexarm’ who had a big lead. With 80 big blinds, the Russian was available at odds of 5.26, marginally shorter than the 5.50 on offer for Austria’s Klemens Roiter, who began with 64 big blinds.

Behind the top two, the eventual winner, brilliant Brazilian Kelvin Kerber, had 60 bigs and was good value at 6.34, given his recent experience coming sixth after a bad beat when his pocket kings lost to queen-nine. The previous co-commentator was in a great position to win and was rightly at shorter odds than both the Russian professional Aleksei Vandishev (51BB/7.02) and Germany’s Simon Beckmann (45BB/7.66). 

The Swedish online poker legend Niklas Astedt (37BB/7.44) attracted plenty of backers in the GGPoker client despite starting with a stack less than half the size of the chip leader, with Russian outsider Viktor Kudinov (30BB/10.56), Brazilian Rodrigo Selouan (16BB/21.90), and Lithuanian Dominykas Mikolaitis (16BB/22.66) all needing a great start to put themselves back among the chasing pack.

Key Moments from the Felt

The action was red hot from the first card in this week’s GGMillion$, and the first really big move was in a mystery hand between Dominykas Mikolaitis and Viktor Kudinov. The Russian with the shorter stack of the two min-raised preflop with K-Q both in clubs, and  Mikolaitis came along from the small. A rainbow flop of 9-6-4 left Kudinov with two overs, which he bet small with after a check by Mikolaitis, who called. The turn was checked through as the 8 didn’t change anything, but a Q on the river gave the Russian top pair. Action started on Mikolaitis, who, after being silent the entire hand, jammed his whole stack, putting Kudinov at risk if he were to call. After an extended tank, Kudinov folded as the Lithuanian’s hand was finally shown to the stream. The hand was a mystery that kept everyone, including Thomas and Jeff in the commentary booth, guessing. 

Shortly after, the table had its first elimination as the Russian player Aleksei Vandyshev busted in ninth place for $62,412. All-in on a board showing 7-5-3-T-4 with king-ten, he was ousted by the overnight chip leader as his shove was called by ‘allexarm’ holding seven-four for two pair. It would be another forty minutes before eight would become seven, as Kelvin Kerber began his march to glory. All-in from the button with ace-deuce of hearts (1:41:10), Kerber had the goods against Kudinov’s call with king-jack of the same suit. The flop saw three more hearts come down to slay the Russian’s hopes, boosting Kerber to second in chips in the process as the Russian departed in eighth for $80,938.

Next to go was Dominykas Mikolaitis, the Lithuanian busting when his ace-queen fell in a classic coinflip to Niklas Astedt’s pocket eights for a score of $104,964 in seventh place. Then, just 15 minutes later, six became five when the German player Simon Beckmann busted for $136,122. Holding ace-seven of hearts, Beckmann raised on a flop of 9-8-3 with two hearts when GTO Wizard advised a call 94% of the time (2:01:30). The Russian ‘allexarm’ set the German all-in, holding an offsuit seven-six of clubs and Beckmann called it off. After an ineffectual deuce in diamonds on the turn, a six of spades on the river proved fatal for Beckmann as he was sent to the rail. 

Niklas Astedt had made it to the final five, but the Swedish poker great could go no further. All-in pre-flop with pocket sixes, he was well behind Kerber’s pocket jacks, and the fishhooks didn’t let the Brazilian down. A flop of T-9-8 left Astedt with just a 6% shot at winning the hand as shown on the live on-screen odds, which were displayed on GGPoker in real time as the hand played out. No help came for the Swede, and he left with $176,528 in fifth place. 

With four players left, Kerber’s hot streak put him in charge on 10.9 million chips, with his countryman Rodrigo Selouan performing brilliantly to rise to 7.0m in second place. The overnight chip leader, ‘allexarm’, was sitting on 6.4m, while Klemens Roiter trailed the pack, having just 3.5m. The short-stacked Austrian was the next to leave the party (2:10:20), cashing for $228,929 when he rivered trip jacks and committed his stack after a brilliant river check from Rodrigo Selouan, who was trapping with a full house of eights over jacks for a massive pot that put him in contention for the win.

The overnight leader, ‘allexarm’ from Russia, left in third place for $296,844 when he moved all-in with pocket sixes on a board showing T-3-2-9 when the GTO Wizard said to call Selouan’s slim value bet with pocket aces 100% of the time. The shove from the Russian was snap-called by Selouan, and in the blink of an eye, it was an all-Brazilian finale when a meaningless five on the river sent the Russian to the rail.

Heads-up, that huge pot gave Rodrigo Selouan the chip lead with 18.25 million to Kelvin Kebrer’s stack of 9.64 million, but Kerber, who finished fourth here in the GGMillion$ just a few weeks ago, was determined to overcome the odds and did so in stunning fashion. It took the best part of an hour for Kelvin to get back to parity in chip terms, but when he did, he ran into a monster cooler. 

On a board showing K-K-J-3-T with four clubs, Kerber was winning a lot of the way with king-four for flopped trips against the pocket aces of Selouan. That was until the river, where Selouan’s ace of clubs gave him the best hand. If money saved is money earned, then Kerber made a very good fold, as Selouan’s shove must have tempted him to click call. Eventually, the champion-in-waiting made a superb fold, and while he was marginally behind, he was alive, and very soon, he was rewarded for that play.

On a board of T-6-3-9-T, Selouan’s queen-six was bettered by Kerber’s queen-nine as Kerber’s chunky river bet was called by Selouan, putting the stacks virtually even. That all changed when a king-high board saw Selouan, the aggressor, put in a raise to a very big size on the river holding ace-king. Kerber had turned two-pair with threes and fours, and his quick call gave him a 3:1 chip lead.

By the final hand (3:28:40), Kerber had increased his lead to 15:1 and was holding pocket eights. Selouan had an easy decision to make with a suited ace-jack of clubs and moved all-in, getting a quick call from his compatriot. No help came on the board for Selouan, and with just the non-heart aces and jacks to shoot for on the river, he was destined to head to the rail, giving Kelvin Kerber his first-ever GGMillion$ title and the top prize of $499,299. Selouan was forced to the consolation prize, winning $385,011 as the deserved runner-up after a superb display, having been one of the shortest stacks when the final table began.

Who Won This Week’s GGMillion$?

Kelvin Kerber’s poker career was well-documented in the brilliant GGPoker documentary series Online Poker Millionaires, whose second episode focused on the Brazilian’s rise from humble beginnings to the top table of poker’s elite. Now he has his first GGMillion$ title too. In denying Rodrigo Selouan his fifth GGMillion$ win, Kerber grabbed his first and came back from a big chip deficit heads-up to do so. 

“He just played great,” said Thomas Boivin. “He lost a bunch of hands that he was supposed to lose but then things went his way. Most players played really great.” 

“It was a fantastic show, and you guys are playing at the top of your game,” said Jeff Gross, reeling off other big winners in the GGMillion$ such as Bernhard Binder, who won the WSOP Super Main Event last December in The Bahamas for $10,000,000. “Good things are going to be coming.”

With the GG World Festival starting next week and the 2026 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas right around the corner, the big winners are sure to keep on coming. 

Here are all of this week’s final table winners from the latest GGMillion$ showdown:

GGPoker $10,000 GGMillion$ April 28th 2026 Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	$499,299
2nd	Rodrigo Selouan	Brazil	$385,011
3rd	‘allexarm’	Russia	$296,844
4th	Klemens Roiter	Austria	$228,929
5th	Niklas Astedt	Sweden	$176,528
6th	Simon Beckmann	Germany	$136,122
7th	Dominykas Mikolaitis	Lithuania	$104,964
8th	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	$80,938
9th	Aleksei Vandyshev	Russia	$62,412

Did the Perfect Player Make a Big Mistake?

Niklas Astedt has won it all in the game across a distinguished online poker career. However, on this night, his shove for well over 20 big blinds with pocket sixes came out of the blue and allowed Kelvin Kerber to make a pretty standard call to win a vital pot on his way to victory. Was the open shove with pocket sixes too aggressive? Kerber had previously played aggressively on the button, getting it all-in pre-flop with ace-deuce to eliminate Viktor Kudinov early in proceedings. But even if Kerber had an ace-high, he would be flipping against pocket sixes, leaving Astedt only a 50/50 chance of surviving.

This penchant for gambling on certain hands when it might not be wise was shown again when the overnight leader ‘allexarm’ shoved with pocket sixes. Teased into action on a ten-high board with two overcards to his pocket sixes, the Russian’s shove allowed Selouan to call it off with aces and take a big lead into the final duel. Only Kerber’s terrific comeback win denied Selouan glory, and both Brazilians benefited from loose play from their respective opponents on the build-up to that titanic tussle for the title.

Watch all the drama as Kelvin Kerber claimed his first-ever GGMillion$ title live in GG Streaming Mode in the company of Jeff Gross and special guest Thomas Boivin right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_8Xxf4fvQ