Two Latin American flags at a final table paying $476,603 up top. The GGMillion$ High Rollers — the weekly $10,000 online tournament that gathers poker's elite — crowns its champion today, with Brazil's Ramon Kropmanns third in chips and Argentina's Marco Perez among the last nine.
The facts: 252 entries, nine survivors, cards up this afternoon
Sunday's Day 1 cut a 252-entry field down to nine. Kropmanns bagged 2,816,285 chips, trailing only Canada's Guillaume Nolet (8,047,557), the clear chip leader, and Latvia's Aleksejs Ponakovs (4,570,196). Perez starts eighth with 1,478,672 at a table rounded out by players from Sweden, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands and Malta.
The restart comes at 18:00 UTC, at blinds of 35,000/70,000 with an 8,500 ante — and one structural detail that changes everything: levels increase every 20 hands played, not on a clock. Everyone at the table has locked up $59,575; the title is worth $476,603 plus a $10,000 ticket to the GGMillion$ Live at WSOP Paradise. Two more Brazilians came close: Bruno Volkmann fell in 15th ($29,416) and Gabriel Medeiros in 26th ($20,487).
The event just crowned Australia's Michael Addamo, but recent history leans south: three weeks ago Brazil swept the entire GGMillion$ podium, with Carlos Ribeiro taking the title and over $1.3 million flowing to one country in a single final.
Why it matters: playing a final with $100K pay jumps
A high-roller final table is a crash course in ICM: with pay jumps north of $60,000 per spot, every all-in is worth more than the chips suggest. For Kropmanns, third in the counts, the script is clear — lean on the medium stacks that can't call off without risking two ladder steps, and avoid unnecessary collisions with Nolet.
The hands-based structure adds another layer: there's no stalling your way up the ladder as a short stack. If hands get dealt, blinds go up; whoever just waits, melts. The same principle applies to your weekend tournament — patience is a tool, not a game plan.
By tonight we'll know if the trophy heads to Latin America. Third in chips: do you ladder or go for the win? Break it down in the community — that's where finals like this turn into lessons.