Michael Addamo Among the Leaders in the $8M Gtd GGMillion$ Main Event

Few issues are assured in life. Even fewer are set in stone within the poker world, though discovering Michael Addamo among the many chip leaders in an enormous on-line poker match at GGPoker is nearly at all times a positive factor.

Addamo has an virtually unnatural means to construct a giant stack in prestigious tournaments. There aren’t too many on-line MTTs as illustrious because the $10,300 buy-on, $8 million assured GGMillion$ Major Occasion, which is a part of the continued GGMillion$ Week on the on-line poker big. Addamo is among the 294 gamers to enter to this point, and he presently finds himself in fifth place among the many 27 survivors, with a 1,909,003 stack price 76 huge blinds on Day 2.

The four-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner is among the largest winners at GGPoker; he has amassed greater than $16.1 million in winnings. A few Addamo’s most profitable victories got here in $10,300 occasions on-line. He banked $402,456 for a win in April 2024 after leaving 197 opponents in his wake.

Addamo is not the one stellar title to bag a giant stack from the finished Day 1s. Mauricio Pais (2,374,785) is presently second in chips, whereas Biao Ding (1,698,393) and Jans Arends (1,069,351) are within the high 10.

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Decrease down the pecking order however nonetheless in with a legit probability of banking a high prize assured to be no less than $1 million are luminaries reminiscent of Barak Wisbrod (793,857), Simon Mattsson (784,059), Alisson Piekazewicz (579,041), and Christoph Vogelsang (458,641).

Solely 5 $10,300 Flights Stay

Solely 5 GGMillion$ Major Occasion flights stay on this $8 million assured match. The shuffle up and deal at 7:00 p.m. BST on August 14-17 with a final probability flight scheduled for 4:00 p.m. BST on August 18.

Thu 14 Aug at 7:00 p.m. BSTFri 15 Aug at 7:00 p.m. BSTSat 16 Aug at 7:00 p.m. BSTSun 17 Aug at 7:00 p.m. BSTMon 18 Aug at 4:00 p.m. BST

Gamers sit down with 100,000 chips and play to a 20-minute clock, the place the blinds begin at 250/500/60a. Late registration stays open till the top of the fifteenth degree; limitless re-entries are permitted for these with deep pockets or who’ve received a number of seats through the cut-price satellites that run across the clock.

Every Day 1 ends after the twenty fourth degree on the newest, with surviving gamers progressing to Day 2 at 9:00 p.m. BST on August 18 understanding they’re already within the cash. GGPoker ensures the champion will take house no less than $1 million for his or her efforts, though the official high prize is prone to be larger than that.

There’s a hazard of this match overlaying, including extra worth to those that enter. On the time of writing, the overlay stands at $5,060,000 with solely 5 flights remaining. “Solely” $2,940,000 has been collected throughout 4 flights, which means every remaining flight should common 100 entrants. In any other case, GGPoker will likely be delving into its pockets and making up the assure’s shortfall.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.