Poker’s Latest Superstar Wins Epic GGMillion$ Title for Half a Million Dollars

The 2025 WSOP Tag Team bracelet winner Kelvin Kerber took down the biggest top prize of his poker career last night, outlasting eight other poker greats in the weekly GGPoker $10,000 GGMillion$ event for $499,299. Despite coming into the final battle against his fellow Brazilian Rodrigo Selouan with a chip deficit, Kerber was king after a comeback for the ages.

GGPoker Documentary Star Takes Centre Stage

With just nine players surviving to the GGMillion$ final table, the pressure mounts on every player thanks to a break between making the final late on Sunday night and the live-streamed final on Tuesday. GGPoker’s presentation of the final is full coverage, with the poker legend Jeff Gross presenting the show alongside a different poker crusher every week. This Tuesday, it was the turn of Belgian WSOP bracelet winner Thomas Boivin to add some colour to the commentary booth, and he was ana able deputy to the flawless Gross.

This week’s winner might have been the Brazilian professional Kelvin Kerber, but plenty of other talent battled before the star of this month’s GGPoker Online Poker Millionaires documentary eventually sealed his first GGMillion$ win. If you haven’t seen the documentary, it tells the story of Kerber’s humble upbringing and how providing for his family to enjoy the life he didn’t have drives him onward every day.

When the final table was formed, there was a clear chip leader, but it wasn’t either of the two Brazilians who’d end heads-up for the title. Russian player ‘allexarm’ began with a stack of 80 big blinds, some way clear of Austrian pro Klemens Roiter (64BB) and the eventual winner Kerber on 60 bigs. There was a quick elimination in ninth place for $62,412 as the Russian player Aleksei Vandyshev busted against the overnight chip leader, all-in on a board of 7-5-3-T-4 with king-ten only to see that his countryman had hit the golden river with seven-four for two pair.

Online Poker Legend Bows Out

With eight players left, another Russian departed the action, cashing for $80,938. Viktor Kudinov called off his stack from the small blind with king-jack after Kelvin Kerber had shoved from the button with the bigger stack and ace-deuce. All four of the cards held by the two men were in hearts which suited the Brazilian when a flop full of hearts gave Kerber the nut flush. There was no recovering from the flop for Kudinov, whose exit bolstered Kerber stack – and chances – considerably.

The Lithuanian player Dominykas Mikolaitis busted for $104,964 in seventh place, losing with ace-queen to Niklas Astedt’s pocket eights as a coinflip went for the Swedish online phenom. Mikolaitis’ exit was quickly followed by that of Germany’s Simon Beckmann. He was all-in with ace-seven of hearts on a two-heart flop, only to be called then eliminated by ‘allexarm’, whose offsuit seven-six was hoping to find a straight but only needed to river a pair of sixes to win the hand.

The Swedish poker Niklas Astedt made his exit next, and it was a surprise departure. With a stack of over 20 big blinds, the open shove with pocket sixes pre-flop was a dangerous move and it fell foul of the eventual champion picking up a big hand. Kerber called with pocket jacks and a flop of T-9-8 made Astedt a massive outsider to win the hand. A jack on the turn removed two outs from the six Astedt had been chasing but opened up straight chances. However, none of those outs came on the river and the Swede left with a score of $136,122 in fifth.

Kerber Makes Personal History

When play had moved four-handed, Kerber was in a clear lead on 10.9m chips but both his countryman Rodrigo Selouan (6.9m) and the overnight leader ‘allexarm’ (6.2m) were chasing hard. The odd man out was the Austrian Klemens Roiter and he eventually paid the price for only having 3.4m chips to his name by busting in fourth for $228,929. Roiter both flopped and rivered a jack to match the one in his hand to make trips but Selouan had slow-played pocket eights brilliantly, and after turning a set and rivering a full house, checking fifth street was an inspired move that teased his opponent into a shove that was always doomed to fail.

Three-handed play ended when the overnight leader ‘allexarm’ left in third place for $296,844. All-in with pocket sixes, they lost once again as Selouan’s pocket aces set up a heads-up battle heavily weighted by the chips in his favor. With 18.2 million chips to Kerber’s 9.6 million, the more experienced Brazilian was the favorite but the four-time GGMillion$ champion was ousted by the debut winner instead.

The finale was an epic one, as a swingy duel went this way and that. Kerber won small pots consistently across the opening hour only to lose a chunk when Selouan rivered the nut straight. ‘Money saved is money earned’, as the saying goes, as the eventual winner made a good fold on the river of that board and was soon rewarded. Selouan made a big bet on the river of a king-high board holding ace-king and Kerber called it off with three-four, which had turned two pair.

With a 3:1 chip lead, Kerber turned the screw and became champion. Building himself into a better than 12:1 lead, he called with pocket eights and instigated a shove from his countryman with ace-queen. Kerber called and dodged aces and jacks to become a GGMillion$ winner for the first time, taking home the top prize of just under half a million dollars. Selouan congratulated his opponent, winning a deservedly huge score of $385,011 as runner-up.

Watch all of the final table action from the GGMillion$ finale with host Jeff Gross and co-commentator Thomas Boivin here.