Hyun Halts Sammartino��s Epic Super MILLION$ Comeback
Sung Joo "ArtePokerTV" Hyun is the latest GGPoker player to become a Super MILLION$ champion after outlasted his eight final table opponents on February 15. Hyun��s impressive victory came at the expense of Dario Sammartino, who sat down at the final table with the shortest stack but made it all the way to heads-up. What a comeback that would have been had Sammartino gone all the way.
Super MILLION$ Season 2 Episode 30 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sung Joo "ArtePokerTV" Hyun | Hong Kong | $487,256 |
| 2 | Dario Sammartino | Austria | $375,726 |
| 3 | Rui Ferreira | Brazil | $289,724 |
| 4 | spaise411 | Russia | $223,408 |
| 5 | Aleks Ponakovs | Latvia | $172,271 |
| 6 | Yannick "ProbierEs" Schumacher | Austria | $132,839 |
| 7 | pitrasyan | Cyprus | $102,433 |
| 8 | joyeux | Mexico | $78,986 |
| 9 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | $60,907 |
Sammartino found aces early on and doubled through Cyprus�� "pitrasyan" to give himself some breathing room.
Equally as surprising as Sammartino��s zero to hero story was the reverse for Daniel Dvoress. The former Super MILLION$ winner started the night third in chips and with a legitimate shot at securing his second title, but he was the ninth-place finisher. Dvoress lost a sizeable pot to pitrasyan that he never recovered from. His final hand saw Aleks Ponakovs raise to 175,000 with blinds and antes set at 35,000/70,000/8,500a. Dvoress called in the big blind before check-shoving his 413,806 stack in with queen-deuce of clubs on the ace-high flop that had two clubs in view. Ponakovs put in the calling chips with king-jack, which held to reduce the player count by one.
"joyeux" was the next casualty, busting during the next level. They open-shoved for 507,063 chips, or a mere 6.3 big blinds, with a suited ace-jack, and Rui Ferreira snapped him off in the big blind with pocket queens. The ladies held and joyeux was gone.
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pitrasyan was delighted with joyeux��s exit because they were super short-stacked with less than four big blinds. That micro-stack went into the middle with ace-deuce and Yannick "ProbierEs" Schumacher called from the big blind with the dominating ace-ten. Schumacher��s ten-kicker played and the Cypriot collected $102,433, the tournament��s first six-figure prize.
Schumacher could not put those extra chips to good use because he fell in sixth-place. The GGPoker YouTube stream went a little crazy and Schumacher��s exit had was missed.
Start of the day chip leader Ponakovs was the next player heading into the night, his fifth-place finish coming with $172,271. Blinds were 80,000/160,000/20,000a when Hyun opened to 464,000 from the small blind before calling Ponakovs�� 2,098,691 shove. Ponakovs turned over pocket fours which were flipping against Hyun��s ace-queen. The coinflip only lasted as far as the flop when an ace reared its head. Game over for Ponakovs.
Russia��s "spaise411" saw their tournament end in fourth place. Again, Hyun dealt the killer blow. spaise411 pushed all-in for eight big blinds with queen-jack, Hyun called on the button with suited ace-ten, and a ten on the flop was enough to send spaise411 to the showers.
Heads-up was set when Brazil��s Ferreira dusted off his stack in a cooler hand. Both Ferreira and Hyun made a full house on the river but Ferreira had the worst of it. All the chips piled in and when the dust had settled, Ferreira was gone.
That hand gifted Hyun a substantial 18,540,140 to 5,559,860 chip lead over Sammartino. Neither player had any timebank remaining, so the one-on-one battle progressed at a quicker pace than usual.
The final hand saw Sammartino shove for eight big blinds with king-queen, and Hyun call with ace-four. Sammartino hit his king on the flop, but Hyun caught an ace on the river to become the latest in a long line of GGPoker players who can call themselves a Super MILLION$ champion.
