Niklas Astedt took down his fourth career GGPoker Super MILLION$ title for more than $315K. Niklas Astedt has done it yet again. Sweden’s former worldwide #1-ranked online poker legend, won his record-tying fourth GGPoker Super MILLION$ title on Tuesday, this time for $315,882.
Astedt has no shortage of ways he can win a tournament, but when he’s on a heater it’s almost unfair. Astedt knocked out six of his final eight opponents, the majority of which he had dominated by picking up premium hands in key spots. That said, it wasn’t all just rungood for Astedt who, after starting the day eighth in chips, made all the right moves to put himself in a position to win against a tough final table that included Damian Salas , Chris Puetz , Christian Rudolph , Rui Ferreira , and Artur Martirosian .
Nearly thirty minutes into the final hand, one of Russia’s premier players, Artur Martirosian, hit the rail. After his was cracked by China’s ‘d7777’s , Martirosian was sitting on the short stack. With the blinds at 25,000/50,000 (6,000 ante), chip leader ‘0asis’ made it 100,000 to go holding and when it folded to Martirosian in the big blind, the Russian defended holding the . The flop came giving ‘0asis’ a set. Martirosian checked it over to ‘0asis’ who checked it back. The river was the , giving Martirosian top pair. Martirosian led for just over 117,000 and ‘0asis’ shoved. Martirosian called and found himself drawing dead to the river. Martirosian exited in ninth place for $49,109.
Two hands later, Astedt opened from early position to 275,000 with his . It folded around to Chris Puetz in the big blind with and the Austrian shoved for nearly 1.4 million. Astedt called instantly and the board ran out keeping Astedt’s pocket aces ahead the entire time and ending Puetz’s run in eighth place for $61,974.
Astedt did double duty just minutes later when ‘RRomashka’ opened to 100,000 from middle position with . When the action reached Astedt in the small blind, he just called with the . Then from the big blind, Rui Ferreira […]
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