Austria’s Hannes Jeschka closed out the August 5 running of GGPoker’s marquee weekly event, the GGMillion$, with a river call that will keep his opponents guessing for months. Jeschka took down the $10,000 buy-in tournament for $406,521, banking his second GGMillion$ title and denying Juan Dominguez what would have been an extraordinary fifth crown in the same event.
The field of 200 entries built a $2,000,000 prize pool, one of the deepest GGMillion$ turnouts of the summer. Jeschka’s win also included a $10,000 package to the 2026 WSOP Paradise GGMillion$ event in the Bahamas, adding a live-tournament trip on top of a career-best online score. The GGMillion$ has become GGPoker’s flagship weekly high roller, drawing the same core of regulars back nearly every week, which made Tuesday’s final table a genuine clash of familiar faces rather than a field of strangers.
A Final Table Loaded With Regulars
Entering the unofficial final table, Dominguez held a commanding lead with 4,335,250 chips, good for 87 big blinds, well clear of Viacheslav Balaev in second and Jeschka, who started the day in third with 2,986,477. The rest of the table read like a GGMillion$ regulars list: Viacheslav Buldygin, Mikita Badziakouski, Paulius Vaitiekunas, Marco Perez, Anatoliy Zlotnikov and Andrii Derzhypilskyi rounded out the nine, several of them multiple-time cashers in the series.
Derzhypilskyi was first to fall, jamming ace-king for his last 15 big blinds only to run into Zlotnikov’s pocket kings. Vaitiekunas went out in two stages, first losing half his stack to Buldygin’s pocket tens before busting in eighth to Badziakouski’s ace-queen. Perez then shipped his short stack with jack-ten and could not run down Jeschka’s ace-king, which flopped a king to end Perez’s day in seventh place.
Jeschka Builds His Stack Before the Heads-Up Battle
The Austrian did most of his damage three-handed and shorter. He called off a three-bet jam from Buldygin’s jack-ten suited holding ace-queen suited and flopped an ace to send Buldygin out in sixth. Five-handed play barely lasted a full orbit, with Badziakouski calling off from the big blind with a dominated ace-three only to see Dominguez’s ace-seven hold for a fifth-place finish. Four-handed play lasted just five minutes: Zlotnikov’s min-raised pocket kings ran into a three-bet jam from Dominguez’s ace-four of diamonds, and a river deuce completed a backdoor straight to end Zlotnikov’s tournament in fourth.
The biggest swing of the final table came three-handed, when Balaev called off his last ten big blinds holding king-eight against a small-blind shove from Jeschka with nine-five of hearts. The board ran out in Jeschka’s favor for a straight, more than doubling him and handing him a two-to-one chip lead over Dominguez heading into heads-up play, a cushion that proved decisive.
A River Bluff Seals the Title
Heads-up lasted fewer than ten hands. On the deciding pot, Dominguez moved all in on the river holding ace-seven with no made hand, on a board that never completed a flush for either player. Jeschka, sitting with queen-ten for a modest pair of queens, made the call. A pair this thin, with a ten kicker, is rarely a profitable call against a river shove, but Jeschka correctly read the situation as a bluff and took down the title on the spot. Readers newer to the game can find a refresher on hand strength in Poker Pro Academy’s poker hand rankings guideuseful context for understanding just how thin that call really was.
A Second Title Completes Jeschka’s Comeback
Jeschka’s first GGMillion$ win came on New Year’s Eve 2025, when he battled back from as much as an eight-to-one heads-up deficit to win $400,423 in the year-end High Rollers edition. In between those two victories, he returned to a GGMillion$ final table as chip leader but lost heads-up to serial champion Samuel Vousden, settling for a $389,387 runner-up finish. Tuesday’s win adds to a resume that already included the 2022 Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event, worth roughly $542,000, and a 17th-place finish in the 2026 WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $105,522.
Dominguez’s Wait for a Fifth Title Continues
For Dominguez, the runner-up finish and $318,747 were consolation but not the record he came for. The Malaga-born Spaniard, who now competes out of Andorra, has entered nearly 250 editions of the GGMillion$, cashing 76 times, reaching 37 final tables and winning four. His fourth title came in November 2024 for $361,804, and Tuesday marked his best shot yet at a fifth. With career earnings north of $17 million, Dominguez remains one of the most feared players in online poker’s biggest weekly event, and he will get plenty more chances to add to his tally before the year is out.
The rest of the final table split a combined $1.27 million. Balaev banked $249,924 for third, Zlotnikov took $195,962 for fourth, Badziakouski earned $153,650 for fifth, Buldygin collected $120,475 for sixth, Perez received $94,462 for seventh, Vaitiekunas took home $74,066 for eighth and Derzhypilskyi closed out the payouts with $58,074 for ninth.
Hands like Jeschka’s final call are a reminder that reading an opponent takes practice built up over thousands of hands, not just at the table. Poker remains a game that blends skill with variance, and anyone following the GGMillion$ or building their own tournament game should treat buy-ins as entertainment spending within a set bankroll rather than a source of guaranteed income. Players must be 18 or older, or the legal age in their jurisdiction, to take part in real money poker.
