The Bowie Effect: Andy Wilson Bulldozes His Way to $10,000 GGMillion$ Victory

The latest $10,000 GGMillion$ has wrapped up at GGPoker, and it is Andy “BowieEffect” Wilson who has emerged victoriously, doing so with $437,338 of the $2,173,100 prize pool. In addition to bragging rights and a colossal top prize, Wilson also received a $10,000 GGMillion$ Live ticket for the upcoming 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise festival.

A star-studded crowd of 223 entrants fought for this week’s $10,000 GGMillion$ title. Only the top 25 finishers won a slice of the prize pool, with such luminaries as Gediminas Uselis, Pedro Neves, and Rodrigo Selouan finishing in the money place.

Day 1 concluded on October 11 when Viacheslav Buldygin busted in 10th, and the nine finalists returned to the table a couple of days later.

$10,000 GGMillion$ Final Table Chip Counts

Swedish superstar Simon Mattsson sat down at the final table with 116 big blinds and the chip lead. Mattsson, a four-time GGMillion$ champion, looked set to add a fifth title to his already impressive resume. However, the Poker Gods had other ideas.

Mattsson lost more than half of his stack to Wilson around 30 minutes into the final table’s action. The Swede opened from under the gun with king-queen, and Wilson called with queen-ten of spades in the small blind. Wilson check-called a bet on a king-high flop before check-calling another bet after picking up an open-ended straight flush draw on the jack of spades turn.

An ace on the river completed Wilson’s straight, and he checked to Mattsson, who overbet the 2.1 million pot. Wilson jammed for an extra 200,000 chips, and Mattsson gave up.

Wilson got his hands on the rest of Mattsson’s chips half an hour later. Wilson min-raised to 200,000 with pocket aces from late position, Mattsson three-bet all-in for 2.5 million with ace-queen, and Wilson made one of the easier calls of his illustrious career. A queen on the flop gave Mattsson some hope, but the board bricked, and he went from hero to zero, while Wilson found himself with almost three times as many chips as any of his remaining opponents.

Hannes Jeschka busted in eighth after open-shoving 10 big blinds with ace-four of clubs and losing to Andrija Robovic’s dominating ace-king.

Then came the elimination of the talented Joao Vieira in seventh one hand later. Vieira was all-in preflop with ace-queen against Wilson’s pocket jacks, which held. With Vieira gone, the remaining six players had locked in a six-figure prize.

Christopher Nguyen received the first of such prizes. They say you need to win your coin flips if you want to win poker tournaments, but Nguyen didn’t get that memo. He was all-in preflop with pocket queens from the big blind against Fabiano Kovalski‘s ace-king, and a king on the turn resigned Nguyen to a sixth-place finish worth $119,230.

Fifth place and $154,622 went to M Fernandez, who got the last of his chips into the middle before the flop with pocket nines, only to discover he was up against the hot-running Wilson’s pocket jacks. The five community cards provided little in the way of drama, and Wilson now held 15,838,794 of the 23,495,000 chips in play.

The rich became richer when Wilson’s ace-ten prevailed against the king-jack of Max Buschmann, leaving only three players in contention for the title.

Kovalski lost a three-way all-in while holding pocket aces, ultimately losing to Robovic’s pocket queen that flopped a set. That left Kovalski with two big blinds, and there was no miracle comeback for the Brazilian.

Wilson went into the heads-up clash with Robovic holding a gargantuan 10-to-1 chip advantage, and he had one hand on the $437,338 top prize.

After chipping up, Robovic managed to clinch the chip lead when his pocket jacks held against Wilson’s ace-ten in an all-in preflop encounter. There was a risk that Wilson would follow in Mattsson’s footsteps and go from chip leader to bust, but he composed himself and got the job done.

The final hand saw Wilson min-raise with king-queen of clubs, Robovic respond with three-bet all-in with pocket fours, and a call from Wilson. A king on the flop proved enough to hand Wilson the title and Robovic the $337,233 consolation prize, a most impressive result considering he was the shortest stack at the start of play.

$10,000 GGMillion$ Final Table Results

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.