GGMillion$ chip leader booted from final after ghosting investigation

The recent GGMillion$ final table, GGPoker’s flagship $10,300-entry weekly tournament, saw the overnight chip leader out of contention before the cards were dealt.

This week’s GGPoker action got a little weird, as the GGMillion$ final table saw the chip leader heading into play blinded out of the reckoning for the top prize of $306,251.

When the final table began, the chip leader was the Mongolia-based player ‘Hinaru’ with 69 big blinds. They would play no part in the action, however, as GGMillion$ host Jeff Gross explained before the first deal hit the felt:

After Gross’ statement, the final table played out in full, with Hinaru’s stack blinding out, rather than being removed. That meant his stack of 69 big blinds survived dozens of orbits and while the game went on, this obviously impacted on the gameplay in a big way.

Hinaru eventually ‘finished’ fifth for $115,752 - though he wouldn’t win a cent - but ahead of four other players.

The tournament played down to a winner, as Spanish poker legend Adrian Mateos sealed victory having started with just 20 big blinds as the short stack at the table. Heads-up, he defeated the Latvian former WSOP bracelet winner Aleks Ponakovs, who won $240,126 as runner-up.

GGPoker Permanently Ban Two Culprits

In the wake of the final table, GGPoker confirmed that two players had been banned from the site permanently. Hinaru was one half of an “account-sharing violation” that GG’s security team had found before the final table took place.

Once the ‘ghosting’ practice was highlighted, GG took immediate action, banning the chip leader from taking part in the final. Hinaru was banned, as was the player who used Hinaru’s account, with both parties being barred from GGPoker and all affiliated platforms.

The prize money Hinaru won was “redistributed to affected players according to GGPoker’s reconciliation policy”, as the site took a predictably tough stance on the security breach.

“This constitutes a clear violation of GGPoker’s Security and Ecology Policy, which prohibits account sharing under any circumstances. Every player must compete on their own account - no exceptions. Account sharing and ghosting undermine competitive integrity. When one player competes under another’s account, it creates unfair advantages and damages trust in the game. We will not allow this on our platform.”

While the ghosting itself is a stain on this week’s results, the swift manner in which GGPoker acted and the speedy investigation by the security team show that integrity matter more than ever to poker’s highest profile poker operator.

GGPoker $10,000 GGMillion$ November 11th 2025 Final Table Results:

*blinded out from the tournament from the first hand