The clue’s in the name: the GGMillion$ event at Merit Cyprus featured $1M in first-place prize money, which was won on Tuesday by Moussa Ahmad of Lebanon. Ahmad’s win came the very next hand after his opponent rejected a deal to chop the tournament.
The three-day event, part of the Onyx Super High Roller Series, drew 510 entries, each putting up $10,400 in the hopes of landing the seven-figure payday. Tuesday’s final table saw nine players return, eyeing up some fairly steep payjumps on the way to the big money spots; 9th place paid $85K, just 8.5% of the jackpot up top. There was value to be had in surviving.
Among those survivors who started the day were WSOP bracelet winners Weiran Pu of China ($5K NLH, 2023) and Israel’s Ohad Geiger ($1K NLH Tagteam, 2019). Krasimir Yankov, one of Bulgaria’s top-ranked players, was also in the hunt, as was Jamil Wakil, the Canadian player who found himself knocked out of the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event in contentious circumstances back in May.
Moussa Ahmad offered to make a deal, then won it all.
Identical clashes send first two players out
It was Wakil who led the field as the final day’s play began, holding almost 10M — around 20% of the chips in play. Play began with blinds at 80K/160K/160K, so even Turkey’s Orhan Ates, the shortest stack with just 2M in chips, had some room to maneuver.
And he did. First China’s Hao Tian’s A-Q fell to Wakil’s A-K, sending Tian out in 9th ($85K), before his compatriot Weiran Pu lost an identical hand to Ahmad, whose A-K once again triumphed over A-Q to send Pu to the rail in 8th ($102K).
Weiran Pu has close to $3M in career tournament earnings.
Having laddered up a few lucrative spots, Ates then open-shoved his stack of just 5 big blinds from the button holding 
, running into the dominating 
of Austria’s Stefan Kiwisch in the small blind, who made the call. A jack on the flop all but sealed the deal for Kiwisch, and nothing would come to help Ates any further up the ladder, the man from nearby Turkey out in 7th for $127K.
Pipped by the slimmest of margins
The next level saw WSOP winner Ohad Geiger out the door, when he took a stand with his last 3.5 big blinds and a suited 
. Yankov liked his 
enough to follow Geiger all-in, forcing the fold from Kiwisch, behind him. No one made a pair on the 
board, but Kiwisch flopped a flush draw that eventually came in as the board ran out with the 
and the 
. Geiger headed to the counter to collect $160K for 6th.
With Wakil and Ahmad holding most of the chips, and significant payjumps at stake, the tension continued to mount, though it was only a few minutes later that the next player would fall as Peng Chen’s A-Q lost a flip against the pocket nines of Stefan Kiwisch. Chen went out in 5th with $212K, to be followed by Krasimir Yankov when the Bulgarian’s 
fell foul of Ahmad’s . Yankov banked $292K for 4th place.
When Kiwisch fell in third half an hour later, it would be by the slimmest of margins. The Austrian shoved preflop holding 
and was called by Ahmad with the ever-so-slightly superior 
. It would be a cruel twist of fate for the five to play, but hey, that’s poker.
The board of 
ensured that’s what happened, with Ahmad’s kicker proving the unlikely difference. Kiwisch went in 3rd for $415K, and the two big stacks were finally heads-up in what felt like the conclusion they’d been building towards all day.
Stefan Kiwisch looked odds-on to chop the pot, but instead got chopped.
No deal for Wakil
It wouldn’t take long, and just as in Monte Carlo Wakil was left wondering what might have been. Stacks were fairly evenly matched, though Ahmad had the slight advantage, when the latter asked Wakil if he would be interested in a deal. Wakil declined, and the following hand took place.
With blinds at 200K/400K/400K, Ahmad, with 
raised the button to 1M. Wakil looked down at 
and popped it to 4.5M. Ahmad called and hit a flush draw on the flop of 
.
It was another final table for Jamil Wakil in 2025.
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Wakil c-bet 3.5M, only for Ahmad to set him all-in. It would take some deliberation, and several time banks, for Wakil to come to the — correct — conclusion and call. Ahead with only a club to fear, Wakil would take a huge lead if his tens held up. Alas for the man from Canada, they did not: a club on the river sent all the chips Ahmad’s way. Wakil took $650K for his runner-up finish, while Ahmad banked the $1M.
The win puts Ahmad top of the Onyx Player of the Series leaderboard, the winner of which will receive a $110K package to play the Triton Jeju Main Event next month.
Ahmad and friends celebrate his million-dollar win.
Five more Onyx events are running between now and August 21, with buy-ins running from $25K to $102K. You can watch the action live at the Onyx Live YouTube channel.
Onyx Super High Roller Series – $10,400 GGMillion$ final table results
Place
Player
Prize
1
Moussa Ahmad
$1,000,000
2
Jamil Wakil
$650,000
3
Stefan Kiwisch
$415,000
4
Krasimir Yankov
$292,000
5
Peng Chen
$212,000
6
Ohad Geiger
$160,000
7
Orhan Ates
$127,000
8
Weiran Pu
$102,000
9
Hao Tian
$85,000
Images courtesy of Onyx Club/Merit Poker/Oleg Novruzov/PhotoPoker.ru.