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Why GGPoker Banned Final Table Chip Leader with $300k Going to the Winner

Related Topics: GGPoker, Adrián Mateos Díaz

Two players were permanently banned from GGPoker, including the chip leader entering the GGMillion$ final table on Tuesday, for an alleged ghosting incident.

Adrian Mateos, Spain's top tournament player ever, would go on to win the tournament for $306,251. He'd entered the final table as the smallest stack out of nine players with just 20 big blinds. But he'd spin it up like he's done many times online and live over the past decade.

Mateos' win, however, has been overshadowed by an incident that occurred before the final table began, and it involved the chip leader, a player who competes on GGPoker under the screen name "Hindaru.