Jeff Gross Finishes Third in the Big Game For $129K

Team Online’s Jeff “JeffGross” Gross streamed his big Sunday session on Twitch on May 17 and his legion of followers received a real treat. Gross managed to navigate his way to the final table of the Big Game Phase Final Final Table where the least he could take home was $25,656. With $255,280 up top, Gross and his viewers had a major sweat on their hands.

“BreakingTheLAW” was the eight-handed final table’s first casualty. Their eighth-place finish saw them turn their $5,200 investment into $25,656.

“Hurricanes24” was blown away in seventh-place for $35,277, crashing out at the hands of “Fedor_Holz” when his pocket kings lost to a flopped set of three.

Sixth-place and $50,029 went to “OmarsComing” when his jack-ten couldn’t get there against the dominating queen-ten in the hand of “Tayto”.

Tayto then dusted off their stack in fifth-place and got their hands on $66,706 before “MUNJOSHuHa” crashed out in fourth-place for a $94,286 addition to their partypoker bankroll.

This left Gross with only two opponents and a min-cash of almost $130,000. “LittleRussia”, the chip leader at the time, made it 7,000,000 to go and Gross looked down at . Gross held 41,111,603 chips, or 16.4 big blinds and had a real decision to make.

Gross went into the tank, pondering whether to call or jam all-in.

“It looks so inviting,” said Gross. “This one feels funny.”

After using almost all his timebank, Gross moved all-in and LittleRussia called with . The was no help for Gross, with the turn improving LittleRussia to a set. It did, however, give Gross outs to a chop. Those outs failed to arrive as the completed the board, busting Gross in third-place for $129,564 all under the watchful eyes of his Twitch family.

LittleRussia put Gross’ chips to good use, eventually defeating Fedor_Holz heads-up to lock up the $255,280 top prize. Fedor_Holz walked away with $184,725.

Big Game: $1M Gtd Phase Final

Place | Player | Prize
1 | LittleRussia | $255,280
2 | Fedor_Holz | $184,725
3 | Jeff “JeffGross” Gross | $129,564
4 | MUNJOSHuHa | $94,286
5 | Tayto | $66,706
6 | OmarsComing | $50,029
7 | Hurricanes24 | $35,277
8 | BreakingTheLAW | $25,656

You can watch Gross’ full Sunday session over on his Twitch channel. Click here for the full video.