Bustout
08/26/26
WSOP Online Event #3: $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship - 2nd, $127,887 plus $8,187 in bounties
Cyprus. Finished exactly one dollar behind Nikita Kalinin in tournament prize money and $140,164 behind once bounties are counted. The bounty column, not the payout column, decided this tournament.
Bustout
08/24/26
WSOP Online Event #3: $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship - 2nd, $136,074
Cyprus. Finished $11 behind Kalinin in placement money at $127,887 to $127,888, and $140,164 behind him overall, because Kalinin collected $148,351 in final bounties to Stakelis' $8,187. The bracelet and the money were both decided by knockouts, not by the pay jump.