Bracelet / Ring
08/26/26
WSOP Online Event #3: $2,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold'em Championship - $127,888 plus $148,351 in bounties, $276,239 combined
Russian, resident in Mexico and listed under the Mexican flag. First bracelet. 781 entries, $1,854,875 pool, which divides to exactly $2,375 per entry. Beat Audrius Stakelis heads-up by one dollar of tournament prize money, $127,888 to $127,887, which is what a chop looks like when the bounties are left in the middle. His bounty income exceeded his prize money.
Bracelet / Ring
08/24/26
WSOP Online Event #3: $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship - $276,239
First bracelet. Listed as Mexico in the GGPoker lobby. 781 entries, $1,854,875 prize pool. $148,351 of the score was bounties against $127,888 in placement money, so the majority of the win came from knockouts. Also received a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. PokerNews' own meta description says 'more than $279,000' while its headline and body say $276,239; we are using the figure that matches the published final table. Zero POY points.
Race Watch
08/24/26
First bracelet, 0 POY points
Won WSOP Online Event #3 for $276,239. Under the rule published on wsop.com/player-of-the-year, online bracelet events do not count toward POY. He earned nothing on the leaderboard. He did earn a $30,000 Super Pass to the Paradise Super Main, which is worth more than most POY finishing positions pay.