Two hundred and eighty-nine entries, $10,300 each, $551,632 to the winner. That is the 2026 WCOOP Main Event (High) in three numbers, and it is also the shape of every online high roller tournament: a small field, a large buy-in, and a first prize that would take a $109 player four years of Sunday finals to match. The format is where the professionals meet, where the rooms put their biggest guarantees per seat, and where a results ledger earns its keep, because the same names return week after week and the money per hand is unlike anything else on the schedule.
Buy-in tiers: what the rooms call high roller tournaments
The label on high roller tournaments is a pricing decision made by each room, so the first thing to check is the number next to it. On the ledger the desk tags an event as high roller from $5,000 upward, which matches how PokerStars and GGPoker use the term. The band breaks down like this:
| Tier | Typical buy-in | Where it runs | Events on file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-stakes "High Roller" | $320 to $1,050 | 888poker XL series, CoinPoker Sunday Grand, smaller rooms | 888 XL Autumn #08, #13, #19, #33; Sunday Grand |
| High tier / Main Event (Medium) | $1,050 to $5,000 | WCOOP and SCOOP Medium tiers, WSOP Online $1,500 events | 5 events |
| High roller | $5,000 to $10,300 | GGMillion$, WCOOP/SCOOP High tiers, WSOP Online championships | 8 events |
| Super high roller | $25,000 and up | WSOP Online, SCOOP and WCOOP High tiers in selected years | none yet with a 2026 payout table |
The gap between the second and third rows is where the field changes character. At $1,050 the WCOOP Main Event drew 2,310 entries; at $10,300, 289. The $1,500 Monster Stack at WSOP Online had 1,482 entries, the $5,000 6-Handed Championship 466. Each step up in price loses roughly four-fifths of the field, and the players who remain are the ones who treat the buy-in as a working cost.
The biggest online high roller scores on file
Sorted by first prize, with the buy-in and field beside each so the number can be read in context. The WSOP Online Main Event sits at the top because it is a bracelet event with a far larger field than the weekly high rollers; the sources on file did not publish its entry count.
| Date | Event | Buy-in | Entries | Winner | First prize | Share of top prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 | WSOP Online Main Event  GGPoker | $5,300 | — | Andrii Novak UA | $3,931,259 | |
| Sep 30 | WCOOP 108-H Main Event  PokerStars | $10,300 | 289 | Felipe Boianovsky (lipe piv) BR | $551,632 | |
| Oct 27 | GGMillion$ $10K GGPoker | $10,000 | 237 | Fabiano Kovalski BR | $464,794 | |
| Nov 3 | GGMillion$ $10K GGPoker | $10,000 | 202 | Vladimir Minko MX | $404,362 | |
| Mar 25 | SCOOP 119-H Main Event PokerStars | $5,200 | 443 | Christian Jeppsson (eisenhower1) SE | $397,025 | |
| Sep 1* | WSOP Online #8 6-Max Championship GGPoker | $5,000 | 466 | Ilia Arkhipov BY | $371,793 | |
| Oct 8* | WCOOP PLO Main Event (High) PokerStars | $10,300 | 47 | Aku Joentausta (Aku1206) FI | $179,610 | |
| Mar 24 | SCOOP 127-H PLO Main Event PokerStars | $5,200 | 76 | Prudently DK | $119,975 |
Every row opens to the full final table. The desk adds to this list only when a payout table has been published; estimates and lobby screenshots are not used.
Structures: why the final table is played for the difference
Online high roller tournaments share a structure built for small fields, and the super high roller events above them stretch the same structure further. Levels run longer than on the main schedule, starting stacks are deeper, and the biggest events split across days: GGMillion$ plays Day 1 on Sunday and its nine-handed final on Tuesday, with each finalist guaranteed $58,099 before a card is dealt on the final day. The last nine players in a 237-entry $10,000 event are therefore playing for the gap between $58,099 and $464,794, a spread that explains both the deals and the refusals that make the news.
Re-entry is the norm. Most events allow one or two re-entries per flight, and the entry counts on this site include them; the unique-player count is recorded where a source gave one. Bounty formats exist at this level too, and when they do the ledger lists the bounty money after a plus sign, because the rooms list it separately from the position prize.
The payout shape of a $10,000 high roller
The GGMillion$ $10,000 High Roller (week of October 26, 2026), drawn to scale from its published payout table: the ladder flattens quickly below the top three.
Who plays, and why the same names keep appearing
Read the final tables on file and a cast emerges. Benny Glaser, 19 WCOOP titles, won two events in one night in September and finished second in the SCOOP $1,050 PLO Main Event. Talal Shakerchi made the final table of both the WCOOP $530 Stud and the SCOOP $5,200 PLO. Patrick Leonard and Ole Schemion were at the same PLO final; Mikita Badziakouski and Joseph Cheong at the WSOP Online 6-Handed Championship. Fabiano Kovalski reached eleven GGMillion$ final tables before winning one, and a week later Juan Dominguez lost the heads-up that would have been his sixth title in the same event. The high roller pool is small enough that a weekly results desk reads like a league table of perhaps a few hundred players.
That has a practical consequence for anyone reading the results as form. A $10,000 field of 237 one week and 202 the next is not a random sample of the poker public; it is close to the same two hundred names every week, and a deep run in it says more about a player than a deep run in a 14,533-entry Low tier. The ledger makes the comparison possible by keeping the field size on every row.
Online versus live: the biggest high roller events are not these
A reader coming from the live circuit should recalibrate. The live super high roller scene in October 2026 produced a $1,150,000 first prize in the Super High Roller Bowl PLO IV from 32 entries, a $950,440 win for Brandon Wilson in Super High Roller Bowl XI, and Adrian Mateos's $4,334,411 for the WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller earlier in the year. Online, the buy-ins top out an order of magnitude lower and the first prizes with them, except at the bracelet Main Events where the field does the work. This site records the online results only; the live figures are mentioned here to set the scale.
Online high roller tournaments in the United States
The international rooms do not serve US players, so the US high roller scene runs on WSOP.com, the only regulated platform awarding bracelets online, across Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and on BetMGM Poker in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Flutter announced in March 2026 that PokerStars' standalone US platforms would be folded into FanDuel. The US pools are separate per state with limited interstate sharing, so a $5,300 event there draws a fraction of the GGPoker field; the results are recorded in the same format and the room profiles explain the market.
Reading a high roller result: a short checklist
- Check the buy-in before the label. A "High Roller" at $320 and one at $10,300 are different sports.
- Check whether entries include re-entries, and whether the source gave a unique-player count.
- Separate the position prize from bounties, tickets and passes. The ledger does; many headlines do not.
- Note whether the event was a tier of a Main Event or a standalone high roller. The WCOOP High Main Event is both a Main Event and a $10,300 high roller.
- Look at the final table, not just the winner. At this level the runner-up's $412,914 is a story in itself.
Something the published tables cannot tell you, and the desk will not guess at, is how many of those 289 entries were second bullets from the same players. The rooms know; the reports rarely say. Until a source does, the entries column stays as printed.