$3,931,259 to first, $3,030,486 to second, $2,336,938 to third. The 2026 WSOP Online Main Event on GGPoker produced the three largest payouts on this ledger, and the first of them went to Andrii Novak of Ukraine, who beat Germany’s Simon Beckmann heads-up on the night of September 22 for the gold bracelet. TightPoker reported the final on September 23.
The buy-in was $5,300. The report did not state the entry count or the prize pool, and the record carries both as blank; a payout structure that pays $3.9 million to the winner implies a very large field, but the desk does not reverse-engineer entries from a prize.
The final table
Moyan Chen of China finished third for $2,336,938. Fernando Liano of Spain was fourth for $1,802,141, Charles Boissonniere of Canada fifth for $1,389,754 and Pavlo Yakovliev, the second Ukrainian at the table, sixth for $1,071,761. Arian Hassankashani of Iran took $826,555 for seventh, Yuri Nadinsky of Kazakhstan $637,476 for eighth and Pablo Silva of Brazil $491,676 for ninth.
Ninth place paid more than the winner of the $10,300 WCOOP High Main Event eight days later would collect for first ($551,632 is the exact figure, so not quite; ninth here paid $491,676, within $60,000 of it). Sixth place paid more than any first prize on the ledger outside the top three. The scale of the WSOP Online Main Event is a different scale from everything else online, including the weekly $10,000 high rollers, because the bracelet draws a field the high rollers never will.
Where the names come from
GGPoker publishes real names and countries for its bracelet finals, which is why this table has nine full names and no screen names. PokerStars does the opposite. The record follows the source: no screen names are attached here because none were printed.
Nine countries at a nine-handed final is itself a detail worth the row. Ukraine twice, then Germany, China, Spain, Canada, Iran, Kazakhstan and Brazil. The international room’s field is global in a way the US regulated rooms, pooled state by state, cannot be.
The series around it
The WSOP Online 2026 bracelet schedule on GGPoker ran through September 29. The ledger also carries three earlier events from the series with full payouts: the $500 Mini Main Event (12,113 entries, $5,753,675 pool, Zhiqiang “panzhanle” Shen), the $5,000 6-Handed Championship (466 entries, Ilia Arkhipov) and the $1,500 Monster Stack (1,482 entries, Arthur “Higher Self” Thiriart). Each bracelet winner in those events also received a $30,000 Super Pass; the Main Event report does not mention one, and the record does not assume it.
The Main Event record is dated September 22 from the report’s “last night”, with TightPoker as the source and the entry count left open. If GGPoker’s own release gives the field and the pool, the record will be updated and the note will say what changed.
- TightPoker, Sep 23, 2026