The eighth CoinMillion was decided by a refusal. Heads-up for the $120,500 first prize on October 18, Kgbseven proposed a deal; whalefish turned it down; and the final hand went king-five against ace-ten, with the worse hand outdrawing the better one. Kgbseven took $120,500, whalefish $76,900, and the difference between them, $43,600, was the price of saying no. Card Player reported the hand on October 20.
The event is CoinPoker’s weekly $215 with $1,000,000 guaranteed, and this edition drew 4,891 entries. The prize pool was not stated in the report; the record carries the entry count and the two published prizes and leaves the pool blank.
The deal that was not made
Heads-up deals in online tournaments are routine and usually invisible: a chop by chip count, a small premium for the title, both players walk away with a figure between first and second. What makes this one a story is the refusal and what it cost. Had whalefish accepted something close to an ICM split, the two prizes would have been within a few thousand dollars of each other. Instead the ladder paid out in full, and the refusing player finished on the wrong side of it.
The desk records the result, not the decision. But a reader comparing the two CoinMillion final tables on the ledger will notice that neither this week nor the following one ended in a deal, and that in both cases the payout table shows the full gap between first and second. On the October 25 edition, habfer beat JeffBlockers with no deal struck and a $114,480 first prize.
Fields at the $215 level
Two consecutive weeks give a first look at the size of the CoinMillion field: 4,891 entries on October 18, 3,655 on October 25. The $1,000,000 guarantee is met at about 4,650 entries if the full $215 went to the pool; the room takes a fee from each entry, so the exact break-even depends on the fee structure, which the reports do not give. On the second weekend the guarantee was almost certainly covering an overlay. The desk notes the possibility and does not state it as fact, because no source has.
What the two weeks do establish is that the CoinMillion is, for now, the largest regular field on a crypto-denominated room that the ledger tracks, and that its winners are published by screen name only. Kgbseven appears in Card Player’s results history table as “KGBseven”, a capitalisation difference the record preserves in its notes.
The record
The October 18 CoinMillion is on the ledger with the date as the play date, taken from Card Player’s results table, and with the first two places as the only published payouts. No real names, no countries; CoinPoker does not publish them. Payouts are denominated in USDT on the room and shown in dollars as the report printed them.
The next edition’s result is the one to put beside this: it will show whether the refused deal was a one-off or the way the CoinMillion final table is going to be played.
- Card Player, Oct 20, 2026