The previous record for an online poker tournament field had stood since 2015: 253,692 entries in a PokerStars event. On Tuesday, October 13, GGPoker’s $5 Ocean KO Opener finished with 420,084, a margin of 166,392 over the old mark, and a prize pool of $1,932,386 against a $1,000,000 guarantee. Poker.org reported the final table the same evening.
The winner was Sange Savchenko of Ukraine, who beat HHHBVVVVBB of China heads-up for $52,665 in prize money plus $9,152 in bounties. It is, by first prize, one of the smaller results on the front page of the ledger. By field it is the largest result the ledger will ever have had, until someone beats it.
The payout table as published
Progressive knockout events pay two ways, and Poker.org printed both columns. Savchenko: $52,665 and $9,152 in bounties. HHHBVVVVBB, second: $53,095 and $10,062. HI-MARS, third: $33,371 and $417. Djd@shaa, fourth: $41,390 and $15,599. DrCali, fifth: $21,508 and $1,541. 3ayp, sixth: $17,429 and $1,971. Basnl, seventh: $15,597 and $3,630. SybH02, eighth: $9,664 and $400. Demonstr9925, ninth: $8,384 and $1,211.
Two things in that table do not look right, and the desk has left both as printed. The runner-up’s prize, $53,095, is larger than the winner’s $52,665. And fourth place, $41,390, is larger than third, $33,371. Neither Poker.org’s text nor the table explains it; a heads-up deal or a bounty-inclusive figure in one column would account for the first, and the second may be the same thing one row down. The record notes the inconsistency and shows the figures as published, which is the only honest way to carry a payout table whose own source did not reconcile it.
What 420,084 entries means
At $5 a bullet, with re-entries allowed, the entry count is not a count of people. GGPoker did not publish a unique-player figure, and Poker.org did not either, so the record has entries only. What can be said is that the prize pool of $1,932,386 works out to a little under $4.60 per entry going to the pool, with the rest in fees and the bounty pool, and that the room paid $932,386 more than it had guaranteed.
The old record, 253,692, was set in a PokerStars event in 2015 that Poker.org cites without naming; the desk has not independently sourced it and carries it as the figure Poker.org gave. The gap between the two numbers is the story of the decade in online poker fields: GGPoker’s network, built after the old record was set, has fields the old leader never reached.
Where it sits on the ledger
The ledger sorts by first prize on request and the Ocean KO Opener drops to the bottom third of the October results when it does. Sorted by entries it is first by a distance of almost 400,000 over The One’s 24,075. The share bar on the front page, which is first prize as a fraction of the largest on the page, shows it as a short mark next to the WSOP Online Main Event’s $3,931,259. That is the right picture: a record field and a modest prize are the same event, and the desk’s rule is to keep both numbers on the same row rather than tell the story with one of them.
The record is filed under GGPoker’s Ocean KO series with the final table dated Tuesday, October 13, 2026, from Poker.org’s posting time. The article did not give the date itself; the record says the date is derived.
- Poker.org, Oct 13, 2026