The Sunday Report, October 25: Kovalski's $464,794 GGMillion$ win, no deals on CoinPoker

The weekend ledger

Every major with a published payout table for the weekend of Oct 24, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, sorted by first prize. Entries were not published for 1 of the 4 events; a dash means the report did not state the figure.

Date	Event	Buy-in	Entries	Winner	First prize	Share of top prize
Oct 27	GGMillion$ $10K GGPoker	$10,000	237	Fabiano Kovalski BR	$464,794
Oct 25	CoinMillion CoinPoker	$215	3,655	habfer	$114,480
Oct 25	Sunday Grand CoinPoker	$1,050	—	TonyTheToenailcollector	$74,432
Oct 27	PNOC Mystery Main Event 888poker	$250	1,091	IOwnU888	$21,099 +$4,423

The weekend's biggest ladder: GGMillion$ $10K

Two hundred and thirty-seven entries at $10,000, and a winner who had reached the same final table ten times without winning it. The weekend of October 24 to 27 belongs to Fabiano Kovalski, whose $464,794 in the GGMillion$ is the biggest first prize on this edition’s ledger by more than $350,000 and the only high roller result on it. The rest of the weekend was played on CoinPoker, where two final tables were settled without a deal, on 888poker, where the PokerNews Online Championship closed its Main Event on the Tuesday, and on the Sunday majors of the other rooms, which ran as scheduled and left no payout table the desk could cite.

GGMillion$: the final table that ended a run

The GGMillion$ played its Day 1 on Sunday and its nine-handed final on Tuesday, October 27, which is why the biggest result of the weekend carries a Tuesday date. The field of 237 built a prize pool of $2,308,900 for the top 25, and the nine finalists each had $58,099 locked up before the final day began. Kovalski, from Brazil, beat Jon Vallinas of Andorra heads-up; Vallinas took $358,405, Hannes Jeschka of Austria $276,368 for third.

PokerNews put Kovalski’s count of earlier GGMillion$ final tables at ten, all without a title. The record carries the $10,000 ticket and the $10,000 GGMillion$ Live Paradise entry he also received in its notes, not in the first-prize column, following the desk’s rule that only the position prize is a prize. The full nine-handed payout is in the sidebar; the longer account is in the news story.

CoinPoker: two titles, no deals, one name again

CoinPoker’s weekend produced the other two results on file, both reported by Card Player on October 27. The $215 CoinMillion, the room’s weekly $1,000,000 guaranteed event, drew 3,655 entries and was won by habfer for $114,480, with JeffBlockers second and LiQZeRO third for $55,000. No deal was struck. The runner-up’s prize was not in the report, and the record shows the place with the money left blank rather than inferred.

The $1,050 Sunday Grand went to TonyTheToenailcollector for $74,432 over quierotuvaro, who collected $53,388. That is the screen name that won The One for a guaranteed $1,000,000 earlier in October, and Card Player counts a $215 GOPC title in September as well: three CoinPoker wins in roughly five weeks. The report gave neither entries nor pool for the Sunday Grand, so both are dashes on the ledger.

888poker: the PNOC Main Event closes on the Tuesday

The fourth result was added on November 3, from a PokerNews report of October 28. The $250 Mystery Main Event of the PokerNews Online Championship, 888poker’s 40-event series, finished on Tuesday, October 27, inside this edition’s window. It drew 1,091 entries for a $254,203 prize pool against a $250,000 guarantee, and IOwnU888 beat Aaron Barone heads-up for $21,099 plus $4,423 in bounties, $25,522 in all. Barone, who had won the $16.50 opener of the same series, took $15,375 and $1,836 in bounties for second. The eight-handed final table is in the sidebar with bounties listed beside the position prizes, and the whole 40-event series table is on the PNOC 2026 page.

It is the smallest first prize on the ledger by a wide margin, and it is on the ledger for the same reason the GGMillion$ is: a full final table was published with a source. The desk does not rank rooms by the size of their Main Event; it records what was paid.

What the week’s numbers show

Read together, the two CoinPoker results show the arithmetic of guarantees. The $215 event paid its winner $114,480 and the $1,050 event paid $74,432, the wrong way round for the buy-ins, because a $1,000,000 promise on a $215 event builds a bigger pool than a $1,050 event without a comparable guarantee can draw. The CoinMillion field was also down from 4,891 the week before to 3,655; the desk records the drop and does not read it, since one weekend is not a trend.

The GGMillion$ figure to keep is the gap between the floor and the top: $58,099 guaranteed to every finalist against $464,794 to the winner, so the final table was played for $406,695. On the high roller ledger, Vallinas’s $358,405 for second is larger than any GGMillion$ first prize in the sources on file apart from this one.

Missing from this edition

The Sunday majors on PokerStars, partypoker, ACR and the US regulated rooms ran on October 25, and the desk has no published payout table for any of them. 888poker’s Sunday schedule is also unreported; the room’s result on this edition comes from its series, not its Sunday. They are on the watchlist below. The GGMillion$ final of the previous Tuesday, October 20, is also not on file; when a table is found the edition for October 18 will be updated and dated.

Played this weekend, no payout table on file

The regular Sunday majors below run every week. The desk adds a result only when the full final table has been published, so these stay on the watchlist until a payout table is found; they are listed so a reader can see what the ledger is missing rather than guess at it.

Room	Event	Buy-in	Status
PokerStars	Sunday Million, $1,000,000 guaranteed	$109	Scheduled weekly; no payout table on file for this weekend
partypoker	Sunday Title Fight	see lobby	Scheduled weekly; no payout table on file for this weekend
Americas Cardroom	Sunday Special	see lobby	Scheduled weekly; no payout table on file for this weekend
WPT Global	Sunday satellites to the WPT World Championship	see lobby	Packages awarded weekly to November 29; no winners list on file
WSOP.com	Sunday schedule, four-state pool	see lobby	No payout tables on file
BetMGM Poker	Sunday schedule, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania	see lobby	No payout tables on file