Aleksandr Kropotov Wins the Mystery Million For $631K

A Russian player showing as Aleksandr Kropotov in the GGPoker lobby is the latest player to become a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. Kropotov, using the alias “sasha1317!” dominated the $250 Mystery Millions final table, eliminating all but one of his opponents, and emerging with a $631,459 score, a WSOP bracelet, and a $30,000 Super Pass to the Super Main Event at the 2026 WSOP Paradise festival.

The $250 Mystery Millions featured dozens of Day 1s, ultimately resulting in a 47,798-strong field and a $10,993,540 prize pool. As PokerNews reported yesterday, the $1 million jackpot bounty was won by “DrAvacado” on Day 2, as the 4,083 returning players were reduced to only nine.

#17: $250 Mystery Millions Final Table Results

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With bounty payments included, all but one of the nine finalists saw a six-figure prize land in their GGPoker account.

Denys Chufarin was the player who missed out on such a prize. He sat down at the final table as the shortest stack and was the first player heading for the exits, doing so with $85,282 for his efforts.

Andorra-based Spaniard Francisco Zufia was eliminated in eighth for $101,691 before Gay Peng Tan of Malaysia was sent packing in seventh place, a finish good for $132,486.

After pulling $142,050 in mystery bounty payments, Eric Bonin banked a $306,963 prize after busting in sixth. Norman Schreck and Mikhail Suy joined the ever-growing list of eliminated players, which left only a trio of grinders hunting for the title. Schreck and Suy won $220,753 and $283,313, respectively.

The $250 Mystery Millions advanced to the heads-up stage when Oliver Bosch bowed out in third with a $363,048 payout. Heads-up pitted Kropotov against Canadian Jessica Moors. Kropotov claimed his seventh scalp of the final table, resigning Moors to a still impressive $480,160, and locking in $631,459 for himself.

Kropotov will now compete in the $50 million guaranteed WSOP Paradise Super Main Event thanks to the generosity of GGPoker. The online poker giant is giving a $30,000 Super Pass to the champions of all 33 bracelet events that make up the 2026 WSOP Online.

Max Stenberg On Course for First Bracelet and $282K

The $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship drew 327 entrants, creating a $1,553,250 prize pool. Only seven of those starters have chips, and none has more chips than Sweden’s Max Stenberg.

Stenberg sits down at the final table at 7:00 p.m. BST on September 9 armed with 3,904,243 chips, or 78 big blinds. Romanian Narcis Nedelcu (3,578,396) is hot on the Swede’s heels, with Lautaro Guerra (3,212,777) completing the podium places.

None of the finalists is particularly short-stacked, with Andreas Freund (1,151,144) bringing up the rear with a 23 big blind stack.

Each of the finalists will walk away with no less than $47,020, but with $282,125, a $30,000 Super Pass, and the all-important WSOP bracelet awaiting the winner, nobody will want to claim the lowest prize.

#18: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Final Table Chip Counts

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.