Bruno Ikeda Wins the $500 NLH Deepstack Championship

Back in 2022, Bruno Ikeda fell at the final hurdle in the $840 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Bounty online bracelet event at GGPoker. He lost a heads-up battle against Joni Jouhkimainen and narrowly missed out on a coveted World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet.

Four years later, Ikeda finally captured some WSOP hardware by taking down Event #16: $500 Deepstack NLH Championship online at GGPoker. Ikeda scooped $194,703 of the $1,886,225 prize pool, while denying fellow Brazilian Lucas Teixeria his second bracelet of the 2026 WSOP Online series.

#16: $500 Deepstack NLH Championship Final Table Results

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The top 465 finishers from the 3,971-strong field saw a return on their investment. Such luminaries as Tom Talboom, Samuel Vousden, John Juanda, Sergi Reixach, Darryll Fish, Jamie Dwan, and Joris Ruijs finished in the money places.

South Korea’s Seunghyuk Jung popped the final table bubble and was eliminated in 10th place, securing a seat in the spotlight and at least $27,814 for the nine surviving players.

Artem Aiutkulov‘s time at the final table was limited because he busted in ninth place for the aforementioned $27,814. Mykola Kotovych and Malaysian Eng Soon Ewe joined Aiutkulov on the sidelines, leaving only six players in contention for the event’s bracelet and the glory that comes with capturing one.

Sixth place and $57,701 went to Boris Angelov before Finnish star Juho Suutari was eliminated in fifth for $73,950.

As has been the case quite frequently during the 2026 WSOP Online, South Americans dominated the final stages of the event.

One of them, Argentina’s Lucas Pochat, ran out of steam and had to make do with the $93,855 fourth-place prize. His exit left two Brazilians battling with a German. Yannick Schneider came unstuck in third, a finish good for $121,523, which guaranteed there would be a fourth bracelet win of the series for the boys from Brazil.

Ikeda finished the job in the heads-up battle with Teixeira and laid claim to the $197,671 top prize, a WSOP bracelet, and a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. Teixiera, who won the $300 Gladiators of Poker bracelet event last month for $579,752, added another $154,987 to his bankroll.

Only Nine Remain in the $250 Mystery Millions Event

The $250 Mystery Millions concludes on September 8 after its 47,798-strong field was whittled to a much more manageable final table of nine. That bumper crowd has resulted in some huge final table payouts, with the eventual champion set to bank $606,929.

A $1 million mystery bounty was won before the final table was set. Germany’s “DrAvacado” fell in 169th place for $2,077 plus a staggering $1,001,120 in bounties for a total haul weighing in at $1,003,197.

Alexander Kropotov leads the way when the final table action commences at 7:00 p.m. BST on September 8. He returns to the fray armed with 120 big blinds, significantly more than Mikhail Suy in second place, who has a 71 big blind stack.

There is the chance of a female champion because Canada’s Jessica Moors sits down in fifth place with 31 big blinds at her disposal. Denys Chufarin, fresh from a sixth-place finish in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, is the final table’s shortest stack with 13 big blinds.

#17: $250 Mystery Millions Final Table Chip Counts

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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.