Lucas Ferreira Wins $300 Gladiators of Poker ($579,752)

Brazilian players are two for two in the 2026 GGPoker WSOP Online festival, after Lucas Ferreira triumphed in #2: $300 Gladiators of Poker. Earlier this week, Raphael Caixeta won #1: $700 7th Annual WSOP Kick-Off for $207,167. Ferreira’s victory earned him a cool $579,752.

The second of 33 bracelet-awarding events saw 17,077 entrants, who were whittled to 1,307 on Day 1. Those surviving players returned to their seats and continued playing until only nine of them remained. $2,287,090 of the $4,764,483 prize pool was left to play for at the final table.

Ferreira, playing under the alias “Fino y Elegante,” had almost twice as many chips as anyone else at the final table. The Brazilian ace sat down with 140 big blinds, with Russia’s Vladislav Saprykin and Rafael Santanna Barcia occupying second and third place with 77 and 52 big blinds, respectively.

#2: $300 Gladiators of Poker Final Table Chip Counts

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Poland’s Michal Nocon was the shortest stack at the start of the final table, and he was also the first player sent to the rail. Nocon collected $72,417 for his ninth-place exit.

Rishi Mehra of Singapore and Brazil’s Luciano Hollanda were the next finalists relieved of their stacks. They took home $93,906 and $121,774, respectively, for their $300 investments.

Sixth place and $157,914 went to Kevin John before Jian Zhao saw their deep run end in a fifth-place finish worth an impressive $204,781. Russia’s Vladislav Saprykin busted in fourth for $265,561, with the elimination of Rafael Santanna Barcia in third, worth $344,383, sending the $300 Gladiators of Poker into the heads-up stage.

With a $133,150 chasm between first and second place’s prizes, nobody would have batted an eyelid had Ferreira or Sunaina Bhartia struck a deal to lessen the pay jumps. However, no such deal happened, and the tournament played out naturally.

Ferreira defeated his final opponents and helped himself to a $579,752 payday, plus a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. The runner-up added $446,602 to their GGPoker account.

#2: $300 Gladiators of Poker Final Table Results

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Arsenii Karmatckii Leads the Final 20 in the $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship

Event #3: $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship saw 781 players buy-in, but only 20 of them remain in contention for the title and the bracelet.

Arsenii Karmatckii (4,754,718) is the chip leader going into the final day. He has already accumulated $19,640 worth of bounties and is now only a few hours away from potentially adding more bounties plus the $127,888 first-place prize to his bankroll.

Nikita Kalinin (4,331,654) returns within touching distance of Karmatckii, with Argentina’s Leandro Bianchini (3,622,598) in third. The current top 10 is shown below.

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Play resumes at 7:00 p.m. BST on August 19, with play continuing until a champion emerges.

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.