Three Bracelets Awarded as Nikita Kalinin Wins Bounty NLH Event

The 2026 WSOP Online festival on GGPoker has reached its fourth scheduled event after Nikita Kalinin captured Event #3: $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship for $276,239 and a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

Kalinin's victory added another bracelet to the festival after Lucas Teixeira Rodrigues won Event #2: $300 Gladiators of Poker. The next bracelet event on the schedule is Event #4: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha.

Event #3 attracted 781 entries and generated a $1,854,875 prize pool. After Day 1 concluded with 20 players remaining, Kalinin returned for the decisive stages with the second-largest stack. The field was subsequently reduced from 20 players to the eventual champion.

Belarusian player "Rinat M" was eliminated in ninth place for $41,670. Luigi Soncin followed in eighth place, earning $44,689.

Ivan Ilichev then turned his $2,500 buy-in into a $50,056 payout with a seventh-place finish. Serbia's "firfir" was the next player eliminated, collecting $75,739 and leaving five players in contention for the title and top prize.

The final five became four when start-of-the-day chip leader Arsenii Karmatckii was eliminated. Karmatckii received $87,363 for his finish.

Pedro Neves was the next player to fall, taking home $97,558. His elimination reduced the field to three players and guaranteed a six-figure score, with bounties included, for each remaining competitor.

Kalinin ultimately secured the Event #3 championship, earning $276,239 in prize money along with the $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

The next bracelet of the 2026 WSOP Online festival is scheduled to be awarded in a couple of days.

Event #4: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha is scheduled to shuffle up and deal at 7:00 p.m. BST on August 20. Day 1 is set to conclude after Level 30 or once the final table is reached, whichever comes first.

Several established names are already registered for the event, including Lex "LexVeldhuis" Veldhuis, Rainer Kempe, Jessica Teusl, and Nick Maimone.

Brazilian players have recorded two victories from the first two events of the 2026 GGPoker WSOP Online festival, with Lucas Teixeira Rodrigues winning Event #2: $300 Gladiators of Poker.

Earlier in the week, Raphael Caixeta won Event #1: $700 7th Annual WSOP Kick-Off for $207,167. The supplied tournament details also state that Ferreira's victory earned $579,752.

Event #2 was the second of the festival's 33 bracelet-awarding events and attracted 17,077 entrants. The field was reduced to 1,307 players on Day 1 before those survivors continued until only nine players remained. When the final table was reached, $2,287,090 of the $4,764,483 prize pool remained to be contested.

Teixeira competed under the alias "Fino y Elegante" and entered the final table with almost twice as many chips as any other player. 

The Brazilian held 140 big blinds, while Russia's Vladislav Saprykin and Rafael Santanna Barcia occupied second and third place with 77 and 52 big blinds, respectively.

Teixeira defeated his remaining opponents to claim the bracelet and a $579,752 payday. His victory also included a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

The first three bracelet events have produced victories for players from Brazil, along with Belarusian player Nikita Kalinin's championship run in the $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship.

Kalinin's Event #3 victory delivered $276,239 and another bracelet to the 2026 WSOP Online festival. His $30,000 Super Pass provides an additional prize tied to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

With Event #4: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha next on the schedule, the festival continues with another bracelet up for grabs and several recognizable players already registered.