Andrii Novak has turned the biggest stack at the 2026 WSOP Online Main Event final table into his first World Series of Poker bracelet and a $3,931,259 payday.
The Ukrainian high-stakes regular topped 6,008 entries in the $5,000 Main Event on GGPoker, closing out a $28,538,000 tournament that comfortably beat its $25 million guarantee. He started the final nine with the chip lead, lost control of the table as Simon Beckmann surged, then came from behind heads-up to finish the job.
That last part matters. This was not a three-and-a-half-hour procession for the chip leader. Novak had to absorb the sort of swings that make a nine-handed online final table with almost $4 million up top rather less comfortable than it looks on a lobby screen.
Novak Starts With 108 Big Blinds
The final table began with Novak holding 86,787,252 chips, around 108 big blinds. Beckmann was the closest challenger with 70,950,594, while Brazil’s Pablo Silva started third with 45,738,992.
Those stacks were unusually deep for a final table carrying this much ICM pressure. Ninth place was already worth $491,676, sixth paid more than $1 million and every step from there became increasingly expensive. The gap between first and second alone was just over $900,000.
Poker Type had already followed the Main Event as the field pushed the prize pool beyond $28.5 million. The final total of $28,538,000 came from 6,008 entries, edging past the 5,961 entries recorded in 2025 while remaining short of the 6,146-entry 2024 edition.
Silva was the first player out, despite beginning the night third in chips. He four-bet shoved into Beckmann and lost the confrontation, collecting $491,676 in ninth. Yury Nadinsky followed in eighth for $637,476 before Arian Hassankashani departed seventh for $826,555.
Seven Figures Arrive at Sixth Place
The money became properly enormous once six players remained. Pavlo Yakovliev, the second Ukrainian at the table, finished sixth for $1,071,761 after a river completed Moyan Chen’s flush. Charles La Boissonniere then fell in fifth for $1,389,754, with Novak taking a key pot to steady his position.
Fernando Jose Liano reached fourth and collected $1,802,141. Chen’s run ended in third for $2,336,938 after Beckmann called his turn shove with a draw and got there on the river, a pot that sent the Austrian into heads-up with more than twice Novak’s stack.
For a player who had led the tournament into the final table, that was the point where Novak’s title bid could easily have slipped away. Instead, he began picking off smaller pots and reduced the deficit before finding the double that flipped the match.
Beckmann limped the button and then shoved over Novak’s raise. Novak called, won the all-in and suddenly held the lead that mattered. Only a few pots later, Beckmann committed his remaining chips against another Novak shove and could not recover, leaving him with a still enormous $3,030,486 runner-up prize.
A First Bracelet on Poker’s Biggest Online Stage
Novak’s $3.93 million score comes with his first WSOP bracelet and a $30,000 Super Pass for December’s WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. All 33 bracelet winners from this year’s international online series receive the package, adding a live trip to the Bahamas to the usual gold and prize money.
The win also puts a very different number next to Novak’s name. Before this week, his recorded live tournament results did not remotely resemble a $3.9 million score. Online high-stakes regulars can build careers that are only partially visible through live databases, but even by that standard this is a career-defining result.
It has been a particularly lively final stretch to the online series. Andreas Freund recently won his first WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 PLO, a final table that included Daniel Negreanu, while Negreanu’s decision to travel to Vancouver for the international schedule has put extra attention on the closing bracelet events.
2026 WSOP Online Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrii Novak | $3,931,259 |
| 2 | Simon Beckmann | $3,030,486 |
| 3 | Moyan Chen | $2,336,938 |
| 4 | Fernando Jose Liano | $1,802,141 |
| 5 | Charles La Boissonniere | $1,389,754 |
| 6 | Pavlo Yakovliev | $1,071,761 |
| 7 | Arian Hassankashani | $826,555 |
| 8 | Yury Nadinsky | $637,476 |
| 9 | Pablo Silva | $491,676 |
The numbers underline just how much was riding on the closing hands. Six players became millionaires from the final table alone, and the champion earned almost eight times the ninth-place payout.
WSOP Online Still Has Business Left
The Main Event bracelet is the headline title of the online festival, but it does not close the series. The remaining schedule runs through September 29, giving the high-stakes crowd more chances to add bracelets before attention shifts toward WSOP Paradise in December.
Novak will arrive there with considerably more than a free seat and hotel arrangements to talk about. He entered Tuesday’s final table as the man everyone had to catch, was overtaken when the pressure increased, and still found a route back. At a final table where every surviving player was already guaranteed nearly half a million dollars, recovering from a two-to-one heads-up deficit was a useful time to produce his best stretch of poker.
