Eduardo Viana won the BSOP Floripa High Roller on September 4, 2026, outlasting a 65-entry field in the R$10,000 1-Day High Roller at the Costão do Santinho resort in Florianópolis to bank R$147,400 on the opening day of Brazil’s newest live poker stop. The victory made Viana the first marquee champion crowned at a festival that marks the return of the Brazilian Series of Poker to Santa Catarina after eight years away, and it set an early tone for what organizers are billing as one of the deepest stops on the 2026 BSOP calendar.
Runner-up Ricardo Duarte earned R$98,400 for his effort, while Kaio Camargo rounded out the podium in third for R$76,500, in a field that packed 65 entries into a single day of poker, exactly the kind of condensed, high-intensity structure that has made BSOP’s 1-Day High Rollers popular with players who cannot commit to a full multi-day live schedule.
Viana Wins the BSOP Floripa High Roller
The R$10,000 buy-in event drew a mix of BSOP regulars and local Santa Catarina grinders looking to make a splash on home turf, and the compact single-day format meant the entire tournament, from opening blinds to the final hand, played out in one long session. That structure tends to reward players who can stay sharp through late-stage escalating blinds without the benefit of a dinner break or overnight bag, and Viana’s ability to close out the title in the same day he started it underlined the stamina the format demands.
The final table paid nine spots, with the payouts climbing steeply once the money bubble burst. Lucas Scafini was the first to fall at the unofficial final table, collecting R$16,830 for ninth, before Laurie Tournier exited in eighth for R$21,700. Gustavo Dias followed in seventh for R$27,900, and Fabio De Lima took eighth-figure money of his own in sixth for R$35,900. Victor Macedo’s run ended in fifth for R$46,200, and Vinicius Goncalves banked R$59,400 for fourth, setting up a three-way finish between Camargo, Duarte and Viana.
How the Final Three Played Out
Camargo’s third-place finish for R$76,500 left Viana and Duarte to battle heads-up for the title and the difference between R$147,400 and R$98,400, a gap of nearly R$49,000 that made the final exchanges of the match matter enormously to both players. Viana ultimately came out on top, closing the tournament as the first High Roller champion of the festival and giving BSOP Floripa its first big storyline of the week.
For a single-day event, the payout structure was unusually top-heavy, a common feature of BSOP’s High Roller offerings that rewards players willing to accept the variance of a shorter, sharper structure in exchange for a bigger score if they go the distance. Viana’s R$147,400 payday is a meaningful result even by the standards of BSOP’s high-buy-in schedule, and it immediately established him as one of the names to watch through the rest of the festival.
Other Champions Crowned on Day One
Viana’s High Roller was not the only title decided on the opening day at Costão do Santinho. Alexandre Arantes won the R$4,000 1-Day PKO, a bounty-format event that drew 54 entries and paid Arantes R$50,000 once bounty collections were factored in, with Rafael Mota finishing runner-up for R$38,000. In the R$2,500 HORSE event, a mixed-game staple of the BSOP low-to-mid stakes schedule, Luiz Hota outlasted 24 entries and struck a heads-up deal with Luiz Armando Righetti to secure R$18,700. Players newer to the rotating game formats used in HORSE tournaments can find a breakdown of the basics in Poker Pro Academy’s guide on how to play poker, which covers the core mechanics that carry over between game types.
Rounding out the day, Russian player Aleksandr Diudiaev topped a 185-entry field in the Super 500 turbo event to win R$16,000, a result that highlighted the international flavor BSOP has increasingly attracted as its reputation has grown beyond Brazil’s borders. Four champions crowned in a single day, across buy-ins ranging from R$500 to R$10,000, gave Costão do Santinho a busy and lucrative start to festival week.
BSOP Floripa’s Return After Eight Years
BSOP Floripa carries extra significance this year as the tour’s return to Florianópolis after an eight-year absence, part of a 2026 calendar that has taken the Brazilian Series of Poker, sponsored by PokerStars, to venues across the country in what organizers have positioned as one of the sport’s most ambitious live schedules to date. The stop is the fifth of six events on this year’s BSOP calendar, and the strong turnout across all four opening-day tournaments suggests the festival has lived up to the anticipation built during months of satellite qualifiers on PokerStars that sent dozens of players to Florianópolis for a shot at the Costão do Santinho felt.
What Comes Next for BSOP
BSOP Floripa continues through the rest of its schedule with additional High Rollers and side events still to be contested, and the tour’s next major stop, BSOP Millions 2026, has already been announced with a R$5 million guarantee for its Millionaire Maker and a R$15 million guarantee for its Championship event, figures that would rank among the largest guarantees in the tour’s history. For Viana, the win in Florianópolis adds a fresh six-figure score to his résumé and a psychological edge heading into the rest of a festival that still has plenty of poker left to play, while the rest of the field now knows exactly what kind of level BSOP Floripa’s High Roller lineup is capable of producing.
