Alisson Piekazewicz is putting together one of the standout Brazilian poker seasons of 2026, and he added another line to that résumé on August 16, when he won the US$5,250 Bounty Hunters Super HR, a WSOP-branded high roller running exclusively on GGPoker, according to SuperPoker. Playing under the username “A Piekazewicz,” he topped a 39-entry field to bank a first-place prize of US$86,839, a result standing entirely on its own from the two other titles he has already claimed this year.
A Third Big Result in a Career-Defining Stretch
This is not the first time in 2026 that Piekazewicz’s name has topped a leaderboard. On August 1, he won the BSOP Championship for R$1.15 million, a live title that cemented his status on Brazil’s premier live tour. Six weeks earlier, on July 15, he took down the GGMillion$ in an all-Brazilian heads-up battle, a marquee online score against a fellow countryman. The Bounty Hunters Super HR win on August 16 is a separate, standalone result on top of those two, and together the three titles show a player performing at a high level across both live and online formats in the same calendar year, something relatively few players manage to do consistently.
Stacking results across different tours, buy-in levels, and formats is one of the clearer signals of a player entering a genuine peak. A live championship win demonstrates the ability to grind through days of play and close out a final table in person, while online high roller titles require reading opponents through bet-sizing patterns and adjusting quickly across a compressed structure. Doing both in the same year is the kind of résumé line that tends to draw attention from sponsors, staking groups, and rival professionals alike.
Alisson Piekazewicz’s GGPoker Bounty Hunters Super HR Win
The Bounty Hunters Super HR series sits among GGPoker’s higher buy-in offerings, carrying the WSOP brand that the platform has held the exclusive online rights to since its partnership with the World Series of Poker began. A US$5,250 buy-in keeps the field selective by design, and a turnout of 39 entries on August 16 reflects that high-stakes, high-skill environment rather than the mass-field tournaments that dominate the rest of the online schedule. Piekazewicz’s US$86,839 first-place prize came from outlasting that compact but talented field, notable given how experienced the typical player pool is at a buy-in bracket this high.
Smaller fields at this buy-in level tend to produce sharper, more technically demanding play than mass-entry tournaments, since nearly every opponent remaining by the later stages is a proven high-stakes grinder rather than a recreational player hoping to run deep. Winning a field like that requires consistent decision-making over a long session, a meaningful marker of form rather than a one-off score.
What Makes a Bounty Hunters Format Different
The “Bounty Hunters” name signals a progressive knockout, or PKO, structure, one of the most popular innovations in modern tournament poker. In a PKO event, part of every player’s buy-in is set aside as a bounty on their own head. Eliminate an opponent and you collect a portion of their bounty in cash immediately, while the rest gets added to your own bounty and carries forward. That structure changes the math of nearly every all-in decision late in a tournament, since a player is weighing not just the pot and the remaining chips in play, but the separate cash prize attached to knocking an opponent out.
For players still building an understanding of tournament structures like this one, Poker Pro Academy’s WSOP guide breaks down how bracelet-adjacent and branded high roller events are typically structured, from buy-in tiers to the mechanics that separate knockout formats from standard freezeouts. GGPoker’s status as the exclusive home of WSOP-branded online events is part of why a field this compact still draws the level of talent it does. Serious players know that a WSOP-branded high roller, even a smaller one like this US$5,250 event, carries prestige and a player pool to match.
Brazil’s Broader Day on GGPoker
Piekazewicz’s win was far from the only strong Brazilian result on GGPoker that day. In the US$1,050 GGMasters High Rollers, which drew 905 entries, João Sydens finished 4th for US$58,389, Fábio Bonatto finished 6th for US$34,718, and Rodrigo Seiji finished 7th for US$26,771, three deep runs from three different Brazilians in the same event. In the US$1,050 Sunday Showdown HR, which pulled in 497 entries, Nello Neto, playing as “N Neto,” finished runner-up for US$54,711. Further down the buy-in scale, “palmo1bissa2” took 3rd in the US$54 Sunday Mystery Bounty for US$40,345, Diego Arcas won the US$44 Bounty Hunters outright for US$26,530, and Fernando Neri won The Weekender US$250K GTD for US$25,418.
Taken together, that spread of results from US$44 all the way up to Piekazewicz’s US$5,250 title shows a Brazilian player base with depth at every tier of the GGPoker schedule, not just at the very top, with six or more Brazilian players cashing deep across separate tournaments on the same platform on the same day.
Why Brazilian Players Keep Showing Up at the Top
Brazil’s rise as an online high-stakes force has been building for years, driven by a large, engaged domestic poker community, a strong culture of studying the game seriously, and easy access to platforms like GGPoker that host WSOP-branded events without requiring international travel. Add a thriving live scene anchored by tours like BSOP, which lets players build bankroll and reputation before testing themselves online, and it is easier to understand why a name like Piekazewicz can stack a live championship, an online heads-up title, and a WSOP-branded high roller win inside a matter of weeks.
Players newer to the game who want a grounding in the basics before tackling the strategic layers that events like this demand can start with Poker Pro Academy’s guide to poker hand rankings.
A Strong Season, Approached Responsibly
Whatever comes next for Piekazewicz in 2026, this latest title adds real weight to a year that already included a seven-figure live score and a signature online win against a fellow Brazilian. It is worth remembering that outcomes like this represent the visible tip of a much larger sample of play, and that no result guarantees future income or success at the tables. Online poker tournaments of this kind are intended for adults aged 18 and over, or the legal age required in their jurisdiction, and players at every level are encouraged to treat the game as entertainment, play within their means, and seek support from a responsible gaming resource if their play ever starts to feel like a problem rather than a hobby.
