Alisson Piekazewicz’s WCOOP campaign hit a new high this week as the Brazilian pro won Event #107-High for a $77,206 payday, taking over the top of Brazil’s money list at the 2026 World Championship of Online Poker. The victory, in a $2,100 Progressive Knockout warm-up event, extends a run that already includes a BSOP Championship title, a GGMillion$ crown and a Triton mystery bounty score.
Alisson Piekazewicz’s WCOOP Win: A Small Field, Big Bounties
WCOOP 107-High only drew 13 entries, a reminder that even inside a series as massive as WCOOP, the highest buy-in tiers can produce intimate, high-variance final tables. Playing under his longtime screen name “heyalisson,” Piekazewicz worked through the short-handed field methodically, scooping up knockouts as the table thinned. By the time the tournament ended, his total prize had climbed to $77,206, and more than double that figure, $52,218, came from bounty payments rather than the base prize pool. Only about $24,988 of his total came from standard payout structure money, underlining just how aggressively he hunted knockouts rather than simply playing for the outright win.
Runner-up honors went to a player using the screen name “MezuuUuuT” from the United Kingdom, who collected $32,737 after falling in the heads-up match. Fellow Brazilian Edilson Junior, playing as “Dangerzinn,” also made the final table and finished eighth for $9,862, giving Brazil two representatives at a table that otherwise skewed heavily international.
Progressive Knockouts Reward Aggression
The Progressive Knockout format that defines WCOOP’s “Warm-Up” branded events splits each buy-in between a standard prize pool and a bounty pool attached to every player’s head. Every time a player is eliminated, whoever knocked them out collects half the bounty in cash immediately and adds the other half to their own head, compounding the reward for continuing to eliminate opponents deep into the tournament. That structure explains why Piekazewicz’s payout leaned so heavily on bounties rather than the traditional payout ladder. Aggressive, knockout-hungry players tend to thrive in PKO formats precisely because every elimination pays twice, once in cash and once in a bigger target on their own stack going forward.
A Breakout Year Building to a Peak
Piekazewicz’s 2026 has been a showcase season. Back in July, he became GGMillion$ champion in an all-Brazilian heads-up finish, and weeks later he added a $5,250 Bounty Hunters Super High Roller title on GGPoker. In August, he claimed the BSOP Championship itself for a career-best R$1.15 million live score, a result that vaulted him into the conversation as one of Brazil’s most complete tournament players across both online and live formats. Reaching the top of the WCOOP 2026 Brazilian leaderboard adds an online major to a résumé that already spanned multiple tours and formats within the same calendar year.
What sets this run apart is the range. Some players build big years by specializing in one tour or one format, riding a hot streak through similar fields against familiar opponents. Piekazewicz’s 2026 has instead spanned GGPoker Sunday majors, Triton’s ultra-high-stakes mystery bounty structures, BSOP’s live championship circuit and now PokerStars’ flagship online series, suggesting a game that travels well across formats, buy-ins and player pools.
Brazil’s Deep Bench at WCOOP 2026
Piekazewicz’s win landed during a WCOOP series that has already produced a wave of Brazilian storylines. Renan Bruschi became the first player to capture four titles in a single WCOOP edition this year, and other Brazilian names have made deep runs across both the high roller and low-to-medium buy-in schedules throughout September. The series, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2026, runs from September 6 through September 30 and spans 121 numbered events across 350 individual tournaments, with $40 million guaranteed overall. That scale means Brazilian success stories have piled up almost daily, but a $77,000 knockout-heavy score by one of the country’s most in-form players still stands out.
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What Comes Next
With less than a week remaining in WCOOP 2026 at the time of his win, Piekazewicz’s position atop the Brazilian leaderboard is not guaranteed to hold, given how many high buy-in events remain on the schedule and how quickly a single big score can reshuffle a money list this deep into a series. Still, a season that already features titles on GGPoker, a Triton final table and a live BSOP Championship now has a marquee WCOOP result to match, and Brazilian poker fans following the series have one more reason to keep an eye on the remaining high roller events before the trophies stop being handed out on September 30.
