Benjamin Rolle banked his second World Series of Poker bracelet on September 1, 2026, topping a 5,518-entry field in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker on GGPoker to win $1,366,929 and a $30,000 Super Pass into the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. The Austrian online grinder needed just over a year to go from a painful near-miss to back-to-back WSOP Online final tables, and this time he closed the deal by beating countryman Loris Gauthier heads-up for the title.
The $1,500 buy-in built a $7,863,150 prize pool, one of the larger fields of the 2026 WSOP Online summer schedule, and it confirmed Rolle as one of the format’s most consistent performers. Beyond the cash, the win extends a run that has made him a fixture at the top of online bracelet leaderboards over the past two years.
Rolle Claims His Millionaire Maker Bracelet
Rolle entered the nine-handed final table as chip leader with 89,137,795 in chips, good for 127 big blinds, a commanding stack that let him dictate the pace of play for most of the session. Millionaire Maker events are designed to be accessible, with a modest $1,500 buy-in drawing a broad mix of grinders and recreational players, but the format still rewards the kind of patient, aggressive play that online specialists like Rolle have built their careers around. By the time the field thinned to two, Rolle’s stack advantage over Gauthier proved decisive, and he closed out the win to add a second bracelet to his resume.
How the Final Table Fell
The final nine paid a steep gradient, starting at $92,590 for ninth-place finisher Marcel Kessler of Germany and climbing quickly from there. Jeremie Zouari of Luxembourg went out in eighth for $129,600, followed by Song Li of China in seventh for $181,425. Denys Chufarin and Andrii Derzhypilskyi, both of Ukraine, fell in sixth and fifth for $253,995 and $355,612 respectively, before Ilsu Lim of Thailand rounded out the money finishes in fourth for $497,905. That left Adrian Strobel, another Austrian, to fall in third for $697,152, setting up an all-Austrian heads-up battle between Rolle and Gauthier, who ultimately settled for $976,155 as the runner-up.
From Near-Miss to Two-Time Champion
Rolle’s path to a second bracelet has a redemption arc built in. In 2024, he made a deep run in the WSOP Online Main Event, busting in eighth place for $661,848, a result that stung given how close he came to the biggest prize in online poker. He got his revenge the following year, winning the 2025 WSOP Online Main Event outright for $3,907,707 and his first bracelet. Adding the Millionaire Maker title now gives him two bracelets in as many years, a stretch that places him among the most productive players in the online bracelet era. Rolle is also known off the felt as the founder of Raise Your Edge, a poker training and coaching platform, and his ability to translate that teaching background into results at the highest stakes has not gone unnoticed by peers who follow the WSOP Online scene closely.
A Deep Field With Global Reach
The 5,518-entry turnout for a $1,500 event underlines how far WSOP Online has grown as a destination for players outside the traditional live circuit. The final table alone featured players from Austria, Thailand, Ukraine, China, Luxembourg, and Germany, a spread that reflects the reach of GGPoker’s platform and the WSOP brand internationally. Brazilian players have also been heavily represented across the 2026 WSOP Online series, with multiple deep runs and bracelet finishes throughout the summer schedule, even though none reached this particular final table. For newcomers trying to understand how these fields compare to the marquee live events, Poker Pro Academy’s WSOP guide breaks down how the online and live bracelet series fit together across the calendar.
The Super Pass Adds Extra Value
Beyond the seven-figure score, Rolle’s win came bundled with a $30,000 Super Pass into the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event, the marquee live tournament in the Bahamas at the end of the year. That perk has become a standard feature of WSOP Online bracelet wins in 2026, giving online specialists a direct route into one of the richest live festivals on the calendar without having to buy in outright. For a player like Rolle, who has built his brand around online play and coaching, the pass offers a rare, low-risk chance to test his game against a stacked live field later this year, adding a storyline to watch beyond the bracelet count.
With two bracelets now to his name and a Super Pass in hand, Rolle heads into the rest of the 2026 WSOP Online calendar as one of the players to watch, and his showing sets a high bar for the online series’ remaining marquee events.
