Brazil’s remarkable run through the 2026 WSOP Online continued on September 16, as Daniel Marquesin, playing under the screen name “Granadaowns,” won Event #24, the $1,000 Mid-Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Championship, for $205,381 and his first career bracelet. He did it the way so many Brazilian winners have done it this series: by beating a fellow countryman heads-up.
A 1,866-Entry Field Comes Down to Two Brazilians
Event #24 drew 1,866 entries, building a prize pool of $1,772,700 in a mid-stakes bracelet event that has become one of the more heavily contested slots on the WSOP Online schedule hosted on GGPoker. Mid-stakes championships like this one sit in an attractive spot for grinders: the $1,000 buy-in is high enough to keep the field serious, but low enough that a deep, multi-day structure fills with thousands of entries from players hoping to add a bracelet to their resume without a five-figure buy-in.
By the time the tournament reached its final table, the story had already taken shape as an all-Brazilian showdown at the top. Marquesin went heads-up against Firas Massouh, who plays online as “MasteringMyMind,” with Guilherme Beavis, also representing Brazil, having already made his own run to a ninth-place finish worth $23,340 earlier at the same final table.
The Hand That Decided It
The heads-up battle between Marquesin and Massouh came down to a single decisive hand. Marquesin picked up K♠J♥ and found himself all in against Massouh’s pocket nines, a spot where the pair started as a clear favorite. The flop and turn kept Massouh in front, with the board reading 8♣8♥6♥ through four cards, but the river delivered a J♦, pairing Marquesin’s jack and completing an improbable comeback in the hand that sealed the bracelet.
It was a brutal way for Massouh to fall just short, but a $161,036 runner-up prize softened the blow considerably. Marquesin’s win, on top of the cash, came with a $30,000 Super Pass into the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event in the Bahamas, a package that turns one strong online run into a fully funded seat at one of the richest live festivals on the calendar.
Part of a Historic Series for Brazilian Poker
Marquesin and Massouh’s showdown marked the third time in the 2026 WSOP Online that two Brazilians have squared off heads-up for a bracelet, with a compatriot claiming the title each time. That pattern, repeating itself across a series that runs dozens of bracelet events over several weeks, says as much about the overall strength and depth of the Brazilian online grinding scene as any single result could. It also pushed Brazil’s all-time WSOP bracelet count to 61, a tally that spans both the live and online series and places the country among the most consistently productive bracelet-producing nations outside the United States.
The result fits into a broader pattern that has defined this year’s online series for Brazilian players. Other Brazilians have gone deep or won bracelets of their own across the schedule, and headlines pairing two Brazilian screen names at a final table have become common enough that longtime followers of the series now expect it as much as they are surprised by it. For a country whose poker boom has been driven heavily by online play and satellite qualification into both domestic and international events, a bracelet at the $1,000 mid-stakes level, contested by a field of nearly 1,900 entries, is exactly the kind of win that resonates widely: accessible in buy-in, difficult in practice, and decided against a fellow countryman on the biggest stage the format offers.
What the Win Means Going Forward
For Marquesin personally, the first bracelet of his career arrives with a direct route to live poker’s high end. The $30,000 Super Pass effectively guarantees him a seat in the Bahamas for the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event without needing to grind a separate satellite path, letting him convert one big online score into a shot at an even larger live payday. Players who want to understand how bracelet events like this one are structured, from the multi-day online format to how Super Passes and satellite pathways connect into WSOP’s live festivals, can find a breakdown in Poker Pro Academy’s WSOP guide.
For the WSOP Online series as a whole, the Marquesin-Massouh final adds another chapter to what is shaping up as one of the strongest years yet for Brazilian bracelet winners, live or online. With dozens of events still to play out before the series wraps, and Brazilian players consistently reaching the business end of the biggest mid-stakes fields, the question following each new bracelet is no longer whether a Brazilian will be involved at the final table, but which one will get there first.
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