Another day, another six-figure online score for Brazil. Grinding under the alias “theheroguy”Iuri Ribeiro shipped the $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event on GGPoker for a combined $115,578and more than half of that, $52,285came from bounties alone.
Beating a big field
The tournament pulled in 2,505 entries and blew past its $1,000,000 guarantee to build a $1,252,500 prize pool. Ribeiro closed it out with a heads-up win over Estonia’s Andrei Mjagkov to guarantee the six-figure prize.
Brazil all over the podium
He wasn’t the only home player up top: Vanair “CheeDDou” Scrobatz finished third for $52,272underlining the depth of Brazil’s online field in the progressive knockout format. Bounty tournaments reward aggression and relentless pressure, and Ribeiro’s win is a textbook example of stacking bounties while staying alive for the top of the payouts.
