Brazilian Player Tops Bounty-Heavy Field
Brazil’s Leonardo Carlessi, playing under the nickname ChinaInBox, won the Thursday Bounty Hunters High Roller on GGPoker on September 24, 2026, one of the marquee mid-week events inside the site’s ongoing GGMillion$ Week series. According to SuperPoker, Carlessi’s win was worth a combined $104,624 once his share of the regular prize pool was added to the bounties he collected by knocking out opponents along the way, a common way bounty-format winners boost their overall payday well beyond the listed prize pool alone. The victory gives Carlessi one of the more notable Brazilian results of the week on GGPoker, a site where the country’s player pool has been especially active throughout 2026.
The Numbers Behind the Title
The $525 buy-in event attracted 1,864 entries, the kind of turnout GGPoker has come to expect for its bounty-format tournaments, which tend to draw bigger fields than straight freezeouts at the same price point because of the extra action tied to collecting bounties along the way. Carlessi was not the only Brazilian to cash deep. Luan Bitencourt, competing under the name Lorot@00, finished ninth for $14,758, giving the country two players inside the top nine of a field that topped 1,800 entries in a single mid-week event. Between the regular prize pool and the bounty collections, Carlessi’s overall haul comfortably outpaced the tournament’s listed first-place prize, illustrating how much of a bounty winner’s final payday can come from eliminations rather than the base payout structure alone.
What Is a Bounty Hunters Tournament?
GGPoker’s Bounty Hunters format splits every buy-in between the standard prize pool and a bounty attached to each player’s head. Every time a player is eliminated, whoever knocked them out collects that bounty on top of whatever they eventually finish with in the main payout structure. It rewards players who are willing to apply pressure and pick up knockouts throughout the tournament rather than simply waiting to survive into the money, which is part of why bounty events tend to play faster and looser than standard freezeouts, and why a single deep run can be worth considerably more than the prize pool alone would suggest. New players looking to understand tournament structures like this one, along with the hand values that matter most when deciding whether to gamble for a bounty, can find the basics in Poker Pro Academy’s guide on how to play poker.
Inside GGMillion$ Week
GGMillion$ Week is one of GGPoker’s flagship recurring series, built around a $25 million total guarantee spread across roughly 65 tournaments. Buy-ins across the schedule range from $525, the level Carlessi played, all the way up to $25,500, and the formats on offer include classic no-limit hold’em, Omaha variants branded as Omaholic events, Deepstacks, Mystery Bounties and Bounty Hunters tournaments like the one Carlessi won. The series’ headline event is the GGMillion$ Main Event itself, a multi-day tournament carrying a $10 million guarantee on a $10,000 buy-in, giving recreational and professional players alike a full week of high-guarantee options at very different price points, from a few hundred dollars to five-figure buy-ins that draw the site’s regular high-stakes crowd.
A Recurring Showcase for Online Talent
Series like GGMillion$ Week have become a proving ground for the online grind in recent years, precisely because the range of buy-ins lets both recreational players and full-time professionals find a suitable spot on the schedule almost every day of the week. A $525 bounty event, like the one Carlessi won, sits firmly in the accessible mid-stakes range for the series, which is likely part of why it drew close to 1,900 entries rather than the smaller fields typical of the site’s highest buy-in offerings. That kind of turnout also means the eventual bounty collections add up quickly across the field, which is exactly what pushed Carlessi’s overall total well past six figures.
Another Brazilian Name in the GGPoker Mix
Carlessi’s win adds to a long list of Brazilian results on GGPoker in 2026, a site where the country’s players have repeatedly shown up deep in tournaments across buy-in levels throughout the year. With GGMillion$ Week continuing to run additional events on the calendar, and with two Brazilians already inside the top nine of Thursday’s Bounty Hunters field alone, more results from the country’s online grinders are likely before the series closes out its packed schedule of tournaments across every buy-in level.
Why Bounty Formats Keep Growing in Popularity
The format’s popularity has grown steadily across major online sites in recent years, largely because it changes the incentives at the table in a way many recreational players find more engaging than a standard freezeout. Instead of purely climbing a pay ladder by surviving, players are rewarded in real time for every knockout they land, which tends to produce livelier, more aggressive tables in the middle stages of a tournament. For a site like GGPoker, which has built much of its schedule around accessible buy-ins and bounty variants, a $525 event drawing 1,864 entries on a Thursday is a reminder of how much volume these formats can generate even outside a marquee weekend slot, and why organizers keep expanding the bounty offerings across series like GGMillion$ Week.
