Martin Zamani has done something only one other player in poker history can claim. The longtime high-stakes grinder took down the $500 No-Limit Hold’em Fall Saver on WSOP Online in Nevada, topping a field of 610 entries to collect $51,331 and his fifth career WSOP bracelet, every single one of them won from behind a computer screen. The win, which came on his second entry into the event, ties Zamani with Guy Dunlap as the only two players ever to reach five bracelets exclusively through online WSOP gold.
A Record-Tying Run on WSOP Online
Zamani’s road to the title ended in heads-up play against Shane Martin, a WSOP Circuit ring winner who had fired two bullets of his own in the event. After a back-and-forth battle, Zamani closed out the match to secure the bracelet, with Martin settling for $37,743 as the runner-up prize. For Zamani, the victory arrived almost exactly one year after he picked up his fourth bracelet, underlining just how consistently he has performed in the online bracelet space over the last several seasons.
What makes the achievement notable is not just the frequency of his wins, but the level of competition he has had to get through to collect them. WSOP Online events, whether hosted on WSOP.com in regulated U.S. states like Nevada or run internationally through GGPoker, regularly draw fields stacked with proven professionals rather than pure recreational players, which is exactly what unfolded again at this final table.
A Final Table Loaded With Bracelet Winners
The $500 Fall Saver may have been a modest buy-in on paper, but the unofficial final table read like a who’s who of the online bracelet scene. David Peters, a high-stakes legend with five WSOP bracelets of his own across live and online play, busted in eighth place for $4,199. James Collopy, a three-time WSOP champion, fell in seventh for $6,039. Daniel Maor, who won the WSOP Online Championship back in 2024, made a deep run before finishing third for $27,724.
That Zamani was able to navigate past three former bracelet winners on his way to the title says a lot about the strength of his game in these formats. It also reinforces a trend PokerNews and other outlets have tracked all year: the online bracelet scene has quietly become one of the most competitive corners of the WSOP calendar, no longer treated as the lower-variance cousin of the live Main Event stage in Las Vegas.
Zamani and Dunlap: Two Very Different Resumes
The comparison between Zamani and Guy Dunlap, the only other five-time online bracelet winner, is where this story gets especially interesting. Dunlap earned his fifth bracelet earlier this summer in a No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack event on WSOP Online, but he has barely dipped a toe into live tournament poker, with just roughly $107,000 in recorded live cashes according to tracking databases. Zamani sits at the opposite end of that spectrum.
Zamani has been grinding live felt for well over a decade and carries more than $8.5 million in live tournament earnings. His signature live result remains the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller, which he won outright for a career-best $895,110. He has also been a fixture at WSOP, World Poker Tour, European Poker Tour, and Poker Gold Trail stops over the years, making him one of the few players equally comfortable at a felt table in the Bahamas or grinding six tables at once from home. Five bracelets earned purely online, stacked on top of that live resume, is a genuinely rare combination in the modern game.
Why the Online Bracelet Race Keeps Growing
The WSOP has steadily expanded its online bracelet footprint over the last several series, running dozens of events across both WSOP.com in the United States and GGPoker for the rest of the world, including players in Brazil who access the series through GGPoker’s international client. That expansion has created more opportunities for dedicated online specialists and part-time live grinders alike to chase gold, and it has produced a growing tier of multi-bracelet winners whose names rarely appear at a physical final table but who are extremely well known inside the online grinding community.
For newer players trying to understand how these bracelet events actually work, from blind structures to Day 2 bagging and how payouts scale compared to live series, Poker Pro Academy’s WSOP guide breaks down the format in plain terms, including the differences between the live Main Event in Las Vegas and the parallel online series Zamani just added to his resume.
What Comes Next
With his fifth bracelet now secured, the obvious question is whether Zamani will push on to a sixth and put real distance between himself and Dunlap at the top of the online-only leaderboard. Given how active the WSOP Online calendar remains throughout the year, and given Zamani’s track record of showing up consistently in these fields, few in the poker community would be surprised to see his name back at another online final table before long. For now, though, the record stands tied at five apiece, with two very different poker careers arriving at the exact same number through two very different paths.
Players chasing their own first cash in a bracelet event, online or live, should always stick to bankrolls they can afford to lose and treat tournament poker as entertainment rather than a guaranteed source of income. The game remains 18 and older only, and responsible play should come before any chase for a record.
