Brazil’s Murilo Milhomem turned Tuesday, August 4, into a two-title day on GGPoker, winning back to back events in the operator’s PLO Series and banking a combined $28,052 in a single session. The Brazilian Omaha specialist first took down the $525 PLO Secret KO High Roller before backing it up hours later in the $215 PLO Daily Cooldown, a rare double that put his name at the top of two separate leaderboards on the same afternoon.
The PLO Series itself is GGPoker’s dedicated window for pot-limit Omaha players, running from August 2 through August 17 with a combined guarantee of $20,000,000 across dozens of events. For specialists like Milhomem who prefer four hole cards over two, the series is the single richest stretch of Omaha tournaments the site runs all year, and Tuesday’s schedule gave him two separate chances to cash in on that focus.
A Mystery Bounty Statement in the $525 Secret KO
The bigger of Milhomem’s two scores came in the $525 PLO Secret KO High Roller, a mystery bounty event that drew 159 entries and ran for roughly six hours. Milhomem won the tournament outright for $21,800, a total that folded in whatever bounty money he collected along the way in addition to the standard first-place prize. Two other Brazilians joined him in the money at the sharp end of the field. A player using the nickname 2ducklings finished third for $17,418, while Bernardo Dias, playing under “Futbol is LIFE!”, took fourth for $8,555. Mystery bounty formats have become a staple of GGPoker’s biggest series precisely because of finishes like this one, where a chunk of the prize money is hidden inside bounties attached to eliminated players rather than paid out purely by finishing position.
Backing It Up in the $215 Daily Cooldown
Milhomem was not done. Later the same day he entered the $215 PLO Daily Cooldown, a lower buy-in event that still attracted a healthy 128 entries, and closed it out for a second consecutive title worth $6,252. Winning a mystery bounty high roller and a Daily Cooldown on the same calendar day is an unusual double even by the standards of a grinder who plays as many tables as the modern high-volume Omaha specialist typically does, and it briefly made Milhomem the most talked-about Brazilian name on the series leaderboard.
Other Brazilians Cash Across the Series
Milhomem’s double was the headline, but Brazilian players had a strong overall day across the PLO Series schedule. Eller Kirsten, playing as “iN sis TenT”, finished third in the $525 Bounty Hunters High Roller, a 543-entry event, for $20,604, while Daniel Wellington, known online as “danielwbr”, followed him home in seventh for $9,491 in the same tournament. Victor Onizuka, playing under “FortuneDragon”, also made that final table, finishing eighth for $6,919. Elsewhere on the schedule, a player using the handle VIOLAA won the Tuesday Classic $150 outright, topping an 825-entry field for $16,503, and “Bozzyy” claimed the GGMasters Bounty Warm-Up $25, a $75,000 guaranteed event, for $10,176. Pedro Madeira, playing as “patatipatataaaa”, added a runner-up finish in the $1,050 PLO Daily Classic High Roller for $10,533.
Milhomem’s Big Omaha Résumé
Milhomem’s reputation as one of Brazil’s sharpest pot-limit Omaha players did not start on Tuesday. His signature career result remains a live title from September 2024, when he won the €3,000 PLO Mystery Bounty at EPT Barcelona, topping a 1,113-entry field for €332,658, comfortably his largest tournament score to date. He closed out that final by raising with pocket eights after a limp, only for England’s Jacob Stone to shove all in holding ace-six offsuit. The board ran king-king-seven-ten-four in Milhomem’s favor, sealing the title. Fellow Brazilian Kelvin Kerber also reached that same final table, finishing seventh for €65,200. Readers unfamiliar with how a four-card starting hand changes the math compared to hold’em can find the fundamentals in Poker Pro Academy’s guide to Pot-Limit Omaha ruleswhich explains why hands like Stone’s ace-six looked stronger before the flop than they turned out to be.
What’s Next in the PLO Series
With the PLO Series running for another week and a half, Milhomem’s two-title Tuesday will not be the last word from Brazil’s Omaha contingent. GGPoker’s format mixes mystery bounties, high rollers and lower buy-in grinder-friendly events throughout the guarantee, which means specialists who multi-table aggressively have repeated chances to stack results the way Milhomem did in a single session. For Brazilian online poker fans, the series has quickly become a showcase for a talent pool that extends well past the hold’em regulars who usually dominate headlines.
None of this changes the basic math of tournament poker. Even a strong specialist like Milhomem enters far more events than he wins, and mystery bounty formats in particular carry extra variance on top of the swings already built into no-limit and pot-limit tournaments. Anyone following the PLO Series, or considering entering one of its events, should set a bankroll in advance and treat buy-ins strictly as entertainment spending rather than an expected source of income. Participation in real money poker requires being 18 or older, or the legal age set by the player’s local jurisdiction.
