Brazil’s Renan Bruschi added another chapter to his remarkable online resume on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, winning WCOOP Event #83-High, a $530 No-Limit Hold’em PKO Bounty Builder, to lock up his 13th career WCOOP title and become the first player to reach four wins in this year’s series.
A Fourth Win in a Single WCOOP Edition
Bruschi, widely known by his online alias “Internett93o,” topped a field of 206 entries in Event #83-High to earn $23,773 for the win. The result was his fourth title of the 2026 World Championship of Online Poker, a feat no other player in this year’s 25th-anniversary edition of the series had managed before him. Stacking four titles into a single WCOOP is a rare accomplishment even by the standards of PokerStars’ biggest online series, where thousands of grinders compete across more than a hundred numbered events every year.
The Scale of WCOOP 2026
This year’s WCOOP, running from September 6 through September 30, marks the 25th edition of the series and features 121 numbered events spread across 350 individual tournaments, with most offering low, medium and high buy-in tiers to fit every bankroll. PokerStars has backed the anniversary edition with more than $40 million in guarantees, including six separate Main Events split between No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha on September 27 and 28, worth $6.5 million combined. Bruschi’s four titles have come amid that packed schedule, a sign of both his volume and his consistency across formats.
Bounty Builder Format Adds to the Difficulty
Event #83-High was run as a Progressive Knockout, or PKO, meaning a portion of every player’s buy-in was placed directly on their head as a bounty that grows each time they eliminate an opponent. That format rewards aggressive, well-timed all-ins as much as it rewards traditional deep-stacked survival, since min-cashing a PKO event is worth far less than stacking bounties along the way. Winning a 206-entry Bounty Builder therefore requires a different skill set than a flat-payout freezeout, and Bruschi’s ability to win across both formats this WCOOP is part of what makes his four-title run notable.
Bruschi’s WCOOP Title Count Climbs to 13
With 13 career WCOOP titles, Bruschi now sits among the most decorated players in the tournament’s 25-year history, though he still trails the format’s all-time leader, Britain’s Benny Glaser, who extended his own record to 17 WCOOP titles earlier in this same series. The gap between the two illustrates just how difficult it is to stay at the top of online tournament poker for as long as either player has, but Bruschi’s pace this September, four titles in barely two weeks, shows he is still closing ground rather than falling behind.
A Career Built From a College Dorm Room
Bruschi’s poker story began unconventionally. He first encountered online poker while studying dentistry in Brazil, discovering the game through a friend during a college break, long before it became his full-time profession. More than 12 years later, he is regarded as one of the most accomplished players Brazil has ever produced. His first WSOP bracelet came in 2021, when he won Event #14: The Big 500 at that year’s GGPoker WSOP Online series for $150,327, defeating Leonid Bilokur heads-up. He has also won the PokerStars Sunday Million twice and added four SCOOP titles during 2025, giving him a combined haul of championships across both of PokerStars’ marquee online series that few players worldwide can match.
A Series-Long Streak Building Since Early September
Bruschi’s run through this year’s WCOOP has been building for weeks. Earlier in the series, on September 11, he claimed what was then a career-tenth WCOOP title in a high roller event where fellow Brazilian Gabriel Tavares finished as runner-up, and he followed it with an 11th career title on September 20. Adding two more victories in the days that followed, including Tuesday’s Bounty Builder win, pushed his total to 13 and made him the first player to reach four titles in this year’s edition. Stringing together that many deep runs and final-table conversions inside a three-week window is part of what has set his September apart from the rest of the WCOOP field.
What This Means for Brazilian Poker
Bruschi’s continued dominance arrives at a moment when Brazilian players are increasingly prominent across the world’s biggest online series, from WCOOP and SCOOP to WSOP Online. His run this September adds to a string of strong Brazilian results throughout the series and reinforces his standing as the country’s most successful player in PokerStars’ championship formats. For players looking to sharpen the fundamentals that separate consistent winners like Bruschi from the rest of the field, Poker Pro Academy’s how to play poker guide is a useful starting point for understanding the decisions that add up over hundreds of tournaments.
More WCOOP Action Still to Come
With WCOOP 2026 running through September 30, there is still time for Bruschi, or any of his rivals, to add to their totals before the series closes with its marquee Main Events. Whether he stretches his 2026 haul to a fifth title or turns his attention toward closing the gap on Glaser’s all-time record, Bruschi’s September has already cemented itself as one of the strongest individual runs of this year’s WCOOP.
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