Renan Bruschi has done it again. The Brazilian online grinder known at the tables as "Internett93o" captured his 11th career World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title this week on PokerStars, cementing his place among the ten most decorated players in the history of the series. The victory came in WCOOP Event #55-H: $1,050 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, a mixed-game event that drew just 39 entries but carried outsized prestige given the caliber of the field, and it landed Bruschi a $16,714 first-place prize.
The title is notable not just for the payout, which is modest by WCOOP standards, but for what it represents. Bruschi has spent years quietly building one of the most complete resumes in online tournament poker, moving fluidly between no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and the drawing and mixed-game formats that intimidate most specialists. Winning a 2-7 Single Draw bracelet event is a different skill set entirely from taking down a hold’em field of a thousand entries, and Bruschi’s ability to do both at a championship level is part of why his name keeps appearing at the top of WCOOP leaderboards year after year.
A Double at This Year’s Festival
This was not even Bruschi’s first title of the 2026 WCOOP. Earlier in the series he won WCOOP Event #20-H: $530 No-Limit Hold’em Wednesday Surprise Mystery Bounty, a tournament format that pays out random bounty envelopes on top of the standard payout structure. That win was worth $31,686, combining $10,846 in min-cash equity with $21,200 in mystery bounties collected along the way. Two titles in the same series, in wildly different formats and structures, is the kind of versatility that separates the very best online closers from the merely good ones.
Combined with his SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) titles, Bruschi’s PokerStars major-series trophy case now sits at a career total that places him firmly in the game’s online tournament elite. Brazilian poker media has tracked his rise for years, and each new WCOOP or SCOOP title adds to a narrative that has made him arguably the most successful Brazilian player in the history of PokerStars’ flagship online series.
What WCOOP Means for the Brazilian Poker Boom
WCOOP has become a proving ground for the wave of Brazilian talent that has emerged over the past decade, and Bruschi has been at the front of that wave since well before it was fashionable. Brazil’s online poker scene exploded in the years following the pandemic, driven by a generation of players who cut their teeth grinding micro and small stakes on PokerStars, GGPoker and other regulated sites before climbing into mid and high stakes tournaments. Bruschi’s longevity is part of what makes his story compelling: while many players who broke out in the early 2020s have since faded from view, he has continued adding hardware year after year, a sign of genuine game evolution rather than a single hot streak.
His 2-7 Single Draw win is also a reminder that Brazil’s talent pool is not limited to no-limit hold’em specialists. Mixed games and lowball variants require a completely different intuition for hand values and betting patterns, and success in these formats generally signals a player who has put in serious study time away from the more heavily populated hold’em tables. For a player already known primarily for hold’em and PLO results, adding a Single Draw bracelet-style title to the resume broadens an already impressive profile.
The Broader WCOOP Picture
The 2026 edition of WCOOP has been one of the more competitive in recent memory, with marquee names like Benny Glaser adding to his own historic title count and a deep, international mix of regulars and rising stars fighting for supremacy across dozens of events spanning hold’em, Omaha, mixed games and everything in between. Against that backdrop, Bruschi’s ability to close out not one but two titles, in formats as different as mystery bounty hold’em and 2-7 Single Draw, stands out as one of the more impressive individual performances of the series.
For readers newer to tournament poker who want to understand how player rankings and career title counts are typically tallied, it helps to have a working knowledge of how tournament structures, buy-ins and formats vary across an event as sprawling as WCOOP. Our WSOP guide breaks down how major poker festivals structure their schedules, satellites and bracelet or title events, concepts that carry over directly to how PokerStars organizes WCOOP and SCOOP each year.
What Comes Next
With WCOOP 2026 still running through its final stretch of high-value events, including the Main Event and a run of high roller championships, there is a real chance Bruschi could add to his total before the series wraps. Brazilian rail-birds have already started speculating about whether he can climb further up the all-time title list before the year is out. Whatever happens in the remaining events, his 11th title is already a milestone worth recognizing: a testament to consistency, format versatility and the depth of talent Brazil has produced in online tournament poker over the past several years.
Responsible play remains essential at every stake level. Players must be 18 or older (or the applicable legal age in their jurisdiction) to participate in real-money poker, and no tournament result, including a career title count as impressive as Bruschi’s, should be read as a guarantee of future income or profit.
