A Six-Figure Handshake in Event #300
Brazilian grinder Rodrigo Selouan, playing under the username AfonsoRibeiro, banked another six-figure score online on September 24, 2026, after reaching heads-up in Event #300 of ACR Poker’s Online Super Series XL (OSS XL) and agreeing to a deal rather than playing the final hand to completion. Selouan settled for $105,838 as the runner-up, while his opponent, known online as !Alexyo, collected the marginally larger $106,687 as the recorded winner. The gap between the two payouts, less than $1,000, shows how close the negotiated split left the two remaining players after grinding through a 196-entry field over several hours of play.
Breaking Down the Numbers
Event #300 carried a $2,650 buy-in and a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool, one of dozens of tournaments spread across ACR Poker’s flagship September series. It was not the series’ single marquee Main Event at that price point, which carries its own larger $2 million guarantee, but rather one of many $2,650 events scattered through the packed OSS XL schedule. With 196 entries registered, the field comfortably cleared its guarantee, pushing every remaining payout past six figures once the money reached the final two players. Fellow Brazilian Gabriel Tavares, playing as kingqueensuited, also made a deep run and departed in fourth place for $47,811, giving Brazil a strong presence deep into the tournament even before Selouan’s deal was struck.
A Big Week Even by Selouan’s Standards
The ACR Poker score was not an isolated highlight. According to SuperPoker, Selouan also captured a GGMillion$ Week title on GGPoker during the same stretch, worth roughly $128,000, meaning he closed out the week with two separate six-figure titles on two different platforms. Stacking results like that across competing networks in the same seven-day window is unusual even among high-volume online grinders, and it underlines how deep the current generation of Brazilian talent runs in the online tournament pool. Selouan has built a reputation over recent years as one of the more consistent Brazilian names in mid-to-high buy-in online tournaments, regularly appearing in final table reports across multiple platforms rather than concentrating his play on a single site.
What Is ACR Poker’s OSS XL?
ACR Poker, short for Americas Cardroom, has operated as part of the Winning Poker Network since 2011, a network that has been dealing cards online since 2001. Its Online Super Series XL, known as OSS XL, is the site’s flagship recurring series and typically runs multiple times a year with tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed prize pools spread across hundreds of events. The September 2026 edition carried more than $40 million in guarantees, according to the operator, with a broad mix of buy-in levels and formats, from Texas Hold’em and Omaha to turbos, hyper turbos, mega stacks and progressive knockouts, aimed at giving recreational players and grinders alike a full schedule to choose from. Beyond the individual tournaments, OSS XL also runs a separate leaderboard race worth $65,000 in cash and tournament tickets, split across Low, Medium and High stake divisions, giving players an extra incentive to keep firing through the rest of the series rather than treating any single event in isolation.
Why Players Make Deals Heads-Up
Chip chops like the one struck between Selouan and !Alexyo are common in online tournament poker once two players reach heads-up with a meaningful prize gap still on the table. Rather than risk a coin-flip-heavy conclusion in which the shorter stack could lose almost everything on a single hand, both players agree to redistribute the remaining prize pool based on chip counts and stop play, sometimes leaving a small premium for the chip leader as a nod to their advantage going into the final hand. It is a practical way to lock in a guaranteed outcome after hours of grinding, and it is standard practice across most major online series, including ACR Poker’s. Readers newer to tournament poker can find a breakdown of basic formats, position and etiquette in Poker Pro Academy’s guide on how to play pokerwhich covers the fundamentals that make late-stage decisions like these possible in the first place.
Another Strong Week for Brazil Online
Selouan’s deal adds to what has been a productive year for Brazilian players across the major online rooms. Between deep runs on ACR Poker, GGPoker and other networks, Brazilian grinders have been a fixture at final tables throughout 2026, and results like this one, with two Brazilians reaching the final four of a single $2,650 tournament, reinforce the country’s growing footprint in the mid-to-high buy-in online tournament scene. With OSS XL continuing to run through the rest of September, more Brazilian names are likely to show up on the leaderboards before the series wraps up its packed schedule of events. For a country whose online player base has expanded rapidly in recent years, weeks like this one serve as a reminder that the depth of talent goes well beyond the handful of names that make regular headlines.
