Brazil is about to host the richest single tournament guarantee in its poker history. BSOP Millions 2026, a new flagship series from the Brazilian Series of Poker, will run November 14 to 29 at the Golden Hall inside the Sheraton WTC in Sao Paulo, closing with a BSOP Championship that carries a 4 million dollar guarantee and a 100,000 dollar buy-in event that will be the first of its kind ever staged in the country.
A New Flagship Series for Brazilian Poker
BSOP has run a busy 2026 calendar already, with stops like BSOP Winter and the return of BSOP Floripa after an eight year absence drawing large local fields. BSOP Millions is a different animal. Organizers built it as a standalone 16 day festival squeezed into the back half of November, layering a full Super High Roller Series on top of the traditional Championship structure instead of folding high buy-in events into a broader multi-week schedule. The result is a series aimed squarely at Brazil’s growing base of high-stakes regulars as much as at the recreational grinders who fill out the lower buy-in fields at every other BSOP stop.
The venue itself signals the ambition. The Golden Hall at the Sheraton WTC has hosted BSOP events before, but never one carrying this much guaranteed money attached to a single 16 day window. Sao Paulo remains the commercial and financial capital of Brazil, and putting the country’s biggest guarantee there, rather than at a resort destination, keeps the series close to the corporate and business crowd that has increasingly fed Brazil’s live high-stakes scene over the past several years.
Super High Roller Series Headlines the Front End
The first nine days of the festival, November 14 through 23, belong to a seven-event Super High Roller Series that ramps buy-ins steadily upward. It opens November 14 with a 10,000 dollar Invitational, then climbs through a 20,000 dollar Super High Roller on the 15th, a 30,000 dollar Super High Roller on the 17th, and a 50,000 dollar Super High Roller on the 19th. A 20,000 dollar One Day event on the 20th gives players a lower-variance alternative before the series peaks, and a 10,000 dollar One Day event closes the high roller slate on the 23rd.
Structuring seven separate high buy-in events across nine days, rather than spacing a couple of marquee tournaments across the full 16 day festival, is a notable bet by BSOP. It assumes there is enough depth in Brazil’s high-stakes community, together with regional players willing to travel for the series, to support that volume of expensive tournaments back to back. Brazilian high rollers have shown up in growing numbers at international series in 2026, and BSOP Millions is a direct attempt to keep more of that action, and that money, inside the country.
The 100,000 Dollar Barrier Falls in Brazil
The single most historic date on the schedule is November 21, when BSOP runs a 100,000 dollar buy-in Super High Roller Main Event, the first tournament at that price point ever held on Brazilian soil. Six-figure buy-ins are common on the Triton Poker circuit and have appeared periodically at WSOP and WPT stops abroad, but Brazil’s domestic poker economy has never previously supported an event priced that high. Its inclusion here is as much a statement of confidence in the local high-stakes market as it is a single tournament.
Whether the event draws a genuinely deep field or a small, exclusive group of Brazil’s wealthiest regulars and traveling internationals will be one of the more closely watched subplots of the entire festival. Either outcome tells BSOP something important about how far the country’s live tournament economy has matured since its early growth years.
BSOP Championship: 4 Million Dollars and a Historic Guarantee
The festival’s back half, November 22 through 29, is built entirely around the BSOP Championship, a 6,000 dollar buy-in event carrying a 4 million dollar guarantee, the largest ever attached to a single tournament in Brazilian poker history. First place alone is guaranteed at least 800,000 dollars regardless of how the field ultimately sizes up, giving the eventual champion a payday that would rank among the biggest scores of the year for any Brazilian player, live or online.
For comparison, BSOP’s regular Championship event earlier in 2026 saw Alisson Piekazewicz claim the title for roughly 1.15 million reais, a result that stood as one of the year’s headline domestic scores at the time. The November guarantee dwarfs that number and puts BSOP Millions in a different tier entirely, closer in scale to the guarantees typically associated with WSOP bracelet events or major European Poker Tour stops than to a standard national series.
What It Means for Brazil’s Poker Scene
BSOP Millions arrives at a moment when Brazil’s poker community has been increasingly visible on the international stage, from deep runs at the WSOP in Las Vegas to strong showings on major online series. A domestic series with a 4 million dollar Championship guarantee and a 100,000 dollar Super High Roller gives ambitious Brazilian players a reason to stay home for their biggest score of the year rather than book a flight abroad, while also giving the country a marquee event capable of pulling international high rollers the other direction.
Players newer to the game who want to work their way toward tournaments of this size eventually should not feel pressured to start anywhere near these stakes. Poker Pro Academy’s guide on how to play poker remains the right starting point for anyone building fundamentals before climbing the buy-in ladder that events like BSOP Millions sit at the very top of.
Full structures, satellite paths, and late registration details for each BSOP Millions event are expected to be published on the official BSOP schedule in the coming weeks. Poker Pro Academy will continue tracking the series as November approaches. As always, tournament poker involves real financial risk, and players should treat it as entertainment rather than a guaranteed source of income, wagering only what they can afford to lose and playing within licensed, age-appropriate settings.
