R$310,000 for the champion, a cooler that left Colombia's Martín Romero on the bubble, and an 892-entry Main Event that plays Day 2 today. Pedro Cavalieri won the R$25,000 Super High Roller at BSOP Floripa 2026 on Sunday, the most expensive event of the stop, after leading the final table from start to finish and closing out the heads-up against Lali Tournier within minutes. From 2 p.m. on Monday, 146 survivors return to the Costão do Santinho for Day 2 of the R$4,000 Main Event.
The facts: 36 entries, five payouts and an 8-8 versus A-7 heads-up
The Super High Roller drew 36 entries for a R$769,470 prize pool paid to five places. Léo Rizzo opened the eight-handed final table: he flat-called Cavalieri's raise with J-J, Paulo Joanello squeeze-shoved 28 big blinds, and the jacks held the flip (8th). Ariel Bahia went seventh and the bubble fell to Martín Romero: holding top two pair, the Colombian called three barrels of 45,000, 150,000 and 500,000 against Cavalieri, who backdoored a straight on the turn and river to drag a 1.6 million pot, 53 big blinds.
In the money, Rizzo (5th, R$49,470), Argentina's Gonzalo Almada (4th, R$80,000) and Marcos Exterkotter (3rd, R$130,000) followed. Heads-up was brief: Cavalieri's 8-8 against Tournier's A-7 on a 9-8-5-J-A board, a set on the flop and R$310,000 for the Rio native. Tournier collected R$200,000.
The Main Event closed registration at 892 entries, nearly R$3.6 million in buy-ins, and sent 146 players through after the 692-entry Start-Up that opened the stop. The flight leaders: Anis Homaidan (660,000, Day 1D and overall chip leader), Bolivia's Miguel Ángel Leyva (627,000, Day 1A), Wallacy Marçal (590,000, Day 1C, a satellite qualifier) and Ulises Acosta (531,000, Day 1B). Argentina's Juan Barattini, who won Sunday's 1-Day High Roller PKO (R$114,000), bagged 195,000. Day 2 plays 15 levels of 40 minutes starting at 4,000/8,000 with a big blind ante; the final table is Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Why it matters: Day 2 starts with 30 big blinds
Do the math: 892 entries times 40,000 chips is 35.7 million spread over 146 stacks, about 244,000 on average, which is 30 big blinds at 4,000/8,000. With a big blind ante, the single chip the big blind posts for the whole table, there are already 2.5 blinds in the middle before anyone acts. That makes Day 2 steal, resteal and push-or-fold territory from the first orbit: the average is not comfortable, it is urgent, and whoever understands that first collects the chips of whoever waits for "a good hand".
Second lesson, Romero's. Top two pair against a straight that arrives runner-runner is a cooler, a clash of strong hands nobody folds, not a mistake: against a chip leader firing three streets, folding top two on the bubble would be scared poker. What is worth reviewing is the river price: 500,000 into a 1.06 million pot requires being right about 32% of the time, and against Cavalieri's range on that board you had plenty.
Third, Rizzo's: flatting J-J to let the short stack squeeze is a final-table play built for five payouts and eight players, where ICM pressure pushes medium stacks to move all-in too early.
And one for the road: Marçal leads a Main Event flight with a seat won through a satellite, the cheapest route into a field like this, especially with a solid club and rakeback behind you. If Floripa was too far, BSOP Millions in November already has its dates. Do you call that river with top two? Tell us in the community and we will go through it together.