A one-day tournament, 692 entries and a champion who already knew the way. Vitor Henrique Pacheco, born in Joinville and already a BSOP winner in São Paulo and Gramado, took down the Start-Up Mystery Bounty at BSOP Floripa 2026 for R$61,000 in prize money and bounties combined, plus the exclusive card protector reserved for the stop's Gold events. Meanwhile, the 25K Super High Roller crowns its champion today with a Colombian at the table, and the R$4,000 Main Event already has 421 entries.
The facts: a 12-hour Day 2, an eight-handed table paying five, and 66 Main Event qualifiers
The R$1,200 Start-Up paid R$664,320 across 110 places. After two flights left 105 survivors, Day 2 ran for 12 hours and ended with Pacheco beating Kaynan Dreon heads-up (R$35,000). Ax de Castro was third (R$24,000) and Iuri Maia, the Day 1B chip leader, sixth. The best Spanish-speaking finisher was Argentina's Nahuel Almada in 14th.
The champion was clear about his plan: in a mystery bounty you have to hunt, because the envelope is often worth more than the pay jump, and that forces you into spots you would fold in a regular tournament.
The R$25,000 Super High Roller drew 36 entries for a R$769,470 prize pool and R$310,000 up top. The eight-handed final table starts Sunday at 2:00 p.m. local time at 8,000/16,000: Pedro Cavalieri leads with 1,410,000, ahead of Ariel Bahia (1,110,000) and Marcos Exterkotter (1,070,000). Colombia's Martín Romero is fourth with 975,000; Lali Tournier, Léo Rizzo, Argentina's Gonzalo Almada (615,000) and Paulo Joanello (575,000) round out the table. Only five get paid. Colombian Carlos Serrano, the first foreigner ever to win BSOP Player of the Year, bubbled the final table when his queens ran into Exterkotter's kings.
The R$4,000 Main Event opened with 297 entries on Day 1A, which sent 46 through with Bolivia's Miguel Leyva on top (627,000), and added 124 on Day 1B, led by Argentina's Ulisses Acosta (531,000). That makes 421 entries and 66 qualifiers before today's Days 1C and 1D. Day 2 plays Monday from 2:00 p.m. at 4,000/8,000; the full schedule is here.
Why it matters: the envelope, the bubble inside the final table and Monday's 32 big blinds
First, the mystery bounty. As Pacheco put it, the envelope changes the value of every knockout, and therefore your push and call ranges, just like in any bounty format. It is expected value that comes from the structure rather than your cards, much like rakeback in cash games (if you grind online clubs, start with how they work): money you recover by understanding the format.
Second, the Super High Roller final table. Eight players, five payouts, stacks between 36 and 88 big blinds: three will leave with nothing, and the gap between fifth (R$49,470) and first (R$310,000) is huge. This is where ICM rules, with a bubble inside the final table: the short stack must pick his shove before the blinds eat him, and medium stacks like Romero's should avoid unnecessary flips against the leader. And Serrano's Q-Q against K-K is variance in its purest form: you did everything right and went home anyway.
Third, the Main Event. With 421 entries of 40,000 chips and 66 qualifiers, Monday's average stack currently sits around 255,000, roughly 32 big blinds at 4,000/8,000. That is not deep-stacked poker: it is push-or-fold and resteal territory, where every open needs a plan against a shove.
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