The biggest tournament of the 2026 WSOP Online cost $400 and paid out more than $6.1 million: the COLOSSUS closed with 16,455 entries, 1,675 players in the money and $752,277 for the champion. The title stayed in Brazil, where Roberto Firmino — playing as "WhyYouRushin" — took his seat at the final table as chip leader and finished the job.
The facts: from 16,455 down to nine
The field was built across several Day 1 flights, and only nine players made the final table, decided on September 15. Firmino started with 185,215,768 in chips — roughly 93 big blinds — ahead of Norway's Evaldas Narmontas (154,269,902) and the Philippines' Carlo Delafuente (111,882,404). Matt Vengrin, Dong Hyun Lee, Johannes van Bemmel, Yuhang Chen, Ole Schemion and Mathias Nisula filled out the table.
Two hands settled the payouts:
- Three-handed, Firmino got the chips in with Q♦2♥ against Delafuente's 9♣8♣. The 8♦6♦7♣10♦K♦ board gave the Filipino a straight and the Brazilian a runner-runner flush.
- Heads-up, on a 3♦2♣10♦2♠5♥ board with 88.5 million in the middle, Firmino overbet all in with 3♥2♦. Narmontas called with 8♦2♥ — trips against a full house — and settled for $579,972.
Along with the money, the champion picked up a $30,000 Super Pass to the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. It was Brazil's sixth bracelet of the series; a day later came the seventh, with Daniel Marquesin winning Event #24 in an all-Brazilian heads-up.
Why it matters: the COLOSSUS doesn't reward talent, it filters it
16,455 entries and 1,675 payouts: nine out of ten players went home with nothing. That's the deal in a huge-field, low buy-in tournament, and it's worth understanding before you register. This isn't a cheap tournament — it's a tournament whose variance demands volume and a bankroll plan built for long stretches without a cash. Playing one a year and waiting for the photo is buying a lottery ticket with good odds of losing.
The honest detail behind the title is the runner-runner. Firmino got it in with Q-2 against 9-8 suited three-handed, was behind, and hit the flush on the river. He made the right play — with those stacks and those pay jumps, the preflop all-in is standard — and he also got lucky. Both are true at once. Championships are won with repeatable decisions and with hands that are anything but; confusing the two is how players end up copying the anecdote instead of the reasoning. The reasoning lives in how you play a final table and in the math of push or fold once stacks get short.
And the least headline-worthy number is the most useful one: he arrived at the final table with 93 big blinds. That edge wasn't built on the river heads-up — it was built over the three days before. That's where a COLOSSUS is actually played.
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