2026 WSOP Online | Ilia Arkhipov defeats star players at the final table to win her first gold bracelet and $371,800.

The 2026 WSOP Online continued to crown new bracelet winners on GGPoker. On August 26th, Event #8:$5,000 6-Handed NLH Championship came to a head-to-head showdown. Ilia Arkhipov returned to the tournament with a Day 1 chip lead and maintained it throughout, ultimately defeating Yulian Bogdanov heads-up to claim her first WSOP bracelet and a $371,793 first-place prize.

In addition to the champion's prize money, Arkhipov also received a 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event Super Pass worth $30,000. This $371,793 also sets a new career high for single tournament winnings.

466 people competed for a $2.21 million prize pool; the final eight lineup was star-studded.

The $5,000 6-Handed NLH Championship attracted 466 participants, with a total prize pool of $2,213,500.

By the end of Day 1, the massive field had been reduced to eight players. Arkhipov led the field with 5,507,817 chips, carrying 79 big blinds into the final day; Wai Kiat Lee and Yulian Bogdanov finished second and third, respectively.

The final eight-player lineup includes world-class players such as WSOP bracelet winner Mikita Badziakouski, Joseph Cheong, and Vlad Martynenko, who won the 2021 GGPoker online WSOP, making the final stage of this six-player tournament particularly exciting.

Joseph Cheong finished in 8th place, thus setting the final table.

Joseph Cheong entered Day 2 with the shortest chip stack among the final eight players and was the first to be eliminated, finishing in 8th place and earning $40,867. With Cheong's elimination, the tournament officially set up a final table of seven players.

Then, two Brazilian athletes, Edilson Junior and Daniel Da Silva, left the field one after the other.

Junior finished in 7th place with $61,965; Da Silva finished in 6th place with $83,529. With Da Silva eliminated, the remaining five players have all secured at least six-figure dollar prizes.

Wai Kiat Lee came in 5th place, while Badziakouski missed out on a second gold bracelet.

Malaysian poker player Wai Kiat Lee, who boasts over $26.8 million in live tournament winnings, became the next player to leave the field, ultimately finishing in 5th place with $112,598.

Mikita Badziakouski finished in 4th place, earning $151,783.

Badziakouski won his personal WSOP gold bracelet at the 2021 WSOP Las Vegas $50,000 High Roller event. He once again ventured into the final stages of the WSOP event, but failed to achieve his second career gold bracelet.

Vlad Martynenko finished third and missed out on another online gold bracelet.

The three-person table stage saw Ilia Arkhipov, Yulian Bogdanov, and Vlad Martynenko compete for the final spot.

Martynenko finished the tournament in 3rd place, earning $204,605 in prize money.

This Ukrainian online tournament specialist had previously reached the pinnacle of the WSOP Online, winning an online WSOP gold bracelet at the 2021 GGPoker $1,500 Fifty Stack event. While he once again finished in the top three this time, he failed to secure his next gold bracelet.

Arkhipov defeated Bogdanov in a head-to-head match to win his first WSOP gold bracelet.

The final championship match was between Ilia Arkhipov and Polish player Yulian Bogdanov.

Arkhipov established a chip lead from Day 1 and maintained it into the final stages. Arkhipov ultimately won the head-to-head match, while Bogdanov finished as runner-up and earned $275,809.

Arkhipov took home the $371,793 prize money, officially winning his first WSOP gold bracelet.

This $371,793 prize money is also Arkhipov's best single tournament result of his career, and the additional $30,000 WSOP Paradise Super Pass will give him the opportunity to continue competing in the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

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The next battle in WSOP Online will be the $600 Super Six Bounty.

Following Ilia Arkhipov's victory, the 2026 WSOP Online Gold Bracelet Tournament will continue until September 29th.

The next event, Event #9:$600 Super Six Bounty 6-Handed NLH, will take place on August 27th. This is a Progressive Knockout event where players start with 25,000 chips, each level lasts 15 minutes, and players receive a minimum $140 bounty for each opponent eliminated.

Day 1 of the $1,500 Millionaire Maker and $250 Mystery Millions bracelet events will also take place on the same day. With Arkhipov emerging victorious from a field that includes several WSOP champions and high-stakes players, the WSOP Online champion pool gains another new face to win a bracelet for the first time.

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