Andrii Novak Wins WSOP Online Main Event for $3.9 Million
Andrii Novak topped a 6,008-entry field to win the 2026 WSOP Online Main Event and $3,931,259, beating runner-up Simon Beckmann heads-up on GGPoker.
Andrii Novak won the 2026 WSOP Online Main Event on GGPoker, taking down $3,931,259 and his first major title after beating Simon Beckmann heads-up. The $5,000 buy-in event drew 6,008 entries and built a $28,538,000 prize pool, according to CardPlayer, well past its $25 million guarantee.
- The $5,000 buy-in WSOP Online Main Event drew 6,008 entries, according to CardPlayer.
- The prize pool reached $28,538,000, topping the $25 million guarantee.
- Andrii Novak won $3,931,259 and his first major title.
- Runner-up Simon Beckmann of Austria banked $3,030,486, his largest career score.
- The top six finishers all cashed for seven figures.
- Novak's career tournament earnings now sit above $4.9 million.
Who won the WSOP Online Main Event?
Andrii Novak took down the 2026 WSOP Online $5,000 no-limit hold'em Main Event, according to CardPlayer. The Ukrainian entered the final table as chip leader and closed it out heads-up against Simon Beckmann for $3,931,259 and his first major title.
Novak's résumé had been almost entirely online before this win, CardPlayer reports, with his biggest prior score a $183,000 third-place finish in a 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Online event. The victory pushes his career cashes past $4.9 million.
How big was the field and prize pool?
The tournament drew 6,008 entries, comfortably clearing its $25 million guarantee to finish with a $28,538,000 prize pool, CardPlayer reports. That size meant the top six finishers all locked up seven-figure paydays, a rare outcome even for a WSOP bracelet event.
The Main Event ran alongside other bracelet events in the 2026 WSOP Online series. Spadepoker reports that in a separate $25,000 event held during the same series, Daniel Negreanu came up short of the title.
How did the final table play out?
The final day started with Pablo Silva out in ninth for $491,676 after his ace-queen ran into Beckmann's ace-king, per CardPlayer's hand-by-hand recap. Yury Nadinsky went out eighth for $637,476, then Arian Hassankashani busted seventh for $826,555 when his pocket tens lost to Moyan Chen's pocket jacks.
Chen also eliminated Pavlo Yakovliev in sixth for $1,071,761 with a flopped set of sevens. Novak survived a big race with pocket threes to send Charles La Boissonniere out fifth for $1,389,754, then doubled through Beckmann with kings to grab a share of the chip lead heading into the final three.
What happened heads-up?
Fernando Liano's exit in fourth left three players guaranteed at least $2,336,938, CardPlayer reports. Chen fell in third for that amount after his straight draw missed against Beckmann, who then took a roughly 2.5-to-1 chip lead into heads-up play.
Novak flipped that lead with ace-king against Beckmann's queen-five in the decisive pot of the match, per CardPlayer. He closed it out soon after when his ace-jack held against Beckmann's queen-seven, ending the tournament and sending Beckmann to a runner-up finish worth $3,030,486, his career-best score.
What it means for players
A field of 6,008 in a $5,000 online event shows how deep the WSOP Online guarantees now run, and the payout ladder is the real lesson for grinders: six-figure and seven-figure jumps happened from ninth place on down, which is why disciplined ICM play at big-field final tables pays off. For South Florida players who mix live cardroom sessions with online tournaments, results like this are a reminder that online series often carry deeper structures and softer fields relative to buy-in than their live counterparts.
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Frequently asked
How much did Andrii Novak win at the WSOP Online Main Event?
Novak won $3,931,259 for first place, according to CardPlayer. It's the largest score of his career and his first major title.
Who finished second in the WSOP Online Main Event?
Simon Beckmann of Austria finished runner-up for $3,030,486, CardPlayer reports. It was the largest score of his career.
How many entries did the 2026 WSOP Online Main Event get?
The $5,000 buy-in event drew 6,008 entries, building a $28,538,000 prize pool that beat its $25 million guarantee, according to CardPlayer.
Where was the WSOP Online Main Event played?
The event ran on GGPoker, with the final table broadcast live and called by Jeff Gross and Phil Hellmuth, according to CardPlayer.