CoinPoker Makes CoinMillion a Weekly $1 Million Event as Kgbseven Wins Opener
Kgbseven turned three $215 entries into $120,500 after whalefish declined a heads-up deal in the first tournament of the new Sunday schedule.
- CoinPoker has shifted its $215 CoinMillion to a permanent weekly Sunday schedule with a $1 million guarantee.
- Kgbseven won the Oct. 18 opener from 4,891 entries for $120,500 after three entries costing $645 in total.
- Whalefish declined a heads-up deal and finished second for $76,900, while Dosesmimosas placed third for $55,700.
- CoinPoker offers freerolls and satellites as qualification routes, and the next event is scheduled for Oct. 25.
CoinPoker has made its $215 CoinMillion a permanent weekly Sunday tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, beginning with the Oct. 18 edition won by Kgbseven. The event now runs over two days, starting Sunday at 16:30 UTC and bringing surviving players back on Monday to decide the title.
The move follows a shorter weekly run during the Global Online Poker Championship. As we reported in August, CoinPoker had first made CoinMillion a permanent monthly tournament after its opening two editions drew 9,062 combined entries.
CoinPoker’s tournament page now calls CoinMillion its flagship weekly event. Players can enter directly for $215 or pursue lower-cost qualification through freerolls and satellites, with routes listed from $0.30 and a $5.50 satellite buy-in. Each champion receives both a physical trophy and a digital one in the site’s Trophy Cabinet.
Kgbseven won the first event on the new schedule from 4,891 entries, collecting $120,500. The player used three entries, spending $645 in total, making the payout more than 186 times that outlay.
The win was Kgbseven’s first recorded CoinPoker cash since the platform’s major update in March and made the player the eighth CoinMillion champion. The $120,500 score ranks fourth among the tournament’s first-place payouts, behind the $126,500 record set by inaugural champion DaniC1994, who beat 4,278 entries on May 10.
At heads-up, Kgbseven held roughly a 2-to-1 chip lead over whalefish and proposed a deal. CardPlayer reported that whalefish declined, so play continued for the full advertised payouts; Kgbseven’s king-five beat whalefish’s ace-ten in the final hand. Whalefish received $76,900 for second after re-entering the tournament.
Dosesmimosas placed third for $55,700 from a single $215 entry. Like Kgbseven, Dosesmimosas had no recorded CoinPoker winnings before this final table, meaning both players logged their first recorded platform earnings in the same event.
The Oct. 18 field was below the 5,404 entries recorded for the Sept. 27 GOPC CoinMillion, but it still delivered another $1 million-guaranteed tournament under the new weekly format. PokerStrategy linked the scheduling upgrade to a traffic boost after CoinPoker’s The One surpassed its $5 million guarantee.
The next CoinMillion is set for Sunday, Oct. 25.
