Nikita Kalinin Wins WSOP Online Event #3 for $276,239
The $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship also came with a $30,000 Super Pass for WSOP Paradise
Nikita Kalinin won Event #3 of the 2026 WSOP Online at GGPoker, the $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship, for $276,239. PokerNews reported that the score also came with a $30,000 Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.
The tournament drew 781 entries and generated a $1,854,875 prize pool. It was Kalinin’s first WSOP bracelet.
His run was already in good shape at the end of Day 1, when only 20 players were left and he bagged the second-largest stack before heading to rest. After firfir exited in sixth place for $75,739, five players remained in contention for the title.
Rinat M finished ninth for $41,670, Luigi Soncin was eighth for $44,689, and Ivan Ilichev took seventh for $50,056. Start-of-day chip leader Arsenii Karmatckii went out fifth for $87,363, Pedro Neves finished fourth for $97,558, and Leandro Bianchini bowed out in third for $120,744 before Kalinin reached heads-up play against Audrius Stakelis.
Both players were already guaranteed at least $127,887, but the final two bounties were worth even more than that. Kalinin won the title and added $148,351 to bring his total to $276,239, while Stakelis settled for $136,074.
The broader 2026 WSOP Online schedule on GGPoker runs from August 16 through September 29 and features 33 bracelet events. Somuchpoker noted that every bracelet winner gets the $30,000 Super Pass package, and the next event on the slate was Event #4, the $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha, set for 7:00 p.m. BST on August 20.
