Sergio Aido Turns 20 Bullets Into Third WSOP Bracelet and $2.23 Million
Aido used a career-high $200,000 in buy-ins before winning his second GGMillion$ title and a WSOP Paradise Super Pass.
Sergio Aido won the 2026 WSOP Online $10,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers on GGPoker for $2.23 million, his third World Series of Poker bracelet and second title in the event. The Spanish player also received a $30,000 WSOP Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.
Aido outlasted about 1,750 entries for the title. The reported field total differs slightly between outlets, with PokerNews listing 1,753 entries and CardPlayer listing 1,754, while both put the winner’s prize at $2,228,762. The tournament generated a prize pool of just over $17 million, with the top four finishers all earning seven figures.
The victory came at a steep upfront cost. PlayUSA reported that Aido made 20 entries, or bullets, at $10,000 each, for $200,000 in buy-ins. He said he had never previously used more than eight bullets in an online tournament and only secured his Day 2 place on his final attempt in the turbo event.
“I had to use several bullets to make it to Day 2,” Aido said after the win. “My girlfriend kept telling me to quit, that it wasn’t for me anymore, but I ended up qualifying on the last bullet of the turbo event.”
As we reported on Sept. 29, Roeland Peeks began the nine-handed final table with a huge 172-big-blind stack, 99 big blinds ahead of Aido. Peeks ultimately finished third for $1.33 million, while Christopher Nguyen took fourth for $1.02 million.
Matheus Machado eliminated four consecutive players during the final-table action and reached heads-up play against Aido. Aido began the match with about 108.4 million chips to Machado’s roughly 67 million, then closed it out in 17 minutes. Machado received $1.72 million as runner-up.
The final hand saw Aido’s ace-seven of diamonds beat Machado’s ace-three. Aido said he had hoped to play heads-up against the Brazilian after noticing passive play and dwindling time banks in earlier hands.
The result was Aido’s eighth career seven-figure score and his first of 2026. He had previously won the same GGMillion$ tournament in 2024, beating a 1,433-entry field, and is listed second on Spain’s all-time money list with $29.2 million in earnings, behind six-bracelet winner Adrian Mateos.
The final table was streamed on GGPoker’s channels with Jeff Gross and Alex Foxen on commentary.
