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GG World Festival 2026 | Episode 5: May 15 through May 17

The GG World Festival 2026 has already rewritten the record books, and the biggest events are still ahead. Through the first three weeks of the series, over 2.6 million entries have been recorded across all four tiers, $120,135,000 in guarantees have been played out, with the total prize pool having surpassed that at $147,724,021! That’s more than a 20% increase from the guarantee to the prize pool. The GG World Festival is a statement about poker, showing the strength of our community and how GGPoker is still leading the charge into our future. 

The first three weeks of the GG World Festival were impressive; however, the next two weeks are where the GG World Festival 2026 writes its way into the history books. The $525 World Bounty Festival has already delivered in spectacular fashion, drawing 21,608 entries and building a $10,804,000 prize pool. Day 2 is set to run with nine players remaining and a top prize of $399,122.61 plus bounty rewards still up for grabs. After that, the $10,000 GGMillion Main Event looms on May 25 with $10,000,000 guaranteed, and satellites are already running with step satellites starting at just $0.55. You do not need a $10,000 bankroll to have a seat at the biggest table of the series. You just need to start climbing.

This weekend was the final tune-up before all of that. The fields showed up, the guarantees got crushed, and a handful of players had career-defining nights. Here is how it went down.

LOW TIER

Event 132-L: Saturday Secret KO [Mystery Bounty] | $25 Buy-In | $400,000 GTD

22,203 entries sent the prize pool to $510,669, topping the guarantee by more than $110,000. Austria’s RamiPlayer took the title after 10 hours and 31 minutes, while the weekend’s most memorable Low tier moment came courtesy of someone who finished 603rd.

🥇 1st — RamiPlayer (Austria) — $24,284.26 + $337.60 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — GODERNASARI (Georgia) — $18,195.83 + $1,408.50 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — SwabianTitanium (Austria) — $13,644.94 + $518.00 Bounty Rewards
💥 Biggest Mystery Bounty — 603rd — JamaisVu8 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) — $56.42 + $32,000 in Bounties

Austria swept first and third. JamaisVu8 busted well outside the top 100 and still pocketed over $32,000 for the biggest take of the tournament. Mystery bounty poker at its most chaotic.

Event 141-L: Grand Prix Europe | $15 Buy-In | $150,000 GTD

11,823 entries produced $163,157.40, clearing the guarantee by over $13,000. The final three players chopped it up, with ICM math once again flipping the conventional payout order on its head after 8 hours and 52 minutes.

🥇 1st — MUSTAFIN (Russia) — $11,438.14
🥈 2nd — Sat Fratostita (Romania) — $11,825.76
🥉 3rd — Watcher4 (Cyprus) — $12,645.32 (3-way ICM chop)

Third place took home the biggest slice. At this point, the ICM chop producing an inverted payout is becoming a recurring theme in the Low tier.

Global Low Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) Mala_Ale_Farsa extends their lead at the top with 4,225.36 points. Belarus’s KingOfAllins is a new face in second at 3,763.93, with Anton Ivar slipping to third at 3,727.60.

🥇 Mala_Ale_Farsa (Poland) — 4,225.36
🥈 KingOfAllins (Belarus) — 3,763.93
🥉 Anton Ivar (Brazil) — 3,727.60

MEDIUM TIER

Event 143-M: Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event | $55 Buy-In | $1,000,000 GTD

24,611 entries and $1,245,316.60 in prize money, nearly a quarter million beyond the guarantee. Montenegro’s fatfrumos took the title after 11 hours and 11 minutes, edging out a tight finish at the top.

🥇 1st — fatfrumos (Montenegro) — $46,567.82 + $18,902.92 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — Gutshot_Bullet (Thailand) — $46,553.07 + $9,730.39 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — SUUR_BEN (Estonia) — $36,990.95 + $6,471.50 Bounty Rewards

fatfrumos becomes the first player from Montenegro to win a GG World Festival event this year. The $55 Sunday Main Event keeps attracting fields that rival standalone tournament series.

Event 144-M: GGMasters | $150 Buy-In | $1,000,000 GTD

7,778 entries produced $1,073,364, clearing the guarantee by more than $73,000. Brazil’s dedenovasco outlasted the field across a two-day, 26-hour-and-34-minute grind, which did include an overnight break to allow the players to get back to it with a fresh mindset.

🥇 1st — dedenovasco (Brazil) — $142,850.67
🥈 2nd — 6digit (Philippines) — $107,120.04
🥉 3rd — SuperSteiner (Lithuania) — $80,328.69

dedenovasco joins a growing list of GGMasters champions this series who have ground through a marathon two-day session to claim a six-figure score.

Global Medium Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) The Netherlands holds the top two spots. Bowrot- leads at 4,156.53 and Armanus sits second at 4,026.97, with ANTON BARDZIYAN of Belarus in third at 3,771.15. The gap at the top is widening.

🥇 Bowrot- (Netherlands) — 4,156.53
🥈 Armanus (Netherlands) — 4,026.97
🥉 ANTON BARDZIYAN (Belarus) — 3,771.156

HIGH TIER

Event 143-H: Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event | $525 Buy-In | $1,500,000 GTD

4,016 entries sent the prize pool to $2,008,000, once again blowing well past the Bounty Hunter tournament guarantee. Russia’s Erik Bakker took the title after nearly 12 hours of play, combining a massive bounty haul with a near-identical prize pool finish at the top.

🥇 1st — Erik Bakker (Russia) — $94,950.91 + $90,867.89 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — Ppriest (Brazil) — $94,949.85 + $23,848.59 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — paQQeline (Brazil) — $75,446.88 + $12,078.39 Bounty Rewards

The prize pool gap between first and second was $1.06. Erik Bakker’s $90,867.89 bounty haul was the margin that mattered.

Event 144-H: GGMasters HR | $1,050 Buy-In | $1,000,000 GTD

1,139 entries generated $1,139,000, clearing the guarantee by $139,000. Mexico’s Spiritialbowl won a two-day, 26-hour-and-48-minute battle, including the overnight break, to take the title.

🥇 1st — Spiritialbowl (Mexico) — $191,504.35
🥈 2nd — need2pee (UK) — $143,607.33
🥉 3rd — Rustem Kozlov (Thailand) — $107,690.36

Spiritialbowl’s $191,504.35 is one of the biggest individual scores of the weekend across all tiers. A fitting way to close out the weekend before the series’s first $10 million guaranteed event.

Global High Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) Tom_Poker_BR extends their lead significantly, now at 3,088.10 points. Ronan Sweeney moves into second at 2,860.38, and Norway’s E Narmontas enters the top three at 2,829.41. R Romanovskyi and Patrick Leonard, who occupied second and third last episode, have both fallen out of the top three.

🥇 Tom_Poker_BR (Austria) — 3,088.10
🥈 Ronan Sweeney (Ireland) — 2,860.38
🥉 E Narmontas (Norway) — 2,829.41

SUPER TIER

Event 143-S: Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event | $5,250 Buy-In | $400,000 GTD

111 entries eclipsed the guarantee, generating $555,000 in prize money. Austria’s C Soulier, who won the Wednesday Wonderbox last week, took the title after 8 hours and 13 minutes, adding a second Super tier victory to what is becoming one of the standout individual runs of the series.

🥇 1st — C Soulier (Austria) — $47,382.21 + $95,859.39 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — LexVeldhuis (Netherlands) — $47,382.12 + $16,640.62 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — V Buldygin (Russia) — $37,649.70 + $27,265.62 Bounty Rewards

C Soulier’s combined take of over $143,000 caps back-to-back Super tier wins. LexVeldhuis, one of poker’s most recognizable streaming personalities, took his first podium finish of the series.

Event 148-S: Sunday Showdown [Mystery Bounty] | $1,500 Buy-In | $600,000 GTD

468 entries sent the prize pool to $666,900, $66,900 beyond the guarantee. The Philippines’ lawrabbitt won after 9 hours and 20 minutes, putting together a strong combined total at the top.

🥇 1st — lawrabbitt (Philippines) — $56,050.19 + $49,950 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — Guillaume Nolet (Panama) — $42,031.45 + $35,400 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — Meruemu (Russia) — $31,519.13 + $15,800 Bounty Rewards
💥 Biggest Mystery Bounty — 21st — Vlad Dubanov (Monaco) — $2,536.11 + $94,500 in Bounties

Vlad Dubanov’s $94,500 bounty score from 21st place is one of the largest mystery bounty rewards of the series so far. lawrabbitt’s combined take of over $106,000 is outstanding in its own right, but Dubanov’s number is the one people will be talking about.

Global Super Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) jinx36 and GREAGYPoker are locked in a tight battle at the top, separated by just 4.48 points. V Buldygin enters the top three at 1,646.54 after a strong weekend that included a final table in the Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event.

🥇 jinx36 (Philippines) — 1,928.24
🥈 GREAGYPoker (Russia) — 1,923.76
🥉 V Buldygin (Russia) — 1,646.54

GG ONTARIO FESTIVAL

LOW TIER

Event 92-L: Sunday Bounty King Ontario | $25 Buy-In | $10,000 GTD

849 entries generated $20,206.20, more than doubling the guarantee. adb09 took the title after 6 hours and 50 minutes.

🥇 1st — adb09 — $1,194.66 + $1,830.71 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — Ankit Sinha — $1,194.36 + $120.37 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — Galby1992 — $949.04 + $585.85 Bounty Rewards

Ontario Low Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) Hicks19 leads at 1,469.48, with SmallBills second at 1,371.23 and JonnyFav new to the top three at 1,349.82.

🥇 Hicks19 — 1,469.48
🥈 SmallBills — 1,371.23
🥉 JonnyFav — 1,349.82

MEDIUM TIER

Event 92-M: Sunday Bounty King Ontario | $105 Buy-In | $40,000 GTD

782 entries produced $78,200, nearly doubling the guarantee. Katy Perry took the title after 8 hours and 44 minutes, continuing what has been a dominant series across multiple Ontario tiers.

🥇 1st — Katy Perry — $4,685.32 + $6,632.13 Bounty Rewards
🥈 2nd — DrTopG — $4,684.65 + $1,339.06 Bounty Rewards
🥉 3rd — donktario — $3,722.41 + $1,858.97 Bounty Rewards

Katy Perry now has tournament wins and a consistent leaderboard presence across both the Medium and High Ontario tiers. 

Ontario Medium Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) 3BetPunts leads at 1,627.02, with Katy Perry closing the gap in second at 1,596.11 and Baqr third at 1,467.94.

🥇 3BetPunts — 1,627.02
🥈 Katy Perry — 1,596.11
🥉 Baqr — 1,467.94

HIGH TIER

Event 91-H: CN Tower Sunday Superstack | $525 Buy-In | $25,000 GTD

68 entries generated $34,000, clearing the guarantee by $9,000. mentallyDfishin took the title after 6 hours and 22 minutes.

🥇 1st — mentallyDfishin — $6,584.55
🥈 2nd — Barrel — $5,526.99
🥉 3rd — 4thNlong — $4,639.32

Ontario High Tier Leaderboard (through May 17) Baqr moves to the top at 1,062.52, with HaveALaugh dropping to second at 980.33 and Katy Perry re-entering the top three at 820.28.

🥇 Baqr — 1,062.52
🥈 HaveALaugh — 980.33
🥉 Katy Perry — 820.28

LOOKING AHEAD

The GG World Festival 2026 is entering its most exciting stretch, and the momentum could not be stronger. The $525 World Bounty Festival Day 2 is already underway with nine players fighting for the top prize of $399,122.61 plus bounty rewards, as part of the $10,804,000 prize pool. After that crown is handed out, all eyes turn to May 25 and the $10,000 GGMillion$ Main Event, with it’s $10,000,000 guarantee. If you are not already in, you still have time and step satellites start at just $0.55. There has never been a better time to be part of the GGPoker community, and the biggest moments of this series are still to come. Let’s see if you can get your name in the spotlight. Do not miss it.

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