Brazil swept the podium, with Ramon Kropmanns, coach of the famous Midas Poker Team, coming out victorious in the $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters. Kropmanns topped an enormous field of 59,480 entries, who were fighting over the $10 million prize pool.
The top two Brazilians agreed to an ICM deal, with Kropmanns earning $956,633 while Guilherme Ribeiro “Au1Au!Au!In!” earned the biggest prize of $980,021. Vanair Scrobatz, “CheDDou”, won $620,875 to round out the podium.
The original first-place prize was slated to be $1,108,712.
Another giant result for Kropmanns
Unbelievably, the GGMasters Anniversary win isn’t Kropmann’s largest online result.
In 2021, Kropmanns won the 3,774-entry $2,650 ACR Venom, defeating Yuri Dzivielevski in heads-up play to win $1,113,330, one of the largest prizes ever awarded at ACR Poker.
Kropmanns also scored a major victory last June in the $630 ACR Poker Online Super Series XL Event #04, topping the 2,625-entry field to claim a massive $285,579 prize.
The Brazilian superstar also won his first-career COOP title on PokerStars in September. Kropmanns won the 287-entry $530 NLHE event, which featured a $125,000 guarantee, for $24,581.
Kropmanns is mostly an online grinder, posting just under $500,000 in career live tournament earnings.
A historic tournament
The $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters made headlines over the weekend as it broke the record for the largest overlay in online poker history. It fell nearly 13,000 entries short of the required 72,464 entries to cover the massive guarantee.
There were severe doubts about whether the GGMasters guarantee would be covered, given that each of the seven flights was a freezeout, meaning players could enter up to seven times each. In addition, the guarantee was doubled from last year, and that tournament posted a $300,000 overlay before being cancelled on Day 2 due to technical difficulties.
In doing so, the $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters posted the third-largest overlay in poker history, falling about $700,000 short of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.
| Date | Event | Guarantee | Overlay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open | $10 million | $2.5 million |
| 2023 | $10,400 WPT World Championship | $40 million | $2.4 million |
| 2026 | GGPoker $150 GGMasters | $10 million | $1.791 million |
| 2024 | $120 PokerBaazi GOAT | 25 Crore ($2.975 million) | $1.4 million |
| 2020 | PokerStars $109 The Big BLowout | $5 million | $1.23 million |
$150 6th Anniversary GGMasters final table results
Kropmanns went into the final table and never looked back, taking down the deserved top prize as the most experienced player at the table.
Brazil ended up taking four of the top five spots, with “TuttiFrutti3” doing a fantastic job to come in fifth after starting the day in seventh place, earning over $150,000 more as a result.
Norway’s “modalrealism” will be disappointed to have finished fourth after starting the final table in second place, far away from the rest of the pack. He earned $465,597, roughly half of what he could have made by finishing second.
Russia’s dodge_river was also a big loser at the final table, finishing in eighth place after beginning the day in sixth.
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Ramon Kropmanns | Brazil | $956,633 |
| 2 | Guilherme Ribeiro | Brazil | $980,021 |
| 3 | Vanair Scrobatz | Brazil | $620,875 |
| 4 | modalrealism | Norway | $465,597 |
| 5 | TuttiFrutti3 | Brazil | $349,155 |
| 6 | stip4822 | Croatia | $261,836 |
| 7 | dueceswild | Ireland | $196,355 |
| 8 | dodge_river | Russia | $147,252 |
| 9 | fish202511 | China | $110,430 |
The biggest prizes in the history of Brazilian online poker
Unbelievably, after the deal, Kropmanns’ triumph didn’t make the top-10 in Brazil’s extensive online poker history. It should be noted that Guilherme Ribeiro made nearly $24,000 more in the deal, but his prize failed to crack the top-10 as well.
However, Kropmanns’ is on the list, as his previous ACR Venom title ranks seventh all-time. Coincidentally, if he had not taken the deal, the top prize would have been about $5,000 less than his Venom score.
| Place | Name | Event | Prize (Position) |
| 1 | Edson Tsutsumi | 2021 WSOP Online Main Event | $1,907,035 (2nd) |
| 2 | Gabriel Tavares | 2025 ACR Venom | $1,505,240 (1st) |
| 3 | Eduardo Pires | 2021 WSOP Online Millionaire Maker | $1,384,013 (1st) |
| 4 | Alex Brito | 2020 Sunday Million Anniversary | $1,192,806 (1st) |
| 5 | Danilo Demétrio | 2019 WCOOP Main Event-H | $1,187,553 (2nd) |
| 6 | Felipe Ketzer | 2023 ACR Venom | $1,149,260 (2nd) |
| 7 | Ramon Kropmanns | 2021 ACR Venom | $1,113,330 (1st) |
| 8 | Caio Almeida | 2020 WSOP Online Millionaire Maker | $1,072,428 (2nd) |
| 9 | Rafael Moraes | 2019 ACR Venom (1st edition) | $1,050,559 (1st) |
| 10 | João Simão | 2019 ACR Venom (2nd edition) | $1,039,982 (1st) |
