Kropotov Takes Mystery Millions Title and $30,000 WSOP Paradise Pass

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Aleksandr Kropotov wins $250 Mystery Millions, earning $631,459 and a bracelet.
He also secured a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.
Max Stenberg leads the final seven in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.

Aleksandr Kropotov, playing as “sasha1317!”, won the $250 Mystery Millions for $631,459, a WSOP bracelet and $30,000 Super Pass. The event attracted 47,798 entries. Meanwhile, Max Stenberg leads seven finalists in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.

A Russian player listed as Aleksandr Kropotov in the GGPoker lobby has become the latest World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner after dominating the final table of the $250 Mystery Millions.

Playing under the alias "sasha1317!", Kropotov eliminated all but one of his opponents on his way to a $631,459 payday, a WSOP bracelet and a $30,000 Super Pass for the Super Main Event at the 2026 WSOP Paradise festival.

The $250 Mystery Millions attracted a 47,798-strong field after dozens of Day 1 flights, generating a $10,993,540 prize pool.

The tournament's $1 million jackpot bounty was won by "DrAvacado" on Day 2, as the 4,083 players who returned for the second day were eventually reduced to the final nine.

Kropotov's run continued through the final table, where he accounted for nearly the entire remaining field. The event reached heads-up after Oliver Bosch was eliminated in third place, earning $363,048.

The final confrontation saw Kropotov face Canada's Jessica Moors. Kropotov secured his seventh final-table elimination by sending Moors to the rail in second place. Moors collected $480,160, while Kropotov secured the $631,459 first-place prize.

Along with the money and bracelet, Kropotov also earned a $30,000 Super Pass to the Super Main Event at the 2026 WSOP Paradise festival.

Kropotov's Super Pass comes through GGPoker's offer to the champions of all 33 bracelet events comprising the 2026 WSOP Online.

The pass gives Kropotov entry to the $50 million guaranteed WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. His victory therefore adds a major tournament entry to the financial prize and WSOP bracelet secured through the Mystery Millions.

Max Stenberg Leads PLO Championship Final Seven

Attention now turns to the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, where Sweden's Max Stenberg leads the remaining seven players in the race for a first WSOP bracelet and a $282,000 top prize.

The championship attracted 327 entrants and generated a $1,553,250 prize pool. Seven players remain with chips, and Stenberg enters the final table as the chip leader.

Stenberg has 3,904,243 chips, equivalent to 78 big blinds, ahead of Romanian Narcis Nedelcu, who holds 3,578,396 chips. Lautaro Guerra occupies third place with 3,212,777.

The final table is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. BST on September 9, with Stenberg positioned at the top of the leaderboard as he pursues his first bracelet.

Final Table Results

Rank	Player	Country	Total Prize
1	Aleksandr Kropotov	Russia	$631,459
2	Jessica Moors	Canada	$480,160
3	Oliver Bosch	Austria	$363,048
4	Mikhail Suy	Kazakhstan	$283,313
5	Norman Schreck	Germany	$220,753
6	Eric Bonin	Mexico	$306,963
7	Gay Peng Tan	Malaysia	$132,486
8	Francisco Zufia	Andorra	$101,691
9	Denys Chufarin	Ukraine	$85,282