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The 2026 WSOP Online has produced another bracelet winner, with Arthur “Higher Self” Thiriart taking down Event #6: $1,500 Monster Stack NLH on GGPoker. The Belgian, currently playing out of Andorra, outlasted a field of 1,482 entrants to secure his first WSOP bracelet, a career-best $256,542 payday, and a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.
The tournament generated a $2,111,850 prize pool, with the top 210 finishers cashing. Notable names who made the money included Luis Faria, Rainer Kempe, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Mikita Badziakouski, Christopher Nguyen, Thomas Muehloecker, Vanessa Kade, and Ole Schemion.
At the final table, Mexico’s “MonoConPistola” fell first in ninth place for $36,648, followed by eliminations of Finland’s “Vampula,” Anatoly Filatov, and Brazil’s Dante Fernandes, who earned $76,027 for fourth-shortest stack. Another Finnish player, “Puntti,” bowed out in fifth for $96,963, locking up six-figure results for the remaining four.
Austria’s “liano96,” who recently finished fifth in the $100 Flip & Go event won by Stefan Schillhabel, took fourth place here for $123,664. Giorgiy “Giya” Skhulukhiya, a player with 20 live tournament victories, settled for third place and $157,718.
Thiriart ultimately defeated Hong Kong’s “Mufeng2024” heads-up for the title. His previous best result came earlier this year at the WSOP in Las Vegas, where he earned $51,713 for a 14th-place finish in the $10,000 NLHE 6-Handed Championship.
Attention now turns to the $500 Mini Main Event, whose 12,113-player field has reached its final table. Japan’s Seiichi Kanemitsu leads with 81 big blinds ahead of a $747,545 top prize when play resumes on August 24.
