BSOP Millions opens in São Paulo tomorrow with R$ 15 million guaranteed on the Championship — and tells winners they will handle their own tax

Brazil's largest poker festival runs 13 to 28 November 2026 at the Complexo WTC in São Paulo. Six headline events anchor the grid, from a R$ 1,000 closer to a R$ 25,000 Championship carrying a R$ 15 million advertised minimum prize pool. The tour's own rules page also states that prizes to Brazilian residents are paid in full at the end of the festival, with each winner given a booklet explaining how to pay and declare the tax themselves.

BSOP Millions 2026 opens tomorrow, 13 November, and runs to 28 November at the Complexo WTC in São Paulo. It is the longest and largest stop on the Brazilian Series of Poker calendar, and the festival's own page sets out six headline events across the sixteen days.

The six headline events

Start-Up Mystery Million runs 13 to 18 November at R$ 1,500, built around a mystery envelope advertised at R$ 1 million. The Super High Roller Series spans 14 to 23 November. The Main Event plays 16 to 23 November at R$ 5,000 with R$ 10 million guaranteed. The Millionaire Maker follows from 18 to 24 November at R$ 1,200 with R$ 5 million guaranteed — the best price-to-guarantee ratio on the grid. The BSOP Championship, the festival's premium event, runs 21 to 28 November at R$ 25,000 with R$ 15 million guaranteed. Uma Milha closes things from 24 to 28 November at R$ 1,000 with R$ 1 million guaranteed.

Every one of those guarantee figures is an advertised minimum prize pool published before a card is dealt, spread across the paid places. None of them is an amount any individual player is promised, and the Millionaire Maker's name describes the top prize the tour hopes a large field will build rather than an outcome. Poker here is a skill-based game played for entertainment.

The tax note is the detail worth reading

The festival's rules section answers a question most tour pages leave alone: what happens to the money. The tour states that prizes won by competitors resident in Brazil are transferred to the winners in full, at the end of the event, and that each prizewinner receives a booklet with information on how to make the tax payment due and declare it afterwards. In other words there is no withholding at the cage — the obligation and the paperwork travel home with the player. The tour also states that only the prizewinner may collect their own prize; nominating a friend to collect is not allowed.

That is the tour's own statement of its practice rather than a reading of Brazilian tax law, and it is general information, not tax advice. Anyone planning to play deep should take their own advice on what they will owe.

A note on our own figures

The per-event numbered grid — the 90-odd side events the festival also runs — is not published in readable form on either the festival page or the tour's grid-builder page as of 12 November, so our individual event records for the numbered events still carry their October figures. The six headline events above were re-read directly from the festival page today. The BSOP revises its grid as a festival approaches, so confirm your buy-in and flight against the tour's own schedule on the day.