BSOP Millions 2026 is under way in Sao Paulo, with R$10m guaranteed in the Main Event

Brazil's largest poker festival began on 13 November and runs to 28 November at the WTC Sheraton in Sao Paulo. The BSOP's own schedule puts the Main Event buy-in at R$5,000 with R$10,000,000 guaranteed, making it the biggest guarantee on the South American calendar this year.

The BSOP Millions, the closing and largest stop of the Brasil Series of Poker, is under way. The tour's own site gives the festival as running from 13 to 28 November 2026 at the WTC Sheraton in Sao Paulo, a sixteen-day run that makes it one of the longest single poker festivals held anywhere this year.

The headline number is the Main Event guarantee. The BSOP schedule lists the Main Event's first Day 1 flight as a Gold tournament with a R$5,000 buy-in and R$10,000,000 guaranteed — a figure the tour has advertised on the event's own schedule page rather than an estimate. For context, that single guarantee is larger than the entire announced prize pool of most national festivals in the Americas, including the Uruguayan Gran Final Millonaria in December, which carries USD 1,500,000 across 27 tournaments.

Why Brazil's calendar is the deepest we cover

The BSOP is the main reason Brazil has the largest tournament calendar on this site: 140 dated Brazilian events, ahead of Austria's 97 and the United Kingdom's 75. The tour runs multi-stop seasons with large published schedules, and the Millions stop alone accounts for a substantial share of the Brazilian records we hold.

It is also a useful illustration of why we re-verify rather than archive on a date. A festival spanning more than two weeks has events still unplayed long after its start date has passed, so the Brazilian records tied to this stop are queued for a figure-by-figure re-read against the tour's schedule rather than being retired as finished.

A note on reading the figures

A guarantee is a floor on the prize pool, not a prediction of what anyone takes home, and a buy-in of R$5,000 is a serious amount of money in any market. Poker is a game of skill played for entertainment; the sensible way to approach a festival of this size is as a trip with a budget decided in advance.

Per-event buy-ins and guarantees beyond the Main Event's opening flight are published on the tour's own schedule, which renders its festival grid through a script and so has to be read event by event. Those figures are on our list to verify before we publish them here.