Premiums Only Has a Live Bracelet Sweat at 3 AM

Andrew Ostapchenko is alive at the six-handed final table of the $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty, and on the Premiums Only fantasy roster, his point ceiling just jumped to 96.

That's a number worth staring at. Premiums Only, the team managed by Fawcett in the $25k Fantasy contest, drafted Ostapchenko as a deep sleeper. He entered the final table with 46 points locked. If he wins the bracelet, that total could nearly double. In a salary-cap format where most roster construction lives and dies by single-digit point margins, a 96-point ceiling from one player is the kind of spike that reshuffles the entire leaderboard.

If he wins the bracelet, that total could nearly double.

The Table He's Up Against

Ostapchenko isn't facing a soft final table. Five other players remain, and the résumés range from grinder to genuinely dangerous.

The headliner on paper: Jason Hickey, a U.S. pro with $894,466 in lifetime earnings and 11 career final tables. That's the most decorated stack at the table by a wide margin. Hickey has been here before, repeatedly, and the experience gap matters in a super turbo structure where every decision compresses into a handful of hands.

Jeremy Halaska brings a WSOPC ring and $376,197 in lifetime cashes across three final tables. Ivan Uzunov, from Bulgaria, has $336,824 in earnings but only one prior final table. Zhicheng Miao, based in the UK, sits on $287,918 and six career final tables. Mark Harken rounds out the six, a U.S. player without public earnings data, which in a $1,500 super turbo means very little. Unknowns thrive in these structures.

No one at this table has a bracelet. Someone leaves with one.

Why This Matters for the 25k Contest

The math is straightforward. Ostapchenko locked 22 points earlier in the event, then jumped to 46 upon making the final table. That 24-point bump came from surviving to the last six. The remaining 50 points of upside depend entirely on finishing position, with the bracelet itself carrying the biggest chunk of the remaining ceiling.

For Premiums Only, the swing scenarios are enormous. A sixth-place finish still delivers a solid 46-point floor. A win pushes toward the full 96. The difference between those outcomes could be 50 points on a single roster slot, the kind of variance that either buries a team or launches it into contention.

And the timing amplifies the stakes. We're in the early stretch of the 2026 WSOP, where one breakout score can establish a leaderboard position that takes weeks to overcome. Teams that didn't roster Ostapchenko are watching the ODB projections and doing uncomfortable math.

The Sleeper Thesis, Validated

Super turbo bounty events are fantasy gold mines for exactly this reason. Buy-ins are low, fields are volatile, and the players who survive tend to be lightly owned across the contest. Ostapchenko was not a chalk pick. He wasn't on the popular stacks or the consensus builds. Fawcett found value in the margins, and that bet is now six-handed for a bracelet.

The final table plays out with no chip counts publicly available, which means the next update will be a finishing order. For Premiums Only, the floor is already strong. The ceiling could be season-defining.