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PokerStars on FanDuel’s September Dynasty Series has ended with screen names LoveToLose and Mamalega winning the separate $300 no-limit hold’em Main Events in the United States and Ontario. LoveToLose earned $59,422 after topping a U.S. field of 859 entries, while Mamalega collected $10,100 from Ontario’s 176-entry, province-exclusive tournament.

The U.S. Main Event carried a $350,000 guarantee and ran across Sept. 27-28. The festival’s third Main Event was a $1,500 U.S. High Roller, alongside the two $300 events.

As we reported Sept. 3, the festival was PokerStars on FanDuel’s first tournament series for Ontario players and was initially announced as a Sept. 12-28 run. The Ontario schedule listed 61 events, all no-limit hold’em, while the U.S. schedule had 100 tournaments across no-limit hold’em, PLO and PLO5.

PokerNews described the completed series as offering $3.5 million in guarantees across Ontario, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That differs from the pre-series Poker.org preview, which put the $3.5 million guarantee on the U.S. schedule alone and said an Ontario-wide guarantee had not yet been announced.

The U.S. buy-ins ranged from $10 to $1,500; Ontario’s ranged from C$30 to C$1,500. A leaderboard ran throughout the series, rewarding players for consistent results.

The schedule began Sept. 9 with a $50 Nightly Dynasty event guaranteed for $25,000 and a $1,000 Storm Kickoff with a $100,000 guarantee. Other highlighted events included a $500 Storm with $100,000 guaranteed and a $100 Dynasty with a $150,000 guarantee.

The festival closed Sept. 28 with the $150 Sendoff Cooldown, which carried a $12,500 guarantee. It was among the largest series offered since PokerStars merged operations with FanDuel and began offering shared U.S. tournament liquidity across Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Spanish player JULIO built a 1.494 million-chip stack to take a huge lead after Day 1 of the €3,000 EPC High Roller at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. His nearest challenger, Davit Mikhanashvili, bagged 1.065 million, while Florian Duta finished third on 836,000.

JULIO’s run came after he lost his first stack on a bluff in Level 3 and promptly reentered. From a 200,000-chip starting stack, he accumulated nearly 1.5 million over six levels, leaving him with roughly 40% more chips than Mikhanashvili, according to PokerNews.

The no-limit hold’em tournament, the largest no-limit hold’em buy-in offered at the King’s Million European Poker Championship, drew 92 entries on Day 1. Forty-eight players advanced, although the field can still grow: registration remains available for three further levels on Day 2 and reentries are unlimited. The event carries a €500,000 guarantee and had required 167 entries to avoid an overlay.

Behind the top three, Axel Bayout advanced with 596,000. Bayout had already won a €150,000 bounty in the festival’s Mystery Bounty event earlier in the week. Zdenek Zizka bagged 428,000 while also playing Day 1a of the Main Event, and late entrant Antoine Vranken doubled his stack to 412,000.

Tobias Peters returned with 273,000, while Vasilis Nikolas, seeking a second title of the series, finished on 250,000. Darius Neagoe, Ermanno Di Nicola, Mateusz Moolhuizen, Guy Taylor and Max Kruse did not make it through Day 1 but can still reenter.

As we reported in September, the King’s Million European Poker Championship is King’s Resort’s new autumn flagship, with more than €10 million in guarantees across its Sept. 16-Oct. 6 schedule.

Day 2 begins at 3 p.m. local time on Oct. 1 at Level 10, with 4,000/8,000 blinds and an 8,000 big blind ante. Levels remain 45 minutes, registration closes at the start of Level 13, and play continues until a champion is crowned.

ACR Poker has completed its $50 million guaranteed OSS XL, with CPUrul0r, Aldeberan90 and MillionDollarCorner winning the three Main Events. The tournaments generated a combined $5.36 million in prize pools, and the series closed Sept. 29.

The $2,650 Main Event was the largest event by prize pool. CPUrul0r took $518,759 after 1,069 entries created a $2.67 million pool, $172,500 above its $2.5 million guarantee. It paid 136 places and produced six six-figure payouts, including $377,921 for runner-up EbillionS00n and $275,882 for third-place finisher origi69. ACR Pro Rob Kuhn finished sixth for $107,322.

As reported Sept. 27, the series had entered its final stretch after several high-roller results, with the three Main Events still to be decided. The $1,050 Main Event drew 2,184 entries for a $2.18 million prize pool, clearing its $2 million guarantee by $184,000. Aldeberan90 won $367,791, ahead of Exxploited on $267,911 and nogamisama on $195,575.

The lower-buy-in $66 Main Event had concluded Sept. 27. It attracted 8,211 entries and paid 819 places from its full $500,000 guarantee, with MillionDollarCorner earning $72,078 for the win.

Other late-series results included Chris Moneymaker’s victory in the $15,400 NLH 8-Max during Second Mortgage Week, which ran Sept. 21-28. Moneymaker collected about $215,000 from a 49-entry, $735,000 event, while Alex Foxen, playing as OutFoxenYou, finished second for about $157,000.

Earlier in the festival, the $630 multi-flight OSS XL #4 drew 3,027 entries and built a $1.82 million prize pool, exceeding its $1.5 million guarantee by $316,200. WillyWonka won $286,180, while HundertZwolf and RiverRiot72 collected $206,193 and $148,545 respectively.

The OSS XL Leaderboard Competition added more than $60,000 in cash and tournament tickets across its three buy-in tiers. GROOTHEDEGEN won the High leaderboard, INIT2MINIT topped the Medium tier and BIGJUMBO27 won the Low leaderboard.

Crown Melbourne will host the Victorian Poker Championship from Oct. 12-27, with a $2,500 Main Event, high rollers and a broader spread of mixed-game tournaments on the 16-day schedule.

The Main Event has four Day 1 flights, running Oct. 21-24. Entrants receive 60,000 chips, play 40-minute levels initially before they increase to 60 minutes, and may re-enter once. Day 2 begins Oct. 25, with the final table set to be reached Oct. 27.

Crown describes the returning festival as an expanded schedule with diverse formats. Alongside $5,000 and $10,000 high-roller events, the card includes Mystery Bounty, H.O.R.S.E., 8-Game, 2-7 Triple Draw and PLO Hi-Lo tournaments.

There are also two dedicated Pot-Limit Omaha events, including a $5,000 tournament and a separate marquee event. That range gives mixed-game and Omaha players additional options.

Daily satellites start at $240, while regular $300 satellites will run throughout the festival. Players can qualify for the Main Event, $5K Challenge, Mystery Bounty, H.O.R.S.E., PLO and other events. Crown’s satellite schedule and poker calendar are live, and registrations are open at the Poker Room on Level 1 of the casino.

PokerNews plans to cover the festival on site with daily tournament highlights and live Main Event reporting, including hands, chip counts and key moments through the crowning of the next Victorian champion.

Crown is also offering hotel rates for stays from Sept. 30 through Oct. 27. The casino had gone more than four years without a major poker series before announcing its Crown Poker Series for April, after larger tournament festivals were mothballed in March 2020. Cash games returned in late 2021 and smaller daily tournaments followed in 2022, while the Aussie Millions remained on hold.

Norway has opened a fast-track consultation on rules that would allow state-owned Norsk Tipping to offer legal online poker for the first time. The Sept. 29 proposal would keep poker inside the country’s state-monopoly system, giving Norsk Tipping the exclusive right to run tournament poker and cash games rather than opening a commercial licensing market.

The Ministry of Culture and Equality is pitching the change as a way to move players from unregulated foreign websites to a domestic service with responsible-gambling controls. Minister Lubna Jaffery said a Norwegian offer would be safer than leaving players with foreign commercial operators, while stressing that preventing gambling harm remains the central policy objective.

The proposed limits are detailed. Players could lose no more than NOK5,000 a day and NOK10,000 a month on poker, while those under 20 would have a NOK2,000 monthly ceiling. Tournament buy-ins, including fees, would be capped at NOK2,500; cash-game buy-ins at NOK1,000; and cash stakes at NOK5/NOK10 blinds.

The product would also limit players to four simultaneous tables. Tournament players would have to take a five-minute break after every hour, while cash-game players could set daily time limits. The consultation gives a 15-minute pause between poker and online casino as an example of a possible measure to prevent people chasing losses between products, rather than a settled rule.

Advertising is still an open question. The ministry is asking whether online-poker marketing should be prohibited entirely or permitted only to a very limited extent, with younger people identified as a particular concern.

The consultation also proposes a broader reporting duty for serious incidents and operational deviations. Norsk Tipping, Norsk Rikstoto, bingo operators and companies running draws for large lotteries such as Pantelotteriet and Postkodelotteriet would need to notify gambling regulator Lotteritilsynet. Providers currently have no general obligation to report such incidents on their own initiative.

Poker is presently legal in Norway only in limited private-home games and at the annual national championship. Norsk Tipping sought permission to offer online poker in May 2024. A 2022 University of Bergen survey estimated that nearly 90,000 Norwegians played online poker annually through foreign operators, while Norsk Tipping has put the potential annual player base at 100,000 to 150,000 people.

The Norwegian Poker Federation welcomed a regulated domestic product as safer than unregulated platforms, although it continues to seek a licensing model beyond the proposed monopoly arrangement. The federation’s Tobias Leknes said many players would welcome a legal site.

Norway has retained and developed its monopoly model rather than moving to licensing. A University of Bergen population survey found gambling problems had halved since 2019, while estimated spending outside the monopoly system fell from EUR600 million to EUR200 million, according to H2 Gambling Capital.

The consultation closes Nov. 29. The ministry proposes that any amended regulation take effect immediately, and Lotteritilsynet would evaluate the poker product within a year of launch; Norsk Tipping product manager Haakon Kise estimated a launch could take one and a half to two years after the rules are adopted.