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Nick Petrangelo won the $150,000 Triton 10th Anniversary Special in Jeju after striking an ICM deal with Joao Simao, although Simao took the larger payout. Petrangelo collected about $2.21 million and the title, while Simao earned about $2.52 million as runner-up.

The no-limit hold’em event brought the Triton Jeju series to a close. Card Player reported that the 67-entry tournament generated a $10.05 million prize pool, with 11 players paid after registration closed on Sept. 16.

Simao began heads-up play with better than a 3:1 chip lead, but the pair agreed to divide the remaining money by ICM, leaving $80,000 and the trophy to play for. Petrangelo then doubled twice before eliminating Simao.

PokerNews reported that the longtime friends, who had played online against one another since 2008, went all-in blind after making their deal. Petrangelo said the result capped a long Jeju trip with several deep runs: “It was a long trip, had a lot of deep runs, it was nice to finish with a good one.”

Triton treated the unusual conclusion as a shared celebration. The tour said Petrangelo and Simao declared themselves both winners and completed winner interviews and photographs together, even as Petrangelo was formally awarded the title. Simao said the chop made the tournament “so special that we have now two winners.”

The final table included Adrian Mateos, Thomas Boivin, Danny Tang, Dan Dvoress and Seth Davies. Mateos was third for about $1.29 million, Atanasov finished fourth for $990,000, and Boivin took fifth for $783,000. Dvoress, Davies and Tang were eliminated earlier at the final table.

The score took Simao’s Jeju earnings to about $9.87 million, nearly one-third of his listed $30.73 million in career tournament earnings. As we reported earlier this week, the Brazilian’s haul was driven by his record $7.25 million victory in the $200,000 Triton Invitational.

Petrangelo earned 720 Card Player Player of the Year points, moving inside the top 100 of the CoinPoker-presented race. Simao gained 600 points and rose to 48th.

Triton’s next stop is Northern Cyprus, where Triton One runs Nov. 5-15 before the Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus begins Nov. 15 and continues through Nov. 30.

A Marblehead, Massachusetts, player identified as R.B. won a $402,108 progressive jackpot at The Nash Casino in Nashua after a $5 side wager on three-card poker. The Sept. 6 payout is the largest progressive jackpot in New Hampshire casino history.

R.B. was dealt the four, five and six of spades, making a straight flush. That qualifying hand triggered a Bonus Spin Xtreme wheel spin, which landed on the top-tier Triple Diamond jackpot and paid the full shared progressive pool to the winner.

Bonus Spin Xtreme for three-card poker is an optional side wager, with rules that allow $1 or $5 bets. A qualifying poker hand triggers an electronic wheel prize, while the base game still requires its mandatory ante wager.

The Nash’s progressive pool draws prize money from about 30 participating tables at the casino and grows until a player hits the winning wheel outcome. General manager Eric Althaus said patrons and staff held their breath as the wheel turned after the straight flush was revealed.

The new mark surpassed the casino’s previous progressive record of $233,490, won by a Lowell, Massachusetts, resident on Valentine’s Day. In May 2025, the venue had described a $102,756 blackjack progressive jackpot won by a guest named Phouma as believed to be the state record at that time.

The Nash opened inside Pheasant Lane Mall in March 2025 and has since awarded 128 jackpots, including seven prizes above $100,000. Players have claimed more than $31 million in progressive winnings there, with nearly $17 million awarded in 2026.

The venue, which calls itself New Hampshire’s largest casino, offers more than 1,100 electronic games as well as table games and poker. Under New Hampshire’s charitable gaming model, 35% of daily table-game revenue must go directly to local nonprofits. The casino said it generated more than $19.5 million for 118 New Hampshire nonprofits in its first 12 months of operation.

Wang Ye won the final tournament of Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, taking down the $30,000 no-limit hold’em turbo for $256,000 and his first Triton title. He outlasted a 23-entry field in the event, which created a $690,000 prize pool and paid only five places.

Card Player reported that Wang entered heads-up play with better than a 2:1 chip lead over Kiat Lee, then sealed the win when his J♠7♣ made sevens full of jacks on a J♣10♠7♠9♦7♥ board. Lee had made a straight with 8♠4♣, but it was not enough to beat the full house. He earned $176,000 as runner-up.

As we reported earlier this month, Lee had already won the Jeju $40,000 mystery bounty for $619,000 and eight bounty envelopes, his fourth Triton title.

Matthias Eibinger finished third for $112,000 after his K♥10♥ failed to overtake Wang’s A♣3♣. Punnat Punsri eliminated Benjamin Tollerene in fifth, then Wang knocked out Punsri before the heads-up match. Punsri earned $81,000 for his third top-four finish of the festival, while Tollerene earned $65,000.

The win was Wang’s 20th Triton cash. He now has more than $13.7 million in career tournament earnings, including more than $11.8 million from Triton events. It was also his second title and seventh final-table finish of 2026.

Wang collected 252 Card Player Player of the Year points, bringing him to 3,200 and just outside the top 50 in the CoinPoker-sponsored standings. Punsri moved into first place after his 25th final table of the year, having accumulated four titles and 7,624 points. Lee rose to 4,741 points and 21st, while Eibinger reached 32nd and Tollerene 40th.

The turbo closed a 14-event Jeju II schedule that awarded about $103.2 million in prize money across 1,752 entries. Its largest event was the $200,000 Triton Invitational, which drew 176 entries, built a $34.6 million prize pool and was won by Joao Simao for more than $7.2 million.

A UK player using the screen name “visiontechno” turned a $25 buy-in into a $500,000 first prize in a PokerStars Spin & Go Max on Sept. 12. The six-handed game drew a 26,000x multiplier, described as the highest available at that buy-in for a six-player table.

The jackpot paid out $650,000 in total. Second place received $60,000, followed by $40,000 for third, $25,000 for fourth, $16,250 for fifth and $8,750 for sixth. There was no cashout option attached to the game.

Pokerfuse reported that PokerStars’ published payout table put the chance of the 26,000x multiplier at one in 1 million for a $25 Spin & Go Max. The format can run with three to eight players, although all six seats were filled in this jackpot game.

The result added a six-figure Spin & Go Max prize to an unusually busy stretch for PokerStars lottery sit & gos. As covered in August, the site awarded three $1.2 million jackpots in its $5 three-handed Spin & Go between July 17 and Aug. 12, each after a 240,000x multiplier landed.

Those three $5 winners were Denmark’s dillerfar19 on July 17, Argentina’s Anatsuk334 on July 26 and UK player Gwaugh1 on Aug. 12. Each took $1 million from a $1.2 million pool. Pokerfuse put the published odds for that $5 multiplier at one in 10 million and said the three hits matched PokerStars’ combined total of $1.2 million Spin & Go jackpots across 2024 and 2025.

The $1.2 million prize was a promotional top end at the $5 level rather than the regular structure’s standard maximum. PokerStars subsequently removed the 240,000x multiplier from that buy-in, leaving $50,000 as the stated maximum prize there, while million-dollar jackpots remained available from $100 buy-ins upward.

WSOP Paradise will feature a $250,000 buy-in Pro-Am bracelet tournament in the Bahamas this December, with professional players and approved amateurs starting in separate fields before meeting later in the event.

The three-day tournament pays a WSOP gold bracelet to its winner. Once the event reaches the money, the two fields combine and play down normally to a champion.

Professionals can register on their own, without an invitation. Amateurs face a different entry route: they must submit an application for approval by a WSOP Pro-Am committee, which will assess each applicant individually.

The setup differs from Triton Poker’s Invitational model, where pros must be invited by an amateur. PokerNews noted that Triton staged a $250,000 Invitational at WSOP Paradise last year, won by Kayhan Mokri for about $7.7 million.

As covered in August, the original WSOP Paradise schedule listed 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guaranteed prize pools. PokerNews now describes the festival schedule as containing 21 bracelet events including the Pro-Am, while WSOP’s official schedule release still lists 20, leaving the published event count inconsistent.

WSOP Paradise runs Dec. 2-17 at Baha Mar Hotel & Resort. Its $26,000 Super Main Event carries a $50 million guarantee, and WSOP has positioned the Bahamas stop as the event that decides the 2026 Player of the Year race.