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888poker’s 2026 WSOP Main Event docuseries has reached Part 3, and this chapter leans into a rare quiet spell between tournament days. The five Team888 ambassadors spend their day off sightseeing, playing games, shopping and talking about what the Main Event could mean if one of them runs deep.

As reported last week, Episode 2 ended with Ian Simpson busting while Aaron Barone, Nick Eastwood, Lucia Navarro and Vivian Saliba bagged their stacks for Day 2. According to PokerNews, with Day 2 still a couple of days away, Part 3 follows the group as they try to reset before the grind starts again.

Barone and Eastwood open the episode on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas. Barone says he had never been there before, then tries to get Eastwood to wear a garish hat on Day 2 by offering him $88 and raising the bid when he refuses. Simpson spends his break at the Pinball Hall of Fame, which has around 700 pinball machines plus other arcade games.

The episode also turns into a small wager between Barone and Eastwood. They set up a three-game challenge where the loser has to pay for dinner, and Barone jokes that he is excited for a free meal. Eastwood then wins the first two games, which flips the challenge back on him.

Navarro gets a different kind of downtime. She says she usually eats out far too often when she is in Las Vegas, so she uses her day off to shop for groceries, then imagines what she would do with the $10 million first-place prize. Her answer stays grounded: she would take a trip with her family, maybe help out relatives, and avoid doing anything too crazy because she has made a lot of mistakes in the past. She also says she has learned that money has to be invested to create passive income, and that her lifestyle would not change much, though she would still have some fun times.

The episode closes with Saliba, who says she feels great after spending the afternoon at the pool, going to the gym, eating good food and sleeping late. She ends the chapter looking forward to seeing fireworks and July 4 celebrations in Las Vegas.

Spain’s Daniel Vicente won his first WSOP bracelet by taking down GGPoker’s $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha event online. He beat Renan Bruschi heads-up and collected $99,441 plus a $30,000 Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

PokerNews said Vicente had already come close to a bracelet in Las Vegas in 2025, when he finished runner-up to Sam Soverel in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship. As reported on Aug. 17, Brazilian Raphael Caixeta had already opened WSOP Online 2026 with the first bracelet, and Vicente followed with the next one.

The mystery bounty event drew 771 entries and built a $732,450 prize pool. By the end of Day 1, the field was down to 12, and most of the biggest mystery bounties had already been claimed, including one worth $91,000.

Day 2 knocked out Simon Mattsson, Diego Zeiter, Lex Veldhuis and Dimitrios Michailidis. China’s Alex Zev entered the day with the chip lead, but he went out in eighth and burst the final-table bubble.

At the final table, Eduardo “Scanner-” Bernal was first to go for $10,651. Matheus Grazziotin took sixth for $29,681, “Mger_Aleksani” of Armenia finished fifth for $31,638, MACHINAA of Taiwan was fourth for $22,862, and BBHDAMT7angels finished third for $32,868 before Vicente closed out Bruschi heads-up.

PokerNews also noted that the next bracelet in the series was set to be decided on Aug. 22 in the $100 Flip & Go NLH, with the GO stage scheduled for 7 p.m. BST after 9,939 buy-ins had already been logged.

WSOP Online has launched a Summer Gift Drop for cash-game players, a late-August promotion that runs from Aug. 23 through Aug. 30. The offer is live only at cash tables and is open to players in New Jersey, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania through the shared liquidity pool.

As covered earlier this month, WSOP Online has already been busy with the Circuit series, a Sunday Sale and the exclusive $100,000 Multi-Flight Event, and this new drop keeps the operator’s summer promo run going into the final week of August. The company is presenting it as a last chance for players to pick up extra value this month.

According to Pokerfuse, Summer Gifts are awarded at random across WSOP cash games. The prizes are mystery items, with tournament tickets and BLAST entry tickets among the rewards.

Only cash-game play counts for this promotion. MTTs, SNGs, BLAST, SNAP and other non-cash formats do not qualify, and players must sign up with WSOP Online and play cash games on their account at some point during the promotional window to be eligible.

The exact prize details are still being kept under wraps. For new players, WSOP’s welcome bonus can be layered on top of the promo, with a minimum first deposit of $10, a full deposit match up to $1,000 and up to $100 in extra free play depending on the size of the initial deposit.

A player who deposits $1,000 would get the full $1,000 match plus $100 in free play, for $1,100 in extra value before their first hand. Existing players, meanwhile, no longer have August reload bonuses available, though reload offers are expected to return soon.

The PokerStars Open Main Event at EPT Barcelona has reached its eight-handed final table, and Han Feng will begin it with the biggest stack and the €731,000 first-place prize in view. The €1,650 event drew 4,333 entries and generated a €6,239,520 prize pool after eight Day 1 flights and two full days of in-the-money play. Earlier coverage put the 2025 edition at 5,035 or 5,036 entries and a €7.25 million prize pool.

As reported in our Aug. 21 update, Feng had already taken the lead into Day 3 with 5.1 million chips. He is fresh off a fifth-place finish in the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event for $2,250,000, and he more than sextupled his stack on Day 3 to finish on 33.3 million.

Gregoire Jarry is the nearest challenger with 28.8 million, while Jason Wheeler sits third on 19.2 million. Darko Svesko holds 13.3 million, Selvakumaran Mahersh 11.6 million, Bogdan-Petru Petrascu 11 million, Alexander Ivarsson 10.3 million and Felipe Boianovsky 5.3 million.

The Day 3 run also paid out several familiar names. Brock Wilson and Jamie Dwan both finished in the 20s for €20,530 apiece, Dominik Panka was 41st for €13,480, PokerStars Ambassador Sebastian Huber placed 60th for €11,710, and Victoria Livschitz went out 80th for €10,200. Play resumes in Barcelona on Saturday at 12:30pm local time, and pokerexklusiv said official streams are due to start on Aug. 23.

BCPoker launched a limited-time 200% Rakeback Rush that runs from Aug. 21 to Aug. 27 and doubles VIP Points for cash-game players. The promotion is aimed at moving players through the VIP ladder faster so they can reach higher rakeback tiers sooner.

PokerStrategy described the offer as an extra value play for cash-game grinders. The site’s VIP Program pays between 10% and 50% rakeback, so the appeal of the promo is not just the short-term points boost, but the chance to convert a week of volume into a better long-term tier.

As covered in our Aug. 1 report on the desktop client and cash-game rewards overhaul, this is the latest step in BCPoker’s push to make the cash-game side of the site more attractive. That earlier update added new cash-game rewards, a redesigned Spin & Go format, CLUBS, and the Telegram Mini-App.

PokerStrategy also said BCPoker is continuing to sharpen its offer for serious grinders with faster software and lower rake caps across key formats. Separate coverage by GipsyTeam said cash games are charged a flat 5% rake, while May changes cut the NL200 cap from $10 to $3 and reduced the NL400 and NL1000 caps by 63%.

BCPoker is also putting fresh emphasis on Pot-Limit Omaha with a PLO Daily Sprint that runs from Aug. 22 to Sept. 29. The daily leaderboard hands out a share of a $100 prize pool to the top five players each day.