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The WSOP Circuit will make its first stop in Spain when Casino Gran Vía hosts an 11-day festival in Madrid from Oct. 23 to Nov. 2. The series will award 11 Circuit rings across buy-ins from €300 to €2,500, with more than 50 tournaments on the overall schedule.

Casino Gran Vía said each ring winner will receive a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package for the Bahamas in December. The venue described the Circuit as the travelling version of the World Series of Poker, which stages ring events at casinos around the world.

The festival begins with the €300 Mini Main Event on Oct. 23. It has four opening flights across two days, with survivors returning on Oct. 25. That day also starts the €550 Seniors event for players aged 50 and older, along with the €550 Mystery Bounty.

The €300 Colossus runs six starting flights from Oct. 25 through Nov. 1 before its final day on Nov. 2. Other ring events include a €500 Knockout, the €2,500 High Roller on Oct. 27, a €1,000 Deepstack and €550 Pot-Limit Omaha on Oct. 31, plus the €400 Superstack and €350 Bigstack. The Bigstack closes the ring schedule.

The €1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event is Ring #7 and starts Oct. 28 with four flights. Flights A through C use 40-minute levels, while the Oct. 30 flight uses 20-minute levels. Day 2 follows on Oct. 31, with Spain’s first WSOP Circuit Main Event champion due to be decided Nov. 1.

There is one conflicting listing to note: a separate PokerNews schedule page gives the festival window as Oct. 29 through Nov. 2. Casino Gran Vía’s announcement and PokerNews’ detailed schedule report both give Oct. 23 to Nov. 2, while the official WSOP schedule lists the Main Event, Mini Main, Colossus and other tournaments. Casino Gran Vía also described the Main Event entry as €1,650, whereas PokerNews and the WSOP schedule list it at €1,500.

Grosvenor Poker’s G300 is scheduled to return to Manchester BNR from Oct. 20-25 as Round 9 of the 2026 schedule. The £260+£40 event carries a £100,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The tournament offers four live starting flights plus an online Day 1 on Wednesday evening. Players receive 40,000 chips, while the standard live flights use 30-minute levels.

A turbo flight is set for Sunday morning. Survivors will return at 4 p.m. that day for Day 2, which plays down to a winner.

Grosvenor has presented the G300 as a deeper-structured option for the £300 price point, positioned above its lower-buy-in events. The format was introduced to the 2026 calendar alongside the reduced-price G200 series, replacing the former 25/50 and Mini Fest events.

Manchester has already hosted a G300 this year as part of the February GUKPT Manchester festival. That edition also guaranteed £100,000, but had five starting flights, compared with four live flights and one online Day 1 for the October event.

The Oct. 20-25 window also includes G200 events in Newcastle and Portsmouth. Each has a £175+£25 buy-in and £50,000 guarantee, bringing the three tournaments’ combined guarantees to £200,000.

The G300’s Sunday turbo flight and Day 2 are scheduled for Oct. 25.

The WSOP Circuit is at Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary through Oct. 12, with an 18-tournament schedule expected to produce nearly 9,000 entries. Its $2,300 Main Event is projected to attract more than 1,000 entries and build a prize pool above $2 million.

GlobeNewswire reported that GGPoker presents the 12-day stop, which brings professional, emerging and recreational players from Canada and beyond into contention for prize money and WSOP Circuit gold rings. The Main Event sits at the center of a schedule that also includes the $400 Big 30 Stack, Mystery Bounty, Mini Main Event, Monster Stack, H.O.R.S.E. 8-Max and a $3,500 High Roller.

Other events include mixed NLH/PLO, bounty, seniors, ladies and PLO tournaments. The Main Event has three starting flights, while two other multi-flight events have four and three, respectively.

The field includes Innisfil, Ontario’s Mike Leah, who has nearly US$9.8 million in live tournament earnings and plays online as GoLeafsGoEh. Leah won his third WSOP bracelet on GGPoker the week before the Calgary series and followed it with another deep run in a separate bracelet event.

Other Alberta players named for the series include Calgary native Haven Taylor, Edmonton’s DJ Sharma and Kevin Martin, known as KMart. Sharma finished 78th in the 2026 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. British Columbia player Gregory Liow, who plays as Greg Goes All In, is also in the field.

WSOP bracelet winners Pei (Jerry) Li, Jaspal (Paul) Brar, Homan Mohammad and Christopher Alcindor are among the entrants. GGPoker is also offering exclusive satellites and Ontario freerolls that give players a route into the series and a chance at a Circuit ring.

As covered in August, the Canadian live-poker calendar also featured the first WSOP Super Circuit Canada stop at Playground in Kahnawake, underlining the recent run of major WSOP-branded events in the country.

GGPoker’s $2 million Bounty Hunters Series Cash Drop opens Oct. 2 and runs through Oct. 23, giving cash-game players entries into automatic Flipout tournaments rather than paying conventional cash drops.

Players earn Flipout Chips by making a net profit in eligible cash-game hands. The chips become their starting stacks in the next Flipout, so winning more qualifying pots can mean beginning the tournament with more chips.

The promotion covers Hold’em, PLO, PLO-5, PLO-6, Short Deck, Rush&Cash and All-in or Fold tables. The qualifying pot requirement varies by game: poker.pro lists thresholds of 50 big blinds for Hold’em, 16 big blinds for All-In or Fold Hold’em and 10 big blinds for Omaha.

Flipouts launch automatically every three hours, or eight times a day, following qualifying windows in which players can collect chips. The first seven daily events each carry a $10,000 cash-dollar prize pool, while the final daily Flipout guarantees C$20,000.

More than 10,000 Flipout players will receive prizes in cash dollars, which can be used for buy-ins at their preferred stakes. The format is open to all cash-game players rather than being limited to tournament entrants.

The Cash Drop runs alongside GGPoker’s Bounty Hunters Series, which lasts through Oct. 27. Tournament players can earn leaderboard points through eliminations during the series, while qualifying cash-game pots offer a separate route to Flipout Chips.

That makes the Cash Drop a bridge between the operator’s cash tables and its Bounty Hunters tournament schedule, with the promotion ending four days before the series closes.

Felipe “lipe piv” Boianovsky won the $10,300 WCOOP No-Limit Hold’em Main Event on Sept. 30, earning $551,632 and becoming the first player to win the $10K Main Event at both WCOOP and SCOOP.

The Brazilian’s earlier victory came in the 2023 SCOOP $10,300 Main Event, which paid about $1.04 million. That event drew 587 entries and built a $5.87 million prize pool. Boianovsky beat Laszlo “omaha4rollz” Bujtas heads-up to claim that title.

The WCOOP win was Boianovsky’s second title in the festival. The $10,300 event attracted 289 entries and produced a prize pool of about $2.9 million, roughly $390,000 above its guarantee. Each of the nine final-table players was assured at least $62,089.

Boianovsky came into the nine-handed final table as a middle stack, but took over after the first two eliminations. He knocked out every remaining player from the final seven, then started heads-up play against Canada’s Santiago “13santoy13” Plante with about a five-to-one chip lead.

On the final hand, Boianovsky held pocket kings and improved to three of a kind on the turn, leaving Plante drawing dead. The result completed a rare double in PokerStars’ two major online championship series, specifically at their $10K Main Event level.

The 2026 WCOOP ran from Sept. 6 through Sept. 30 and comprised 121 events. Its three NLHE Main Events began Sept. 27, with each surpassing its guarantee.