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RunGood Poker Series will return to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa for a six-day Golden Expedition stop from Oct. 20-25. The Oklahoma series has eight championship-ring events, led by an $800 Main Event carrying a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The Main Event has four starting flights, two on Oct. 23 and two on Oct. 24, before its noon final on Oct. 25. PokerNews will provide live coverage of the tournament.

The festival opens Oct. 20 with three ring events: a $300 Seniors event for players 50 and older, a $250 Series Opener with a $10,000 guarantee, and a $300 Tag Team Double event that costs $150 per player. On-demand Flip and Go satellites will also be available that day.

A $400 PokerNews PowerStack follows on Oct. 21 with two starting flights and a $50,000 guarantee, with its final scheduled for the following morning. The remaining ring schedule includes a $400 40/40/40 No-Limit Hold’em event, a $400 Pot-Limit Omaha event and a $400 Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em tournament, which starts alongside the Main Event final on Oct. 25.

Players can also take shots at the Main through satellites. A $300 RG Mega Package satellite on Oct. 21 awards entry to both the PowerStack and Main Event plus $100 cash, while $185 Main Event satellites run Oct. 22 and Oct. 24, awarding one seat for every five entries.

Tulsa hosted RunGood earlier this year during the tour’s Passport Season. That $800 Main Event drew 209 entries and generated a $146,300 prize pool, with Jesse Jones winning $34,074 and his third RunGood ring after beating Joshua Hatfield heads-up.

RunGood’s 2026 Fall Season is branded Golden Expedition and brings back its Player of the Year race powered by The Hendon Mob and Global Poker Index. The season concludes with the Dream Factory Festival at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, California, from Nov. 27 through Dec. 3, including two invitationals for 2026 RunGood ring winners.

PokerNews has added a second PGT Championship seat to the RunGood Dream Factory Festival at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, giving RunGood ring winners two separate routes into the January 2027 championship. The added seat goes to the winner of the RunGood Winner’s Circle, while the RunGood Dream Seat Invitational will award its champion a PGT Championship seat.

The two $300 invitationals are reserved for players who won an official RGPS Championship Ring in the 2023, 2024, 2025 or 2026 seasons. Each tournament will also award its runner-up a $600 Hendon Mob Mid-Major Championship seat and third place a $400 PokerNews Cup seat.

As we reported in August, the fall PokerNews PowerStack leaderboard also sends its top 10 players to Thunder Valley with entry to the Dream Seat Invitational, a $300 travel stipend and a two-night hotel stay. Players earn the leaderboard points in eligible PowerStack events across the fall RGPS schedule.

The inaugural PowerStack leaderboard sent 11 players to Thunder Valley for the $1,200 Million Dollar Main Event at the RGPS Passport Season Finale. This time, a player who reaches the top 10 and wins the Dream Seat Invitational can continue through the RGPS route to a PGT Championship seat.

Dream Factory runs Nov. 27 through Dec. 3 at Thunder Valley in Lincoln, California. The Winner’s Circle is set for Dec. 1 and the Dream Seat Invitational follows on Dec. 2, putting the two PGT-seat events on consecutive days.

PokerNews lists the Winner’s Circle start time as 11 a.m., while RunGood’s event announcement lists noon. Every Winner’s Circle participant also has a chance to be selected for the “Compete for the Seat” gameshow during the evening player party at Illusions Bar, where $6,000 in prizes is available.

PokerNews will provide live updates from both invitationals. The resulting PGT Championship seats lead to the January 2027 event at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.

CrorePlay will run its three-week Festive Fortune Series from Oct. 12 through Nov. 1, putting $2.5 million in guaranteed prizes behind a schedule of progressive knockout tournaments.

The series gives players in India a chance to earn cash for eliminating opponents, while also turning bounty performance into leaderboard points. CardPlayer reported that the leaderboard scoring is based on the value of a player’s knockouts. The promotion adds special multipliers for showdowns involving J-x and J-J.

Progressive knockouts put a bounty on each player, funded by part of the buy-in. In the standard format, the player making an elimination receives half the bounty immediately, while the other half is added to that player’s own bounty, according to GTO Wizard. That structure can make knockouts valuable alongside ordinary tournament-chip considerations.

Festive Fortune is one part of CrorePlay’s wider October campaign. The company has also scheduled Festive Hands Cash Games for the same Oct. 12-Nov. 1 period, with weekly rewards including Flip-Out Tickets, random prizes, a daily Festive Hour at 20:00 CET and a Daily Festive Draw; PokerStrategy reported that some mechanics and reward rules were still being finalized.

As covered in September, CrorePlay had previously added the $1.245 million Bonus Bonanza daily tournament promotion, whose payouts were bonus cash released through cash-game rake. Festive Fortune instead centers its announced rewards around knockout bounties, leaderboard scoring and the J-x and J-J multipliers.

CrorePlay’s October lineup also includes revised PLO Hand Quest and Rakeback Riches promotions, while its three-month Great Indian Poker Fest offers milestone prizes including InstaCash, a Super Meteor Bike, a Vegas trip and a Tata Sierra EV.

Shannon Shorr won his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet in the 2026 WSOP Online $400 no-limit hold’em Mystery Bounty, defeating Mike Holtz heads-up for $59,616 in total prize money. The 41-year-old outlasted a field of 1,149 entries.

The final hand turned on the river. Shorr’s K-Q trailed Holtz’s pocket fives until a king arrived, sealing the title as Shorr’s wife and children watched from home. CardPlayer reported that he replayed the hand for his children and said, “River king, Daddy wins!”

The result continues a distinctly online bracelet record for Shorr. All four of his WSOP titles have come in online events, beginning with two wins during the 2023 WSOPO: a $2,000 no-limit hold’em six-max event worth $89,126 and a $1,000 NLH freezeout that paid $35,539.

Shorr’s second 2023 title came 11 days after the first and ended a 17-year wait for his first bracelet. He added bracelet No. 3 in 2025, exactly two years after the second, in another mystery bounty event that earned him $56,143.

The latest win adds to a long WSOP record that began with an in-the-money finish in a $2,000 buy-in event in 2006. Shorr now has more than $18.3 million in career tournament earnings, including more than $4 million from WSOP events.

Noor Rassam and Panayiotis Karayiannis have each received a three-year prison sentence, suspended for three years, after operating an unlicensed poker business from an industrial unit in Splott, Cardiff. The men admitted possessing and transferring criminal property contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 on the first day of their trial.

The operation ran from August 2022 to February 2024. It offered poker both in person and online, promoted games through WhatsApp, and took a commission from each hand, known as rake, rather than playing directly against customers.

The Gambling Commission said the case followed intelligence it passed to Tarian Regional Organised Crime Unit. In February 2024, investigators executed warrants at the unit and addresses connected to the pair, arresting both men and seizing cash, documents, digital devices and high-value items.

The upstairs room contained six poker tables, a spinning prize wheel, seating and fridges stocked with food and drink. Access was through a fire exit monitored by CCTV, while an office held poker chips, tokens, records of money paid and owed, and a Perspex-protected cashier window.

The live events were first promoted as Ding Ding Poker and later renamed Fish Tank Poker Cardiff. Online games operated through a subscription poker application under the Fish Tank Online account name.

Financial enquiries identified about £260,000 in third-party payments to Rassam and about £124,000 to Karayiannis during the period of the operation. Numerous account transactions referenced poker. Detective Constable Charles Lan said the business generated substantial undeclared profits and that its harm “should not be underestimated.”

Police said the games were promoted to people involved in serious crime, including drug dealers and organised crime groups. Investigators also found that some customers lost significant sums and became indebted to the organisers, while the operation had no measures to identify or support vulnerable people or those experiencing gambling addiction.

Gambling Commission executive Sue Young said the case carried a clear warning for illegal casino operators and that the regulator would continue working with partners against unlicensed gambling in Great Britain. A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing is scheduled for April 9, 2027.