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David Stefanski won the $10,200 BetMGM Poker Big, Big Baller at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. The tournament had a $500,000 guarantee and drew 69 entries for a $690,000 final prize pool. Stefanski collected $169,220 and his first title of the Borgata Big, Big Series.

The two-day no-limit hold’em event began Sept. 17 with 30,000-chip starting stacks, unlimited re-entry and registration open through the first hand of Day 2. PokerNews reported that 56 entries had been logged after Day 1, producing a provisional $560,000 prize pool. Thirteen players max-late registered at the start of Day 2.

Jeremy Becker had led the first-day survivors with 317,500 chips, more than 10 starting stacks and 105 big blinds. David Stefanski was second with 194,500, while Drew O’Connell bagged 184,500. Nicholas Verderamo, Brock Wilson and Daniel Monosson were also among those returning for Day 2.

There is a minor discrepancy in the Day 1 accounts. Bonus.com’s initial report said 12 players advanced from the 56-entry field, while the final event recap said 13 players bagged on Day 1 before being joined by the 13 max-late registrants.

Becker’s lead did not carry through the final day. He was eliminated first at the eight-handed stage when his ace-queen ran into Clemen Deng’s ace-king. Wilson then lost a flip to Stefanski, who later eliminated BetMGM ambassador Michael Gagliano in sixth place.

A three-handed ICM deal shaped the payouts near the end. O’Connell, who finished third, received $156,675, while runner-up Michael Wang earned $127,750. The three-way chop covered $149,260 of the prize pool, with a further $19,960 played for after the agreement.

Stefanski eliminated O’Connell and then Wang to take the trophy and the largest payout. He said he had entered Day 2 with roughly six and a half starting stacks and credited both the cards he received and the strength of the field for the result.

The win pushed Stefanski past $3 million in career live earnings and into the top 1,000 on The Hendon Mob’s all-time money list.

Daniel Negreanu is traveling from Las Vegas to Vancouver to play WSOP Online, saying he will spend a week in a hotel room competing online.

He plans to stream the run on his YouTube channel, beginning with the $10,000 GGMillion$ PLO event. As we reported in August, Negreanu had already booked Vancouver as the next stop on his Canadian poker trip after Montreal.

The eight-time bracelet winner used the trip to criticize the restricted U.S. online-poker landscape. “It is just so incredibly stupid that you have to leave America to play online poker,” Negreanu wrote on X. “What are we even doing?” He added that, despite repeated efforts over the years, he was not hopeful that anything would pass at the federal level.

Online poker remains unavailable to most Americans, although regulated options exist in a handful of states. Poker.org noted that other U.S. players commonly either use offshore sites such as ACR Poker, stop playing online, or travel abroad to access international player pools.

The Vancouver schedule also includes Day 1s in the $25 million guaranteed Main Event, followed by Day 2 on Monday and the final table on Tuesday. Other highlighted events are a $25,000 High Roller on Tuesday, a $5,000 High Roller Bounty PLO on Thursday and a $10,000 Heads-Up Championship next Saturday.

The online bracelet schedule ends with Day 2 of the $10,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers on Monday, Sept. 28.

ACR Poker’s Daily Double paid four progressive-jackpot shares on Sept. 10, with players qualifying twice in each of the Loncar and Boski tournament pairs. The four payouts totaled $12,894.30, the only recorded Daily Double date in 2026 to produce at least two qualifiers in both tracks.

orthodoc and CharlieAB each reached both Loncar final tables, earning $3,094.33 apiece. orthodoc finished first and ninth across the two events, while CharlieAB placed second and eighth.

On the Boski side, blessd1 finished ninth and fourth, and Xnumber1CHIPSX placed fifth and seventh. Each collected $3,352.82. ACR Poker said the four qualifying runs accounted for eight final-table appearances across the night.

The Daily Double comprises two separate daily tournament pairs named for ACR Pros Michael Loncar and Jeff Boski. The first event in each pair starts at 6:15 p.m. ET and the second at 6:45 p.m. ET. Making both final tables in the same pair on the same day pays 10% of that pair’s progressive jackpot, while winning both events pays the full jackpot.

That distinction mattered for orthodoc, whose win in one Loncar tournament did not produce the 100% payout because the player did not win the second. The Loncar events carried $15,000 guarantees each on Sept. 10, while the Boski events were listed at $7,500 each, for $45,000 in combined advertised guarantees.

The promotion page says 98.5% of each daily pool goes to winners and 1.5% feeds the progressive jackpot. Its stated minimum jackpots are $20,000 for Loncar and $5,000 for Boski, although buy-ins and guarantees can change with the schedule and major series.

The four-share night followed another date on which both tracks paid. On Sept. 9, CaptainHooks earned $3,670.22 after placing seventh and third in Boski, while jwutpa80 collected $3,304.81 for eighth- and seventh-place Loncar finishes. Across the two nights, six players received $19,869.33 in jackpot shares.

Other qualifying runs followed: 1tyme4muhgrls earned $2,579.26 in Loncar on Sept. 11, NeedHelpsz collected $2,411.64 on Sept. 12, and fisherman85 received $2,470.47 on Sept. 13 after final-tabling two $50,000-guaranteed OSS XL Loncar events. Earlier, on Aug. 18, JesusComing won both Loncar tournaments to claim the full $26,178.51 jackpot.

Players can check ACR Poker’s Daily Double page for current tournament and jackpot details before registering.

WSOP Circuit International Panama will run in Panama City from Nov. 5-15 with 12 ring events at the Sortis Hotel, Spa & Casino. The festival is led by a $1,700 Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee, while each ring winner receives a $5,000 package for WSOP Paradise.

PokerOrg reports that the series will offer several routes into the Main Event. Its satellites begin with 10,000 in chips and award a seat once a player reaches 100,000. Players who commit to Day 1A or 1B can also receive an 11-night hotel stay at no cost.

There is an added promotion for players who qualify online through GGPoker: anyone who then eliminates Michael Mizrachi in Panama gets their buy-in returned. The series leaderboard will award $10,000 to its winner. Players must cash in three events to qualify, with points calculated under the same system used for the WSOP Player of the Year race.

The stop follows Panama City’s WSOP Circuit debut in November 2025, which was staged at the Panama City Hilton and StarBay Casino. WSOP described that edition as the tour’s debut in the city and said it brought the brand to regions in Latin America and South America that the operator did not often visit. Jose Severino, the series director, said visa costs and complications could make U.S. Circuit stops difficult for many Latin American players.

Players who enter any ring event on this year’s Panama schedule can buy a $10,500 package for January 2027’s WSOP Super Circuit Punta Cana for $7,500.

The $5,300 BetMGM Poker Big, Big Championship opens its first of three Day 1 flights at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Saturday, with a $3 million guaranteed prize pool at stake. The event begins at 12:15 p.m. local time.

Players receive 40,000 chips for the buy-in and can enter an unlimited number of times during the Day 1 flights. Day 1A runs Saturday, followed by Day 1B on Sunday and Day 1C on Monday, Sept. 21. Registration remains available until the start of Day 2.

As we reported in August, BetMGM Poker had posted the Borgata series with more than $6 million in guarantees, including the championship’s $3 million prize pool in its 11-event lineup.

Each opening flight plays 10 60-minute levels before survivors bag chips. There are 15-minute breaks after every two levels, plus a 75-minute dinner break after Level 6.

The three Day 1 fields combine for Day 2 at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, when another 10 60-minute levels are scheduled. Day 3 begins at the same time Wednesday, Sept. 23, and is set to play down to a winner.

BetMGM Poker also staged three $600 championship qualifiers, which were set to award at least 50 seats in total. The first ran Friday, while second-chance and last-chance qualifiers are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, respectively.