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BetMGM Poker has put the Big, Big Series on the calendar at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, with more than $6 million in guaranteed prize pools and a $5,300 Championship that carries $3 million guaranteed. In BetMGM Poker’s blog, the series is framed as a live tournament set “for players, by players,” and it is described as a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the BetMGM Poker Tournament Room at Borgata.

As covered in July, BetMGM Poker also powered Borgata’s Summer Poker Open, which ran with more than $4 million in guarantees. The new promotion is presented a little differently across the posted materials: the blog calls it a 10-day series from Sept. 13-22, while the event schedule keeps the Championship running into Sept. 23.

The Championship is the clear centerpiece. It starts with Day 1A on Sept. 19 at 12:15 p.m., followed by Day 1B on Sept. 20 and Day 1C on Sept. 21 at the same time. Survivors return for Day 2 on Sept. 22, registration stays open until the start of Day 2, and the event is scheduled to play into Day 3 on Sept. 23.

Before that, the $2,200 Big, Big Kick Off brings the festival’s first seven-figure guarantee. It has $1 million guaranteed and two starting flights on Sept. 14 at 11:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m., with players who survive either flight coming back the following afternoon to play for the prize pool.

The lineup also reaches beyond the main hold’em events. The schedule includes the $1,100 Big, Big Welcome: H.O.R.S.E. on Sept. 13 with a $25,000 guarantee, two days later E-Tay’s $2,500 Big, Big 9 Game Mix with $150,000 guaranteed, and the $2,200 Big, Big Pot Limit Omaha (8 Max) on Sept. 18 with a $200,000 guarantee.

Higher-roller action is built in as well. The $10,200 Big, Big Baller has a $500,000 guarantee and its entry fee covered by BetMGM Poker, while the $2,200 Big, Big Borgata Mystery Bounty also guarantees $500,000. The schedule adds a $1,100 Big, Big One Day: Bankroll Builder with a $100,000 guarantee, a $1,100 Shot Clock Turbo with another $100,000, and the $5,100 Big, Big BetMGM Series Saver Survivor plus the $1,100 Big, Big Bye Finale on Sept. 22.

Players can also qualify into the schedule in several ways. BetMGM Poker says online qualifiers run from Aug. 18 through Sept. 16 for players in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with additional qualifiers Sept. 17-20 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Borgata is also offering a Big, Big Stay & Play Bonus, which packages 10 nights for $999 plus tax and resort fees, with Gold+ MGM Rewards members getting the resort fees waived, and the offer must be booked by Aug. 29 using code BIGBIG while supplies last.

PokerStars on FanDuel is rolling out a new Nightly Stars Leaderboard that pays $2,500 in tournament tickets each week. The promo runs for two weeks, Aug. 24-29 and Aug. 31-Sep. 5, and it is tied to the operator’s daily Nightly Stars schedule.

Players earn one leaderboard point for every $1 they cash in qualifying Nightly Stars tournaments. Because Nightly Stars runs Monday through Saturday at 6:40 p.m., the promo gives players six chances per week to build a score, and the top 73 finishers each week will receive tournament tickets. Those tickets expire 21 days after they are issued, and players can check their standings in the Leaderboards section of the poker client.

As covered in late July, PokerStars on FanDuel had already revamped Nightly Stars with deeper stacks, later late registration and bigger guarantees. The daily $100 tournament doubled its starting stack from 5,000 chips to 10,000, late registration now closes at the 400/800 blind level, and guarantees were lifted to $25,000 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and $22,500 on the other days.

The leaderboard does not apply to the smaller mini versions of Nightly Stars, which are aimed at smaller bankrolls. The report also said players who win tickets to the 2nd Chance All In Shootout are registered automatically, so they do not need to be logged in to participate.

PokerStars exclusively on FanDuel is available in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, after FanDuel described the combined platform as a way to merge liquidity across markets and deliver bigger games and larger prize pools. The new leaderboard is another promotion built around that same nightly tournament schedule, and the report said an extension beyond the initial run is possible, but there is no guarantee.

Thomas Eychenne added another big Barcelona score on Aug. 23, winning the PokerStars Open High Roller after topping a 1,551-entry field and beating fellow French player Virgile Turchi heads-up. Reports varied on the first-place payout, putting it at $688,200, $683,698, or €589,395.

TightPoker reported that Eychenne was in front once the event reached the nine-handed final table. He first cracked the final table by winning a key flip against Zdenek Zizka, then watched David Djian and Hak-Hyun Lee exit in eighth and seventh.

From there, Eychenne kept applying pressure. He eliminated Christian Kaufmann in fifth place and retook the chip lead from Turchi, then saw Marwan Walid Salamoun go out fourth and Lars Tungel fall in third. Different reports described his heads-up edge as better than 6:1 or 6.5:1, and the title was sealed on the first hand when Turchi moved all-in with ten-nine and ran into pocket queens.

The runner-up payout also differed by outlet, with figures of $433,200, $430,360, or €371,000. Card Player said the win gave Eychenne 1,620 Player of the Year points and lifted him to 3,027 total, leaving him within striking distance of the top 50 in the CoinPoker standings.

The result continued a strong run for Eychenne on the European circuit, coming about a year after his EPT Barcelona Main Event triumph. TightPoker said he later added more than $500,000 across two final-table runs in late 2025 and earlier this year, including the WSOP Europe Main Event and the EPT Monte Carlo High Roller, while Card Player noted that this was his first title and sixth final table of 2026. In the last year, one report said, Thomas Eychenne won over half of the $6.34 million in live tournament earnings he had amassed in his career.

Farbod Nazari won the 2026 WPT Cyprus Championship at Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino, taking down the $3,500 Main Event for $368,900. The score also included a $10,400 seat to the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, and it put Nazari’s name on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.

The event drew 520 entries and built a $2 million prize pool. The top 65 finishers got paid.

According to World Poker Tour live updates, Day 2 added 122 entries to push the field to 520, and after 10 levels only 45 players were still in the hunt. Earlier in the event, Day 1B had reached 269 total entries, with registration still open through the end of the first break on Day 2.

By the time the tournament reached its finale, only six players remained. PokerNews said Mihai Trofim went into the final table as chip leader with 6,225,000, while Sergiu Cornea had 1,325,000. SpadePoker reported that Nariman Yaghmai finished 9th for $36,000 and Bernardo Neves was the final table bubble boy in 7th for $56,500, leaving the six finalists all locked up for at least $73,000.

Three-handed play ended with Weiran Pu, Chadi Rizk, and Nazari. Nazari called Pu’s all-in when Pu was drawing dead, sending Pu out in third for $175,000 and giving Nazari a 16,350,000 to 9,575,000 chip lead over Rizk heads-up.

The finish came in back-to-back big pots. On hand No. 114, Rizk got a runner-runner straight to double and deny Nazari the title. On hand No. 115, Rizk limped, Nazari raised, and after Rizk shoved for 7,950,000 on the flop, Nazari snap-called with a six-high straight and held through the turn and river bricks.

Rizk finished second for $238,000, while Pu took third, Mihai Trofim finished fourth for $130,000, Sergiu Cornea was fifth for $97,000, and Sami Ayyoub placed sixth for $73,000. CardPlayer said the win was Nazari’s biggest live score, topping the $22,581 he earned for 33rd in the 2025 EPT Prague Main Event, and it earned him 1,260 points in the 2026 Card Player Player of the Year race.

PokerNews put Nazari’s lifetime live earnings at $474,991 after the win, while CardPlayer said the Cyprus title pushed him over $415,000.

Jesse Lonis won one of the first High Roller events in CoinPoker’s Global Online Poker Championship, beating an 83-player field in the $5,000 buy-in for $153,000. PokerStrategy.com reported the result and said the table included Seth Davies, Bencb, Patrick Leonard, PapoMC and online cash-game regular DavyJones.

As reported earlier in August, CoinPoker had already launched the GOPC as a $50 million series running through Sept. 28. The win landed just a day after the championship began, so Lonis scored right as the new online festival got moving.

CoinPoker’s schedule page says the GOPC is built around more than 700 medal events and that winners receive Gold Medals, with silver and bronze medals going to other top finishers. The site says Gold Medals are physical trophies with matching digital versions in a Trophy Cabinet, while silver and bronze are digital awards.

The same schedule puts $4.25 million in guarantees across three Main Event tiers. Those include the $530 Main Event at $3 million guaranteed, the $55 Global Main at $1 million, and the $11 Global Mini Main at $250,000.

Lonis is no stranger to big buy-ins. PokerStrategy.com described him as one of the most successful young players on the high-roller circuit, saying he has almost $33 million in live tournament cashes, eight high roller titles last year and two WSOP bracelets, including one won in an online event in 2022. The GOPC’s $25,500 Super High Roller Championship is scheduled for Sept. 22 with a $1 million guarantee.