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Garrett Adelstein will return to Commerce Casino on Oct. 6 for a 1 p.m. signing of his memoir, Beneath the Cards, before taking part in a livestreamed $50/$100 no-limit hold’em game on Bally Poker Live.

The date places the appearance roughly a month after the book’s Sept. 1 release. Adelstein told PokerOrg that the timing allowed Commerce to host a signing, and called the cardroom the place where his competitive live-poker career began.

The memoir is titled Beneath the Cards: A High-Stakes, High-Anxiety Poker Journey. Adelstein said sales had been “tremendous” and better than he had imagined, while readers had connected with material outside the Jack-Four controversy.

Those subjects include family dysfunction, perfectionism, mental-health struggles, and his relationships with Jen and his mother. PokerNews likewise described the book as covering family upbringing, depression and body dysmorphia alongside poker, and reported that it reached No. 1 among new Amazon releases in the Poker and Sports Biographies categories on release day.

Adelstein said he had worried that readers would primarily want the Jack-Four material. The book has ten parts, with its opening section focused largely on his life before poker; Adelstein has said the Jack-Four material is concentrated in Part 10 and appendices containing previously unreleased information.

The Commerce stop also returns Adelstein to the setting of his early live-game grind. He said he once played the casino’s graveyard shifts for 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week. In a separate September interview with GipsyTeam, he said he had played only five to 10 poker sessions over the preceding four years while writing the book, compared with two or three livestream sessions per week before that period.

Adelstein said a documentary-style breakdown of the Jack-Four evidence is planned for his YouTube channel later in 2026.

ACR Poker will begin its WSOP Paradise qualification promotion on Sunday, Oct. 4, offering 100 packages valued at $30,000 each for the December festival in The Bahamas.

The packages include a $26,000 seat in the $50 million guaranteed Super Main Event and accommodation at SLS Baha Mar. The tournament runs Dec. 10-17, while the included hotel stay begins Dec. 5 and ends Dec. 18.

The route starts with a $95 Beast tournament at 5:05 p.m. ET on Oct. 4. Beast winners are pre-registered for the following Sunday’s $1,050 Mega Satellite, although players can also buy directly into the Megas.

The first Mega Satellite begins at 2:05 p.m. ET on Oct. 11. Megas will run every Sunday through Nov. 22, with packages guaranteed each week. The Beast schedule runs through Nov. 15, leaving its final winners eligible for the Nov. 22 Mega finale.

Each of the first six Beast events guarantees 50 seats in the following week’s Mega Satellite. The Nov. 15 Beast guarantees 60 seats instead.

The hotel portion is room-only. It covers a room for up to two adults and two children younger than 14, along with Wi-Fi, Baha Mar resort amenities and unlimited access to the adjacent Baha Bay water park. Travel, meals, personal spending and extra hotel nights are not included; unused nights cannot be exchanged for credit. Children 14 or older carry an additional $40-per-night charge, plus applicable taxes and fees.

As covered in August, WSOP Paradise returns to Baha Mar this December with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in total guarantees. The official WSOP schedule lists the Super Main Event as Event No. 12, a $26,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with its $50 million guarantee.

The inaugural African Poker Championship Tanzania Main Event was down to 39 players after Day 2, following 193 entries across its three starting flights at Le Grande Casino in Dar es Salaam. The final day begins Sunday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. local time.

Day 1c drew 95 entries, taking the field to 193 before Day 2’s remaining late-registration and re-entry period. Eighty players made it through the opening flights, and the Day 2 survivors returned with an average stack of 65 big blinds, one table away from the money.

Sami Matar led the final starting flight with 631,000 chips, which was also the second-largest stack overall entering Day 2. Tutu Russon bagged 517,500, while Ryan James advanced with 483,000.

The final flight ran for eight 60-minute levels and eliminated more than half its entrants. Day 2 began at blinds of 1,500-2,500 with a 2,500 big-blind ante, while five levels remained for players to register late or re-enter.

The $200,000 guaranteed Main Event was described as close to meeting or surpassing its guarantee when the 193-entry count was reached. PokerNews’ Day 1c coverage listed the buy-in as $1,100, while the pre-festival event preview advertised it as a $1,000 tournament.

As we reported in September, the Main Event is the centerpiece of the African Poker Championship’s first Tanzania stop, an 11-day Le Grande Casino festival carrying more than $500,000 in guaranteed prize pools.

The APC is a new African live-poker brand powered by the Monster Jam Poker Tour and its founder, Marc Joseph. Its stated aim is to bring together poker communities across the continent while attracting players internationally.

PokerStars on FanDuel generated an estimated $2.6 million in online poker revenue across Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in August, a 14% increase from the same month last year. Gambling.com reported that it was the only one of the three biggest regulated U.S. online poker brands to post year-over-year growth during the month.

The result came after FanDuel moved U.S. PokerStars players to iPoker software in April and combined its previously separate Pennsylvania network with the existing Michigan-New Jersey shared pool. The Michigan Gaming Control Board had approved FanDuel to offer multi-state poker among the three states effective April 1, finding the operator met Michigan’s regulatory requirements.

The growth was concentrated outside Pennsylvania. PokerStars NJ was estimated to have risen 30% year over year, while Michigan was expanding at a similar rate. PokerStars NJ also became New Jersey’s largest individual poker site, although BetMGM’s combined network of Borgata and PartyPoker remained larger overall in the state.

Pennsylvania was the exception: PokerStars PA remained in decline despite gaining access to the larger interstate player pool. That was consistent with the statewide result previously covered in September. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board recorded $2.4 million in total iGaming poker revenue for August, down 5.15% from roughly $2.5 million a year earlier.

The contrast was particularly sharp against Pennsylvania’s broader online-casino market. Total state iGaming revenue rose 6.25% year over year to $245.7 million in August, leaving poker as a small and declining component of the category.

Across the five months following the April platform switch, PokerStars on FanDuel generated an estimated $12.9 million, up 9.4% from $11.8 million in the comparable period of 2025. The reported results do not establish that the migration or shared pool caused the increase, but they extend the period of growth following the change.

Interstate liquidity gives operators access to a larger player base in a U.S. market where regulated online poker is legal in relatively few states. Larger pools can support more game selection and tournament activity. Michigan joined the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement in 2022; the agreement’s members include Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, although not all member states have fully launched shared tables.

Online poker sites had received warnings about suspicious accounts linked to the name Paul Gregg before the recent superuser allegations became public. One operator had already blocked an account registered in that name, seized about $100,000 and returned money to affected players, while a separate September analysis asked GGPoker to examine unusual play by its Paul Gregg account.

CoinPoker blocked the account using the nickname Europe about two years earlier, according to reporting cited by PokerNews and SpadePoker. The account was registered in Paul Gregg’s name, PokerOrg reported. Patrick Leonard said it was caught after playing on the site for less than a week, while Mario Mosbock described a security-team detection and a $100,000 confiscation. The funds were redistributed to affected players.

The reported timing is not wholly consistent. Leonard separately said the account was caught around a year before the latest reports, while other accounts place the CoinPoker action at roughly two years earlier. In either case, the reports indicate that concerns about accounts tied to the name predated the public exposure of the wider incident.

Patrick Howard submitted an anomaly review to GGPoker in early September after examining 32,780 hands involving Paul Gregg. The document, prepared Sept. 1, did not accuse Gregg of cheating or claim proof of misconduct. Instead, it requested further investigation and recommended using later hands to test whether the patterns persisted beyond variance. GGPoker later contacted Howard about the investigation.

Howard’s sample showed a global win rate of 13.9 big blinds per 100 hands and unusual results in large pots. Gregg won 59 of 78 deep-stack river showdowns after betting or raising the river, a 75.6% rate compared with 58.2% among comparable regulars. More than half of the account’s profit came from pots larger than 150 big blinds, where the sample showed a gain of 2,497 big blinds.

Around 100 players had raised suspicions about the accounts over several years, according to the reports. Leonard said players saw win rates that were likely impossible and showdowns that did not make sense, although the available reporting does not establish that every reported account was operated by the same person or group.

As covered last week, the broader allegations involve compromised third-party poker software that allowed attackers to remotely view targeted players’ screens and hole cards. Jurojin said the operation was highly targeted rather than a mass attack, while reporting has put the number of potentially affected high-stakes players at roughly 10 to 30.

Ignacio Moron estimated that he lost between $100,000 and $200,000 to the Paul Gregg account, including $60,000 in about 15 minutes. He said CoinPoker refunded approximately $60,000 after banning Europe, and recalled an April 2024 conversation in which a player warned that Gregg’s behavior appeared to be that of a superuser.