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ACR Poker’s first $1,050 WSOP Paradise Mega Satellite starts at 2:05 p.m. ET Sunday, guaranteeing seven $30,000 Bahamas packages worth a combined $210,000. The tournament shares the day with Day 1C of the site’s $5 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em Venom PKO and $1.5 million guaranteed pot-limit Omaha Venom PKO, both beginning at 1:05 p.m. ET.

Each Paradise package includes a $26,000 entry to the $50 million guaranteed WSOP Paradise Super Main Event, which runs Dec. 10-17 in the Bahamas. It also includes room-only accommodation at SLS Baha Mar from Dec. 5-18. Travel, meals and personal expenses are excluded, and the stated $30,000 value is not a cash payout.

As we reported last week, ACR Poker and Americas Cardroom opened the WSOP Paradise qualification campaign with Beast feeders leading into weekly Mega Satellites. Fifty players reached Sunday’s first Mega through the $95 BEAST Paradise feeder held Oct. 4, rather than winning packages directly.

That feeder drew 584 entries, built a $52,560 prize pool and awarded its top 50 finishers seats in the $1,050 event. A second $95 BEAST Paradise feeder starts at 5:05 p.m. ET Sunday and guarantees 50 seats for the Oct. 18 Mega.

ACR Poker’s promotion page advertises 100 total $30,000 packages for December’s WSOP Paradise. Mega Satellites are scheduled each Sunday from Oct. 11 through Nov. 22, while Beast winners are pre-registered for the following Sunday’s Mega.

The two Paradise qualification routes remain distinct from Venom Fever, which supplies lower-cost paths to the $2,650 Venom PKOs. The Venom promotion guarantees 587 seats across its Sept. 29-Oct. 18 run, while the Paradise feeders specifically lead to the $1,050 Mega Satellites.

The next Paradise Mega is set for Oct. 18, following Sunday’s second Beast feeder.

Alex Foxen carried the chip lead into the five-handed finale of Super High Roller Bowl XI after a dramatic money-bubble swing in Las Vegas. Nick Petrangelo hit the only remaining six to crack Foxen’s pocket tens, then Kristen Foxen was eliminated in sixth place, leaving her just outside the five paid spots.

The $2.8 million event drew 28 entries and paid its final five players, with $1.125 million set aside for the winner. PokerNews listed the buy-in as $100,000, while SpadePoker described it as $103,000. As reported on Day 1, Foxen had already eliminated Sean Perry’s second entry while 12 players advanced to Day 2.

Foxen began Day 2 second in chips, took the lead in the opening level and stayed there through the bagging period. His set of queens also eliminated Jason Koon, whose pocket aces were ahead before Foxen flopped the set.

The pivotal bubble hand came with six players left. Petrangelo four-bet shoved pocket sixes against Foxen’s pocket tens, but one six had already been folded, leaving Petrangelo with a single immediate out. The board ran A♠ 9♠ 9♦ 6♦ 7♠, giving Petrangelo sixes full and allowing him to survive while cutting into Foxen’s once-runaway lead.

Kristen Foxen was the short stack at that point and appeared positioned to cash after the all-in confrontation. Instead, Brandon Wilson eliminated her when his 9♠9♦ held against her A♣8♣ on a T♣ 9♥ 5♠ 7♦ A♠ board. The result secured at least $215,000 for each of the five survivors.

Foxen ended Day 2 with 2.87 million chips, ahead of Petrangelo on 1.68 million. Adrian Mateos bagged 1.51 million, Wilson had 1.27 million and Jeremy Ausmus held 1.07 million.

The remaining payouts were $700,000 for second, $450,000 for third, $310,000 for fourth and $215,000 for fifth. Foxen was pursuing his 14th PokerGO Tour title, while Petrangelo entered the final day after recently winning $2.2 million in Triton Jeju’s $150,000 10th Anniversary Special.

Sergio Aido won the 2026 WSOP Online $10,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers on GGPoker for $2.23 million, his third World Series of Poker bracelet and second title in the event. The Spanish player also received a $30,000 WSOP Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

Aido outlasted about 1,750 entries for the title. The reported field total differs slightly between outlets, with PokerNews listing 1,753 entries and CardPlayer listing 1,754, while both put the winner’s prize at $2,228,762. The tournament generated a prize pool of just over $17 million, with the top four finishers all earning seven figures.

The victory came at a steep upfront cost. PlayUSA reported that Aido made 20 entries, or bullets, at $10,000 each, for $200,000 in buy-ins. He said he had never previously used more than eight bullets in an online tournament and only secured his Day 2 place on his final attempt in the turbo event.

“I had to use several bullets to make it to Day 2,” Aido said after the win. “My girlfriend kept telling me to quit, that it wasn’t for me anymore, but I ended up qualifying on the last bullet of the turbo event.”

As we reported on Sept. 29, Roeland Peeks began the nine-handed final table with a huge 172-big-blind stack, 99 big blinds ahead of Aido. Peeks ultimately finished third for $1.33 million, while Christopher Nguyen took fourth for $1.02 million.

Matheus Machado eliminated four consecutive players during the final-table action and reached heads-up play against Aido. Aido began the match with about 108.4 million chips to Machado’s roughly 67 million, then closed it out in 17 minutes. Machado received $1.72 million as runner-up.

The final hand saw Aido’s ace-seven of diamonds beat Machado’s ace-three. Aido said he had hoped to play heads-up against the Brazilian after noticing passive play and dwindling time banks in earlier hands.

The result was Aido’s eighth career seven-figure score and his first of 2026. He had previously won the same GGMillion$ tournament in 2024, beating a 1,433-entry field, and is listed second on Spain’s all-time money list with $29.2 million in earnings, behind six-bracelet winner Adrian Mateos.

The final table was streamed on GGPoker’s channels with Jeff Gross and Alex Foxen on commentary.

PokerStars’ UK migration to Betfair is complete, with British online poker players having accessed PokerStars exclusively through the PokerStars on Betfair platform since Oct. 7.

The switch changes the route into PokerStars rather than the games available. Players retain access to familiar PokerStars games, shared player pools and major series including the Sunday Million, WCOOP and SCOOP.

PokerNews reported that existing PokerStars customers can sign in through the Betfair desktop client or mobile app using their PokerStars credentials. Those transferring accounts can move balances, T-Money and active tournament tickets. Players who already hold an active Betfair account use their Betfair credentials and must withdraw any remaining funds from the legacy PokerStars.uk cashier.

Betfair balances are held in pounds sterling. PokerStars Casino and PokerStars Sports have also been replaced in the UK setup by Betfair Casino and Betfair Sportsbook.

The platform has launched Stack+, a loyalty programme that offers up to 25% rakeback on qualifying real-money cash-game and tournament play. Players opt in once through the main lobby and earn points across eligible games.

Rakeback begins once a player reaches 500 points. Stack+ has seven levels, and a higher rakeback rate applies immediately to subsequent play when a player moves up a level. Points reset at the start of each calendar month, although players keep their achieved level for the following month. Redeemed rakeback cash has no play-through or wagering requirement.

As covered in September, Betfair was the first brand to join the PokerStars Network under the new PokerStars on Betfair arrangement. PokerStars had described the broader Flutter strategy as an effort to bring players from its brands into shared pools, responding to thinner fields and smaller tournament prizes amid fragmented regulation and a tougher market environment.

Paddy Power Poker and Sky Poker were expected to adopt PokerStars software and join the network in the coming months, although players may use only one account at a time if they hold accounts with more than one brand.

Jason Koon is set to play even less tournament poker, saying time with his three sons now takes priority over adding to his Triton records. The Poker Hall of Famer said he will still enter games when the financial opportunity justifies the time away, but otherwise will “pivot.”

In comments reported by Card Player, Koon said he skipped the most recent Triton series and will miss the next one after the recent birth of his third son with his wife, Bianca. His older sons were born in 2021 and 2023. “I’ve got three kids now, so I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them,” he said.

That does not mean a full exit from the game. Koon said he still loves playing and studying poker and will keep working on his game. But he also wants to stay open to challenges beyond poker rather than treating the game as his only identity. He described fatherhood as both the best and hardest thing, while saying his career earnings give him the freedom to be more selective and present at home.

The choice carries real weight given his standing on the Triton tour. Koon has earned more than $40.9 million there since his first trophy in 2018 and holds the series records with 12 titles and 81 cashes. Daniel Dvoress has since tied the cash record, while Stephen Chidwick sits on 80; Dvoress, Matthias Eibinger and Michael Watson each have seven Triton titles.

Koon said he is not concerned with protecting either Triton mark. His approach throughout his career, he said, has been to make as much money as possible rather than travel simply to extend records. His schedule had already been centered on the biggest buy-ins: apart from the 2023 WSOP Main Event, he had not recorded a live cash below $15,000 since December 2021.

His first live tournament action since late June came at the $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl XI in Las Vegas in early October. Koon reached Day 2 but was eliminated when his pocket aces ran into Alex Foxen’s flopped set of queens in a four-bet pot.

Koon entered the Poker Hall of Fame as its only 2026 inductee in August, as covered in our earlier report. His nearly $77.6 million in live tournament earnings rank third in poker history, and his 30 recorded tournament wins include two WSOP bracelets.