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Daniel Negreanu’s run in the $10,000 GGMillion$ Pot-Limit Omaha bracelet event ended in seventh place, not with a late bid for the title. He earned $71,111 after reaching the seven-handed final table from a 228-entry field in the 2026 WSOP Online series.

Negreanu began with the second-largest stack, holding 6.4 million chips, or 92 big blinds. Andreas Freund led with 8.6 million, while every finalist had already locked up at least $71,000. The winner’s package was advertised at about $428,000 plus a $30,000 Super Pass for December’s WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

Negreanu quickly won several early pots, including one against Freund, and moved into the chip lead. But his tournament changed in a nearly 200-big-blind confrontation with Freund roughly 20 minutes into the final table.

According to Tight Poker’s hand account, Freund raised under the gun and Negreanu defended his big blind before the flop checked through. Negreanu bet eight big blinds on the 8♥ turn; Freund raised to 25.8 big blinds, and the money went in.

The 5♣ river completed club flushes for both players, but Freund’s was higher. Negreanu called the 8♥ “the sickest turn card,” and the pot left him with fewer than seven big blinds. He nearly tripled on the next hand but was eliminated soon afterward as the first finalist out.

Freund went on to win the bracelet and $428,456. The final table lasted a little more than an hour, while Negreanu’s own planned stream was disrupted by technical problems; GGPoker ambassador Kevin Martin covered the action instead.

As we reported Sept. 18, Negreanu had traveled to Canada to play and stream the WSOP Online schedule, beginning with this PLO event. The result left the eight-time bracelet winner short of a ninth title, despite entering the final table saying he was playing only for first place.

Negreanu’s most recent bracelet remains his July victory in the $100,000 WSOP PLO High Roller in Las Vegas, where he won $2.26 million.

Timothee D’Anfray carried the chip lead into the final 17 of the €500 Winamax Poker Open Aix-les-Bains Main Event after a Day 2 that cut a 2,873-entry field to its last contenders. D’Anfray bagged 21.725 million, with every remaining player guaranteed at least €6,300 and the winner set to receive €150,000.

PokerNews reported that 475 players returned for Day 2 to play for a €1.186 million prize pool. The final turnout was 12% higher than the previous year’s field, according to Winamax.

Benjamin Goudard was D’Anfray’s closest challenger on 19.4 million, followed by Lucas Archeny with 13.825 million. Goudard built his stack in a major pot against Raphael Bilger, who ended the day with 6.4 million, while Archeny had held a large stack throughout the day and eliminated Matthieu Rigolot with a full house holding pocket fours.

D’Anfray sealed his lead by eliminating Loris Corbelli in 19th place in the last hand of Day 2. Corbelli moved all-in with ace-five and lost to D’Anfray’s pocket jacks, earning €5,000. Pierre Labitte had departed in 18th for the same payout after Mathieu Pontin called his 3.25 million-chip shove with pocket aces.

Aymane Mamoun entered the final day fifth in chips after a two-outer river card sent Laurent Amri out in 24th. Etienne De Soultrait also remained near the top after eliminating 2023 WiPT finalist Remi Debord in 28th. Defending champion Jeremy Cauchard had been knocked out earlier, in 145th place, after losing a coin flip.

Among the other notable stacks, Nicolas Marin held 8.525 million after doubling with aces, and Quentin Le Dissez had 6.475 million after a feature-table double. Sebastien Studer, Leo Viales, Nicolas Ehrath, Dimitri Callonnec and Maxence Vie were returning with between 10 and 20 big blinds, while Herve Ponthet and Boris Dupuis were shortest with 2.1 million and 1.9 million respectively.

The final day was set to resume in the Casino Grand Cercle theater with 24 minutes left in Level 39, at blinds of 125,000/250,000 and a 250,000 big blind ante.

Robert Chorlian won event No. 2 of the 2026 PGT PLO Series, turning a short-stack start on day two into his first major tournament victory. He topped a 106-entry, $5,300 pot-limit Omaha event at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for $135,150 from a $530,000 prize pool.

The six-handed final table began shortly before noon and finished before 2 p.m. local time. Chorlian started the day alongside Cesar Garcia at the bottom of the counts, while Lautaro Guerra held the overnight lead ahead of Sean Rafael, Ky Nguyen and Taylor Paur, according to Card Player.

An early double gave Chorlian the route back into contention. He knocked out Paur in sixth after completing a runner-runner heart flush, then eliminated Rafael in third for $60,950 and Guerra heads-up for $84,800.

The final two opponents brought deep PLO résumés to the table. Rafael had nearly $6.6 million in career cashes, almost entirely in PLO, while Guerra’s PLO earnings had passed $11.6 million, placing him second to Eelis Parssinen’s reported $12.1 million. Guerra had also eliminated Nguyen in fourth place after making a nine-high straight.

Chorlian had previously reached two WSOP final tables, including a runner-up finish in a $600 PLO event at the 2025 WSOP. He also placed third in a $10,500 no-limit hold’em event at the 2023 U.S. Poker Open.

The win earned Chorlian 203 PGT points and 480 Card Player Player of the Year points, his first qualifying result in that race this year. The PGT’s top 40 at season’s end in January, along with other qualifiers, can enter the $1 million PGT Championship; the 40th-place points cutoff stood at 900 when the report was published.

Texas Card House will stage Trailblazer Poker Tour Season III’s second stop across its Dallas and Las Colinas clubs from Oct. 8-19, led by an $800 Main Event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool.

PokerNews reported that the festival opens Oct. 8 with a $400 Kick Off event carrying a $100,000 guarantee. It is followed by the $300 Dallas Signature, which has a $250,000 guarantee and six starting flights.

The Main Event begins Oct. 12 and offers 11 starting flights. Its winner will be decided on Day 3, Oct. 19. Most of the schedule, including the Main Event, will run at Texas Card House Dallas, while Las Colinas will host selected side events.

Those Las Colinas events include the $300 Lone Star PLO, $400 Big O and $300 Triple Triple Draw. The final day also includes the $250 Randy’s 6 Shooter and $200 Donkey Derby events.

As we covered in August, Season III opened with an Aug. 28-Sept. 8 Dallas and Las Colinas series that listed more than $1.2 million in guarantees. The five-stop Texas season awards points at every event toward its Trailblazer of the Year race, with $125,000 in season-long cash prizes for the top points earners.

Texas Card House CEO Ryan Crow said Trailblazer began as a bet that Texas players deserved their own tour, and called Season III its biggest yet. After the Dallas and Las Colinas dates, the tour is scheduled to move to Spring from Oct. 27 through Nov. 9, followed by Houston and Austin stops that conclude the season in February.

GBortoleto won CoinPoker’s Sept. 21 CoinMillion for $121,753, topping a 5,181-entry, $215 event during the final week of the Global Online Poker Championship. The tournament created a prize pool of about $1.03 million, making it the second GOPC CoinMillion to clear its $1 million guarantee.

The win followed a fourth-place Day 2 start for GBortoleto and added to a CoinMasters FLOKI title the player won in July. BustinDaNut69, who began Day 2 22nd in chips before reaching the final table as chip leader, finished second for $76,989, while Pipsis took $55,436 in third after qualifying through a $25 satellite.

As we reported Sept. 13, the previous CoinMillion drew a record 5,321 entries, so the Sept. 21 field fell short of that mark but still extended the run of million-dollar prize pools. CoinPoker recorded platform traffic above 30,000 players during the session.

CardPlayer’s breakdown of the closing action shows GBortoleto taking control with four players left. GBortoleto and BustinDaNut69 each had a little more than 60 big blinds, while Fuasyt and Pipsis were both short-stacked. Fuasyt moved all in for 33.9 million from under the gun at 1.75 million/3.5 million blinds with a 525,000 ante, and GBortoleto called from the big blind.

GBortoleto’s ace-eight trailed Fuasyt’s ace-nine on a 10♠-7♦-4♠ flop, but the 8♠ turn paired GBortoleto and gave the hand a flush draw. The 2♣ river held, eliminating Fuasyt and moving GBortoleto to 250 million chips.

After Fuasyt’s exit, GBortoleto and BustinDaNut69 each held 69 big blinds while Pipsis had seven. BustinDaNut69 had repeatedly proposed a deal from five-handed play onward, and GBortoleto replied that they could discuss it heads-up. PokerListings said a deal ultimately paid BustinDaNut69 $102,248 and GBortoleto $96,494, figures that differ from the published winner and runner-up payouts.

The heads-up match ended in a large river call. At 2 million/4 million with a 600,000 ante, GBortoleto opened to 12 million and called BustinDaNut69’s raise to 43.72 million on a 10♠-9♠-7♣ flop. After calling a 37.17 million bet on the 9♦ turn, GBortoleto faced a 135.4 million river shove when the 6♠ completed the board.

GBortoleto called with Q♠J♠ for a flush, beating BustinDaNut69’s 8♥6♥ straight to end the tournament. The final $1 million-guaranteed GOPC CoinMillion runs Sept. 27, with direct satellites starting at $12.50.