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WSOP Online has posted its September Circuit schedule, a 12-day online run that will award 12 rings and $1.5 million in guarantees across Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada. The series runs from Sept. 12 through Sept. 23.

It follows the August run we covered earlier, which carried $1.4 million in guarantees. According to Pokerfuse, the September slate opens on Sept. 12 with the $125,000-guaranteed NLH Big $500, then moves to a $150,000 NLH Mystery Bounty on Sept. 13. The next two events are a $320 NLH 6-Max with a $100,000 guarantee and a $1,000 NLH High Roller with $150,000 guaranteed.

The middle of the schedule is a mix of lower and higher buy-ins. The only Pot-Limit Omaha event is a $500 PLO tournament on Sept. 16 with a $75,000 guarantee, followed by a $215 NLH Turbo PKO on Sept. 18 with the same guarantee and an $888 NLH Crazy 8’s event on Saturday that carries $125,000. The Main Event lands on Sept. 20 as a $525 NLH tournament with a $250,000 guarantee, before the series finishes with a $215 NLH event guaranteeing $100,000 on Sept. 21, a $777 NLH Lucky 7’s Mystery event guaranteeing $125,000 on Sept. 22, and a $215 NLH Deepstack with another $100,000 guarantee on Sept. 23.

Events are set to start at either 14:00 or 16:00 PT, depending on the tournament. Every ring winner is expected to receive a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package, and WSOP clarified last month that online Circuit ring winners qualify too. That package can be put toward entry in the $2,750 Mystery Bounty Circuit Championship at WSOP Paradise 2026, which is scheduled for December at Baha Mar Resort in the Bahamas.

The online Circuit leaderboard promotion also continues. Players earn monthly points from in-the-money Gold Ring finishes, with field size, buy-in and finishing position all feeding the formula, and the top eight each month will split more than $7,500 in tournament tickets. Over the full season, the yearly standings cover all WSOPC Online events, with the top four players dividing $55,000 in prizes, the top two receiving $10,000 Main Event seats and the remaining awards coming as buy-ins for eligible WSOP events in 2027.

The EPT Barcelona Main Event was cut from 13 players to six on Friday, with Manuel Ferrari still in front and Jose Criado chasing him into the final day. The six remaining players are guaranteed at least €278,950, while the winner will collect €1,370,050.

As reported in our previous update, Ferrari had already gone into Day 6 with the lead after Day 5 ended inside Casino Barcelona with 13 players left and €81,350 locked up apiece. PokerNews’ live blog said he stayed in pole position through the penultimate day and carried that advantage all the way to the finale.

Ferrari finished Day 6 at the top of the counts, and the coverage described his run as going wire to wire. He also came in with two PokerStars trophies already on his résumé, including PokerStars Open Malaga 2025 Main Event and the PokerStars Open Campione High Roller earlier this year.

Criado ended the day second with 15.7 million, after a burst of hands that pushed him above 10 million and narrowed Ferrari’s lead. He flopped quads with pocket fours, then used the same pair to crack aces and later pull off a bluff against Michael Dwyer, and he said after bagging that there was “no other option than winning the trophy and being the first Spanish winner.”

Xiaosheng Zheng sits third with 11.2 million, while Lukas van Eeden and Dwyer have 5 million and 4.5 million respectively. Nicolas Chouity is the short stack at 1.9 million, and as the only former EPT Main Event champion left he can still become only the fifth player to win two Main Event titles. Gerard Carbo’s run ended in seventh, the deepest Main Event finish of his career, while Joris Ruijs fell in ninth and Edward Pak brought Day 6 to within one elimination of conclusion.

Play resumes Saturday at 12:30 p.m. local time, with the final six set to return in Level 32 at 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 big blind ante.

Lukas van Eeden hit a royal flush in EPT Barcelona’s €5,300 Main Event on Day 6, but he did not table the hand. After making the nuts on the river against Jose Criado, he bet, got a quick fold, and sent the winner straight into the muck instead of showing the table.

According to PokerNews, the hand came with nine players left inside Casino Barcelona in a field of 1,823 entries. Criado opened the button to 250,000 with 6♦4♦ and about 100 big blinds, and van Eeden defended from the big blind with K♣J♣. The flop fell 2♠ A♣ 10♣, giving van Eeden a royal-flush draw, and Criado’s 175,000 continuation bet got called.

The 3♣ on the turn completed van Eeden’s flush, while Criado picked up a gutter and fired 750,000. Van Eeden just called. When the Q♣ hit the river, his nut flush turned into a royal flush, and he led 650,000. Criado folded quickly.

Van Eeden said he was “flabbergasted” by making a royal flush and had never had one before. He also said the spot felt strange because he did not expect another bet from Criado, thought a small river lead might get some value, and later wondered whether he should have shown the hand.

The bigger picture still mattered around the table. Van Eeden was fifth in chips with eight players remaining, while Criado still held the lead. The prize pool reached €8,841,550, the eventual winner was due €1,370,050, and the last six players were set to return on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. local time to play the final day from Level 32, with blinds at 100,000/200,000 and a 200,000 big blind ante.

CoinPoker and PokerGO have launched a promotion that puts one player in line for a $100,000 High Stakes Poker seat in Las Vegas. The winner’s package also includes $10,000 for travel and spending money, a Las Vegas Strip hotel stay, a warm-up game, private coaching and access to the PokerGO broadcast experience.

As reported last week, CoinPoker had already been named presenting sponsor of PokerGO’s seven-day High Stakes Poker run. The new giveaway sits alongside that live stretch, which PokerGO has been airing from Aug. 25 to 31.

Entry is free, and players sign up with the code POKERGO. Weekly leaderboard periods run from Sept. 6 through Oct. 25, and qualification is based on CoinPoker cash-game and tournament activity. Freeroll entries can also unlock during the qualification window. The top finisher from each weekly leaderboard advances to an Oct. 31 final draw, where eight players will be in the mix for one grand-prize winner.

CoinPoker says the winner could end up sharing a table with Kevin Hart, Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan. Sportscasting described the prize as a fully covered High Stakes Poker package valued at more than $100,000, while another report noted that the leaderboard window overlaps with CoinPoker’s Global Online Poker Championship, the $50 million guaranteed series that runs through Sept. 28 and includes more than 700 events.

ACR Poker has unveiled OSS XL, a 24-day online festival running from Sept. 6 to Sept. 29. The slate spans 336 events and more than $50 million in guaranteed prize pools.

The headline package is built around three Main Events worth $5 million combined. PR Newswire’s release breaks that out as a $2.5 million event at $2,650, a $2 million event at $1,050, and a third Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee and a $66 buy-in. The two larger events share Day 1A on Sept. 20, Day 1B on Sept. 27, Day 2 on Sept. 28 and final tables on Sept. 29. The $66 event runs with Day 1 flights on Sept. 13 and Sept. 20, then Day 2 on Sept. 27, and players can also qualify through $6.60 satellites.

OSS XL adds four major multi-flight tournaments that share another $2.225 million in guarantees, led by a $1.5 million event with a $630 buy-in. That section also includes three Mystery Bounty multi-flights, with guarantees of $500,000, $150,000 and $75,000 and buy-ins down to $5.50.

The festival also comes with a $60,000-plus leaderboard competition split into High, Medium and Low buy-in levels. First-place prizes are set at $15,000, $7,500 and $4,000, and The Beast promotion will award OSS XL seats throughout September, including $1,050 and $2,650 tickets.

PokerStrategy’s recap of the same schedule also highlights a Nosebleed Week from Sept. 21 to Sept. 28, with 10 tournaments carrying buy-ins from $5,000 to $25,000. It also says ACR Poker is adjusting parts of the schedule for more U.S.-friendly start times.