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Sameh Elamawy pulled a $1.7 million pot off Eric Wasserson in a full-house-over-full-house cooler on PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker LIVE. Both players made full houses on the river, but Elamawy held the better one, turning the hand into one of the night’s biggest swings.

According to Poker.org, the hand started when Stanley Tang opened to $4,000 and both Elamawy and Wasserson called, building an un-straddled pot of $14,500. Tang fired $5,000 on the flop, Elamawy called, Wasserson raised to $25,000 and Elamawy called again.

On the turn, Elamawy improved to superior two pair, which Poker.org described as “gin for him.” Both players then put in another $50,000 before the river brought full houses for both sides, with Elamawy’s proving to be the winner.

As covered earlier in the week, the High Stakes Poker LIVE run at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas had already become the biggest game in the show’s history. Poker.org said the game started with more than $3 million in play and climbed to more than $9 million on the table after Rick Salomon left with profit, while F5 Poker said the Friday lineup also included Andrew Robl, Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek, Kirk Brown and others.

F5 Poker said Friday’s session produced five seven-figure pots. It also reported that Robl began with $1.05 million, including an extra $50,000 so he could cover Wasserson’s $1 million buy-in if needed, and that Elamawy finished the session at $1,445,500.

Daniel Negreanu’s Hustler Casino Live debut finished in the red, with the poker star ending an about eight-hour session down $73,800 after a huge early slide, a sharp comeback and another late giveback.

As covered in August, Hustler Casino Live had already booked his first appearance for a $100/$200 no-limit hold’em game with a $50,000 minimum buy-in. The stream marked a rare cash-game return after years away from that format, and PokerNews said more than 12,000 viewers were tuned in on YouTube when he first appeared.

The opening stretch was ugly. About two hours in, Negreanu was nearly $160,000 down, and one report put the hole at $162,000. He lost a $99,000 pot to Brandon Steven after calling a preflop three-bet with 10♠ 9♠, then watching Steven pair a king on the river.

He also lost a $110,000 pot to Sam “Senor Tilt” Kiki, and another early hand went against him when he flopped top pair with the nut flush draw, only to run into a five-outer on the turn against Nik Airball. That left him in a deep hole before the cards started to swing back his way.

Negreanu’s turnaround started when he picked up pocket aces, and later he turned a set in a pot against Airball and got paid off for his last $46,600 on the river. PokerNews said he went from that near-$160,000 deficit to almost $120,000 ahead in just a few hours, before the session flipped again.

The biggest highlight was a river check-raise bluff against Kiki. On a board of 3♦ 2♦ K♦, 7♣, J♥, Kiki bet $20,000 on the river after showing down top two pair, and Negreanu raised to $75,000, forcing the fold and sending the chat into a frenzy.

He also won a $135,000 pot with pocket queens against pocket eights. PokerOrg said Negreanu rated the fun at 10 out of 10 and the cards at six-and-a-half, and he added that having fun would make him want to come back.

KPC Poker has folded the K Poker Cup and King Poker Cup into a single brand, and the reworked tour is set for its first major outing at LES A Casino in Jeju Shinhwa World from Oct. 10-21, according to PokerNews. The 12-day festival carries $2.3 million, or KRW 3.1 billion, in guarantees and pushes buy-ins as high as $60,000.

The schedule is built around two Main Events. The ₩1.3 million KPC Main Event offers an ₩880 million guarantee and runs six flights from Oct. 11-14, while the $15,000 King’s Main Event begins on Oct. 17, uses two starting flights, and crowns its winner on Oct. 20.

The opening day starts with the ₩800,000 KPC Bankroll Builder, which has ₩180 million guaranteed across three flights. Just 90 minutes after the first cards there, the $5,000 King’s Debut begins with a $1 million guarantee, and the mid-festival stretch adds a ₩5 million High Roller with ₩420 million guaranteed before a $25,000 Single Day Super High Roller and a $60,000 King’s Super High Roller.

As reported on Aug. 28, KPC Poker had already started selling limited Jeju hotel-and-entry bundles for the same festival. Those packages paired tournament entries, player credit and accommodation, and one offer gives full-festival hotel stays for players who pre-pay $70,000 in buy-ins.

A separate promotion cuts the administration fee in half for players seated before selected events begin, with the discount applying to 17 tournaments or starting flights marked by a gift-box symbol on the official schedule. The closing stretch also includes a $30,000 Final Coronation and a $20,000 Single Day Super High Roller on the final day.

Italy’s Manuel Ferrari won the PokerStars EPT Barcelona €5,300 Main Event after a three-way deal, beating a 1,823-entry field and collecting €1,002,488, or about $1.16 million. Lukas van Eeden finished second and Jose Criado took third after the prize money was split.

As reported in our Aug. 28 update, Ferrari went into the final day with the chip lead. He had also stayed in front through Day 6, and the field had already been cut to six by the time the last day began.

The penultimate day began with 13 players left and at least €81,350 locked up, before a fast series of eliminations trimmed the table further. Among the notable exits, Joris Ruijs went out in ninth, Gerard Carbo finished seventh, Michael Dwyer was eliminated in fifth after losing on an aces-up board, and Xiaosheng Zheng was eliminated by Jose Criado after Criado three-bet jammed 10♠10♥ and Zheng called all-in with A♦7♦. Nicolas Chouity’s exit meant the title would go to a first-time EPT Main Event champion, and Jose Criado was eliminated in third.

The last three players then paused for a deal after Lukas van Eeden held only a small chip edge over Ferrari. The agreement left the trophy and $116,284 still to play for, while Ferrari entered heads-up with roughly a 3:2 lead and stretched that advantage to more than 5:1 as play went on.

The match ended when van Eeden shoved 27.5 big blinds with K♠6♦ and Ferrari called with A♦Q♥ in the big blind. The board ran A♥6♣4♦Q♣7♦ to end it, and the win also earned Ferrari 2,160 Card Player Player of the Year points, lifting him to 2,553 for 2026 and into the top 100 of the CoinPoker standings.

According to iGaming Brazil and BNLData, H2 Sports Bar & Poker is staging “Poker Beyond Sound” in São Paulo on Saturday (29) for about 20 hearing-impaired players. The format replaces the usual reliance on dealer calls with sign-language tools, including physical action cards for fold, check, call, raise and all-in, and the venue has Libras, Brazil’s sign language, support available for communication.

Robinson “Robigol” Quiroga, the group’s head and a partner at H2, framed the event as a space where socializing and connection come first. He said the aim is to make people feel welcome, safe and happy, with communication not standing in the way of play. The reports describe the tournament as an inclusive competition built around the specific needs of the hearing-impaired community and meant to keep the action fair and fluid.

As covered earlier this week, H2 had already been active with a high-end poker event at São Paulo’s Jockey Club. This new tournament also follows last year’s adapted event for visually impaired players, which brought together more than 25 competitors and used adapted decks of cards and chips. The reporting says competitions aimed at specific groups are part of H2’s ongoing planning in Brazil, where the club has been building this approach over more than two decades.