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Shinichiro Kano led the APT Incheon Main Event into Day 4 with 3,050,000 chips, giving him the top spot as 47 players returned at Paradise City Casino Resort. Zhentao Long sat second with 2,965,000 and Yoko Sasaki was third on 2,580,000, so the top of the counts was tight even before the field got much smaller.

Spadepoker’s stack analysis said the event had reached 1,393 entries and a prize pool of KRW 3,008,540,000. It described that total as the largest international tournament the city had ever hosted, and noted that the average stack had been climbing fast while the field narrowed.

The payout structure is why those chip counts mattered. First place was worth $374,085 and second was worth $214,120, a drop of more than $159,000 for finishing one spot lower. The final table guaranteed at least KRW 38,580,000, while 10th and 11th both paid KRW 32,230,000, which made the fight around the bubble especially sharp.

As covered in our Aug. 8 report on the Korea National Cup, APT Incheon was already producing record numbers before the Main Event reached this stage. With 47 players left, the field still had 38 eliminations to go before it could reach the nine-handed final table.

The €100,000 EPT Super High Roller is now underway at Casino Barcelona. PokerNews’ event page says Day 1 is in progress and that it will not run full live reporting for the tournament, but will post key updates on chip counts, entries and prize-pool figures.

The 2026 PokerStars EPT Barcelona festival runs through Aug. 29 and features more than 60 trophy events across a wide range of buy-ins.

The rest of the schedule is still lining up around it. The €5,300 EPT Main Event is due to begin on Aug. 22, and from Aug. 23 seven days of live broadcasts are slated to bring card-exposed coverage from both the Super High Roller and the Main Event.

PokerNews described the festival as being only a couple of days in when multiple champions had already been crowned. Elias Suhonen took the largest share of a €310,000 prize pool in a €10,200 no-limit hold’em event and finished with €114,200.

Mauricio Miranda led Day 1a of the RGPS Golden Expedition Dallas $600 Main Event after bursting the bubble and finishing with 992,000 chips at Palace Poker. Halit Ozaltun was second with 890,000, and the opening flight sent 12 players on to Day 2 in the money.

According to PokerNews, the first of eight opening flights drew 100 entries and played all the way to Level 20 before the bags came out. As covered earlier this month, the series returned to Palace Poker after a stop in the Passport Season came to a close in March. The event carries a $200,000 guarantee, starts players with 60,000 chips, and allows unlimited reentry across the eight opening flights.

Hand-for-hand play dragged on for more than two full levels near the bubble. David Poblacion survived the stone bubble with 239,000 chips, and Miranda then won the final-bubble hand against Dora Coyle to end the night. The showdown was A♠J♥ for Coyle against A♦K♦ for Miranda, and Miranda improved on the runout to send Coyle out.

Nikola Mircetic finished third with 766,000, Jackson Morisey bagged 623,000, and Paul Taskalos rounded out the top five with 532,000. Morisey was the only other player to finish above ten starting stacks, while Taskalos’ surge came after a big river call with top pair a few levels earlier.

The field also included two RGPS Ambassadors, but neither made the money. Alexandra Loveless made an early run with pocket queens before fading after late registration closed, Bart Bogard joined the field and was eliminated, and defending Dallas champion Daniel Lowery took two shots before running top pair into Michael McBarron’s set of sixes. The tournament continues Friday with Day 1c, and six more flights were still to be played this weekend.

Han Feng took the chip lead into Day 3 of the PokerStars Open Main Event in Barcelona, with the €1,650 event down to 80 players from a starting field of 4,333 entries. Alexander Ivarsson was the nearest player in the counts as the tournament moved into its next stage.

As covered in our Aug. 5 report on his fifth-place WSOP Main Event finish, Feng already had a $2.25 million score on his résumé before this run. He bagged 5.1 million chips for Day 3, which put him in front of a field that had already been pared down sharply during Day 2.

According to PokerOrg, all eight Day 1 flights were complete before Day 2 began, and only 648 players advanced to lock up a minimum cash. The same reporting said the official prize pool landed at €6,239,520, below last year’s 5,036-entry, €7,251,840 edition. F5 Poker matched those totals and also noted that PokerStars had added a €2,200 In the Money at 180,000 side event to the Barcelona festival.

Several familiar names were still around but in need of chips. Jamie Dwan, who started Day 2 with one of the bigger stacks, finished 45th on 1.2 million. Brock Wilson sat 50th with 1.1 million, Dominik Panka had 805,000, Sebastian Huber 735,000, and Victoria Livschitz was down to 300,000. Feng and those five players were the remaining Pick 3 draft choices in the event. Day 3 gets under way Friday at 11am local time, and the PokerStars Open champion is due on Saturday, the same day the EPT Barcelona Main Event begins.

The RGPS Golden Expedition Southern Indiana $800 Main Event begins at Caesars Southern Indiana at 6 p.m. local time, with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and four starting flights on the schedule. Day 1a is the first flight, and the remaining entries are set for Aug. 21 at 6 p.m., Aug. 22 at 11 a.m., and Aug. 22 at 6 p.m., before Day 2 on Aug. 23 at 1 p.m. plays down to a champion.

Players start with 30,000 chips, and the opening flights use 30-minute levels. Late registration stays open until the start of Level 9, and unlimited reentries are allowed during that period, which gives players a long runway to jump in or fire again.

As covered last week, PokerNews brought back its PowerStack leaderboard for the fall season, and Southern Indiana is one of the first stops where players can start building points. This is also a return trip to the room after April, when Jasper May beat a 321-player field to win $47,787. RunGood ambassadors Craig Welko and Chris Audrain, along with WSOP bracelet winner Ronnie Day, also cashed in that event.

RunGood's own announcement frames Golden Expedition as a season-long trip across North America and the Caribbean, with president Tana Karn calling it "one continuous adventure." The route is set to end at the Dream Factory Festival at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, California, from Nov. 27 through Dec. 3, where two invitational tournaments are reserved for 2026 RunGood ring winners.