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CoinPoker has opened qualification for The One, a $250 tournament that begins Oct. 4 with a $5 million guaranteed prize pool and $1 million guaranteed for the winner. Players can now pursue seats through freerolls, a step-satellite ladder or direct satellites rather than buying in outright.

As we reported earlier this month, CoinPoker had already set the 26-flight tournament schedule and headline guarantees. The newly released qualification structure starts with freerolls or $0.10 step satellites, while direct satellites run from $1 to $50, according to PokerStrategy.

The step ladder can lead from a free or $0.10 entry to a $250 Day 1 seat. Each successful stage moves a player into a higher-priced step satellite or a direct satellite. Daily Step [2] freerolls award places in a direct satellite, meaning a player could potentially reach The One from a freeroll in two tournaments.

CoinPoker is also running up to 10 Step [4] freerolls each day from Sept. 29 through Oct. 12. Direct satellites award Day 1 seats and are available at $1, $12.50, $25 and $50 from Oct. 4, continuing through the final Day 1 date. The operator expects to award hundreds of seats a day through those satellites, with volume rising closer to Day 2.

The One has 26 Day 1 flights from Oct. 4 through Oct. 12. From Oct. 4 to Oct. 11, there are three flights a day at 13:30, 16:30 and 19:30 UTC. The final day has two Turbo flights, at 12:30 and 14:00 UTC, before Day 2 begins later that day.

Players may enter as many Day 1 flights as they wish, but only the largest stack they qualify with advances to Day 2. CoinPoker will return the qualifying flight’s buy-in in cash to every player reaching Day 2. Any additional qualifying stacks are converted to cash at the Day 2 minimum-payout level.

The event is CoinPoker’s largest standalone tournament to date and the first edition of what the operator intends to make an annual flagship. Its winner will also receive an engraved physical trophy and a digital version in the CoinPoker Trophy Cabinet.

Roussos Koliakoudakis captured Event No. 3 of the 2026 PGT PLO Series on Sept. 28, winning $198,000 and his first PokerGO Tour title. The Greek pot-limit Omaha specialist topped a 66-entry field at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, where the 10 paid places shared a $660,000 prize pool.

The buy-in was listed as $10,500 by SpadePoker and Poker.pro, while Card Player described the tournament as a $10,000 event. The result was Koliakoudakis’ largest recorded tournament payday, surpassing the $139,773 he won in a $3,000 PLO bounty event at the 2023 Wynn Summer Classic, and lifted his career cashes to nearly $1.1 million.

Koliakoudakis took more than half the chips into the final day, which resumed with four players, and eliminated each of his remaining opponents. Sean Rafael finished fourth for $66,000, before Koliakoudakis knocked out Chino Rheem in third for $89,100. Brevin Andreadis earned $128,700 as runner-up after the heads-up match lasted one hand; Koliakoudakis began it with nearly a 4:1 chip lead and his pocket kings stayed ahead on the river.

The victory earned Koliakoudakis 198 PGT points, moving him to second on the series leaderboard behind Robert Chorlian’s 203. Separately, he collected 360 Card Player Player of the Year points, his second qualifying final-table result of 2026, for a total of 910 points and a place among the top 900 in that overall race.

The eight-event PGT PLO Series runs through Oct. 2, with buy-ins from $5,300 to $26,000. The series title goes to the player with the most PGT points across the schedule, provided they cash at least twice, and carries a $10,000 PGT Passport.

Josh “JT” Turner, the St. Louis poker professional who won seven WSOP Circuit rings and recorded more than $2.4 million in live tournament cashes, has died at age 46 after battling cancer. Turner’s mother wrote on his X account that he died Sept. 2, after fighting the illness for the previous two years.

His mother waited before making the news public. She said Turner had “fought like a warrior,” comparing his fight with cancer to the way he played poker. Daniel Lowery had shared news of Turner’s death on Facebook, and later wrote that he had known Turner was ill but had not understood that the illness was terminal.

The news drew condolences and memories from poker friends on social media. Lowery called Turner “One of the truest, stand up guys on the scene,” while saying the death had shocked many people Turner had touched in the poker community. A memorial service was held Sept. 8 at Kutis Affton Chapel in St. Louis, Missouri.

A Missouri native born Dec. 20, 1979, Turner built much of his tournament record on the WSOP Circuit. His seven-ring total included his most recent win in 2018, while he also won titles on the RunGood Poker Series and Heartland Poker Tour.

One of his defining Circuit victories came at Lumiere Place in St. Louis during the 2014-15 season. Turner led the $1,675 Main Event after each of its first two days and went wire to wire to beat a 415-entry field. The win paid about $137,000, delivered his second Circuit ring and secured a seat in the season-ending National Championship.

Turner later claimed his fifth ring at Planet Hollywood in September 2016, winning a $365 no-limit hold’em turbo for $12,516. His results across that stop also earned him the Casino Championship by an $911 tiebreaker over Kindah Sakkal, producing his third consecutive at-large bid to the following year’s Global Casino Championship.

His largest recorded tournament payday was $294,760 for third place in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack at the 2018 World Series of Poker. He reached three bracelet-event final tables at that series, and his final recorded cash came at The Lodge Card Club, a room he favored.

GucciNIKE won about $850,000 from Jared “Theblez” Bleznick in an almost 400-hand CoinPoker pot-limit Omaha session, according to CardPlayer. The match ran across three $500-$1,000 tables with a $200 ante, and helped push GucciNIKE’s combined winnings from that Friday’s other matches beyond $1.4 million.

The result was a much larger swing than the pair’s previous reported meeting. As we reported earlier this month, GucciNIKE finished about $166,000 ahead of Bleznick in their Sept. 11 CoinPoker session, despite Bleznick taking one $341,946 pot with quads and GucciNIKE winning a $478,400 all-in with trips.

One of the bigger pots in the latest session began with GucciNIKE raising and calling a three-bet to $9,000 while both players had stacks a little deeper than 100 big blinds. On an A♠9♠6♥ flop, Bleznick bet $13,800 and GucciNIKE min-raised to $27,600.

Bleznick then shoved for $98,400 and GucciNIKE called with K♥9♥9♣4♥, middle set plus a backdoor heart draw. Bleznick held A♦K♦K♠7♠ for top pair and the nut-flush draw. GucciNIKE won the $215,200 pot after the 7♦ turn and J♦ river.

GucciNIKE’s preflop decision was routine for the stack depth. The flop min-raise was a way to build a pot with a strong hand while leaving Bleznick an inviting price to continue or bluff; Bleznick’s eventual all-in was strong enough to commit with, but a cooler against the set.

GucciNIKE also collected a $120,000 pot after calling Bleznick’s $3,000 open about 120 blinds deep. After the players checked the flop, GucciNIKE bet $4,800 on the turn and was called. GucciNIKE checked the river, then raised Bleznick’s $12,000 bet to $52,000 and was called.

GucciNIKE showed 9♣8♦4♣4♥ for the nuts. The turn lead could draw value from worse holdings, while the river made GucciNIKE a full house and completed a flush, setting up the check-raise.

The heads-up action comes amid a broader revival of high-stakes CoinPoker cash games, according to PokerStrategy.com. The roundup said seven-figure wins and losses were being fought for weekly in the site’s VIP Arena, with the largest pots concentrated in PLO, and put GucciNIKE’s profit at almost $1.3 million over the preceding seven days.

GGPoker’s 2026 WSOP Online series reaches its last bracelet event on Sept. 29, with nine players left in the $10,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers and a $2.23 million top prize still to be decided. The 1,754-entry tournament generated a $17 million prize pool, and four finalists are already guaranteed seven-figure payouts.

Roeland Peeks takes a commanding lead into the final table with 172 big blinds, well ahead of Sergio Aido on 73. PokerNews reported that the remaining players will return at 7 p.m. BST and play until a champion has all the chips.

Matheus Machado and Niklas Astedt share third place in the counts with 37 big blinds, followed by Ole Schemion with 32 and Christopher Nguyen with 28. Johannes Straver returns with 24 big blinds, while Oshri Lahmani and Alessandro De Michele bring up the final nine with 19 big blinds each.

Every finalist has locked up at least $278,847. The champion receives $2,228,762, a WSOP gold bracelet and a $30,000 Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

Aido is pursuing his third bracelet, while Schemion is seeking his third after winning bracelets in 2021 and earlier this year at WSOP Europe. Nguyen already won a bracelet in the 2026 WSOPE €20,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller, and Astedt is still looking for his first WSOP title.

The final table formed after Zhengxiang Chen exited on the bubble. Other players who cashed but fell short of the last nine included Wiktor Malinowski, Jamie Dwan, Kelvin Kerber, Daniel Negreanu, Adrian Mateos, Sorel Mizzi, Lex Veldhuis and Artur Martirosian.

As we reported in August, the GGMillion$ High Rollers was listed among the 33 bracelet events on GGPoker’s WSOP Online schedule. The series-ending table is set to stream on GGPoker’s YouTube channel with a one-hour cards-up delay, with Alex Foxen joining Jeff Gross on commentary.