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The €25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller at EPT Barcelona had narrowed to the final four, with the last stretch of play paused for dinner. Marcus Dieleman went out in sixth, just missing a payout, and Lauri Saaskilahti followed in fifth for €78,000.

According to PokerNews, the event page was not running full live coverage, but it was still posting chip counts and key tournament data such as entries and the prize pool.

The remaining four players were enjoying their dinner break, with play set to resume at about 7:58 p.m. Later updates recorded Sampo Ryynanen in third for €133,000 and Laszlo Bujtas in fourth for €96,000.

The €50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance got Day 1 underway. The opening session began at 2 p.m., and players could still enter or reenter until registration closed before play resumed after the dinner break.

PokerNews is not offering full live coverage of the tournament, but it will post updates on chip counts, entries and prize-pool figures. During the evening stretch, a couple of players had already busted before the field headed out for dinner, and play was scheduled to restart at about 9:12 p.m.

Eelis Parssinen was among the players to take the reentry route, busting and then starting again with a fresh 250,000 stack.

Tom Fuchs won the 2026 PokerStars EPT Barcelona €100,000 no-limit hold'em super high roller after beating Kayhan Mokri heads-up. PokerNews put Fuchs's first-place payout at €1,126,540, while Card Player reported it as $1,306,786, and it was the biggest live score of his career.

The event drew 27 entries and 7 re-entries, with late registration open until the start of Day 2. Organizers had originally planned a three-day marathon, but decided to play it out on the second day instead, so the champion was crowned before the event reached a third session.

The prize pool reached €2,619,540 and was paid only to the top four finishers. Enrico Camosci's elimination created the bubble, leaving the final four locked for at least €314,000.

Mokri finished second for €707,000, Jamie Dwan took third for €472,000, and Byron Kaverman was fourth for €314,000. Mokri’s runner-up finish pushed his career earnings to nearly $24.1 million, while Dwan climbed to 53rd in the Player of the Year standings after adding $547,520 and 240 points.

Fuchs also picked up 360 Player of the Year points and his fifth POY-qualified score of 2026. The result narrowly topped the $1,292,000 he won for taking the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise $50,000 high roller, which had been his previous best payday, and he has more than $7.2 million in lifetime earnings after first cashing in 2020.

Mokri’s final-table run added another chapter to his Barcelona record. He had been the back-to-back champion in 2023 and 2024, did not cash at the festival in 2025, and returned this year to make heads-up again in the €100,000 event.

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

Niko Koop finished Day 2 of the WPT Cyprus Championship Main Event in front, with 1,750,000 chips, or 117 big blinds, as 45 players remained in contention for the title. Sergiu Cornea was the nearest challenger, sitting just three big blinds behind.

SpadePoker reported that the Main Event carried a $3,500 buy-in. Late registration closed when Day 2 began, after the three opening flights and the start of the second day, and total participation reached 520 entries.

The field was still short of the event’s $2 million guarantee, so the prize pool settled at exactly $2 million rather than going beyond that mark. The top prize listed for the winner was $368,900.

According to the WPT live update, Day 2 added 122 entries and ran through 10 levels before play stopped. Koop and Cornea topped the standings, followed by Anatoly Suvorov on 1,400,000, Weiran Pu on 1,185,000 and Ara Melkistian on 1,170,000.

The final 65 players would make the money, with at least $7,700 locked in for each of them, while the remaining jumps included $238,000 for second, $175,000 for third, $130,000 for fourth, $97,000 for fifth and $73,000 for sixth.

PokerStars has added WCOOP Games to the build-up to the 25th World Championship of Online Poker, giving players a one-cent route into selected $109 events and a shot at team prizes. The promotion runs alongside the main WCOOP festival and is built around four community teams.

According to PokerStars, players choose which community they want to represent, then try to win their qualifier and earn the ambassador’s Centroll. Successful qualifiers move on to a series of last-longer Face-Offs played inside regular WCOOP tournaments, with Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg, Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg, Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber, and Del & Phil leading the four teams.

As reported last week, PokerStars had already published the 25th WCOOP schedule, which runs from Sept. 6 to 30 and covers 350 tournaments across 121 numbered events. The series carries at least $40 million in guarantees, most events are split into Low, Medium and High buy-in tiers, and every tournament winner will receive an official WCOOP trophy shipped home.

WCOOP Games qualifiers are scheduled for Aug. 23, Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. The winning communities will receive dedicated freerolls worth up to $7,000, and every member of the overall winning team will collect a $1,000 WCOOP Main Event ticket.

The broader WCOOP package also includes qualification paths starting at $0.55 through traditional satellites, $0.75 Spin & Go qualifiers, the returning WCOOP Lucky Dip promotion with $500,000 in tournament tickets, and Power Path Express, which adds more than $175,000 in ticket bundles and Main Event entries. PokerStars is also running WCOOP leaderboards for Low, Medium, High and overall Player of the Series, with another $100,000 set aside for those races.