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APT Jeju is set to run from Sept. 25 to Oct. 7 in Jeju, and PokerOrg previewed it as a 135-event festival built around a $2,000 Main Event with a $1.6 million guarantee. The same preview says the stop is part of APT’s 20th-anniversary season and that it is the tour’s second Korean island festival this year.

The official APT preview says the festival is being run with Landing Entertainment Korea and sits as the fourth stop in the tour’s milestone 20-Year Anniversary season at LES A Casino.

There is a small difference in the event count. APT’s own preview and schedule announcement describe the festival as a 13-day stop with 136 trophy events and KRW 5.2 billion, about $3.5 million, in guaranteed prize pools. It also says the Main Event carries KRW 2.2 billion, about $1.5 million, in guarantees, with a KRW 2.7 million buy-in, roughly $1,800.

The broader schedule is built for variety, not just big-field hold’em. According to APT, 90 of the tournaments are No Limit Hold’em, including 11 dedicated women’s events, while the rest of the slate includes 21 Omaha events, 17 stud and mixed games, and eight draw games.

PokerOrg’s preview points to some of the supporting highlights. Those include a $900 Mystery Bounty Hunter with a $300,000 guaranteed pool on Sept. 26, an $11,000 APT Super High Roller that will pay at least $370,000, a $220 heads-up women’s event on Sept. 28, and a $600 Women’s Main Event on Sept. 29. The preview also ties the Jeju stop to November’s APT Championship in Taipei, where the main freezeout is set at $5 million guaranteed.

Jesse Jones beat Dave Alfa in the WSOP Circuit Tulsa $1,700 Main Event heads-up at Hard Rock Tulsa in Oklahoma to win $112,945, his sixth WSOP Circuit ring and his first Main Event title. On the last hand, Alfa called with king-six against Jones’ ace-six, both players paired their sixes, and Jones’ ace kicker held up.

Jones started heads-up with about a 5-to-1 chip lead, saw it shrink fast, and then played through a seven-hour duel that ran past midnight Sunday. After about an hour, the players bagged their chips and came back Monday at noon, and the match later tightened to just 40 big blinds in play.

The swings were huge. Jones got in early with pocket fours against Alfa’s pocket sevens, then later flopped a set against Alfa’s pair of aces, pushing Jones up near 90 big blinds while Alfa fell to around 10. Alfa then battled back, at one point holding a 3-to-1 lead and nearly closing the match before a river straight saved Jones and forced another reset.

Spadepoker said the event drew 376 entries and built a $569,640 prize pool, with the top 57 players paid. Alfa took $74,405 for second, and the same report said he had already won Event #11, the $400 Monster Stack for $27,709, and Event #12, the $600 Black Chip Bounty for $6,980, earlier in the festival. That left him as one of the event’s biggest winners despite missing out on the title.

Jones said afterward that he was not too tired and that the match was a fun grind. He also said he takes pride in not showing emotion when things do not go his way, and added that deep-stacked play is familiar to him because he is more of a cash-game player. Earlier this year, he finished third in the WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event, which the article said would have been his first-ever title.

ACR Poker’s OSS XL series opened on Sept. 6 with BADGERING taking the first headline score. BADGERING won OSS XL #13, a $630 High Roller, for $130,209.51 after the tournament drew 1,118 entries and built a $670,800 prize pool.

According to the opening recap, the event cleared its $600,000 guarantee. As reported in late August, OSS XL was built as a 336-event schedule with more than $50 million in guarantees.

The opening day card was not limited to that one result. WebWire’s recap said the slate also featured four multi-flights combining for $2.225 million guaranteed, 10 Nosebleed Stakes tournaments, and more than $60,000 in added leaderboard cash and tournament tickets.

Another notable opener was OSS XL #16, the $2,650 event, which finished above its guarantee. It drew 203 entries, paid out $507,500, and ended in a final-table deal that gave NewYorkMidgets $95,311.68 for first, KevinParCoeur $93,874.52 for second, and Olivander1 $87,459.25.

Other opening-day scores included WilliamRed’s $109 Moneymaker win for $62,933.20 from 3,373 entries, lukewarmwater’s Sunday Splash victory for $10,952.96 from 4,752 entries, COTTAGECORE’s $100,000 GTD 6-Max Mystery Bounty title for $32,269.70 with bounties included, and peyton_manning’s $50,000 GTD PLO 6-Max PKO win for $16,679 across the prize and bounty components.

Espen Jorstad won WCOOP 02-H: $1,050 PKO Warm-Up on PokerStars, giving him a third career World Championship of Online Poker title. The event drew 154 entries, and Jorstad collected $33,250 total after a $14,359 base score and $18,891 in bounties.

According to PokerNews, Jorstad beat Finnish player realsuhisjii heads-up after digging out of a four-to-one chip deficit. The outlet also noted that his first two WCOOP titles came in 2023 and 2024, both under the username Hymn2Ninkasi, and that he missed out on a win in last year’s series.

The same report said Jorstad became the first GTO Wizard Pro in 2023 and later signed on as an ambassador for the solver brand. It also pointed out that he is the 2022 WSOP Main Event champion.

PokerTube filled in the finish, saying Jorstad went into heads-up play on September 7 as the short stack and closed the gap in a single hand when his king-queen ran into realsuhisjii’s king-jack and a straight arrived on the river with ace-four. After that swing, Jorstad three-bet with ace-king, then rivered two pair and shoved, with realsuhisjii calling off his tournament life holding a turned two pair with king-seven.

PokerTube also said nine players made the money in the event, and that WCOOP’s 25th edition is a 121-event festival running through September 30.

The African Poker Championship is set to make its first stop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at Le Grande Casino on Samora Ave, with the inaugural festival running from September 24 through October 4. The 11-day schedule carries more than $500,000 in guarantees.

The centerpiece is a $1,000 Main Event with a $200,000 guarantee. According to PokerNews, the Main Event is the flagship tournament of the launch festival and runs from September 30 through October 4, with three starting flights and survivors returning for Day 2 at noon on Saturday, October 3.

The opening slate also includes a $125 Main Event Super Satellite on September 25, a $1,500 Grand Slam Mega Stack with a $100,000 guarantee, and a $300 DeepStack with $50,000 guaranteed. Later in the schedule, players will find a $2,000 Single Day Mini High Roller with a $50,000 guarantee, a $5,000 Super High Roller, and a two-day $3,000 APC High Roller that carries another $100,000 guarantee.

Other listed events include a three-flight PigaBet Survivor Bounty, Turbo and SuperStak action, and Pot-Limit Omaha in the form of the $300 Le Grande Bomb Pots Double Board event on October 1. The first APC champion is due to be crowned on Sunday, October 4.

PokerNews says the series is powered by MJPT Global and was created with the goal of bringing together poker communities across Africa, showcasing the continent’s talent, and building events that can draw players from around the world. For Hendon Mob flag chasers, the debut also offers a first chance to add a Tanzanian flag while the tour is still brand new.