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Garrett Adelstein said he is preparing a documentary-style YouTube video that will break down the full Jack-Four story. He said he has put an “outrageous amount of time” into laying out the details and evidence around what he called the most controversial hand in poker history.

Adelstein also said nearly all of the material he plans to present has never been public. In his telling, the controversy still leaves open a basic question: who was in the wrong and who was in the right.

The J4 hand came from the Sept. 29, 2022 Hustler Casino Live stream. Robbi Jade Lew won a $269,000 pot after calling Adelstein’s semi-bluff for her remaining stack of more than $100,000.

Adelstein accused Lew of cheating, while the poker world split over whether she had cheated or simply gotten lucky. In the aftermath, he said he had no idea “an avalanche was coming” after the livestream accusations, quickly stacked about $2 million in chips, and left the casino without stopping at the cashier’s cage.

The fallout also pulled in Hustler Casino Live ownership, Jacob “Rip” Chavez, and Nick Vertucci. Adelstein said he was told the show was ready to go public with Ryan Feldman’s account of his request for money back, and he said Vertucci later suggested around 4 a.m. that he should return the money or things could get worse.

A separate investigation by High Stakes Poker Productions found no evidence of cheating in the hand or other alleged spots, according to poker.org. The review still said cheating with the Sept. 29 setup was possible, and Vertucci said the team found no evidence of wrongdoing but could not say with 100% certainty that none occurred.

That inquiry also looked at security around the stream. It covered a technical audit and dozens of hours of hands from multiple streams, and it concluded that the Deckmate shuffling machine was secure, the RFID system was safe, and there was no evidence that radio communication to the on-floor camera operator was an issue in the Lew-Adelstein hand.

PokerNews reported in March that Adelstein is also publishing a memoir, Beneath the Cards, on Sept. 1. He said that book will cover the Jack-Four hand, the controversy that followed, and the lasting impact it had on his life and the game.

The documentary-style YouTube video is slated for late 2026.

Lex Veldhuis is a free agent after 17 years under the PokerStars banner, and he is not rushing into the next deal. He has said he is comfortable taking his time, because it’s also about what he wants.

Poker.org noted that Veldhuis has 145K YouTube subscribers, 59.7K Instagram followers and 76.9K X followers. The piece also said he stepped away from streaming as his PokerStars run wound down, then came back strongly in the new year.

Veldhuis has made clear that the decision is about more than the deal itself. He said he liked PokerStars for its approach to content and Twitch, and added that vision matters because it shapes the climate he would be working in. He also said he is “okay in terms of financials” and does not need to make “crazy decisions.”

He framed the moment as one of freedom, saying, “I trust in my platform, I trust what I do, I trust in my viewership, my skills. I’ve been with Stars for 17 years, let’s just chill.” In the same comments, he said he was enjoying that freedom and asked why he should not try spots like a Venom, streaming from Vienna, or checking out CoinPoker and WPT.

That free-agent status comes with a wider online poker backdrop. Pokerfuse describes WSOP Online bracelets as an online extension of the World Series of Poker, with players in the US and worldwide able to chase the same bracelets from home. The guide says WSOP Online usually runs twice a year, with a summer series and a fall series for US players.

For 2026, the summer WSOP Online series ran from May 30 to July 14 and featured 30 bracelet events, according to Pokerfuse. It also generated $24.5 million in prize money, which the site said was well below the $30 million awarded in 2025.

PokerNews reported the same 30-event summer slate when Caesars released the schedule in April. It said the series carried $7 million in guaranteed prize pools, was open to players in Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and started with a $400 NL Hold’em Kick Off on May 30 followed by a $555 Mystery Bounty with a $1 million guarantee the next day.

The schedule also included $50,000 in leaderboard prizes and two $215 Scramble tournaments, each awarding 25 seats to the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. Pokerfuse said online bracelet buy-ins ran from $250 to $5,300.

BBZ Poker has released Small Blind Mastery: Limped Pots, a $185 tournament course led by founder Jordan “BBZ” Drummond. The package runs 10 hours across 62 videos and 13 chapters, and it focuses entirely on blind-versus-blind limped pots.

PokerNews reported that Drummond built the course after seeing students repeatedly struggle with the complexity of blind-versus-blind play. He said they needed systems that could turn wide ranges into repeatable and executable strategies, and BBZ says the course is available now through its training platform.

The course is built as a road map from preflop limping ranges to river decision-making. Its material covers minimum defense frequency, geometric bet sizing, relative hand strength, bluff-to-value ratios, and two separate river bluffing systems, while also looking at how ranges develop street by street and how betting and defense can follow the same underlying logic.

It describes limped pots as the most frequent blind-versus-blind configuration and the least studied, with wide ranges that are capped in strange places. It says many players improvise, spew off small bets, and bleed away the biggest edge available to a competent small blind.

The page also says the course is meant to give players limping ranges that make sense and a bet-versus-bet framework that carries from flop to river. The product page adds a short bio note on Drummond, saying he has been a force in poker for more than 15 years, has won over $1 million in his playing career, founded BBZ Staking in 2012, and launched BBZPoker.com in 2019 as coaching demand grew.

The company said BvB pots are among the most frequent and most misplayed spots in tournament poker, where thin margins and wide ranges make small mistakes add up. That guide breaks the spot down by stack depth, saying the small blind can play about 80% of hands at 10 big blinds, around 85% at 15 to 20 big blinds, and roughly 75% of hands through limping at 60 big blinds.

BBZ’s short-stack guide also shows how much limped and raised pots can diverge. At 14 big blinds, it says limped pots create an SPR of roughly 5 and lead to a check-heavy small-blind strategy, with the SB checking about 57% of flops and betting 43%, while raised pots compress the SPR to around 2 and push the small blind toward betting 78% of flops.

Olybet Poker is bringing the Coolbet Open back to Hilton Tallinn Park in Tallinn from Sept. 1-6. The ninth edition will center on a €550 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event and a schedule that runs to more than 30 tournaments over six days.

According to PokerNews, the festival is returning to the venue after several successful editions there before moving elsewhere in recent years. The report says the stop still fits Tallinn’s growing profile as a live poker destination, with Hilton Tallinn Park close to the historic city center and the Old Town.

The Main Event has three starting flights. The first begins at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 2, a second flight is set for Thursday, Sept. 3, and a turbo-style third flight runs later that same day.

Players who advance will return for Day 2 on Friday, Sept. 4, and the festival will crown its newest champion on Saturday, Sept. 5.

The opener is a €350 DeepStack Mystery Bounty on Tuesday, Sept. 1. The six-day lineup also includes a €1,100 Coolbet Open DeepStack starting Friday, Sept. 4, a €150 Ladies Event, and multiple satellites that award Main Event and DeepStack seats.

Beyond the headline events, the schedule leans heavily into variety. It includes No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, mystery bounty events, progressive bounty tournaments, mixed games and nightly hyper turbos, with mixed-game variants listed as Sviten, TORSE, Open-Face Chinese Pineapple, PLO5, PLO6, Seven Card Stud, Razz, Omaha Hi-Lo and 2-7 Triple Draw.

King’s Resort in Rozvadov will host the IPS Italian Poker Sport Summer Edition from Aug. 18 to Sept. 1, and the stop will feature 59 tournaments across the schedule. The headline is a €1.5 million guaranteed Main Event, while the rest of the series starts from €35 and tops out at €380 for the flagship event.

The Main Event is built around multiple starting flights. PokerNews says the opening options include Speed Day 1s, a Turbo flight, and a Flip and Go Pineapple flight, giving players both slower-paced and quicker ways into the tournament.

The timetable is spread across the end of August and the start of September. Day 1A Part 1 begins at 2 p.m. on Aug. 21, another Day 1 is set for King’s Prague on Aug. 28, and the field then moves to Day 2 on Aug. 30, Day 3 on Aug. 31, and the final day on Sept. 1.

Satellites start on Aug. 18 and give players cheaper routes into the bigger events. A €50 Main Event satellite guarantees €3,800 in prizes, while €35 satellites feed the €50,000 guaranteed IPS Summer Opener and €40 satellites qualify players for the €100,000 Mystery Bounty. The satellite schedule also includes events tied to specific Day 1 flights, plus options that let players choose between different starting flights.

The rest of the schedule leans into the usual IPS mix of formats and buy-ins. The series includes Mystery Bounties, Knockout events, Pot-Limit Omaha, Turbo tournaments, a Ladies Event, and a €700 High Roller.

A separate MTTDB listing describes the Summer Edition as a dedicated IPS summer stop at Rozvadov and puts the festival prize pool at €300,000. That listing says the format follows the familiar IPS blueprint of a multi-flight Main Event, side events, satellites, and mixed No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha action, with a 50,000-chip starting stack and levels that stretch from 40 to 60 minutes as play goes on.

MTTDB also says IPS stops at King’s have drawn very large fields in recent years. It cites the 54th edition, which passed 7,000 entries and generated more than €2.2 million in total prizes, and says Rozvadov prize pools often include added WSOP Europe Main Event tickets on top of the cash.