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dfbuzzbeater won Clubs Poker’s No-Fee Daily Mix leaderboard with 1,461 points after cashing in nine events. The weekly crown came with 200 SC in No-Fee Mix Tickets and a collectible Chip Protector.

The week’s 14 mixed-game events drew 246 unique players and 892 entries. Every event overlaid, and the promotion generated 7,450 SC in added value across the schedule.

As covered when the series launched in July, Clubs Poker set the No-Fee Daily Mix up as a daily mixed-game rotation with no fixed ending date, one low-buy-in and one high-buy-in event each day, and a standalone weekly leaderboard, according to pokerfuse.

dfbuzzbeater built the win with a strong run through the week. The player started with a string of cashes, won Friday’s 50 SC Big Bet Mix, and then finished second in both TORSE events on Saturday. The report said that mix of one win, two runner-up finishes and six other cashes was enough to seal the title by 164.5 points.

Spooky finished second on the leaderboard after opening with a win in Monday’s 10 SC Draw Mix, adding a runner-up finish in Wednesday’s 50 SC Triple Stud and cashing five other events. bamf6689 was third with six cashes, including a runner-up finish in the 10 SC TOE Mix, while Polsk33 took fourth after winning both Tuesday Omaha 4/5/6 Mix events.

Across the first four weeks of the promotion, the weekly crown has gone to four different players, with bamf6689, Wahooo, SH0WOFF and dfbuzzbeater each taking a title. Both bamf6689 and dfbuzzbeater have already reached the top three twice in just four weeks, which the report said leaves room for a future repeat champion.

John Kim turned an 80-cent promotion reward into a $42,700 first-place finish in ACR Poker’s Mini Phil’s Thrill on August 9. The event drew 61 entries, paid seven spots, and built a $152,500 prize pool.

According to a PRNewswire release and Americas Cardroom’s news site, Kim is a 47-year-old sales consultant from Chicago who joined ACR Poker in 2021. His path started with a Venom Vault Survivor Flip Step ticket worth $0.80, which he kept winning forward until it became a $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill seat. That route also reflects the broader Venom Vault setup, where the promotional ladder can start at $0.80 and lead to a $2,650 ticket.

The biggest swing came near the money bubble, with nine players left and only seven paid. Kim had about 680,000 chips and pocket aces when another player shoved roughly 700,000 with pocket sixes. Kim called, the aces held, and his stack jumped to around 1.5 million, which put him in the chip lead by seven-handed play.

Kim said he was starstruck while keeping an eye on Chris Moneymaker, Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen. He said the tension eased once the event got three-handed and he started playing his spots again.

Kim said his previous best online result was about $1,400 in a $21 Hyper. He also said his car had recently been repossessed, that he had moved in with a family member, and that his priorities were getting transportation back, finding a place to live and caring for his three dogs. The Venom Vault remains open through August 30.

CoinPoker has lifted the Daily Dollar Sunday Edition guarantee from $3,000 to $5,000 after the new $1 micro-stakes event drew a first weekend. The regular Daily Dollar launched on 13 August and runs at 17:00 UTC on the other days with a $1,000 guarantee, while Sundays switch to the bigger edition.

As covered earlier in August, CoinPoker has been broadening its fixed-schedule online lineup, including the monthly CoinMillion. The Daily Dollar is part of that same move toward permanent low-buy-in action, and the Sunday winner also gets a digital award in the CoinPoker Trophy Cabinet, which displays tournament achievements on the Career page of a player profile.

The first Sunday Edition ran on 16 August and attracted 3,740 entries from 2,375 unique players. There were 1,365 re-entries, and the final prize pool climbed to $3,440, comfortably above the original $3,000 guarantee.

Dnxx took the opening Sunday title after entering three times and collected $453.92. That made Dnxx the first player to add a Daily Dollar Sunday trophy to the Trophy Cabinet, and Mario Mosböck described the event as the “smallest buy-in trophy event in the world.”

CoinPoker is also giving players multiple ways to get in. The reports say seats can be bought directly for $1, won through $0.10 satellites, or earned in freerolls, and players in other micro-stakes tournaments can win up to three Daily Dollar tickets a week that work for either the regular Daily Dollar or the Sunday Edition. The higher $5,000 Sunday guarantee is set to kick in on 23 August.

Curtis King won the WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event at Harrah’s Cherokee for $363,703 and his first career Circuit ring after beating Toby Boas heads-up.

As reported earlier in the week, King came into the final day with the chip lead after the event was down to its final 11 players. The $1,700 no-limit hold’em tournament drew 1,681 entries across two starting flights and paid 247 players.

King and Boas quickly separated from the rest of the field, with both holding far more chips than anyone else at the table. Boas first pulled ahead after eliminating Scott Gronroos in seventh place, then King answered by taking back the lead when Andrew Kelsall ran a flopped set of eights into King’s turned flush.

Boas widened the gap again by knocking out Donta Moss in fifth, but King stayed in range by sending Kataka Eaton out in fourth. Ryan D’Angelo then doubled through King to set up the final duel, and King later eliminated D’Angelo after D’Angelo spiked two pair against him and King found a river four to stay alive.

The last hand finished with King open-shoving on a 9♠7♥4♥6♠ board. Boas called with 5♦4♦, but King’s pocket eights held when the K♦ hit the river.

Reports differed on the exact prize-pool figure. The official WSOP recap said the event started with a $2 million guarantee and generated $2,307,380, while Card Player and Spadepoker put the total prize pool at $2,546,715. WVNews identified King as being from Charleston, West Virginia, and said the Cherokeee stop ran from Aug. 6-17 across 18 ring events with $8,698,110 distributed in prize money overall.

The win was King’s biggest career cash, and Poker.org said it pushed his lifetime tournament earnings past $1 million on HendonMob.

Charlie Diep will start Day 3 as the chip leader in the Arizona State Poker Championship after he rode a late Day 2 heater to 9.51 million chips. The 58 survivors at Talking Stick Resort are all already in the money, and each has locked up at least $9,200 from the record 4,018-entry event.

As reported yesterday, according to PokerNews, the tournament had already reached 4,018 entries and returned 469 players for Day 2. That turnout built a $4,018,000 prize pool and left the field chasing the $627,050 top prize.

Erik Gault is second in chips with 8.47 million, and Jonathan Roeder is third with 7.635 million. Toby Price remains very much in the mix with 5.94 million, while John Riordan, Bradley Gafford and Christina Read also survived with 5.245 million, 4.445 million and 3.725 million.

Day 2 ended on a tense note. The last elimination came on the final hand before the scheduled break, and several pots helped shape the top of the counts, including Gregory Sessler’s three-way all-in that turned into a flush and a crucial triple-up, and Joseph Osterbauer’s ace-king holding against ace-deuce.

The Day 3 restart has one hand left in Level 25 at blinds of 30,000/60,000, before Level 26 begins at 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante. The plan is to play down to a nine-handed final table, and the 58 players are set to return at 10:15 a.m. this morning.