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888poker’s Spanish televised sit-and-go series Noche de Poker returns for an 11th season on Oct. 3, with eight episodes leading to a Dec. 5 Grand Final. Online qualification begins Sunday, Sept. 27, through General and Rookie satellites on 888poker.es, while EducaPoker supplies an additional weekly qualifier on Mondays.

Each televised table will bring together seven online qualifiers and one special guest. The seven seats are split between four awarded in the General satellite, two in the Rookie, and one through EducaPoker, according to PokerNews and Spanish poker outlet Poker-Red. Sunday and Monday qualifiers normally play at the televised table on the following Saturday.

The General satellite costs €10 and begins at 10 p.m. GMT on Sundays. The €5.50 Rookie starts 30 minutes earlier. Both have 45 minutes of late registration, six-minute blind levels and one permitted re-entry.

PokerNews lists the Monday EducaPoker event as a €5.50, password-protected satellite at 9 p.m. GMT. Poker-Red lists a €5 buy-in, one hour of late registration and five-minute levels. Both reports agree that it awards one televised-table seat, plus 50,000 EducaPoints to the winner, 25,000 to finishers from second through sixth, and 10,000 to other entrants.

Every player at an episode receives cash, with payouts ranging from €250 for eighth place to €1,500 for the winner. Episode winners advance automatically to the Grand Final, where the eight qualifiers are guaranteed at least €750 and the champion earns €8,000. The winner will succeed Season 10 champion Alejandro Sánchez.

Poker-Red reported that Álvaro Aspas, known as Darkored, and Jesús Ramos, known as El_Chur, will call the broadcasts live from 8 p.m. on the outlet’s Twitch and YouTube channels. When four players remain, viewers will vote to award three additional prizes: the top vote-getter receives an entry to 888poker LIVE Madrid, while second and third receive entries to Noche de Poker El Festival.

There is a planned break after Episode 3 on Oct. 17. No satellites run on Oct. 18, and qualifying returns Oct. 25 for Episode 4, which is played Nov. 6 in Murcia during Noche de Poker El Festival Murcia. Episodes 4 and 5 are set for Nov. 6 and 7, respectively.

During broadcasts, 888poker.es will also run freerolls awarding 20 tickets per week to the €10 General satellite.

Paul Volpe won the $5,300 BetMGM Big, Big Championship at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, taking the trophy and $492,415 after making a heads-up ICM deal with Frank Lagodich. The event drew 519 entries and generated a $3 million prize pool, paying 65 places.

Lagodich received $420,000 as runner-up. The two did not play a hand heads-up: Volpe held 15.25 million chips to Lagodich’s 5.5 million when they agreed to the deal. Volpe told PokerNews that both players were tired, respected each other’s games and chose to lock up the money.

The result turned around a difficult final day for Volpe. He said he had fallen to eight big blinds early on Day 3 before rebuilding, reaching the final table with the chip lead and eventually closing out the title. As we reported Sept. 23, Lagodich had started the final day as chip leader with 19 players left.

Tyler Hirschfeld finished third for $263,150, followed by Brock Wilson in fourth for $175,080 and Sanat Mehrotra in fifth for $122,850. Scott Blumstein took sixth for $97,865, while David Kinane, Julian Altieri and Sead Duraku completed the nine-handed final table.

Volpe’s route to the heads-up deal included a key elimination of Duraku, when his pocket jacks made a set against Duraku’s pocket aces. He later eliminated Altieri with ace-king against king-queen, then knocked out Hirschfeld in third with a jack-high straight on the river against Hirschfeld’s trip nines.

The $492,415 prize was Volpe’s biggest Borgata score, his third-largest recorded live-tournament cash and his biggest since summer 2018. It took his Borgata main-event winnings beyond $1.5 million across 10 final tables over 15 years, while his recorded lifetime live earnings rose to nearly $10.8 million.

Volpe called Borgata his home casino and favorite place to play because of its proximity to home. He also said he considers mixed games his stronger discipline, though he enjoys no-limit hold’em tournaments, and credited his recent results to “baby rungood.”

Lagodich’s $420,000 was the second-largest live cash of his career. The finish earned Volpe 1,680 Card Player Player of the Year points, taking his 2026 total to 2,105, while Lagodich collected 1,400 points to reach 3,287.

Volpe said he expected his next poker trip would probably be to the Wynn in December, while he has been spending time at home with his nine-month-old child.

Daniel Lowery won his 21st World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring after taking down Event #7, the $400 Big O at Horseshoe Council Bluffs. The victory paid $8,607 and came from a 96-entry field that created a $31,680 prize pool.

Lowery started Day 2 as the short stack among 11 returning players, then climbed through the field and beat Sean Moore heads-up. Moore earned $5,502 for second, while Ari Engel finished third. The tournament paid 15 places.

The result put Lowery on 21 Circuit rings, five behind all-time leader Maurice Hawkins, who has 26. As covered in July, Hawkins set that 26-ring record by winning the Choctaw Mini Main Event.

Poker.org reported that Engel won his own 21st Circuit ring at Council Bluffs the following day, leaving Lowery and Engel level on that total. Lowery’s Big O title was his third Circuit ring in a non-hold’em event, following two Pot-Limit Omaha wins.

It was Lowery’s first Circuit title since a $300 Seniors Event win at Hard Rock Tulsa in March, which delivered his 20th ring. He has now won at least one Circuit ring each year since 2022, and at least two annually since 2023.

Lowery’s recent pace stands out because he generally plays only one or two Circuit stops a year, rather than a full schedule. Earlier in his Circuit career, he said work at his Arkansas sawmill and family responsibilities limited the volume he could play, even as he pursued the top of the ring leaderboard.

His first Circuit ring came in May 2013, when he won a $365 No-Limit Hold’em event in New Orleans for $22,912. More than 12 years later, the Council Bluffs Big O win keeps him within five rings of Hawkins’ record.

Daniel Negreanu’s bid for a ninth World Series of Poker bracelet ended in fourth place in GGPoker’s WSOP Online $25,000 High Roller Championship. Casimir Seire eliminated him with two pair in a key blind-versus-blind all-in, then went on to win the bracelet and the $906,647 top prize.

Negreanu earned about $415,700 and livestreamed the nine-handed final table on YouTube with a delayed card-up broadcast. A ninth bracelet would have made him the 10th player in WSOP history to reach that mark, while the online title would have been his first bracelet won online.

He began the final day third of 14 players, holding 2.4 million chips, or 41 big blinds. By the time the official final table began, he was again third in chips with roughly 60 big blinds.

Negreanu built a bigger stack after the first break and eliminated Parahat Nurmuhammedov in eighth place with the superior full house. He took the chip lead with seven players left, but a three-way all-in against Ole Schemion and Roman Emelyanov changed the picture.

Negreanu held A♥K♠, Schemion had A♠Q♠ and Emelyanov held pocket sixes. The A♣-10♠-Q♥-9♥-9♦ board eliminated Emelyanov in seventh and left Negreanu among the short stacks, while Schemion moved up the counts.

Negreanu doubled more than once as the blinds rose, and Schemion later went out sixth to Pedro Neves’s pocket queens. Negreanu then knocked out Neves in fifth place, picking up pocket fives before calling a small three-bet.

The defining hand came immediately afterward. In the big blind, Negreanu called off about 28 big blinds with 10♦10♥ after Seire shoved 9♣8♦. Seire’s hand was estimated to have only a 14% chance before the flop, and Negreanu remained about a 4-to-1 favorite after the A♦9♥6♣ flop.

But the 8♠ turn gave Seire two pair. The K♣ river did not improve Negreanu, ending his tournament in fourth. “That was it, guys, that was our chance to win the tournament right there,” Negreanu said on the stream.

Seire held a commanding lead after the hand, quickly removed the remaining opponents and beat Fabiano Kovalski heads-up when he made quads. Erwann Pecheux had been eliminated third for $539,095.

The result followed Negreanu’s seventh-place finish in the $10,000 GGMillion$ PLO event, as we reported Sept. 21. Earlier this summer, he won his eighth bracelet in the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha event for $2.26 million, ending an 11-year bracelet drought.

The GGPoker WSOP Online series runs through Sept. 29.

Paddy Power Poker is offering a route into the €500,000-guaranteed iPOPS Main Event for as little as €0.50, with the No-Limit Hold’em tournament set to begin at 4 p.m. BST on Sept. 27.

The €500 Main Event is the 147th numbered tournament of the iPOPS series. Players who buy in directly or qualify through a satellite receive 100,000 chips, so satellite winners are not playing a reduced-stack version of the event.

The feeder structure starts with €0.50 satellites that award €5 tickets. Those €5 events feed €50 satellites, while daily €50 qualifiers guarantee at least two €500 Main Event tickets each.

A larger €50 deadline Mega Satellite begins at 3 p.m. BST on Sept. 27, one hour before the Main Event. It guarantees 50 seats, equivalent to €25,000 in Main Event entries.

The Main Event’s €500 entry comprises €470 plus €30. That means 1,063 entries are needed to cover the €500,000 guarantee through buy-ins alone. PokerNews recorded 81 registrations at the time of its report.

Play uses 15-minute levels and begins at blinds of 200/400 with a 75 ante. Late registration remains available for 20 levels, or five hours, and is expected to close around 9 p.m. BST. Blinds at that point are 5,000/10,000/1,000a, rising to 6,000/12,000/1,200a after registration shuts.

Players can enter up to 20 times.