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GTO Wizard has launched Preflop ICM Solving, a tournament-study tool that lets Ultra subscribers build and solve customized preflop spots without needing powerful local hardware. Players can set stacks, antes, bounties and payout structures, then rebuild bubbles, final tables, satellites or other tournament hands using either chip EV or ICM strategy.

The feature is designed to return most solutions in about one second, including on a phone. PokerNews reported that GTO Wizard’s earlier workflow could take about 30 minutes to solve a preflop ICM spot after variables changed, with an altered stack size potentially adding another half-hour.

As we reported in August, GTO Wizard had already added three-way postflop ICM and bounty solving.

Preflop ICM Solving supports up to nine players, stack depths of 250 big blinds and tournament fields as large as 4,096 runners. Users can adjust raise sizes, nodelock strategies and carry a solved setup into postflop analysis, where GTO Wizard AI retains the preflop ranges, stacks and payouts used in the solve.

Hand-history integration can populate stacks, antes and bounties automatically before the user runs the solve. The tool covers standard MTTs and satellites, plus knockout, progressive knockout and total knockout formats. Mystery bounties can also be modeled, while payout structures are fully customizable.

There is a current multiway limit: preflop trees allow no more than three players to reach the flop. A fourth player over-calling or over-limping is not yet supported, although GTO Wizard plans to add those spots next.

The release also extends GTO Wizard’s Fair Play Check to preflop ICM solves. Entering a date and time can show preflop ICM spots solved within five minutes on either side, including the spot ID, exact time, player stacks and tournament setup. The company said it has worked directly with GGPoker, WPN and iPoker on Fair Play Check coverage.

ICM differs from chip EV because it uses players’ stacks to estimate their likelihood of finishing in each paid position.

Custom ICM solving requires Ultra on the Tournament plan, although anyone can try preflop solving with ICM and rake up to 10bb effective for free. Early-bird Ultra pricing runs until 1 p.m. CEST on Oct. 15: $279 monthly rather than $359, or $229 per month on an annual plan rather than $289. Locking in the annual option before the deadline saves at least $720 over 12 months.

WSOP Online’s domestic Fall Bracelet Series returns Sept. 27 with 33 gold bracelets for players in Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The seven-week schedule runs through Nov. 10, with tournaments roughly every other day and two bracelet events on several Sundays.

The four states will again play in one shared player pool. That setup first arrived for the 2025 fall series, when Caesars said Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan were pooled for the first time.

Buy-ins range from $250 to $3,200, but the schedule is less expensive on average than last year’s. Pokerfuse puts the average buy-in at $758, down from $831 in 2025, largely because the calendar has one $3,200 event rather than two. The average has fallen sharply since the inaugural 2022 fall series, when it stood at $1,565, even as each edition has kept the 33-bracelet count.

Mystery bounties take a larger share of the program. Eight of the 33 events use the format and carry combined guarantees of $2.2 million, up from six such events with $1.9 million guaranteed last year.

The largest is the $1,000 NL Hold’em Mystery Bounty Championship on Oct. 18, which guarantees $350,000. The former NL Hold’em Crazy 8’s has switched to a mystery bounty format, with an $888 buy-in and $250,000 guarantee. The schedule also includes a $500 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max with a $200,000 guarantee.

Pot-Limit Omaha remains at three bracelet events, while the number of progressive knockout tournaments has been reduced. There is no freezeout bracelet event this time after one appeared in 2025. Elsewhere, the NL Ultra Deepstack buy-in rises from $500 to $600, and Triple 3’s Tip Off has been replaced by a same-buy-in Mega Stack event.

The series gives U.S.-based online players a second major annual chance to win a bracelet without travelling to Las Vegas. Pokerfuse noted that a bracelet win still enters a player in the official WSOP record books, although the fall festival generally draws less participation than the summer online schedule.

It remains unclear whether 2026 bracelet winners will receive WSOP Paradise packages. Last year’s fall bracelet winners were offered packages, but the current WSOP Online site and series material make no mention of a similar promotion.

Pokerfuse also raised the possibility that this could be the last fall series run on 888poker-powered software, as WSOP’s agreement with 888 is due to expire this year. Whether Caesars Online extends that arrangement has not been disclosed.

The first bracelet event is set for Sept. 27.

Pierre Chevalier won the €1,500 WSOP Circuit Paris Main Event at Partouche Pasino Club, collecting €260,000 after a field of 1,282 entries. The turnout was described as the largest ever for a WSOP Circuit Main Event staged in Europe, and the event generated a prize pool of about €1.66 million.

Hervé Gouzil finished runner-up for €175,000, while Luca Bernardi took third for €123,000. Chevalier won his first WSOP Circuit ring and also received a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package.

The 1,282-entry total confirmed the field figure reported here on Sept. 13, when 193 players had reached the money.

PokerNews reported that Chevalier normally plays poker only “once or twice a year” and intends to “almost stop playing poker” after the victory. He said he had been aggressive when he held chips but patient when short, and pointed to a call against Natasha Mercier as a turning point that helped him climb from four million to 20 million chips.

The Main Event ran during the Sept. 1-14 WSOP Circuit Paris festival, organized with Texapoker at the Partouche Pasino Club near the Arc de Triomphe. The club, which opened in May, hosted the Circuit’s return to Paris two years after its first edition at Stade Jean-Bouin.

The wider series produced other large fields. Emmanuel Barre won the €500 Mini Main Event for €76,000 from 1,118 entries, while Omar Lakhdari completed a double by winning the Mystery Bounty and the €2,500 High Roller, the latter worth €110,000.

Sources differ on the Main Event prize pool by €60: PokerNews listed €1,661,472, while PMU Poker’s results page listed €1,661,412. Both listed 1,282 entries.

RunGood Poker Series will bring its Golden Expedition to Lake Erie Poker Room in Elyria, Ohio, from Sept. 28 through Oct. 4. The stop has nine ring events across six days and is built around a $600 Main Event with a $200,000 guarantee.

The Main Event begins with Flight A on Oct. 1, followed by four more starting flights across Oct. 2 and Oct. 3. Day 2 and the final table are set for Oct. 4, when the series also closes with a $200 Ladies Ring Event. PokerNews will be on site for live Main Event coverage.

Lake Erie Poker Room’s September tournament calendar calls the festival a return to Northeast Ohio and confirms the Main Event’s five-flight format. The schedule opens Sept. 28 with $300 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em and $300 Omaha 8 ring events, plus Day 1A of an on-demand $100 Flip & Go.

The $400 PokerNews PowerStack starts Sept. 30 with two flights, carries a $30,000 guarantee and plays to a winner on Oct. 1. Other ring-event options include a $300 Tag Team event and a $300 Black Chip Bounty event, with the bounty scheduled for Oct. 4.

This will be RunGood’s first Ohio visit since the 2024 RGPS RunGood Resort Cleveland stop. That $1,000 Main Event drew 223 entries and generated a prize pool of about $475,000. Dane Miller beat Thomas Gray heads-up for $98,607 after describing his run as “a bit of a sun-run.”

Andrew Manchen finished third in that Cleveland Main Event for $44,080, Kyle Grupp took fourth for $32,825, and Katie Kopp placed fifth for $24,850. After Elyria, RunGood is scheduled to move on to Hollywood St. Louis in Missouri for an Oct. 6-11 stop featuring another $200,000-guaranteed Main Event.

Nick Schulman has won the $100,000 no-limit hold’em Main Event at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, beating Bernhard Binder heads-up for $3.85 million. The victory came from a 196-entry field at LES A Casino in Jeju, South Korea, which generated a $19.6 million prize pool.

The result was Schulman’s second Triton title and the biggest single tournament cash of his career. It arrived two days after he finished runner-up to Matthew Wantman in the series’ $50,000 seven-handed event, where Schulman earned $810,279 after a heads-up deal.

Binder had carried the chip lead into the final day when 12 players remained, as we reported Tuesday. He ultimately earned $3.08 million for second place, while Schulman began heads-up play with a 3:1 chip advantage.

The pair struck a deal before playing for the trophy. Card Player reported that it locked up $3,714,888 for Schulman and $3,080,112 for Binder, leaving $140,000 and the title in play. Poker.org described the remaining amount as $130,000, with Schulman’s secured portion rounded to $3.7 million.

Schulman closed it out by limping pocket kings before Binder raised with king-jack. Binder called Schulman’s river shove with king-high after the board ran out ace-eight-two, with two hearts, and Schulman’s concealed overpair held. Schulman called the match against Binder “basically the final level of the game” and said his opponent was “unbelievable,” according to Poker.org.

Gytis Lazauninkas finished third for $1.97 million when his pocket eights lost to Schulman’s pocket tens. Schulman had also eliminated Ryuta Nakai in fifth for $1.26 million. Xu Yang took fourth for $1.6 million, Isaac Haxton finished sixth for $958,000 and Danilo Velasevic was seventh for $700,000.

The Main Event paid 31 places. Its direct money bubble produced a rare simultaneous double elimination, splitting the scheduled $173,000 min-cash between Samuel Mullur and Hannes Jeschka, who each received $86,500.

Schulman’s latest score lifted his career tournament earnings above $31.7 million, with the two Jeju cashes worth nearly $4.7 million combined. His first Triton win came in 2018, when he won a short-deck event during his tour debut at the same stop.

The win also gave Schulman 1,680 Card Player Player of the Year points and moved him into the outright lead in that race. He now has 7,556 points, 58 ahead of Punnat Punsri, after recording 13 final tables and three titles this year. Schulman has cashed for more than $6.2 million across those final-table appearances, including five at this summer’s World Series of Poker.

PokerNews noted that the eight-time WSOP bracelet winner, two-time WPT champion and Poker Hall of Famer does not expect the result to make him a regular Triton entrant. He said most of his poker volume will remain in Las Vegas, but called the score especially meaningful in a field with “very few holes anywhere.”