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Stake Poker’s August Madness is set for Sunday, Aug. 30 at 17:00 UTC, with an $8 buy-in, an $80,000 guarantee and a 10,000-player cap, SoMuchPoker reported. The event is a one-off Progressive Knockout, so every entrant carries a bounty from the first hand.

By Aug. 27, MyPokerCoaching said the tournament was already listed in the Stake Poker lobby, with more than 500 players registered, 90 minutes of late registration and unlimited re-entry during the registration period. The lobby listing showed the event open for registration, and seats are being handed out on a first-come, first-served basis.

PokerStrategy pointed out that the arithmetic is simple at the headline level but not quite that simple underneath. A full field of 10,000 players at $8 a seat would generate exactly $80,000 in buy-ins before rake and before the bounty split, but that gross number does not by itself determine overlay because rake and the split between the regular prize pool and the bounty pool also matter. Even so, PokerStrategy said a field that lands well below capacity could force Stake to top up the guarantee.

In the PKO format, half of an eliminated player’s bounty is paid immediately and the other half is added to the winner’s own head. That means the longer someone runs, the bigger a target they become, while the regular prize pool still matters alongside the bounty action.

As covered in August, Stake marked its ninth birthday with a $90,000 poker special, and August Madness keeps that low-buy-in, high-guarantee push going.

WRGPT.org has reopened free registration for the World Rec.Gambling Poker Tournament, a play-by-email event that will run through the rest of 2026 and continue into 2027. The site describes it as the oldest free-to-play email poker tournament, reopening 35 years after it first began.

The tournament is volunteer-run and charges no entry fee. Every move is handled by email, with an automated dealer sending each player hole cards and a table layout. Players can use basic actions like betting and folding, and the format also allows more complex conditional instructions.

A single hand can take a day or several days, players have up to four hours to act, and the event itself often takes about a year to complete. The setup also includes an optional sit-out feature for people who need time off for family holidays or work trips.

According to PokerStrategy, Kevin “Kevmath” Mathers is set to take part again, and he has been playing since 2004. He called the format “so old school.”

The event dates back to 1991, before online poker existed. In a 2017 look at the tournament, PokerNews said the concept came from creator Will Hyde’s interest in postal chess, later automated by Ron Duursma, with Ken Anderson and David Widder handling administration and rulings.

That same report showed how the field has swung over time. Anderson first played in 1993, when the tournament had 195 players. The first automated event in 1992 drew about 130, and the field peaked at 1,314 entries in 2006 after the poker boom.

By 2017, participation had settled around 600 entries after ballooning into the thousands in the boom years. Anderson said nostalgia was a big part of why it kept going, comparing the appeal to vinyl, and said the tournament would continue as long as enough people wanted to play.

ClubWPT Gold rolled out multi-tabling as part of a downloadable client update, giving players the ability to open more than one table at a time. The move was framed as one of the room’s most requested features, and it arrived with a broader software shift away from the site’s web-based setup.

According to pokerfuse, the downloadable client went live after scheduled server maintenance on May 7. The rollout had been previewed in WPT ambassador Brad Owen’s vlog, which said the new client would begin arriving that day and would include multi-tabling. The number of simultaneous tables was not formally confirmed, but four tables was treated as the working assumption.

The launch did not go smoothly. Early adopters reported performance problems after the May 7 release, including tables closing mid-hand and forcing folds. ClubWPT Gold acknowledged on social media that the release was below its standards and said it would address the problems, and two days later the site carried out unscheduled server maintenance to stabilize the platform.

Even with multi-tabling in place, the room was still missing a lot of pieces. The report said ClubWPT Gold had no Omaha, no Run It Twice, no Bomb Pots, and no note-taking or player color-tagging tools. The mobile app was also described as not supporting multi-tabling for now.

The feature mattered because it changed the feel of the games. The article said multi-tabling would make the action tougher by drawing in more experienced regulars, and one Reddit user said it would turn the site into “just another online site filled with boring GTO players multi-tabling.” Another said, “Wish they’d keep it single table tbh. Games are far better.”

The comparison with Clubs Poker underlined how much ground ClubWPT Gold still had to cover. Clubs Poker was described as offering multi-tabling, a downloadable client, Omaha and mixed games, bomb pots, Run It Twice, and mystery bounty tournaments. Both sites use Sweeps Coins redeemable for cash at $1 per SC, and ClubWPT Gold was said to be available in 46 states, compared with 43 for Clubs Poker.

The room’s earlier appeal was described as its simplicity, with slower-paced, single-table action and recreational players, built on A5 Labs software used by WPT Global.

Michael Addamo returned to GGPoker’s $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller and turned it into $423,610. PokerNews and GGPoker both called it his ninth GGMillion$ title, and both noted that he beat Pedro Neves heads-up.

The final table opened with Neves holding a slight chip lead over Guillaume Nolet, with all the other remaining players facing a sizeable deficit. GGPoker’s blog said the table opened cautiously, with nobody below 20 big blinds, and that Neves led on 105 big blinds, Guillaume Nolet sat on 103, and Addamo came in on 28 with 11.52 odds in the client. PokerListings said the event drew 216 entries.

As covered in July, Artem Osmirko had won the previous GGMillion$ title. The final-table livestream had Lucas Jumalon and Jeff Gross in the commentary box, and Gross said the table mixed “new names and old school legends.”

Addamo then worked through the field. PokerNews said he eliminated seven of his final eight opponents, starting with Nguyen Vi in ninth for $52,951 and Aliaksandr Shylko in eighth for $68,669. A pocket kings hand against Nolet pushed Addamo close to the lead, and he still had more than half the chips in play after Nolet later doubled through him in four-handed play.

The last stretch belonged to Addamo too. Xuanyi Wang went out three-handed after failing to improve against Addamo’s KJ, and Neves entered heads-up in a deep hole before briefly doubling. In PokerNews’ account, the finish came when Neves limped the button with A♥Q♠, Addamo shoved 8♣7♣, and the river paired Addamo to end it, leaving Neves second for $326,647. PokerListings, however, described the result as Addamo’s eighth GGMillion$ win and said his previous victory came in April 2024.

Johan “YoH Viral” Guilbert ended the second night of High Stakes Poker LIVE in a hurry, taking all of Andrew “Ace” Pacheco’s chips in two hands and leaving the newcomer down $150,000. The Day 2 session on PokerGO lasted less than two hours before the table was short-handed and the stream shut down.

The broader event is a seven-day live cash-game run from August 25 through August 31 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, presented by CoinPoker. GamesHub reported before the week began that it was the first time High Stakes Poker had attempted a full week of consecutive live broadcasts, and PokerGO CEO Brent Hanks called it something the series had never done before.

Poker.org reported that Wednesday’s stream brought back Sam Soverel, Jesse Lonis, Justin Gavri, Markus Gonsalves and Guilbert for the second of seven straight nights of no-limit hold’em action. Pacheco joined as the newcomer, and the day did not stay friendly for long.

In the first big pot, Lonis opened to $1,200 from up front, Guilbert flat-called, and Pacheco squeezed from the big blind looking to pick up the dead money. Guilbert then back-raised to $31,000, Pacheco shoved, and Guilbert called instantly. The players agreed to run it once with $223,400 in the middle, and Guilbert held to win the pot.

Guilbert finished the job in the next hand. After Pacheco raised and Lonis three-bet, Guilbert flat-called from the small blind. Pacheco moved his remaining $37,200 into the middle, Lonis got out of the way and Guilbert made the quick call. They agreed to a single runout, Pacheco missed again, and his stack was gone. He left after offering fist-bumps to the table, and only five players remained.