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Cesar Garcia won the $26,000 PGT PLO Series Championship for $420,000, closing the eight-event festival with his first PokerGO Tour title. The Spanish pro defeated Robert Cowen heads-up in a 48-entry pot-limit Omaha finale that generated a $1.2 million prize pool.

Garcia collected 252 PGT points and finished third in the Player of the Series race. The win also earned him 420 Card Player Player of the Year points and lifted his recorded live-tournament earnings to about $5.7 million.

Twelve players returned for the final day, with only the top seven paid. Alex Livingston was the bubble, eliminated in eighth when Youness Barakat flopped trip deuces. Garcia and Barakat then began the final table essentially level atop the counts, each holding more than three times the chips of any other remaining player.

Barakat later lost a full-house pot to Garcia and doubled both Matthew Wantman and Cowen before exiting fifth for $96,000. Wantman, who had started the day 11th of 12, climbed to third place for $174,000. Lautaro Guerra finished fourth for $126,000, while Sean Rafael and Brevin Andreadis received $72,000 and $48,000 respectively.

Cowen took two big pots from Garcia and briefly built nearly a 2:1 lead in heads-up play. Garcia turned the match around when he made a nut flush on the river against Cowen’s set of aces, leaving him with 10.3 million chips to Cowen’s 1.7 million. On the final hand, Cowen flopped a queen-high straight, but Garcia turned a king-high straight and improved to Broadway on the river to seal the title.

Cowen earned $264,000 for second, his second runner-up finish of the series, and moved to 63rd on the season-long PGT leaderboard. Garcia added the championship trophy to a résumé that already included a World Series of Poker bracelet and a $1.2 million Onyx High Roller Series victory.

Jonas Kronwitter won the overall PGT PLO Series standings and a $10,000 PGT Passport after recording two wins and a runner-up finish. Kronwitter, who won Event No. 5 as covered earlier this week, and Sam Soverel, also a two-time series winner, finished ahead of Garcia in the points race.

Jonas Kronwitter captured his second PokerGO Tour title in three days by winning the $15,700 Pot-Limit Omaha Event No. 7 at the 2026 PGT PLO Series in Las Vegas. He topped a 65-entry field and collected $267,563 after an ICM heads-up deal with Joni Jouhkimainen.

The victory gave Kronwitter 234 PokerGO Tour points, taking him to 598 and first place in the series standings. His five cashes across the first seven completed events, including two wins and a runner-up finish, have earned him $576,088 at the festival.

As reported Oct. 1, Kronwitter’s $201,600 victory in the $10,500 Event No. 5 was his first PGT title. That win came two days before Event No. 7, where he added a second series trophy from a $975,000 prize pool shared by 10 players.

Jouhkimainen started the seven-handed final day with the chip lead and knocked out Nicholas Palma in seventh place for $39,000 after flopping the nut flush. Jeremy Druckman eliminated Nino Pansier in sixth for $53,625, while Jouhkimainen dispatched Lautaro Guerra in fifth for $73,125 and Matthew Wantman in fourth for $97,500.

Kronwitter surged back among the final three, doubled through the leader and then eliminated Druckman in third place for $131,625. He made quads on the river in the decisive hand, then carried a lead of nearly 3:1 into heads-up play.

The final two agreed to divide the remaining money under an ICM deal, paying Jouhkimainen $215,062 and Kronwitter $267,563. Jouhkimainen’s career tournament earnings rose above $14.4 million after the result.

Kronwitter also earned 432 Card Player Player of the Year points for the Event No. 7 win and ranked 160th in the overall standings. His career tournament cashes now stand above $4.5 million.

Radoslaw Kopec carried the chip lead into the nine-handed final table of the €1,500 WSOP Circuit Malta Main Event after a field of 879 entries was cut down over two days. The finalists had each secured €14,191, with €200,000 and a WSOP Circuit ring reserved for the winner.

Kopec bagged the lead, ahead of Matteo Ricco and Luca Topazio, according to PokerNews. Kopec had come close to elimination during Day 2 before flopping two pair to start a comeback that included several eliminations.

Ricco doubled up while Kopec rebuilt and stayed among the leaders. He secured his final-table spot by eliminating Mikel Calo in 10th place with a flopped set. As we reported Sept. 30, Calo had led the opening Day 1a flight; he and 11th-place finisher Gabriele Paone each received €11,000.

Topazio spent much of Day 2 near the top of the counts, although he also doubled several short stacks. Aleksandar Georgiev advanced with an average stack, while Alberto Cigliano and Lucas Van den Belt also reached the final table.

Cigliano had fallen to 12 big blinds before doubling twice in succession. Vitali Bibik made the finale, as did Christoffer Jensen, who had begun Day 2 as chip leader.

Nicola Bordignon was the shortest stack after three late doubles and his elimination of Paone. The final-table counts were:

- Radoslaw Kopec: 8.2 million – Matteo Ricco: 6.9 million – Luca Topazio: 6.7 million – Aleksandar Georgiev: 4.5 million – Alberto Cigliano: 4.3 million – Lucas Van den Belt: 4.3 million – Vitali Bibik: 3.7 million – Christoffer Jensen: 3.2 million – Nicola Bordignon: 2.2 million

When the final nine were set, the table was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time Sunday at Casino Malta, using 50,000/100,000 blinds, a 100,000 big-blind ante and 60-minute levels until a winner was determined. A live stream and PokerNews live reporting were also planned.

Garrett Adelstein will return to Commerce Casino on Oct. 6 for a 1 p.m. signing of his memoir, Beneath the Cards, before taking part in a livestreamed $50/$100 no-limit hold’em game on Bally Poker Live.

The date places the appearance roughly a month after the book’s Sept. 1 release. Adelstein told PokerOrg that the timing allowed Commerce to host a signing, and called the cardroom the place where his competitive live-poker career began.

The memoir is titled Beneath the Cards: A High-Stakes, High-Anxiety Poker Journey. Adelstein said sales had been “tremendous” and better than he had imagined, while readers had connected with material outside the Jack-Four controversy.

Those subjects include family dysfunction, perfectionism, mental-health struggles, and his relationships with Jen and his mother. PokerNews likewise described the book as covering family upbringing, depression and body dysmorphia alongside poker, and reported that it reached No. 1 among new Amazon releases in the Poker and Sports Biographies categories on release day.

Adelstein said he had worried that readers would primarily want the Jack-Four material. The book has ten parts, with its opening section focused largely on his life before poker; Adelstein has said the Jack-Four material is concentrated in Part 10 and appendices containing previously unreleased information.

The Commerce stop also returns Adelstein to the setting of his early live-game grind. He said he once played the casino’s graveyard shifts for 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week. In a separate September interview with GipsyTeam, he said he had played only five to 10 poker sessions over the preceding four years while writing the book, compared with two or three livestream sessions per week before that period.

Adelstein said a documentary-style breakdown of the Jack-Four evidence is planned for his YouTube channel later in 2026.

ACR Poker will begin its WSOP Paradise qualification promotion on Sunday, Oct. 4, offering 100 packages valued at $30,000 each for the December festival in The Bahamas.

The packages include a $26,000 seat in the $50 million guaranteed Super Main Event and accommodation at SLS Baha Mar. The tournament runs Dec. 10-17, while the included hotel stay begins Dec. 5 and ends Dec. 18.

The route starts with a $95 Beast tournament at 5:05 p.m. ET on Oct. 4. Beast winners are pre-registered for the following Sunday’s $1,050 Mega Satellite, although players can also buy directly into the Megas.

The first Mega Satellite begins at 2:05 p.m. ET on Oct. 11. Megas will run every Sunday through Nov. 22, with packages guaranteed each week. The Beast schedule runs through Nov. 15, leaving its final winners eligible for the Nov. 22 Mega finale.

Each of the first six Beast events guarantees 50 seats in the following week’s Mega Satellite. The Nov. 15 Beast guarantees 60 seats instead.

The hotel portion is room-only. It covers a room for up to two adults and two children younger than 14, along with Wi-Fi, Baha Mar resort amenities and unlimited access to the adjacent Baha Bay water park. Travel, meals, personal spending and extra hotel nights are not included; unused nights cannot be exchanged for credit. Children 14 or older carry an additional $40-per-night charge, plus applicable taxes and fees.

As covered in August, WSOP Paradise returns to Baha Mar this December with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in total guarantees. The official WSOP schedule lists the Super Main Event as Event No. 12, a $26,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with its $50 million guarantee.