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Daniel Negreanu said his Canada travel plans are booked, with Montreal first for the WSOP Super Circuit at Playground before he heads to Vancouver to stream the GGPoker WSOP Main Event and other events. He also said a September reality-show filming opportunity fell through and may come back next year. The eight-time WSOP bracelet winner said he is still hoping to win his first WSOP Circuit ring, and he described the trip as one of his last poker stops before becoming a father.

As covered on Aug. 20, the first Canadian WSOP Super Circuit stop is set for Aug. 26 through Sept. 12 and brings 18 ring events plus more than CA$14 million in guaranteed prize money. GGPoker places Playground in Kahnawake, Quebec, while PokerStake described the destination as Montreal. GGPoker also called it the first WSOP Super Circuit event in Canada and the first of its kind in North America.

The marquee event is the CA$5,000 Main Event with a CA$10 million guarantee. PokerNews said it uses six starting flights across the first weekend of September, and GGPoker added that the festival includes a Sept. 2 meet-up game reserved for Main Event qualifiers, with Negreanu and Michael Mizrachi among the players they can face.

The schedule stretches from $500 buy-ins up to a $25,000 Super High Roller, with formats including no-limit hold'em, progressive knockouts, pot-limit Omaha and Mystery Bounty. Other headline events include a CA$500,000-guaranteed Mini Main, a CA$2,300 Super Circuit Championship and a CA$400,000 Mystery Bounty with three Day 1 flights between Aug. 29 and 31.

Lucas Jumalon says he wants to get involved in the legal side of poker and help bring online poker back to the United States completely. He framed that as part of a bigger push to keep the poker dream alive for younger players, and said the goal would give them hope that the game still has a path forward.

In an interview with Poker.org, Jumalon said he wants to work on “the legalities behind the game” and try to restore online poker across the country. The outlet said he cast that goal as a response to roadblocks over the past 15 years, including the limited availability of online poker across the U.S.

Jumalon also said that “people have kind of given up on the ‘poker dream’,” but that it is still “alive and well.” He said his own run showed that it is possible if a player is willing to put in the time.

He was just as direct about what he thinks the game needs. Jumalon said poker has been needing someone to “take the reins” and said it needs more “juice and oomph” to get it over the hill. He also said his main priority is still to be the best poker player he possibly can.

As reported in August, Jumalon followed his Main Event victory by joining Poker Royalty as an ambassador. PokerNews said the company will represent him across sponsorships, endorsements, appearances, licensing and strategic brand partnerships, and quoted him saying he wants to be “a real ambassador for this game.”

PokerNews said Jumalon went wire-to-wire at the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table, and he was a 22-year-old chip leader when the finale began. The same coverage said he closed out the title run without ever giving up that lead.

BetRivers Poker’s Multi-State Summer Series ended with Daniel “DrDadPoker” Schill taking six Championship events and walking away with six trophies. The 15-day festival paid out $581,807 from 18,700 entries, which was well above the guarantees on offer.

As covered when BetRivers brought the series back in July, the 15-day festival ran from Aug. 2 to 16 for players in Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia and Delaware, with 96 Championship events, more than $450,000 in guarantees, and buy-ins from $3 to $200.

Schill’s streak started on Aug. 6 with MSS #15-S: $20 Deepstack, where 202 entries built the $3,500 guarantee and he won $734. He followed that with the $5 Fight Club PKO, the $100 Weekend Wrap PLO, and the $5 Sprint 6-Max, giving him four wins in four consecutive days. A week later, he added the $3 Turbo PLO PKO and the $5 Series Saver. Across the six victories, he collected $3,418 in prize money.

The bigger events also drew plenty of action. The $200 Main Event pulled 214 entries and built a prize pool of more than $40,000, while the $20 Mini version beat its $6,000 guarantee with 360 entries. The opening-day $200 Summer Stack brought in 130 runners and paid $24,310, the $200 Deepstack PKO drew 122 entries for $22,814, the $100 Sunday Main hit 240 entries for $22,200, and the $10 Sunday Main drew 396 entries for $3,623.40. Eleven events still finished with overlays, but the series overall crushed its guarantees by almost 30%.

The festival also ran Gold and Silver leaderboards, with points based on cashes and a player’s best five results determining the standings. Vadym topped Gold with 224.10 points and $1,400 in ticket prizes, while Schill led Silver with 227.93 points for $400; Liebro finished second in Silver with 202.11 points for $250. The top 20 Gold finishers split $8,500 in ticket prizes, and the top 25 Silver finishers split $1,500.

Schill, who streams on Twitch and YouTube, is one of three poker streamers representing BetRivers. According to The Hendon Mob, he has almost $230,000 in live tournament earnings, and he also won three titles during BetRivers’ Spring Poker Championship earlier this year. Pokerfuse said his six-title haul may be a record for a single player in one online series, although it could not confirm whether anyone had done it before.

Phil Hellmuth said Big Al Emerson died over the weekend, and he paid tribute to the Wisconsin poker figure as an old friend. In the tribute, Hellmuth also credited Emerson with inventing Archie, a mixed game he described as a high-low split format with special qualifiers.

According to PokerNews, Hellmuth said he first met Emerson in a $10-$20 limit hold’em game at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas in 1986. Emerson lived in La Crosse, Wisconsin, while Hellmuth was based in Madison, and Hellmuth said Emerson was the first professional poker player he befriended.

Hellmuth said the two hit it off right away, and that Emerson later introduced him to some of the biggest poker players and biggest poker games in Wisconsin. He said, “With Big Al, I had found a professional poker player I could hang out with, learn from, and observe.”

He also remembered Emerson’s personality in vivid detail. Hellmuth called him “the life of the party,” said he gave “plenty of action,” and wrote that no one minded losing their money to him. He described Emerson as a 6-foot-7, 320-pound man with light-brown hair, brown eyes, and a pleasant personality.

PokerNews said Emerson made a living playing poker for 35 years before shifting to “greener pastures” and beginning to book “a bet or two.” Hellmuth said Emerson played poker every day for decades, then kept playing two or three times a week in Phoenix for the last 25 years until the very end. The same report said The Hendon Mob listed Emerson with $237,637 in lifetime tournament earnings, including a runner-up finish in the 1985 WSOP $1,000 no-limit hold’em event, 14th in the 1990 WSOP Main Event, and fifth-place finishes in two 1996 WSOP events.

Hellmuth said Emerson confronted him after he bluffed off his stack to Johnny Chan in the 1988 WSOP Main Event, then was there to celebrate when Hellmuth won the 1989 Main Event. A separate Card Player article described Archie as a five-card triple-draw high-low split game that originated in the Phoenix area, adding that the name honors a gentleman who had a rough start when it was first introduced.

BetMGM Poker has put the Big, Big Series on the calendar at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, with more than $6 million in guaranteed prize pools and a $5,300 Championship that carries $3 million guaranteed. In BetMGM Poker’s blog, the series is framed as a live tournament set “for players, by players,” and it is described as a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the BetMGM Poker Tournament Room at Borgata.

As covered in July, BetMGM Poker also powered Borgata’s Summer Poker Open, which ran with more than $4 million in guarantees. The new promotion is presented a little differently across the posted materials: the blog calls it a 10-day series from Sept. 13-22, while the event schedule keeps the Championship running into Sept. 23.

The Championship is the clear centerpiece. It starts with Day 1A on Sept. 19 at 12:15 p.m., followed by Day 1B on Sept. 20 and Day 1C on Sept. 21 at the same time. Survivors return for Day 2 on Sept. 22, registration stays open until the start of Day 2, and the event is scheduled to play into Day 3 on Sept. 23.

Before that, the $2,200 Big, Big Kick Off brings the festival’s first seven-figure guarantee. It has $1 million guaranteed and two starting flights on Sept. 14 at 11:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m., with players who survive either flight coming back the following afternoon to play for the prize pool.

The lineup also reaches beyond the main hold’em events. The schedule includes the $1,100 Big, Big Welcome: H.O.R.S.E. on Sept. 13 with a $25,000 guarantee, two days later E-Tay’s $2,500 Big, Big 9 Game Mix with $150,000 guaranteed, and the $2,200 Big, Big Pot Limit Omaha (8 Max) on Sept. 18 with a $200,000 guarantee.

Higher-roller action is built in as well. The $10,200 Big, Big Baller has a $500,000 guarantee and its entry fee covered by BetMGM Poker, while the $2,200 Big, Big Borgata Mystery Bounty also guarantees $500,000. The schedule adds a $1,100 Big, Big One Day: Bankroll Builder with a $100,000 guarantee, a $1,100 Shot Clock Turbo with another $100,000, and the $5,100 Big, Big BetMGM Series Saver Survivor plus the $1,100 Big, Big Bye Finale on Sept. 22.

Players can also qualify into the schedule in several ways. BetMGM Poker says online qualifiers run from Aug. 18 through Sept. 16 for players in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with additional qualifiers Sept. 17-20 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Borgata is also offering a Big, Big Stay & Play Bonus, which packages 10 nights for $999 plus tax and resort fees, with Gold+ MGM Rewards members getting the resort fees waived, and the offer must be booked by Aug. 29 using code BIGBIG while supplies last.