Ossi “Monarch” Ketola beat Patrik Antonius in a $20 million heads-up match on the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II stage at Les A Casino in Jeju, South Korea. Each player bought in for $10 million, and the match was livestreamed on Triton Poker’s platforms. The duel lasted more than four hours, and Triton billed it as the biggest televised heads-up match in poker history.

Poker.pro said the match stayed close for most of the night before a straight flush and a final all-in settled it. Ketola ended up with the full $20 million pot, while Antonius’s $10 million loss was described by the outlet as the biggest single-match defeat in livestream poker history.

The key hand started with Antonius limping K♦9♠ and Ketola raising to $350,000 with Q♥9♥. On a Q♠ 8♥ J♥ flop, the betting escalated, the 10♥ turn completed Ketola’s straight flush, and Antonius eventually folded to a $4.1 million river shove on 3♣. Poker.pro described the finish as back-to-back hands, with Antonius folding the straight flush and then losing the very next all-in.

As covered earlier this week, Ketola had already beaten Wiktor Malinowski for $6 million in Jeju before turning to Antonius. PokerNews’s preview had also framed him as a regular in nosebleed cash games, pointing to his record $10.99 million pot against Alex Foxen at the festival last year. After the loss, Antonius said, “Today just wasn’t my day.”

Phil Ivey was knocked out in ninth place in Triton Jeju II’s $40,000 Mystery Bounty on 10 September after Wai Kiat Lee’s pocket aces held in a four-way all-in. The same hand sent Seth Davies and Samuel Mullur out, and Ivey collected $62,000 for the finish.

The pot started when Davies shoved 205,000 from under the gun with king-nine. Mullur re-jammed 2.12 million with king-nine, Ivey called from the button with A♦9♦ and 3.02 million, and Lee snap-jammed from the big blind with A♣A♠, covering Ivey’s last 900,000.

The board ran out 7♣8♠7♥Q♠2♠, so Lee’s aces stayed ahead and the three other players were eliminated. The hand came with 11 players left, at blinds of 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 ante. As reported in our earlier Jeju coverage, Lee later went on to win the title over Jamil Wakil.

The event drew 133 entries and 49 re-entries for a $5.32 million prize pool, split evenly between the main pool and the mystery-bounty pool. Card Player reported that 23 players reached the money, and the stop was part of Triton Jeju II at Les A Casino in South Korea.

KPC Poker and Red Dragon Poker Tour will jointly stage the 2026 Jeju Poker Festival at LES A Casino from Oct. 28 through Nov. 11, giving players 15 straight days and 123 trophy events to choose from. The schedule carries three headline tournaments with combined guarantees of KRW 3.88 billion.

As reported in August, KPC Poker had already folded King Poker Cup into a single Jeju brand ahead of this debut. In the new setup, KPC handles the opening stretch and Red Dragon takes over later, so players can either sample part of the run or stay for the full festival.

KPC’s section opens with the KRW 1.3 million Main Event and its KRW 880 million guarantee. That event uses five starting flights across the opening three days, reaches Day 2 on Oct. 31 and plays down to a final table on Nov. 1. KPC also puts the KRW 5 million High Roller and KRW 7 million Super High Roller into the first few days.

Red Dragon’s side begins on Nov. 2 with the KRW 2.5 million Red Dragon Classic Main Event, which carries a KRW 1.2 billion guarantee and four starting flights before it crowns a champion on Nov. 5. The KRW 4 million Red Dragon Plus Championship follows on Nov. 6, runs its four opening flights through Nov. 8, sends survivors to Day 2 on Nov. 9 and finishes on Nov. 11 with a KRW 1.8 billion guarantee.

The rest of the festival leans hard into volume and variety. PokerNews says the schedule includes more than a dozen high rollers, Mystery Bounty events and a mixed-game lineup with PLO, Big O, Dealer’s Choice, 2-7, Drawmaha, Stud and Razz, with buy-ins running from KRW 300,000 to KRW 1 million and the $12,000 Red Dragon Prestige Super High Roller on Nov. 10. The card also includes the Baby Dragon, the JPF 3rd Anniversary Event, the Red Dragon+ Mini Main Event and the Dragon Egg Mystery Bounty.

For context, Somuchpoker said the 2025 festival drew players from 38 countries, ran 87 events over 12 days and paid out more than KRW 13.1 billion. This year’s edition adds 36 trophy events and three extra days, and Red Dragon introduced RDPT PLUS in 2026 as a format built around deeper stacks, more decision time and more play.

APPT Korea has leaned heavily Japanese through the opening stretch. After 29 completed events at Paradise Hotel & Resort Incheon, players from Japan had won 16 titles, while China had four champions and two Americans had also taken events. The series opened on Sept. 3 and runs through Sept. 14, so the early-country breakdown only covers the first part of the schedule.

As covered in our Aug. 16 report, APPT Korea 2026 returned to South Korea after a seven-year hiatus and opened with a KRW 1 billion Main Event guarantee. According to PokerNews, one of the first notable Japanese results was Tomohiro Kawada’s win in the KRW 600,000 NLH Paradise City Kickoff, a 171-entry event where he beat Dong Yan heads-up for $11,051.

Kawada’s victory was one of several early Japanese titles. Another came from Takahiro Ichikawa, who won the KRW 450,000 Pot-Limit Omaha for $2,069, and PokerNews said some of the champions during the stop have been claiming their first-ever tournament wins.

The two American winners so far were Kaiwen Wei and Seunghyun Michael Nam. Wei took the KRW 1,800,000 Mini High Roller by beating 30 entrants for $13,410, while Nam won the KRW 3,500,000 Knockout High Roller for $11,927.

Those results have come alongside wins from China, but the headline through the first 29 events is still the same. Japan has set the pace early, and several of the series’ biggest tournaments are still to come before APPT Korea wraps on Sept. 14.

Ossi Ketola left the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju $6 million ahead after a four-match heads-up set with Wiktor Malinowski. Malinowski won the opener, and Ketola finished the night with the bigger score, according to CardPlayer.

SoMuchpoker described Duel Heads Up as a co-branded side series at Triton, not an official tournament with a Triton event number or title. The matches were played at Les A Casino in Jeju, South Korea, and Ketola’s Duel casino also sponsored the Triton live stream.

The first freezeout began at $1 million each with $5,000/$10,000 blinds. Malinowski tabled pocket kings against Ketola’s 9♥6♣, and Ketola later said he knew it would be “an expensive slow roll” and that he did it “for the clip farm.” The runout paired the board on the river, giving Malinowski a full house and the first win.

The spectacle briefly went beyond the cards. During the opener, an Andrew Tate impersonator appeared at the table, danced, kissed Malinowski on the cheek, and sang, and the archived Triton YouTube version later removed the sequence. The commentary crew also laughed along as the bit played out.

After that, the stakes doubled to $2 million a side. Ketola then won Match 2 with kings against A♣Q♦, won Match 3 when his Q♥9♥ hit a 9♠ turn against A♣Q♣, and after two matches was up $1 million. In the fourth match, Ketola held A♦8♦ against Malinowski’s A♣5♠ on a board of A♠Q♠10♥8♥3♦, and Malinowski called Ketola’s river raise.

The showdown also fit Ketola’s broader high-stakes identity. The outlet described him as a Finnish entrepreneur and Duel founder who is not a tournament grinder, but someone who plays enormous live-streamed heads-up matches and increases the price after setbacks. It also said his 2025 Jeju run, across opponents including Malinowski, Alex Foxen, Elias Talvitie, Kayhan Mokri and Bjorn Li, set the benchmark for the format.

Pedro Padilha won the $50,000 eight-max no-limit hold’em event at Triton Jeju for his first Triton trophy. CardPlayer put the top prize at $1,400,860, and the win earned 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year points.

He beat a 129-entry field to get there. Only the top 20 finishers shared the $6,449,998 prize pool, and the bubble burst when Ren Lin went out in 21st. Padilha started the final table third in chips behind Aliaksei Boika and Nick Petrangelo.

As covered in our earlier Jeju updates, Triton had already returned to South Korea for a second 2026 festival. The final table quickly lost some of the biggest names, with Eelis Parssinen taking eighth for $200,000, Phil Ivey seventh for $271,000 after his pocket nines ran into Petrangelo’s pocket jacks, and Wai Kiat Lee sixth for $361,000.

Yang Wang fell in fifth when Padilha’s A♦8♠ held against A♣6♣, Aren Bezhanyan was fourth for $574,000, and Boika bowed out in third when his A♦9♠ could not catch Padilha’s A♣K♠. Padilha then entered heads-up play with about a 2:1 chip lead over Petrangelo.

The reporting on the exact endgame payout differed. CardPlayer said Padilha and Petrangelo struck a heads-up deal that locked up $1,350,860 and $1,201,140 respectively, leaving the title and $50,000 to play for, while PokerNews’ daily highlights described an ICM deal with around $200,000 extra in play and later said Padilha banked $1,548,000.

Padilha closed it out when his Q♣8♠ paired the eight on A♦9♥4♥8♣3♥ to beat Petrangelo’s K♠4♠. He told Triton media it was the best feeling and said he had spent recent years trying to expand beyond live poker in Brazil and South America.

The win was Padilha’s second-largest score, behind only his $3,160,000 runner-up finish in the World Series of Poker Paradise Triton $100,000 buy-in last December. He also won an EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 high roller in May for just shy of $1.3 million, has more than $8.8 million in recorded cashes, sits third on Brazil’s all-time money list behind Joao Simao and Yuri Dzivielevski, and became the fourth Brazilian Triton champion, joining Simao, Alisson Piekazewicz and Pedro Garagnani.

Jared Bleznick and GucciNIKE kept trading monster pots in another CoinPoker PLO session on Sept. 11, with GucciNIKE finishing the night up about $166,000 at $500-$1,000. The matchup turned on two huge all-in pots, including one where Bleznick made quads and another where GucciNIKE’s trips held on a paired board.

According to CardPlayer, the key quads hand started when Bleznick opened to $3,000 on the button while 171 big blinds deep and GucciNIKE three-bet to $9,000. The flop came 7♣5♦2♠, GucciNIKE checked, and Bleznick potted to $18,400 before GucciNIKE called.

The board paired the 7 on the turn. Bleznick bet $30,000, and GucciNIKE called. Then GucciNIKE bet small for $11,500 on the turn before Bleznick jammed for $113,368. Bleznick tabled Q♥J♥7♥4♣ for quads over GucciNIKE’s mucked J♠10♠10♦2♦, and took a $341,946 pot.

The bigger swing went the other way in a deeper hand, with the players 239 big blinds deep. GucciNIKE raised to $3,000, Bleznick made it $9,000, and GucciNIKE four-bet to $27,000 before Bleznick called. The flop came J♣J♦3♣, Bleznick checked and called $13,320, and on the 4♦ turn he led $45,000 before GucciNIKE ripped it in for $198,680 and got called.

GucciNIKE showed A♠A♦J♥5♠ for trips, while Bleznick had A♣K♦7♦6♣ with a big draw. The players ran it twice and neither the Q♥ nor the 3♥ saved Bleznick, sending a $478,400 pot to GucciNIKE. The hand analysis in the report said the aggressive preflop action made sense and that Bleznick was fortunate both of his flush draws were live, giving him close to 40% equity.

The Sept. 11 session featured oversized CoinPoker PLO action. The report said both players won multiple six-figure pots, with each winning one huge all-in pot while deep-stacked.

Alex Anton won Triton Jeju Event #9, the $30,000 no-limit hold’em turbo, for $577,000 after outlasting a 70-entry field and beating Artur Martirosian heads-up.

According to PokerNews, Anton had already cashed in Event #5 and finished third in Event #7 earlier in the week. The same report said the win came on top of the WSOP bracelet he picked up three months earlier.

The tournament built a $2.1 million prize pool, and only the top 11 finishers got paid. The min-cash was $52,000, while the final table lock-up came when Chen Mingcong was eliminated in ninth for $60,000.

Winfred Yu was the first casualty after the final table was set. Mikita Badziakouski earned $101,000, Byron Kaverman took $128,000, and Adrian Mateos banked $164,000 after Martirosian spiked a pair of nines on the turn.

Stephen Chidwick started the final table in the chip lead, with Anton in third. Chidwick eventually finished fourth for $207,000 when Anton’s J♠4♣ held against 10♦6♣, and Anton then helped put Alisson Piekazewicz on fumes before Piekazewicz exited in third for $269,000.

Heads-up began with Martirosian holding a 4:3 edge, but Anton later took control and entered the last stretch with a 7.8 million to 6.2 million lead, according to PokerNews. Martirosian briefly doubled with ace-jack through eight-four, then Anton closed out the title with K♥6♠ holding against 5♥3♥.

Card Player described the turbo format as speedy and said it “lessened the gravitas” of proceedings. Anton told Triton staff, “It was really silly,” and added, “It was fun, but we were just flipping for a lot of money.” The victory also earned him 588 Card Player Player of the Year points, his third title and seventh final-table finish of 2026, and pushed his career haul above $3 million. Card Player also said his only bigger score came from a $678,300 cash in Las Vegas this summer, while the updated standings put him 21st overall with 4,570 points.

CoinPoker has opened a $50 flash discount for the Sept. 13 CoinMillion, cutting the direct buy-in for eligible 3-Bet Club members to $165 from $215. The first 500 discounted entries are capped, and the prize pool stays at $1 million guaranteed.

According to PokerStrategy, the offer went live at 12:00 UTC on Sept. 11 and runs until 06:00 UTC on Sept. 12 unless the full allotment is claimed earlier. The discount applies only to the initial direct registration, not to rebuys, and once the cap is hit the price goes back to $215.

As we reported on Sept. 10, CoinPoker already had four CoinMillion Sundays lined up for September inside the Global Online Poker Championship. The Sept. 13 event is the second of those four, and it follows the monthly flagship format.

The price cut is aimed at 3-Bet Club members, the optional CoinPoker rewards subscription. Discounted entries still compete for the full share of the prize pool, so the lower buy-in does not change what the event pays out.

CoinPoker also said GOPC payouts had already run more than $6 million ahead of scheduled guarantees after two weeks, putting the festival on course to challenge its overall $50 million guarantee.

ACR Poker is loading more than $4 million in guarantees into Sunday’s OSS XL schedule, with 50-plus tournaments set for Sept. 13. The lineup stretches from $1.65 buy-ins to $2,650 events and is anchored by a $500,000 guaranteed Main Event.

As covered in late August, OSS XL runs Sept. 6-29 with 336 events and more than $50 million in guarantees. The series page also says every cash counts toward the High, Medium or Low leaderboard divisions, with more than $60,000 in added cash and tournament tickets available through the end of the festival.

The Main Event opens with Day 1A on Sunday at a $66 direct buy-in. Day 1A continues until 10% of the field remains, with successful players advancing to Day 2 on Sept. 27. Day 1B runs on Sept. 20, and satellites for both flights start at $6.60.

Beyond the Main Event, Sunday’s top end includes OSS XL #99, a $630 event with a $600,000 guarantee, and OSS XL #102, a $1,050 event with a $500,000 guarantee. The schedule also includes a $250,000 guaranteed $630 tournament, another $250,000 guaranteed $215 event, and OSS XL #101, a $2,650 progressive knockout with $300,000 guaranteed.

The lower and mid-range portion of the card also features Mini Phil’s Thrill at a $2,650 buy-in with a $250,000 guarantee, the $88 progressive knockout at $150,000 guaranteed, the $27.50 Sunday Smash at $100,000 guaranteed, and the $16.50 Sunday Splash at $75,000 guaranteed. The Sept. 13 program leads into the two larger OSS XL Main Events later in the month, one for $2.5 million at $2,650 and another for $2 million at $1,050, with starting flights on Sept. 20 and Sept. 27.

CoinPoker has launched Play For Fun, a free-to-play Android app on the Google Play store. The app uses virtual Play Chips only, not real money, and it lets users join cash games or tournaments without going through the usual real-money registration flow or entering payment details.

The app is built as a practice and casual-play environment. CardPlayer reported that players can sit with other human players around the world and use it to test strategy and learn poker mechanics without financial risk. A CoinPoker representative said, “Poker doesn’t have any barriers with a free-to-play app, but still has every aspect that makes this one of the most popular skill-based games in the world.”

The software covers standard poker formats, including Texas hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, in both cash-game and tournament versions. It also includes all-in or fold variants for both kinds of play, and CardPlayer Lifestyle described the app as live with tables open when it announced the release.

The free app also relies on an in-game economy to keep players supplied with chips. Users get a 25,000-chip hourly bonus and a 100,000-chip daily bonus, earn Reward Points on every hand, and can exchange those points in the built-in Reward Store for more chips, tournament tickets and virtual items.

The app adds table customization tools as well. Players can adjust buy-ins, audio controls, hand-strength indicators, table themes and card designs, while celebrations for big hands and tournament wins and leaderboards are included.

WSOP Paradise is putting up to $1 million in extra prizes behind this year’s Bahamas series, with the official page calling the offer the $1,000,000 PARADISE PARLAY. The promotion is open only to players who reached a final table or won a WSOP bracelet event during the 2026 calendar year before the festival begins, and if the payout falls short of $1 million, the shortfall is split equally among participating Bracelet Winners and Final Tablists.

As covered when the 2026 schedule was announced in August, WSOP Paradise is the year-end Bahamas stop with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guarantees. PokerStrategy said the added-value money is meant to draw high-stakes players into the Super Main Event and its re-entries, and described the timing as especially smart because GGPoker is running its own WSOP Online series.

The reward ladder starts with a $500 Day 1A bonus if a player who has made a WSOP final table registers for the Super Main Event on Day 1A, and a $1,000 bonus if a bracelet winner does the same. If one of those eligible players then makes a WSOP Paradise final table, the prize rises to $5,000 for a prior final tablist and $10,000 for a prior bracelet winner. If they reach the Super Main Event final table, those amounts become five times larger.

A qualifying bracelet win at WSOP Paradise pays $50,000 to $100,000, while a qualifying Super Main Event champion who was already eligible can collect $250,000 to $500,000. WSOP defines a final table as 2nd through 9th place. It also says each reward category can be earned once, only the highest achievement in a tournament counts, and prizes are paid directly into the player’s WSOP LIVE account. The page says WSOP can modify or suspend the promotion at any time, and PokerStrategy said the added-value setup could make the Player of the Year race even more interesting for players still in the mix.

ACR Poker’s 25th Anniversary Tournament now carries 41 Day 1 flights, a $250 buy-in and a $2.5 million guarantee, according to PokerStrategy’s September roundup. The same report says the event uses a cumulative-stack format, so players who qualify more than once can add chips from later runs to the stack they already hold.

As reported on Sept. 2, the late-September finish was already on the calendar. The remaining regular Day 1 flights are listed for Sept. 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 21, 24 and 27, with each one beginning at 1:05 p.m. ET. Turbo chances continue through Sept. 26, then return on Sept. 27 at 7:05 p.m. ET and Sept. 28 at 8:05 a.m. ET, according to Card Player and F5 Poker.

Players who advance from any of the remaining opening flights move on to Day 2 on Sept. 28. The final table is scheduled for Sept. 29.

ACR’s own Aug. 26 article framed the event as a 25th-anniversary celebration and said the qualification window runs from July into late September, with the opening flight held on July 18. That earlier update also said 421 players had already qualified by Aug. 26, while 23 players had already shown the value of multiple entries in a cumulative-stack structure.

The ACR article also said the tournament had already collected $583,740 in prize-pool contributions as of Aug. 26. The expanded flight list and repeated-entry format give players more chances to build a stronger starting stack before the event plays down to its champion.

Mayukh Chakraborty won the WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event at Playground in Kahnawake, Quebec, on Sept. 10, taking CA$1.5 million and his first WSOP Circuit ring after a six-day No-Limit Hold’em run that began with three Day One flights. He outlasted 2,844 entries in the CA$5,000 event to close out the first Canadian Super Circuit stop.

WSOP’s recap said the Main Event prize pool was CA$12,689,928, while PokerNews had earlier reported CA$13,082,400 from the same 2,844-entry field. The event ran through Sept. 10, and the winner’s share was worth CA$1.5 million after the field got down to the business end at Playground.

Benjamin Veenstra finished second for CA$1 million, Jack Salter took third for CA$750,000, and Chance Kornuth finished fourth for CA$600,000. The final table also included other notable names from the same deep run, and Chakraborty beat Veenstra heads-up to seal the title.

Spadepoker reported that organizers changed the payout structure after the bubble burst, reducing the winner’s share from an earlier CA$2 million figure to CA$1.5 million and trimming the final-table allocation from 47% to 42.5%, with the savings pushed down to lower finishing spots. That change came during the event itself, after players were already in the money.

As reported in our Sept. 9 update, Paul Klann led the final 30 into Day 5 before Chakraborty closed it out. The Main Event was the biggest poker tournament in Canadian history, and the wider WSOP Super Circuit Canada stop also set records for overall prize-pool guarantees and for the largest total entry for a tournament in Playground history. The CA$500 Mini Main Event drew 3,484 entrants, and the momentum from Canada has already led WSOP to add WSOP Super Circuit KINGS in Rozvadov from Oct. 28 to Nov. 11 and WSOP Super Circuit LATAM in Punta Cana from Jan. 24 to Feb. 2, 2027.

Kiat Lee added a fourth Triton title in Jeju after winning the $40,000 Mystery Bounty No-Limit Hold’em event, taking $619,000 and eight bounty envelopes worth a minimum of $40,000 each. The envelopes were worth at least another $320,000.

As reported in our earlier Jeju coverage, Triton was back at Les A Casino in South Korea for another stop this month. The Mystery Bounty drew 133 entries and built a $5.32 million prize pool, split evenly between a $2.66 million main pool and $2.66 million in mystery bounty prizes. Thirty-three players made Day 2 and became eligible for bounty pulls, and 23 players reached the money from the primary pool.

Around 2 p.m. on Sept. 10, Triton Poker Series said Lee was staring at elimination on the bubble and needed a double to stay alive. About nine hours later, he had finished the job against Jamil Wakil, in what the series called a move from “the brink of the bubble to the champion.”

The key swings came in a string of knockouts. Lee won a four-way all-in that sent Phil Ivey, Sam Mullur and Seth Davies out, and later eliminated David Coleman, Joe Hindry and Sirzat Hissou. He set up the official final table with more than three times as many chips as any other player left, but Alex Anton later ran up the lead before Wakil took command and carried an 89-big-blind stack into heads-up play against Lee’s 18.

Lee still found the comeback. His J♣10♣ paired the ten on the flop to beat Wakil’s A♥6♠, ending the match and leaving Wakil second for $419,000. Lee said the win felt “overwhelming” and added that he had been “pretty lucky most of the time.” They also went into heads-up with six mystery bounties apiece.

According to Card Player, the victory was worth 924 POY points, lifting Lee to 4,157 for the year and 26th in the 2026 standings. The result was Lee’s second Triton win of 2026 and his fourth Triton title overall. It was also his 18th career final table on the high-stakes tour.

Hugo Ouazana and Philippe Souki both finished above the one-million-chip mark on Day 1b of the €1,500 WSOP Circuit Paris Main Event at Partouche Pasino Club. Ouazana bagged 1,121,000 chips and Souki ended on 1,029,000, after a flight that drew 197 entries and lifted the total field to 369 so far.

As reported in August, the WSOP Circuit returned to Paris this month for a two-week stop at Partouche Pasino Club, with the €1,500 Main Event sitting inside a 13-ring festival, according to PokerNews. The latest flight was a little bigger than Day 1a, which drew 172 entries, and the prize pool was said to be close to the half-million mark, with early Day 1c entries expected to push it over that line.

Souki was out front at the last break, but Ouazana took the lead during the final level and held on to finish top of the counts. Sam Sztarkman followed with 925,000, while Leiqi Chen bagged 597,000. The top ten also included Ankit Ahuja with 497,000, Stephane Gabarre with 481,000, and Antony Saadoun with 465,000 after a big double-up with kings through Ahuja once late registration had closed.

The deeper chip counts also showed how volatile the day was. David Foucault got off to a strong start and climbed to the top of the standings before fading back to 71,000, just above the starting stack. Gabriel Nahum also had a rough run at the bubble, where he was down to five big blinds but still managed to burst it.

Ouazana described the key stretch in simple terms, saying he gave one opponent a “proper hard time” and took almost all of a 500,000-chip stack with a flopped set. He also said he three-bet a lot and kept the pressure on as the bubble approached.

Among the other notables in the bag were Hervé Gouzil with 248,000, Smain Mamouni with 243,000, Luca Bernardi with 236,000, and François Scapula with 202,000. Sandro Carucci, who won the WSOP Circuit Marrakech Main Event earlier this year, will take 155,000 into Day 2 as he tries to add another ring this week.

The 30 players who survived Day 1b get Friday off, and the rest of the field can still join Day 1c, which starts at 1 p.m. local time with 50,000 starting stacks, 40-minute levels, late registration open through the first 12 levels until 11 p.m., and play ending once 15% of the field remains.

CoinPoker’s first September CoinMillion drew 4,986 entries and set a new platform record for the flagship event. The $1 million-guaranteed tournament paid 772 places, and screen name 'fish2025’ won $119,500 after entering once and never rebuying or re-entering.

PokerStrategy reported that the September 6 event was the first CoinMillion held as part of the Global Online Poker Championship. As covered in August, CoinPoker had lined up four Sunday CoinMillions for September inside the same series.

The field included 3,628 unique players and 1,358 re-entries or rebuys. Seats came from 3,495 direct cash buy-ins, 1,015 promotional tickets and 476 satellite qualifiers. Across the field, 133 players who used free tickets cashed for a combined $125,800, while 74 satellite qualifiers collected $53,600.

fish2025 registered 63 minutes into Day 1, finished that session seventh in chips and went on to the final table on Day 2. By the time heads-up play began, the eventual winner held more than two-thirds of the chips in play and beat IWtPlayaGame, who earned $76,300 for second place.

The rest of the final table also paid well. hross took third for $55,000, jenesaisquoi was fourth for $40,200, VVsMolly finished fifth for $29,400 and GrosTony was sixth for $21,800. r8gogo turned a free promotional ticket into $16,500 for seventh, Fab1o converted a $25 satellite into $4,900 for 14th, and ThunderBeing finished ninth for $12,600.

The win was also a huge leap from fish2025’s prior best CoinPoker tournament cash of $2,491, 48 times smaller than this score. CoinPoker’s schedule still has three more $1 million CoinMillion GOPC editions in September, and the next one is set for Sept. 13.

The WSOP Circuit returned to Texas Card House in Austin on Sept. 10, opening a run that continues through Sept. 21 and features 18 official ring events with nearly $4 million in guaranteed prize pools. The centerpiece is a $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event with a $2 million guarantee, and every ring winner will also receive a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package.

As reported in July, the Austin stop follows the spring debut that gave Texas a new poker benchmark. The series at Texas Card House earlier this year produced the largest poker tournament prize pool in Texas state history, which is the backdrop for this second Circuit visit.

The Main Event begins Sept. 17 and uses three starting flights, all set for 11 a.m. on Sept. 17, Sept. 18 and Sept. 19. The event is the flagship of the stop, and it is one of the marquee tournaments that will use action clocks.

The action clock rules posted on WSOP.com lay out how the clocks work. Once the clock is in use, players get 15 seconds for their first preflop decision and 30 seconds for each later decision. Each player starts with five time extensions, gets five more later, and any unused extensions carry over rather than resetting.

The rules also spell out some of the edge cases. Only a floor supervisor can pause or suspend the clock, asking a question does not automatically stop it, and dealers will count down the final five seconds aloud. Event #7, the Big Tex High Roller, starts on the action clock at the beginning of Day 1, while Event #13, the WSOPC Texas Main Event, goes on the clock at the end of level 15.

888poker has opened the curtain on its XL Autumn Series, a nine-day online festival running from Sept. 20 through Sept. 29 with 41 numbered events and nearly $900,000 in guarantees, according to PokerNews. The schedule leans hard into mystery bounties, with 26 of the 41 events using that format.

The headline package includes a pair of mystery bounty Main Events that account for $350,000 in guarantees. The $109 Mystery Opening Event carries a $100,000 guarantee and starts at 6:00 p.m. BST on Sept. 20. The same report noted that the tournament used to be 888poker’s weekly flagship event, before its guarantee was cut to $80,000 and later pushed back up for this series.

The two main championship events are split between a $250 Mystery Main Event with a $300,000 guarantee and a $25 Mystery Mini Main with a $50,000 guarantee. The larger event would need almost 1,300 entries to avoid overlay, while the smaller one would need just over 2,220 players to get there.

Both marquee events have dozens of Day 1 flights starting from Sept. 13. Last year’s results offer a size check on the format, with Romania’s amormori winning the $250 Mystery Main after 2,319 entries and brocanuts taking the $25 Mystery Mini Main after a field of 4,413 players.

888poker’s own promotions page frames the same series around the Mystery Bounty $300,000 XL Autumn Main Event and says the site will run a daily no-ticket freeroll that awards seats into the Main Event satellite. That page says satellites start from 1 cent, the freeroll is capped at 18,000 players, and the promotion remains valid through Sept. 29. It also says Day 1s run until Sept. 28.

Cards got in the air Thursday in Danville as Caesars Virginia’s inaugural WSOP Circuit Main Event opened with Day 1A. The championship is a $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em event with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool, and the winner gets the ring plus a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package.

As reported in August, Caesars Virginia had already secured Virginia’s first WSOP Circuit stop. The broader festival runs Sept. 3-14 at the Pantheon, with 18 official ring events and more than $1.5 million in guaranteed prize pools.

The Main Event uses three starting flights, with Day 1B set for Friday and Day 1C for Saturday. Players start with 40,000 chips, can use one re-entry per flight during registration, and can register through the start of Level 13, about 8:45 p.m. local time.

Each flight runs 17 levels or until only 10% of the field remains, whichever comes first, and each one reaches the money before play ends for the night. Survivors from all three flights move on to Day 2 on Sunday, and players return Monday at noon to play down to the first champion in the event’s history.

There is no defending champion in Danville because this is the first WSOP Circuit series to land there.

Daniel Dvoress won his seventh Triton title in Jeju by taking the $30,000 no-limit hold’em eight-handed event for $942,000. He outlasted 135 entries, and the victory came with the trophy from a $4.05 million prize pool that paid the top 23 finishers.

As reported in our Sept. 9 final-table update, Dvoress went into the last day with the chip lead and still had the edge when the tournament reached its eight-handed final table. TightPoker said he had 68 big blinds with eight players left, compared with 42 for Lun Loon, before Ben Tollerene finished eighth for $118,000, Lun Loon was seventh for $160,000 and Jingyao Yan went out sixth for $217,000.

The heads-up match against Xuan Liu was a rematch of their Montenegro meeting last spring, when Liu beat Dvoress for $860,000. CardPlayer noted that this was their second heads-up meeting for a Triton title, while Triton later said an earlier story that framed the matchup as the first repeat heads-up title pairing in tour history was wrong and pointed to prior rematches, including Danny Tang against Mikita Badziakouski and Jason Koon against Dvoress. In the last hand, Dvoress shoved 3♠3♣ against Liu’s K♥Q♠ and made a wheel on the J♥4♦2♣A♠5♥ board.

Dvoress said the first live poker he played since Montenegro made him wonder whether he could keep the momentum going, and he spent the break playing tennis, hiking and gardening. The result left him with seven Triton titles from 11 final-table finishes in 2026, after a three-title run in Montenegro in May that produced more than $3.2 million, and Poker.org said it lifted him to 3,371 points in the Ivan Leow Player of the Year race, ahead of Isaac Haxton on 2,517.

Blake Ellinghaus turned a $580 satellite into a WPT bestbet Scramble Championship win in Jacksonville, Florida, earning $294,900 and a $10,400 seat into December’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. He beat Jared Reinstein heads-up to close out his first WPT title and become the newest member of the WPT Champions Club.

As reported in August, the series returned to bestbet Jacksonville with a $1 million guarantee. The event drew 294 entries and built a $1,337,700 prize pool that paid 37 players. Before this run, PokerNews said Ellinghaus had about $140,000 in prior live tournament cashes.

He was near the top all week, finishing Day 1a and Day 2 second in chips before taking over the lead on Day 3. WPT’s live update showed him starting the final table with 3,625,000 chips, about 91 big blinds, as the chip leader among the final nine.

The final table swung a few times. Bryan Paris briefly took over the lead, Reinstein won a big pot during that stretch, and Hugh Membrino doubled up before Ellinghaus started cutting down the field. Ellinghaus knocked out Membrino in sixth for $57,000, Skyler Dennis in fourth for $100,000, and Paris in third for $135,000.

Heads-up began with Ellinghaus holding about a 6:1 chip lead, and the title ended on Hand No. 158. On a board of J-8-5-3-7, Reinstein called off with 7-6, but Ellinghaus tabled 6-4 for an eight-high straight and locked up the win. Reinstein finished second for $184,000. The title also put Ellinghaus on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup, WPT’s hallmark trophy that travels to every Main Tour event and carries each champion’s name and winning hand.

ACR Poker has turned the $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO into a weekly Sunday event after its Sept. 6 debut drew 54 entries from 35 players and generated a $135,000 prize pool on the WPN network. The move came after what was described as a successful first test of the Phil Nagy-branded Omaha format, enough to earn it a regular slot on the schedule.

The opening edition was an 8-max tournament with no guarantee, and it was won by omahafyrarolls. PokerListings said the Omaha event attracted more players and produced more entries than the standard $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill running alongside it. That Hold’em version had 29 players make 36 entries, built a $90,000 prize pool, and paid five players.

The new Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO now starts every Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET. Players can use the same satellite path that already feeds the Hold’em Mini Phil’s Thrill, including the $290 Turbo Sat, the $750 AIOF Step 6/6, and the $350 Survivor Flip, Step 4. PokerListings also reported that all other Phil’s tournaments remain in place, with the biggest batch landing on Saturdays and two Sunday named Phil’s events continuing as usual.

ACR launched Mini Phil’s Thrill as a lower-buy-in Sunday version of Phil’s Thrill on Oct. 5, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. ET with a $200,000 guarantee. The flagship $10,300 Phil’s Thrill stayed in its 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday slot, and ACR’s promo copy said the lower buy-in was meant to open the door to a wider range of bankrolls. PR Newswire also quoted Phil Nagy saying that was the point of the format.

CoinPoker’s weekend high-stakes 5-card PLO action ended with Mits3o4 taking almost $350,000 from samjazzykins in a $200/$400, $80-ante heads-up match. Over several hundred hands on Sunday, samjazzykins looked to have the upper hand early, but Mits3o4 turned it around by winning several big stacks when samjazzykins got out of line.

According to Card Player, the biggest swing came in a $187,866 cooler that started with both players about $94,000 deep. Samjazzykins opened to $1,200 and got called, then the flop came 10♦5♦2♠. After a check, samjazzykins potted to $2,560 and Mits3o4 called. On the 3♥ turn, samjazzykins potted $7,680, Mits3o4 repotted to $30,720, and after another call the 8♠ landed and Mits3o4 put in the last $59,373.

Mits3o4 tabled J♦9♠8♣6♦4♦ for the nuts, while samjazzykins had A♣J♥8♦4♥3♦ for a wheel. The analysis said the flop action made sense because both players had a wrap plus flush draw, but the turn potting left samjazzykins in trouble once the money went in with a non-nut straight. It also noted that the flush draw described there was eight-high and easily dominated.

The other highlighted hand was an $80,000 pot with 100-blind stacks. Mits3o4 opened to $1,200, called a three-bet to $3,600, and then called $5,520 on the K♣9♦2♠ flop before jamming the remaining $12,400 on the 5♠ turn. Mits3o4 showed K♠K♦Q♥7♥6♣ for top set, while samjazzykins had A♥6♠4♠3♥2♣ for a big draw that was about 42% equity when the money went in. The 5♥ river held the set, and the $80,000 pot went to Mits3o4. The hand analysis said samjazzykins’ three-bet was much too aggressive, and it added that in PLO5, low straights, flushes and trips lose showdowns more often than they do in regular PLO.

ACR Poker is bringing back Second Mortgage Week for a second run in 2026, slotting 10 nosebleed tournaments across five playing days from Sept. 21-28. The high-stakes stretch sits inside OSS XL and is built around no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, with both 6-max and 8-max formats in the mix.

As reported in late August, OSS XL is ACR’s 24-day September festival, running Sept. 6-29 with 336 events and more than $50 million in guarantees. The Sept. 9 announcement says Second Mortgage Week is scheduled during OSS XL, and ACR’s OSS XL schedule page separately describes the nosebleed slate as running from $5,000 to $25,000.

The newer announcement puts the Second Mortgage Week buy-ins at $5,200 to $25,500. It also says two of the 10 events use rebuy/add-on structures with no fee on rebuys, and that a player entering all 10 events once would put $97,800 in initial buy-ins on the table before any extra bullets or add-ons.

One notable wrinkle is a Sept. 23 PLO day, with $10,300 and $5,200 options. The schedule also builds toward Sunday, Sept. 27, when the biggest buy-in on the card is a $25,500 NLH 8-Max.

That same Sunday also lines up with OSS XL Main Event action, including Day 1B of the $2.5 million guaranteed $2,650 Main Event and the $2 million guaranteed $1,050 Main Event. The $500,000 guaranteed $66 Main Event reaches Day 2 that day as well.

The run ends Monday, Sept. 28 with a $15,400 NLH 8-Max and a $5,200 NLH 6-Max R/A. ACR Pro Chris Moneymaker said players will get to watch top-level names such as Alex Foxen and David Peters, and every completed final table can be replayed with hole cards exposed.

PokerStars Exclusively on FanDuel’s Maryland State Poker Championship wrapped up at Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland after nearly two weeks on the felt. The 16-event series ran from Aug. 26 through Sept. 7 and produced 3,032 entries and $1,491,760 in prize money, which put the festival almost 40% above its combined guarantees.

As covered in July, PokerStars Exclusively on FanDuel had backed the series with more than $1 million in guarantees. This year was the eighth MSPC, and it was the first time the championship carried the PokerStars Exclusively on FanDuel branding.

The headliner delivered the clearest turnaround. According to pokerfuse, the Main Event drew 380 entries at a $1,700 buy-in, built a $570,000 prize pool, and finished 14% above its $500,000 guarantee. The buy-in had been cut from $2,200, and the lower price point helped the event exceed the guarantee after the 2025 Main Event drew 228 entries and fell short of the same mark.

The final table ended in a three-way deal among Justin Arnwine, Daniel Iachan and Aaron Pinson. PokerNews reported that the remaining prize pool was split by ICM, with Arnwine taking $86,167, Iachan $78,112 and Pinson $76,221, while Iachan kept the trophy.

The rest of the schedule also fed the final numbers. Event #2: NLHE drew 728 entries for a $373,464 prize pool, the Mini-Main brought in 651 entries and $113,925, and the Seniors event attracted 175 entries and nearly doubled its guarantee at $58,450. The festival also saw 90 runners in H.O.R.S.E. and 55 entries in R.O.S.E., and Filippos Stavrakis was the only player to win two trophies, taking Mixed Omaha and Big O.

Several players reached the Main Event through online qualifiers on PokerStars on FanDuel, giving the platform a direct hand in the live series. One more prize was still to be awarded by random draw from the 16 trophy-event winners, an all-expenses-paid EPT Main Event package, but the recipient had not yet been named.

Grandview Foundation has set a poker fundraiser for Friday, Sept. 18, with the Grandview Poker Tournament, also called the Team Up For Recovery tournament, planned for La Casita del Arroyo in Pasadena.

Registration is open online through the foundation, and it is still seeking sponsors for the event. The Poker Seat listing says the evening runs until 9:30 p.m. PST and includes dinner, drinks and a 1,500-chip starting stack.

The foundation is also adding a new community partner in End Overdose, a national organization focused on opioid overdose training and certification, plus the distribution of naloxone and free test strips through regional chapters and volunteers, according to Pasadena Now. Grandview said it has invited End Overdose’s team to work with both staff and patients every other month.

Executive Director Shelly Wood described the program’s approach as collaborative, not dependent on any one person. The foundation said recovery is “strengthened through connection, collaboration, and community.”

That message fits the way Grandview says it runs its treatment services. The foundation said its residential program pairs evidence-based groups with care coordination and individual counseling, staffed by substance use disorder counselors, care coordination counselors, group facilitators and technicians.

Grandview also said it treats adults regardless of ability to pay. Its programs for men 18 and over include residential care, outpatient services and sober living.

The foundation’s homes are in Pasadena’s Garfield Heights neighborhood and have room for up to 33 men in residential treatment, 22 in funded residential bridge housing and 22 in self-paid sober living.

Russell Westbrook’s Why Not? Foundation is hosting its annual poker fundraiser on Friday, Sept. 18, with the sixth edition set for Fontainebleau Las Vegas’s members-only Poodle Room.

The event will once again be presented in partnership with the WPT Foundation and will be hosted by Russell and Nina Westbrook. The night will be led by Poker Reporter Drea Renee, with Vince VanPatten serving as co-host.

This year also marks the event’s debut at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. The schedule starts at 5:30 p.m. with a Poker Refresher, followed by the official Poker Night and Entertainment at 6 p.m.

The fundraiser has raised more than $2 million to date, and all proceeds go to the Why Not? Foundation’s work in educational access, workforce development, and mental health and wellness programs in underserved communities. The foundation describes the poker night as a signature part of its effort to open up new opportunities for underserved youth.

Westbrook linked the event to his recent retirement announcement from the NBA after an 18-year career, calling it “a new door opened for impact at the highest level.” He also said that since 2012 it has been an honor to build new pathways to success for young people in his hometown of South Los Angeles.

The release also framed the poker night as a long-running partnership. Adam Pliska, CEO of World Poker Tour, said the event has become an annual tradition entering its sixth year, and WPT Foundation has supported key charities through more than 50 events and raised more than $50 million since launching in 2012.

Paul Klann took the lead into Day 5 of the CA$5,000 WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event at Playground, where the field is down to its final 30 players. He bagged 11.3 million, with Guoyan Li next on 8.1 million and Nicholas Palma third on 7.6 million.

As covered in our Sept. 7 report on the record prize pool, the event had already blown past its CA$10 million guarantee and reached CA$13,082,400 from 2,844 entries. Reaching the final 26 locks up CA$65,000, the final 13 are guaranteed a six-figure score, and the champion will take CA$1.5 million.

Day 4 began with 116 players and ended with only 30 moving on. Daniel Negreanu and Michael Mizrachi were among the big names to fall, and Negreanu went out in 99th place for CA$14,500 after Chance Kornuth called his river shove with ace-king. In the key hand, Negreanu had tens, the board ran out 5h 6s 5d 3c, and the river ace ended his run.

Kornuth is still in the hunt, sitting sixth with 6.6 million, and Jack Salter returns ninth with 5.7 million. Will Givens also missed the bag after a huge bluff into Klann’s nut flush cost him a big chunk of his stack. Klann, who won the 2013 WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event for $1,004,090, now has a shot at another seven-figure payday. The final 30 will play six more levels Wednesday before returning Thursday to decide the ring and the CA$1.5 million top prize.

Ontario and Alberta are set to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to keep alive a ruling that would let Ontario link peer-to-peer iGaming with other jurisdictions outside Canada. The hearing is set for Oct. 7 and is expected to draw counsel for the attorneys general of Alberta and Ontario, plus the Canadian Gaming Association, Flutter Entertainment and NSUS Group.

The Supreme Court of Canada case page identifies the appeal as Atlantic Lottery Corporation, et al. v. Attorney General of Ontario. It says the case grew out of an Order in Council reference made on Feb. 2, 2024, which asked whether legal online gaming and sports betting would remain lawful under the Criminal Code if users could participate in games and betting involving people outside Canada as described in a schedule.

The Ontario Court of Appeal answered that question 4-1 in November 2025. The majority said the Criminal Code does not require every player to be physically in Ontario, as long as Ontario keeps control of the gaming activity offered to its users.

That ruling rested on the idea that the Ontario-side gameplay would still be hosted and regulated in Ontario, so the activity would count as gaming occurring within Ontario. Van Rensburg J.A. dissented.

The appeal has also pulled in the provincial lottery operators that challenged the ruling. Atlantic Lottery Corporation, British Columbia Lottery Corporation and Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries appealed to the Supreme Court, Loto-Quebec joined in April, and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawa:ke withdrew in June.

The appellants argue that the Criminal Code should not allow cross-border play because gaming would not be taking place entirely within the province. Ontario and Alberta are the only provinces with commercial, regulated online gambling markets, while every other province relies exclusively on a government-owned gaming operator.

As covered in August, Alberta had already moved farther along on the market side, but the liquidity question remained unresolved. That is the backdrop for the new hearing, since Alberta launched its regulated iGaming market in July.

Interest in pooling has been building for months. iGaming Ontario president and CEO Joseph Hillier said sharing play with Alberta would be a serious discussion once Alberta’s market opened, and Alberta iGaming Corporation CEO Dan Keene said in May that the two provinces were already working on a memorandum of understanding to share player pools.

Alberta Attorney General Mickey Amery said the Supreme Court decision could have a major impact on Alberta’s iGaming market. Alberta also backed the argument that the Criminal Code should not stop Ontario from linking peer-to-peer play with other jurisdictions, including other provinces or countries, so long as the parties consent.

Supporters say pooled liquidity could make poker and daily fantasy sports more appealing to consumers and operators by letting dual-licensed operators host games with players from both provinces, which would create bigger fields and larger prize pools. The Canadian Gaming Association has argued that Ontario can conduct and manage a lottery scheme in Ontario even if it involves international players, with Ontario controlling sites, payouts and revenue disposition in the province.

CoinPoker is preparing The One, a $250 online tournament that it says will be its biggest yet. The event launches on Oct. 4 with a $5 million guarantee and a guaranteed $1 million first prize, giving CoinPoker two new records: the largest overall guarantee and the biggest guaranteed winner’s prize in its history.

As covered in August, CoinPoker’s GOPC was already on the calendar, and it runs through Sept. 28. PokerStrategy said The One is arriving while that $50 million series is still in full swing, with more than 700 Medal Events on the schedule. CoinPoker’s own site had previously called World Poker Masters its most monumental tournament series, after a spring run from May 3 to June 1 with a $25 million guarantee and $48 million paid out by the end.

The structure leans hard on multi-flight qualification. A total of 26 Day 1 flights will run from Oct. 4 through Oct. 12, and most days will have three starting times to help cover major time zones. Additional Turbo flights are planned for Oct. 12 before Day 2 begins later that day, and players who qualify more than once will move forward with their largest stack instead of combining stacks. More information on exact starting times and the full qualification schedule is expected closer to launch.

Freerolls and satellites are part of the path in, so players do not need to rely only on the direct buy-in. CoinPoker has not yet released the full satellite structure, but says more information will follow closer to launch. The company also frames the setup as a route from a low-cost or free qualifier to a shot at a $1 million payday.

The champion will receive a one-of-one engraved physical trophy, and a digital version will appear in the winner’s Trophy Cabinet. A CoinPoker representative suggested The One could become an annual fixture, with the October edition serving as the first chapter of a new marquee tournament.

RunGood Poker Series is heading back to MGM National Harbor in Maryland for RGPS Golden Expedition Maryland, a seven-day stop with 12 ring events and a $1,300 Main Event that carries a $250,000 guarantee.

MGM Resorts’ newsroom said the series returns to the poker room this September, and PokerNews said it will be on site to live report the Main Event. The venue is being billed as a poker hot spot for East Coast grinders and as one of the biggest poker rooms east of the Mississippi.

The schedule opens on Sept. 21 with a $300 Tag Team Ring Event that costs $150 per player. Other early stops include a $400 Seniors NLH Ring Event with a $25,000 guarantee, a $400 PokerNews PowerStack Ring Event with a $50,000 guarantee across two starting flights, and $500 Five Card PLO and Big O events for mixed-game players.

As covered in the spring, RunGood was already at MGM National Harbor for RGPS Passport Maryland, where the $1,300 Main Event drew 307 runners and Arash Asadabadi won $73,037. That stop produced a $349,980 prize pool and featured RunGood ambassador Julie Cornelius at the final table. This September’s Main Event begins on Sept. 24 with the first of three starting flights and plays to a winner on Sept. 27.

PokerStars has reduced the buy-ins for two events at PokerStars Open Prague. The Open Main Event is now €1,100, down from €1,650, and the Open High Roller has been cut to €2,200 from €2,700. The Open Cup stays at €825.

According to Poker.org, PokerStars said the cuts are a direct response to player feedback and reflect its aim of making the tour more accessible to as many players as possible. The company said the new pricing starts with Prague and standardizes the buy-ins across EPT-connected PokerStars Open stops and standalone festivals such as Aix-en-Provence. PokerStars expects the lower prices to remain in place through 2027.

The Prague stop runs alongside EPT Prague, which runs December 2 to 13. The Open Main Event is set for December 2 to 7, the Cup for December 5 to 6, and the High Roller for December 6 to 8.

PokerStars also said the change will not affect any past or future PokerStars Live League rankings. The Live League uses Low, Medium, and High buy-in categories for its year-long leaderboard, and the ranking system is staying in place even as the Prague event pricing comes down.

ACR Poker rolled out its FT Replayer as a free browser-based tool for replaying completed final tables with every player’s hole cards revealed. It works without an account or a software download, and it lets users step through a final table hand by hand instead of just seeing a highlights reel.

As covered on Sept. 2, ACR had already launched the browser-based replayer; the latest release ties it to OSS XL. The company’s September festival runs from Sept. 6 to Sept. 29 and packs 336 events with more than $50 million in guarantees.

Card Player reported that the archive already contains more than 4,000 final tables. ACR says every completed tournament final table is added automatically after the event ends, with no manual upload or selection, and the tool is open to people who do not play on ACR.

The site is pitching the feature as a study aid as much as a spectator feature. According to the company, final-table play is where stacks change quickly, pay jumps matter more, and the table gets shorter, so seeing every raise, call and fold in order gives more context than a normal result page or hand history.

Card Player and USPoker both described the replayer as a way to study bet sizing, preflop aggression, all-in ranges, and bluffing patterns across an entire final table. ACR’s own launch note says the revealed hole cards add the missing information behind decisions that would otherwise stay hidden.

Reda Achnit turned a CoinPoker freeroll into a $51,000 score in Jeju, cashing for 15th place in his first live poker tournament after winning a $25,000 Triton seat. Before Triton, the Moroccan computer engineering graduate had started playing poker only a couple months earlier, and his online experience was limited to micro-stakes tournaments.

According to Triton Poker, Achnit was watching the stream from his home in Morocco when he heard about the promotion, opened an account, entered the promo code and worked through the qualifiers. He said he was alone at his parents’ house on his laptop when the freeroll ended, and it took him a while to process what had happened.

The prize package sent him to the Triton Super High Roller Series stop in Jeju, where he found himself in the same field as Adrian Mateos, Phil Ivey and Stephen Chidwick. He outlasted all three before eventually busting in a hand against Seth Davies, who had made the nut flush on the turn after Achnit defended his big blind and check-raised the flop.

Achnit said the result still felt surreal, especially because he had kept poker private and had to explain to people around him that it is a long-run game of skill backed by study and tools such as GTO solvers. He said the first goal was simply to reach the money, then go as far as the cards would allow, and described the trip as a professional opportunity rather than a holiday. He also said he first found out about Triton because a Moroccan player was visible there, and that seeing someone from his own country on that stage helped push him toward the freeroll.

Eric and Lauren Bunch turned the WSOP Circuit stop at Hard Rock Tulsa into a four-ring run. Across the 18-event series, the couple combined for four Circuit rings and made nine total final tables across eight unique events.

The stop ran from Aug. 26 through Sept. 7 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa in Catoosa, Oklahoma, according to WSOP.com. The schedule included 18 official ring events and a $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. WSOP.com also said every 2026 Circuit ring champion earned a $5,000 WSOP Paradise 2026 package that included entry into the $2,750 Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty plus complimentary accommodations in The Bahamas.

Eric did most of the heavy lifting on the title side. He won the $400 Opener for $16,939 after outlasting 220 entries, then took the $400 Mini Main for $46,800, and later captured Event No. 9, the $400 40-40-40, for $27,205. Those three wins gave him his third, fourth and fifth career WSOP Circuit rings in the span of a single week.

Lauren added the couple’s fourth ring with a victory in Event No. 3, a pot-limit Omaha tournament, and it was her third career Circuit title. Her Tulsa run also included five final tables and cashes in eight of the 18 events. Her lifetime haul had topped $409,000.

Their only shared final-table appearance came in Event No. 8, the $400 Big O, where Lauren finished fourth and Eric placed seventh. CardPlayer also said Eric’s Tulsa results pushed his career earnings past $1.9 million, and PokerNews put his Hendon Mob total above $2 million. CardPlayer listed him 125th in the Card Player Player of the Year race.

PokerStars launched the 25th World Championship of Online Poker on Sept. 6, and the anniversary series runs through Sept. 30. The schedule covers 350 tournaments across 121 numbered events, with total guarantees near $40 million and a trophy for every winner.

As reported in August, PokerStars had already published the full slate for the series, including the 350-tournament format and the nearly $40 million guarantee pool. Pokerfuse says this is the first WCOOP played since the launch of the PokerStars Network, after Betfair Poker UK moved onto PokerStars software and joined the same player pool as PokerStars dot-com.

Buy-ins start at $5.50 and rise to a $25,000 Super High Roller. Most events are split into Low, Medium, and High tiers, and the schedule stretches across at least 18 poker variants, with recurring PokerStars brands such as Thursday Thrill, Super Tuesday, Sunday Warm-Up, Sunday Kickoff, Saturday KO, and Wednesday Surprise.

The centerpiece is six Main Events with more than $6.5 million in combined guarantees. PokerStars has split them across two days, with No-Limit Hold’em on Sept. 27 and Pot-Limit Omaha on Sept. 28. The $10,300 NLHE High event is billed as the World Championship of NLHE and the flagship of the whole schedule.

The $5 million Sunday Million 20th Anniversary event also opened on Sept. 6 and is included in the total guarantee figure. TightPoker also noted that as WCOOP got underway, Espen Jorstad picked up his third career WCOOP title. Steve Clarricoats, PokerStars’ associate director of online scheduling, said a WCOOP victory is “a piece of poker history” and that winners join an exclusive group of players who have conquered one of the toughest online tournament series in the world.

Stake Poker has added the next big stop in its online poker schedule, with Stake Showdown slated for Sunday, Sept. 27. The event carries a $1,000 buy-in and a $125,000 guaranteed prize pool, and it is being pitched as a high-roller tournament on Stake’s international platform.

According to Pokerfuse, satellites are already running and will continue daily until the tournament begins later in September. That qualifier path starts as low as $0.50 and moves through $10 and $100 step events before landing a $1,000 seat in the Main Event.

Players with deeper bankrolls can skip the ladder and buy in directly for $1,000, with re-entry available during the early levels. The site said the promotion is part of Stake’s push to grow interest in its online poker product.

PokerStrategy.com described Stake Showdown as a flagship online event and said the prize pool is guaranteed at $125,000, though it can grow beyond that if the field is large enough. It put the Main Event start time at 17:00 UTC on Sept. 27 and said qualification began on Sept. 1.

The qualification route is a three-step system. A player who gets through Step 1 advances to the $10 Step 2, then to the $100 Step 3, which awards the $1,000 ticket. The $0.50 route can turn into a seat worth 2,000 times the entry fee, but players do not have to start at the bottom, since they can enter wherever it fits their bankroll and schedule.

As covered in August, Stake Poker had already used a smaller one-off format with its $8 August Madness PKO and $80,000 guarantee. The new Showdown follows a broader buildout that began with Stake’s international platform in 2017, then expanded into browser-based online poker in 2024, with in-house software and features such as Run it Twice, Rabbit Hunt and Four Color Deck.

The event is only for players on the international Stake platform, not Stake.us, which remains the separate U.S. sweepstakes poker site.

Aliaksei Boika finally got over the line at Triton Jeju II, winning Event #5, the $25,000 NLHE 8-Handed, for $761,000 after beating 131 entries at Les A Casino in South Korea. The result gave him his first Triton title and his first trident trophy, and the event built a $3.275 million prize pool that paid 23 spots.

As covered in our earlier Jeju reports, the stop had already produced first Triton wins for Alexandros Theologis and Klemens Roiter before Boika added his name to that list, and PokerNews also noted Khoa Anh Ngo among the maiden winners in the same series run.

The final 17 returned for Day 2 with $46,000 locked up. Brandon Wilson had led after the Day 1 bubble burst, but he exited 11th when his pocket kings ran into Seth Davies’ ace-queen.

Boika then took control. He eliminated Jesse Lonis and Artur Martirosian to set the final table, then busted Vladas Tamasauskas in eighth when ace-queen cracked pocket queens, giving him three straight knockouts.

Davies had taken the chip lead into the final eight looking to add a second trident trophy, but his run ended after he first lost pocket eights to Yu Lei’s pocket aces and then fell with ace-deuce against Nevan Chang’s jack-ten. Boika sent both Chang and Yu to the rail and moved into heads-up play with a strong chip edge, described by Card Player as 5:3 and by PokerNews as almost 2:1 over Philip Sternheimer.

The last hand featured Sternheimer opening 9♥7♥ and Boika defending J♠6♦. Both players checked the 8♦5♥3♣ flop, Boika checked the J♥ turn, and Sternheimer bet before Boika raised and Sternheimer shoved.

Boika said he briefly thought he had two pair and wanted to snap-call, only to realize he had just one pair. He said the win meant a lot to him, called himself speechless, and said the tough fields are what make Triton the most interesting tournament in the world right now. He also said the tournament involved a lot of luck, pointing to the 30-minute levels and adding that sometimes being lucky is better than being skilled.

The result was also a major career marker. Card Player said it was Boika’s third-largest score, with his top three cashes all coming in Triton events at Les A Casino. It also pushed him past $10 million in lifetime tournament earnings, with more than half of that coming from Triton, while he collected 924 Player of the Year points to reach 2,715 and moved to 86th in the 2026 CoinPoker standings. It was his first win and fourth final-table finish so far.

Khoa Anh Ngo turned a strong run in Jeju into a seven-figure score, winning the $25,000 NLH Titi Poker at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II for $1,090,000. The result gave him his first Triton trophy and his first seven-figure payout, and he outlasted 210 entries to do it, according to PokerNews.

As covered in our Day 2 update, Ngo was already second in chips behind Danilo Velasevic when 52 players returned, with the field playing toward 34 paid spots and a $1.09 million top prize. By the time the event reached its final day, six players were left and David Coleman was in front.

The bubble broke on Wang Jun, and the knockout wave that followed cleared out a long list of big names, including Phil Ivey, Klemens Roiter and Ben Tollerene. That left the final table loaded, with Ngo, Coleman, Isaac Haxton, Aren Bezhanyan, Anatoly Filatov and Joe Hindry all still alive.

Ngo’s push started in the first major pot of the day, when he picked up aces against Coleman’s king-jack and doubled through the start-of-day leader. Hindry then went out sixth for $250,000, Coleman followed in fifth for $330,000, and Bezhanyan’s run ended in fourth for $417,000 after losing ground in a key all-in.

Haxton took third for $515,000, and heads-up did not last long. The duel ended in eight hands, with Ngo starting about a 5:4 chip edge over Filatov and finishing the job when his 8♣5♠ made two pair on the turn against Filatov’s Q♣8♠. Filatov collected $733,000 for second.

The win also fit into Ngo’s broader rise. Card Player reported that it lifted his lifetime earnings to nearly $3.8 million, added 1,260 Player of the Year points and moved him to 19th in the 2026 standings. It was his third title and ninth final-table finish of the year, and those runs alone had already accounted for more than $2.4 million in earnings.

Triton’s site tied the result back to Ngo’s Triton ONE success, saying he had become the first player to win two Triton ONE events, one in September 2025 and another in March of this year. Ngo said that winning those titles gave him the confidence to take a shot at the Super High Roller Series.

APT Jeju is set to run from Sept. 25 to Oct. 7 in Jeju, and PokerOrg previewed it as a 135-event festival built around a $2,000 Main Event with a $1.6 million guarantee. The same preview says the stop is part of APT’s 20th-anniversary season and that it is the tour’s second Korean island festival this year.

The official APT preview says the festival is being run with Landing Entertainment Korea and sits as the fourth stop in the tour’s milestone 20-Year Anniversary season at LES A Casino.

There is a small difference in the event count. APT’s own preview and schedule announcement describe the festival as a 13-day stop with 136 trophy events and KRW 5.2 billion, about $3.5 million, in guaranteed prize pools. It also says the Main Event carries KRW 2.2 billion, about $1.5 million, in guarantees, with a KRW 2.7 million buy-in, roughly $1,800.

The broader schedule is built for variety, not just big-field hold’em. According to APT, 90 of the tournaments are No Limit Hold’em, including 11 dedicated women’s events, while the rest of the slate includes 21 Omaha events, 17 stud and mixed games, and eight draw games.

PokerOrg’s preview points to some of the supporting highlights. Those include a $900 Mystery Bounty Hunter with a $300,000 guaranteed pool on Sept. 26, an $11,000 APT Super High Roller that will pay at least $370,000, a $220 heads-up women’s event on Sept. 28, and a $600 Women’s Main Event on Sept. 29. The preview also ties the Jeju stop to November’s APT Championship in Taipei, where the main freezeout is set at $5 million guaranteed.

ACR Poker’s OSS XL series opened on Sept. 6 with BADGERING taking the first headline score. BADGERING won OSS XL #13, a $630 High Roller, for $130,209.51 after the tournament drew 1,118 entries and built a $670,800 prize pool.

According to the opening recap, the event cleared its $600,000 guarantee. As reported in late August, OSS XL was built as a 336-event schedule with more than $50 million in guarantees.

The opening day card was not limited to that one result. WebWire’s recap said the slate also featured four multi-flights combining for $2.225 million guaranteed, 10 Nosebleed Stakes tournaments, and more than $60,000 in added leaderboard cash and tournament tickets.

Another notable opener was OSS XL #16, the $2,650 event, which finished above its guarantee. It drew 203 entries, paid out $507,500, and ended in a final-table deal that gave NewYorkMidgets $95,311.68 for first, KevinParCoeur $93,874.52 for second, and Olivander1 $87,459.25.

Other opening-day scores included WilliamRed’s $109 Moneymaker win for $62,933.20 from 3,373 entries, lukewarmwater’s Sunday Splash victory for $10,952.96 from 4,752 entries, COTTAGECORE’s $100,000 GTD 6-Max Mystery Bounty title for $32,269.70 with bounties included, and peyton_manning’s $50,000 GTD PLO 6-Max PKO win for $16,679 across the prize and bounty components.

Espen Jorstad won WCOOP 02-H: $1,050 PKO Warm-Up on PokerStars, giving him a third career World Championship of Online Poker title. The event drew 154 entries, and Jorstad collected $33,250 total after a $14,359 base score and $18,891 in bounties.

According to PokerNews, Jorstad beat Finnish player realsuhisjii heads-up after digging out of a four-to-one chip deficit. The outlet also noted that his first two WCOOP titles came in 2023 and 2024, both under the username Hymn2Ninkasi, and that he missed out on a win in last year’s series.

The same report said Jorstad became the first GTO Wizard Pro in 2023 and later signed on as an ambassador for the solver brand. It also pointed out that he is the 2022 WSOP Main Event champion.

PokerTube filled in the finish, saying Jorstad went into heads-up play on September 7 as the short stack and closed the gap in a single hand when his king-queen ran into realsuhisjii’s king-jack and a straight arrived on the river with ace-four. After that swing, Jorstad three-bet with ace-king, then rivered two pair and shoved, with realsuhisjii calling off his tournament life holding a turned two pair with king-seven.

PokerTube also said nine players made the money in the event, and that WCOOP’s 25th edition is a 121-event festival running through September 30.

The African Poker Championship is set to make its first stop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at Le Grande Casino on Samora Ave, with the inaugural festival running from September 24 through October 4. The 11-day schedule carries more than $500,000 in guarantees.

The centerpiece is a $1,000 Main Event with a $200,000 guarantee. According to PokerNews, the Main Event is the flagship tournament of the launch festival and runs from September 30 through October 4, with three starting flights and survivors returning for Day 2 at noon on Saturday, October 3.

The opening slate also includes a $125 Main Event Super Satellite on September 25, a $1,500 Grand Slam Mega Stack with a $100,000 guarantee, and a $300 DeepStack with $50,000 guaranteed. Later in the schedule, players will find a $2,000 Single Day Mini High Roller with a $50,000 guarantee, a $5,000 Super High Roller, and a two-day $3,000 APC High Roller that carries another $100,000 guarantee.

Other listed events include a three-flight PigaBet Survivor Bounty, Turbo and SuperStak action, and Pot-Limit Omaha in the form of the $300 Le Grande Bomb Pots Double Board event on October 1. The first APC champion is due to be crowned on Sunday, October 4.

PokerNews says the series is powered by MJPT Global and was created with the goal of bringing together poker communities across Africa, showcasing the continent’s talent, and building events that can draw players from around the world. For Hendon Mob flag chasers, the debut also offers a first chance to add a Tanzanian flag while the tour is still brand new.

Joao Hayashi won his first WSOP bracelet in Event #15, the $1,000 Rounder Cup Battle of the Continents at WSOP Online 2026 on GGPoker. According to PokerNews, he outlasted a 1,022-entry field for $164,990 and a $30,000 Super Pass into the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. Bettingnews also reported that it was Hayashi’s first WSOP title.

As reported when Raphael Caixeta opened the series and Lucas Teixeira Rodrigues followed one event later, Brazil had already built a strong early run. Hayashi’s win made him the country’s third WSOP Online titlist through the first 15 completed events, with Brazilians now on three wins, three runner-up finishes and four third places.

Event #15 used a continent-flavoured format. The opening day was split into four flights limited to Asia, Eurasia, Europe and the Americas, and the survivors combined on Day 2 to decide both the champion and which continent shone brightest. Each of the nine finalists was guaranteed at least $20,623 from the $970,900 prize pool, and Hayashi represented the Americas bracket.

The final table started with Israel’s Ravid Garbi busting in ninth for $20,623, then Mongolia’s Sanchuu5527 for $26,745 and Christian Rudolph for $34,684. Atzamot and flyingcowkiss followed, Regis “AnimalRaro” Cardoso finished fourth for $75,648, and Diego Zeiter took third for $98,103.

Heads-up, Hayashi beat Luxembourg’s sensor77, who collected $127,224. Pokertube said the broader WSOP Online series has run on GGPoker since 2020, after the pandemic canceled the live summer series in Las Vegas, and that Caesars sold the WSOP brand to NSUS Group in 2024 for $500 million. The 2026 schedule has 33 bracelet events and runs through Sept. 29, with every winner getting the same $30,000 Super Pass.

The inaugural WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event at Playground finished with 2,844 entries and a C$13,082,400 prize pool. The $5,000 buy-in event beat its C$10 million guarantee by C$3,082,400, and Spadepoker described it as the largest prize pool in WSOP Circuit Main Event history.

As covered in late August, the debut Super Circuit stop at Playground opened with more than C$14 million in guarantees and 18 ring events. WSOP.com said the festival had already generated about C$5.78 million in prize pools through the opening events, and the Main Event pushed the running total to at least C$18,862,400.

The Main Event used three separate starting flights, each followed by its own Day 2, a structure that helped organizers handle the huge turnout. All three branches came together for the first time on Day 3, with play continuing in 90-minute levels and full payouts, including the champion’s prize, still to be confirmed.

The field still included Daniel Negreanu, Michael Mizrachi, Mike Leah and Griffin Benger when Day 3 got underway. Poker.org said Mario Lemieux led the overall stack counts going into the day, while Negreanu and Mizrachi both sat well above average with 89 and 87 big blinds.

The staggered Day 2 flights left 177 players advancing to Day 3. Poker.org also noted that Day 1A drew 851 entries, setting a new Canadian record for a single $5,000 buy-in flight, while Day 1C added 830 more. The broader Super Circuit Canada stop is set to run through Sept. 12.

Niklas ‘Lena900’ Astedt reached the final day of PokerStars’ Sunday Million 20th Anniversary event, sitting sixth in chips with 19.6 million when 49 players remained. The leader going into the last session was ‘RageReaperf’, who bagged 28.3 million, while the biggest bounty so far belonged to the Ukrainian player ‘234241234214432’ at $8,400.

As covered in July, PokerStars built the anniversary around a $5 million guarantee, a $109 buy-in and a phased progressive-knockout format. Players could keep taking Phase 1 shots through September 6, and the low-cost qualifying path included satellites from $0.55 plus Spin & Go entries at $0.75 and $4.

The knockout structure pays 50% of every bounty immediately to the player who scores the elimination, with the other half added to that player’s own bounty. With 49 players left, the next player out locked up $924, and the regular prize pool paid $176,000 to first and second before any bounties were added.

PokerNews noted that the field had reached 55,444 entries and pointed out that Astedt had been here before, finishing 23rd in the 16th Anniversary Edition from a 52,119-player field four years ago. It also said the top stack leader, RageReaperf, had won a maiden SCOOP title last year for $12,849.

Frank Covich entered Day 2 of the RunGood Poker Series Golden Expedition Kentucky Main Event with the chip lead after bagging 630,000 in Day 1e, and 74 players were set to return on Monday, Sept. 7, at The Barrel Social Club in Franklin. The $800 event had already turned into a record-size stop, with a $424,200 prize pool.

As covered in August, RunGood brought the Golden Expedition to The Barrel Social Club for Sept. 1-7 with 11 ring events and a $250,000 Main Event guarantee. According to PokerNews, that guarantee was beaten before cards were even in the air, and the first-ever RunGood Main Event at The Barrel produced the largest ever prize pool in Kentucky.

Covich finished Day 1e well clear of Joel Cocanougher, who bagged 457,000, and Christopher Borinsky, who ended on 415,000. Day 1e sent 15 players into Day 2 in the money, and the final flight was still due to add 16 more names to the return list.

The bubble took almost an hour to burst. It ended when Matthew Clark shoved on a 7♥ Q♠ J♣ flop with K♦ Q♦ and ran into Covich’s A♣ A♦, which held through the J♥ turn and 6♥ river. Play resumed at 12:15 p.m. local time, with 40-minute levels to close out the event and breaks every two hours.

Klemens Roiter finally got his first Triton title in Jeju, winning Event #2, the $20,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Jeju II, for $771,000. He beat Alejandro Lococo heads-up in South Korea after a 174-entry field built a $3.48 million prize pool.

PokerNews said 25 players returned for the last day after the bubble burst late on Day 1, and Roiter started with 17 big blinds before slipping to seven at one point. As reported when the event went into its last day, Chin Wei Lim led the 25-player return, while Roiter was still in the mix.

Roiter was not the stack leader when nine players were left, either. Yu Zhang and Webster Lim held the biggest stacks at that point, and Jesse Lonis, the defending Card Player Player of the Year and a four-time Triton champion, was also in contention before going out eighth. Lococo then ran through the table, adding knockouts on the way to heads-up, including Justin Chu in fifth. After a three-way all-in with Mehdi Chaoui and Justin Saliba, he hit a club flush on the river to complete a double elimination, sending Chaoui out in fourth and Saliba out in third and taking a 2.5:1 chip lead into heads-up.

Roiter answered back quickly. He doubled with 7♦2♣ when a rivered full house came in on 10♣7♥5♦7♠5♥, which left Lococo with almost no chips. On the last hand, Roiter’s 10♥8♥ paired eights to beat Lococo’s A♠9♦ and finish the comeback.

Reports varied slightly on how many Triton final tables Roiter had reached before this result. He had 12 final tables and 17 cashes before Sunday, Card Player called this his 13th career Triton final table, and PokerNews said he had reached 11 final tables without managing to close one out. Roiter said he was still shaking and could not be more proud. The win pushed him past $15.7 million in career tournament earnings, with more than $9.1 million of that coming in Triton events, and earned him 936 Card Player Player of the Year points, moving him into eighth place in the CoinPoker race.

888poker released Part 5 of its 2026 WSOP docuseries, the penultimate chapter in the run, and the episode follows Aaron Barone and Lucia Navarro through the Main Event money bubble.

As covered in late August, the series had already carried Team888 through the early Main Event days and a quiet break before returning to tournament play. In this chapter, Barone and Navarro are the only two 888poker team members who moved on from Day 2 and stayed alive for a shot at poker’s world title.

PokerNews reported that Barone opened Day 3 with 237,000 chips on Table 167, while Navarro began with 130,000 on Table 533. At their respective tables, only Mrityunjay Jha and Abelardo Palomares had more chips than Barone, while Shawn Daniels and Daniel Brunnmayr were ahead of Navarro.

The episode also leans into the bubble pressure itself. 888poker’s magazine describes the money bubble as a psychological phase in tournament play, where players with bigger stacks can pressure shorter stacks into folding and locking up a cash.

By the end of Day 3, Barone had 524,000 chips and Navarro had 314,000, with seven more eliminations still needed before the pair would be in the money. The video then moves to the stone bubble, where only one more bustout was needed before the field reached the payouts.

From there, the bubble broke on an ace-king versus pocket fives coinflip. Navarro’s run ended on Day 4 when her pocket nines ran into king-queen of clubs, which improved to a flush on the river after a queen hit the flop.

Navarro finished 1,007th for $17,500. Barone advanced with 785,000 chips, after the episode showed him using his covering stack to lean on opponents around the bubble, before that edge was blunted by a huge stack on his right.

After the day was done, Barone said he hoped to get a couple of ladders and maybe make Day 6, which was the whole goal for the next step of the run. The final episode will be released on Sept. 11.

FullHouseCrypto is lining up a fresh satellite path into the closing stretch of its Bounty Hunt Series, with freebuy events on Sept. 7 and 11 and boosted satellites on Sept. 9 and 13.

The freebuy qualifiers come with free entry and $5 re-entries, and each one guarantees five $50 tournament tickets. The boosted events guarantee 20 $50 tickets apiece, giving players a lower-cost shot at the bigger buy-ins instead of paying full price to get in.

As reported earlier by PokerStrategy, the Bounty Hunt Series runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 20 with $2.5 million in guarantees. It is built around three weeks of PKO tournaments, where eliminations pay immediate bounties and a player’s own bounty rises as the event goes on. FullHouseCrypto says the format is meant to stay accessible through low entry points and daily six-figure guarantees, with buy-ins starting from $5 and $100,000 in guarantees posted every day.

That satellite ladder feeds into Main Event Week from Sept. 14 to 20. FullHouseCrypto says two Main Events are scheduled for that week, with $180,000 combined across their guarantees.

FullHouseCrypto is also offering new PokerStrategy.com players a $170 welcome boost in the first seven days after their initial deposit.