ACR Poker’s Daily Double paid four progressive-jackpot shares on Sept. 10, with players qualifying twice in each of the Loncar and Boski tournament pairs. The four payouts totaled $12,894.30, the only recorded Daily Double date in 2026 to produce at least two qualifiers in both tracks.

orthodoc and CharlieAB each reached both Loncar final tables, earning $3,094.33 apiece. orthodoc finished first and ninth across the two events, while CharlieAB placed second and eighth.

On the Boski side, blessd1 finished ninth and fourth, and Xnumber1CHIPSX placed fifth and seventh. Each collected $3,352.82. ACR Poker said the four qualifying runs accounted for eight final-table appearances across the night.

The Daily Double comprises two separate daily tournament pairs named for ACR Pros Michael Loncar and Jeff Boski. The first event in each pair starts at 6:15 p.m. ET and the second at 6:45 p.m. ET. Making both final tables in the same pair on the same day pays 10% of that pair’s progressive jackpot, while winning both events pays the full jackpot.

That distinction mattered for orthodoc, whose win in one Loncar tournament did not produce the 100% payout because the player did not win the second. The Loncar events carried $15,000 guarantees each on Sept. 10, while the Boski events were listed at $7,500 each, for $45,000 in combined advertised guarantees.

The promotion page says 98.5% of each daily pool goes to winners and 1.5% feeds the progressive jackpot. Its stated minimum jackpots are $20,000 for Loncar and $5,000 for Boski, although buy-ins and guarantees can change with the schedule and major series.

The four-share night followed another date on which both tracks paid. On Sept. 9, CaptainHooks earned $3,670.22 after placing seventh and third in Boski, while jwutpa80 collected $3,304.81 for eighth- and seventh-place Loncar finishes. Across the two nights, six players received $19,869.33 in jackpot shares.

Other qualifying runs followed: 1tyme4muhgrls earned $2,579.26 in Loncar on Sept. 11, NeedHelpsz collected $2,411.64 on Sept. 12, and fisherman85 received $2,470.47 on Sept. 13 after final-tabling two $50,000-guaranteed OSS XL Loncar events. Earlier, on Aug. 18, JesusComing won both Loncar tournaments to claim the full $26,178.51 jackpot.

Players can check ACR Poker’s Daily Double page for current tournament and jackpot details before registering.

WSOP Circuit International Panama will run in Panama City from Nov. 5-15 with 12 ring events at the Sortis Hotel, Spa & Casino. The festival is led by a $1,700 Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee, while each ring winner receives a $5,000 package for WSOP Paradise.

PokerOrg reports that the series will offer several routes into the Main Event. Its satellites begin with 10,000 in chips and award a seat once a player reaches 100,000. Players who commit to Day 1A or 1B can also receive an 11-night hotel stay at no cost.

There is an added promotion for players who qualify online through GGPoker: anyone who then eliminates Michael Mizrachi in Panama gets their buy-in returned. The series leaderboard will award $10,000 to its winner. Players must cash in three events to qualify, with points calculated under the same system used for the WSOP Player of the Year race.

The stop follows Panama City’s WSOP Circuit debut in November 2025, which was staged at the Panama City Hilton and StarBay Casino. WSOP described that edition as the tour’s debut in the city and said it brought the brand to regions in Latin America and South America that the operator did not often visit. Jose Severino, the series director, said visa costs and complications could make U.S. Circuit stops difficult for many Latin American players.

Players who enter any ring event on this year’s Panama schedule can buy a $10,500 package for January 2027’s WSOP Super Circuit Punta Cana for $7,500.

The $5,300 BetMGM Poker Big, Big Championship opens its first of three Day 1 flights at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Saturday, with a $3 million guaranteed prize pool at stake. The event begins at 12:15 p.m. local time.

Players receive 40,000 chips for the buy-in and can enter an unlimited number of times during the Day 1 flights. Day 1A runs Saturday, followed by Day 1B on Sunday and Day 1C on Monday, Sept. 21. Registration remains available until the start of Day 2.

As we reported in August, BetMGM Poker had posted the Borgata series with more than $6 million in guarantees, including the championship’s $3 million prize pool in its 11-event lineup.

Each opening flight plays 10 60-minute levels before survivors bag chips. There are 15-minute breaks after every two levels, plus a 75-minute dinner break after Level 6.

The three Day 1 fields combine for Day 2 at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, when another 10 60-minute levels are scheduled. Day 3 begins at the same time Wednesday, Sept. 23, and is set to play down to a winner.

BetMGM Poker also staged three $600 championship qualifiers, which were set to award at least 50 seats in total. The first ran Friday, while second-chance and last-chance qualifiers are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

CoinPoker has opened a tiered satellite ladder for its next $1 million guaranteed CoinMillion, giving players routes that begin at $1 and progress through $12.50 steps toward the $215 target event. The tournament starts at 16:30 UTC on Sunday, Sept. 20, as a headline fixture of the Global Online Poker Championship.

The satellite schedule also includes free Step 4 qualifiers, meaning some players can enter that stage without an initial buy-in. Direct-to-ticket satellites start at $12.50, providing a quicker alternative to paying the full $215 entry fee. F5 Poker reported that players can find the available qualifiers by searching “CoinMillion” in the CoinPoker lobby.

The final four satellites will award 300 CoinMillion seats in total. The last qualifier is scheduled for 22:45 UTC on Sept. 20, costs $25 to enter and guarantees 40 seats.

As we reported in August, CoinPoker had made CoinMillion a monthly $1 million tournament after its first two editions drew more than 9,000 combined entries. September has expanded that cadence to four Sunday GOPC editions, on Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27, each with a $1 million guarantee and a Gold Medal designation.

The Sept. 20 event follows the biggest CoinMillion field since the tournament launched in May. The Sept. 13 edition drew 5,321 entries, with FINALVERDICT7 winning $123,979 along with a physical trophy and a digital display on the platform.

CoinMillion sits within CoinPoker’s six-week GOPC, which began Aug. 23 and runs through Sept. 28 with $50 million guaranteed across more than 700 medal events. The final September CoinMillion is scheduled for Sept. 27.

ACR Poker has scheduled three OSS XL Main Event flights for Sunday, Sept. 20, combining for $5 million in guaranteed prize money. The day includes the final starting flight of the $66 Main Event and Day 1A for two higher-buy-in tournaments, at $1,050 and $2,650.

The $2,650 Main Event carries the largest guarantee at $2.5 million, while the $1,050 event offers $2 million. Both begin Sunday, return for Day 1B on Sept. 27, play Day 2 on Sept. 28 and are set to reach their final tables Sept. 29.

The $66 Main Event’s Day 1B is the last chance to enter its $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Satellites start at $6.60, and the flight is scheduled to stop when 10% of its field remains. Survivors will join the Day 1A qualifiers for Day 2 on Sept. 27.

As we reported after the opening flight, the $66 event drew 2,401 entries for Day 1A and advanced 239 players, with Rastern001 leading on 11.8 million chips.

Sunday’s supporting schedule includes OSS XL #215, a $630 High Roller with $750,000 guaranteed, and the $215 OSS XL #216, which carries a $250,000 guarantee. OSS XL #213H is another $630 High Roller with a $250,000 guarantee.

Two $2,650 side events also sit on the card: Mini Phil’s Thrill #219 with $250,000 guaranteed and the PLO #220 event with $200,000 guaranteed. Lower-stakes options include the $16.50 Sunday Splash, guaranteed at $75,000, and the $27.50 Sunday Smash, with $100,000 guaranteed.

All OSS XL events count toward the series leaderboard race. More than $60,000 in added cash and tournament tickets is available across High, Medium and Low divisions, with first-place awards of $15,000, $7,500 and $4,000, respectively.

As we reported, ACR Poker’s Second Mortgage Week begins Monday, Sept. 21, following the Sunday Main Event slate.

BetRivers Poker will run its 2026 Poker Championship from Sept. 27 through Oct. 11, putting 100 Gold and Silver tournaments on the schedule with more than $600,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Buy-ins range from $3 to $500, and every event awards a trophy.

PokerNews reported that the 15-day series opens Sunday, Sept. 27 with eight tournaments carrying $71,250 in combined guarantees. Its six designated Championship events will award exclusive Championship trophies, while the full slate includes No-Limit Hold’em, PLO, progressive knockouts, six-max, Monsterstack and Deepstack events, plus Turbo and Hyper formats.

As covered in late July, BetRivers Poker’s Multi-State Summer Series followed in August with 96 events and more than $450,000 in guarantees.

Players can use daily satellites as lower-cost routes into every scheduled event. Gold and Silver leaderboards will award more than $15,000 in tournament tickets over the course of the series, while the BPC Early Bird promotion offers another $750 in tickets.

The operator’s Spring Championship Series ran from Feb. 22 to March 8 with 88 events and more than $500,000 guaranteed. That series also used the Gold-and-Silver structure and offered trophies to event winners.

The next major Sunday falls on Oct. 4, when the complete Gold and Silver slate carries $99,750 in combined guarantees and includes two Championship events. The championship concludes Oct. 11 with 10 tournaments and $90,300 in combined guarantees. The full schedule is available in the BetRivers Poker lobby.

Triton Poker’s group of players with more than $30 million in career tour earnings has grown from four to seven following the Montenegro and Jeju II stops. Dvoress rose to fourth place on the all-time list.

Card Player’s Sept. 18 leaderboard update put Bryn Kenney first with $51.3 million in Triton earnings, followed by Jason Koon on $40.9 million and Stephen Chidwick on $35.2 million. Dvoress now has more than $34.8 million, ahead of Mikita Badziakouski’s $32.4 million, Tang’s nearly $32.3 million and Punsri’s total just above $30 million.

The two intervening festivals offered a huge amount of money to play for. Montenegro ran from May 13-28 and awarded more than $100 million across 16 events, while Jeju II, held Sept. 4-17, paid more than $103.2 million in prize money.

Dvoress began the year with two Triton titles and has won five in 2026, bringing him to seven overall and into a three-way tie for the tour’s second-most victories. Three of those wins came in Montenegro, where Triton said he became the first player to win three titles at a single stop.

His Montenegro run included the $25,000 Golden Decade opener for $849,000, the $100,000 PLO Main Event for $2,018,000 and the closing $25,000 PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro for $367,500. He then added a seventh career title in Jeju, winning the $30,000 eight-handed no-limit hold’em event for $942,000 from 135 entries, as we covered earlier this month.

Dvoress made five cashes worth more than $1.6 million at Jeju II. His latest title was enough to move him past Badziakouski on the leaderboard.

Tang cashed 10 times across Montenegro and Jeju II, adding nearly $5.8 million to his Triton record. The largest piece was his $3.5 million victory in the 159-entry $100,000 no-limit hold’em main event in Montenegro, which secured his sixth Triton title after a 934-day wait for another win.

Punsri also made 10 cashes at the two stops and picked up more than $2.3 million. He is a six-time Triton champion, and the tour now accounts for more than three-quarters of his $39.6 million in total live tournament earnings.

Aleksejs Ponakovs is closest to joining the group next. His Triton earnings stand at about $29.9 million, leaving him roughly $135,000 short of the milestone.

PokerStars is adding a live-poker prize to its $215 WCOOP Event #73-H: Women’s World Championship. The top three finishers receive £300 seats in the Women’s Classic, a ladies-only tournament at London’s Hippodrome Casino with a £20,000 guarantee.

The seats come with no strings attached beyond qualifying through the online event. Players must register and play on Sunday to be eligible, with the tournament also awarding a WCOOP title. PokerStars describes the Women’s World Championship as one of the year’s most prestigious online ladies’ events.

As covered in August, the 25th WCOOP runs through Sept. 30 as a 350-tournament series. The Women’s World Championship promotion gives its leading finishers a route into a separate live event.

The Women’s Classic is part of Ladies Weekend, a PokerStars-sponsored initiative intended to encourage women’s participation in poker. The Hippodrome is hosting the UK leg from Oct. 16-18 and is the only British venue in a 26-location worldwide programme run by the Women’s Poker Federation.

The London weekend combines poker with educational sessions and opportunities for women players to meet. Participation in activities around the Hippodrome begins free of charge, while the Women’s Classic carries the £20,000 guaranteed prize pool.

PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craige is set to host the event, alongside other ambassadors and affiliated players. The programme includes a masterclass from chess champion and author Jennifer Shahade, plus free lessons from Octopi Poker co-founder Victoria Livshitz on her high-stakes experience and using poker solvers to improve a player’s game.

The 2026 expansion follows the first WPF Ladies Weekend in 2025, when more than 1,500 participants generated 2,200 entries across nine countries, according to PokerNews. The federation said it intended to add countries and stages in 2026, as well as create a Grand Final for regional champions.

Ladies Weekend runs from Oct. 16-18, with the Women’s Classic serving as the Hippodrome’s featured tournament.

Cardplayer Lifestyle’s Mixed Game Festival XV will return to Bellagio Las Vegas from Oct. 5-9, bringing five days of low-stakes mixed cash games, two tournaments and three Bellagio Fall Classic seats. BetMGM Poker is sponsoring the festival.

The three prizes are entries to the $1,100 Bellagio Fall Classic, a $100,000-guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em event with four Day 1 flights. Each Mixed Game Festival grand-prize winner may claim one seat and choose a preferred Day 1 flight.

Cardplayer Lifestyle said the seats will be awarded randomly at different points over the festival’s first three days. They are reserved exclusively for festival players and are being provided by BetMGM Poker.

Cash games begin at noon each day, with round-the-clock action planned and limits starting as low as $4/$8 and $6/$12. The schedule also includes low-stakes dealer’s choice games and two mixed-game tournaments, both starting at noon.

The October stop follows three consecutive summer series at Bellagio and will be the festival’s first fall edition on the Center Strip. Craig Larson, Bellagio’s director of poker operations, said the non-summer timing and the festival’s atmosphere would add to the Fall Classic week of events.

The XV edition arrives five years after the Mixed Game Festival concept debuted. Cardplayer Lifestyle says the series has grown a fun-loving community of players who return for a shared celebration of many poker variants.

The organizer plans daily recaps and will name a Pokercoaching.com Player of the Day and a RunGoodGear Dealer of the Day. Both honorees will receive recognition stories and merchandise, while players staying at Bellagio can access a 25% discounted room rate through the poker room.

Mixed Game Festival XV runs Oct. 5-9 at Bellagio Las Vegas.

ACR Poker’s $66 OSS XL Main Event reaches its second and final starting flight on Sunday, Sept. 20, giving players one last route into the tournament’s $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Satellites start at $6.60, while the direct buy-in is $66.

The flight is scheduled to play until 10% of its field remains. Players who advance from Day 1B will join the returning field for Day 2 on Sunday, Sept. 27.

As we reported after the opening flight, Day 1A drew 2,401 entries and sent 239 players forward, with Rastern001 leading the qualifiers on 11.8 million chips.

The $66 event is one of three OSS XL Main Events sharing the Sept. 20 schedule. The $2,650 Main Event begins with a $2.5 million guarantee, while the $1,050 edition carries $2 million guaranteed. Together, the three tournaments account for $5 million in guarantees.

Unlike the $66 event, the two higher-buy-in Main Events have a second starting flight on Sept. 27. Their survivors then return for Day 2 on Monday, Sept. 28, with final tables set for Sept. 29.

Sunday’s wider OSS XL card also includes the $630 buy-in OSS XL #215 High Roller, which guarantees $750,000, plus the $215 OSS XL #216 with $250,000 guaranteed. The series leaderboard continues to offer more than $60,000 in added cash and tournament tickets, including $15,000 for first place in the High division.

OSS XL runs through Sept. 29 and comprises 336 events with more than $50 million guaranteed overall.

888poker LIVE London will run for 11 days at Grosvenor Victoria Casino, known as The Vic, from Oct. 8-18. The £1,250 Main Event carries a £250,000 guarantee, while Grosvenor Casinos lists more than £650,000 in guarantees across the full festival.

The card opens Thursday, Oct. 8 with the £500 Crazy 8 Opening Event, which has a £100,000 guarantee. It has five starting flights over its first three days, including a turbo flight Saturday, before Day 2 begins later that afternoon; a £250 Turbo Dash is also scheduled for Saturday evening.

Last year’s Crazy 8 drew 258 entries and produced a £110,300 prize pool. Stephen Bean won the title for £19,603.

The £340 Mini Main, also guaranteed for £100,000, has three starting flights from Oct. 11-13. Its surviving players combine for Day 2 on Tuesday and play to a winner Wednesday.

Other headline tournaments include the £550 Big Shot on Oct. 13 with £30,000 guaranteed, followed by the two-day £2,000 High Roller, which carries a £100,000 guarantee. The schedule also includes a £220 MND Charity Event, Pot-Limit Omaha events and the £550 Dragon, with a £50,000 guarantee.

The Big Shot was won in 2025 by 888poker ambassador Vivian Saliba, who earned £12,135 from a 105-entry field. Nuno Duarte won last year’s High Roller for £43,510 after 115 entries created a £163,870 prize pool.

The Main Event begins at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15. Day 1B starts at noon on Friday, Oct. 16, followed by an 8 p.m. turbo Day 1C. Players receive 30,000 chips; the first two flights and Day 2 use 40-minute levels, while the turbo flight uses 20-minute levels. Levels rise to 60 minutes for the final day, and a 30-second shot clock starts on Day 2.

The 2025 Main Event comfortably cleared the same £250,000 guarantee, attracting 367 entries for a £383,500 prize pool. Gang Wang defeated Calogero Morreale heads-up to win £86,600.

Players can still pursue Main Event packages through 888poker’s online satellite path, starting from $0.01 and progressing to a $109 qualifier. Each $2,500 package includes the £1,250 Main Event buy-in, £500 for accommodation and £300 for travel; direct entry to the $109 qualifier is also available. The live schedule will additionally include £140 Main Event Cashout Satellites, while Grosvenor says it has feeder satellites from £1 that award live-event credit.

The festival concludes Sunday, Oct. 18, when the Main Event champion is due to be crowned.

CrorePlay has added Bonus Bonanza, a daily tournament promotion carrying $1.245 million in guaranteed prizes. Buy-ins run from $5 to $100, while the boosted guarantees range from $3,500 to $15,000.

The promotion is one of two additions announced by the poker room, according to CardPlayer. Its listed daily prize pools are $3,500, $5,000, $8,000, $10,000 and $15,000. CrorePlay expects some events to overlay, potentially increasing the value of the guaranteed prize pools.

Tournament payouts are issued as bonus cash. Players release $5 of that balance for every $20 in rake they generate through cash-game play.

CrorePlay also introduced a separate Freeroll Festival with $200,000 guaranteed over the month. That promotion offers up to $49,700 per week, including three daily freerolls open to every registered player with $150 and $250 guarantees. Players who meet deposit and rake requirements can unlock larger daily freerolls guaranteed from $300 to $2,500, including Bindaas and Maharaja events with $250 and $500 guarantees.

The room is also offering new players a 150% match bonus worth up to $2,500 on a first eligible deposit. The offer requires at least $10, clears at the same $5-per-$20-in-rake rate and must be completed within 90 days. First-time depositors who put in $100 through Priority Pass can receive an additional 20% rakeback for 10 days.

CrorePlay’s other daily cash-game promotions include Hold’em Hand Quest and PLO6 Hand Rush. Midweek Rush and Weekend Rush leaderboards each carry $8,000 prize pools across three stake levels. Rakeback Riches offers up to 50% weekly rakeback based on rake generated.

CoinPoker’s next $215 CoinMillion is set for Sunday, Sept. 20, at 16:30 UTC, carrying another $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The tournament is one of the site’s Sunday CoinMillion GOPC Editions and awards a Global Online Poker Championship Gold Medal.

The Sept. 20 event follows a new participation high for the tournament. The Sept. 13 CoinMillion drew 5,321 entries, making it the biggest field since the event launched in May and more than 1,000 entries larger than its inaugural edition.

PokerStrategy reported that direct satellites for the upcoming tournament are already available in the CoinPoker lobby, with routes starting at $12.50. Players can also use Step 4 freerolls, and searching “CoinMillion” in the lobby brings up the available qualifiers. Direct satellites give players an alternative to paying the full $215 direct buy-in.

CoinPoker’s GOPC page lists CoinMillion editions on each Sunday in September: Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27. Each carries the same $1 million guarantee and Gold Medal designation.

The wider GOPC began Aug. 23 and runs through Sept. 28 with $50 million guaranteed across the series. CoinPoker says the schedule includes more than 700 Medal Events and that prize pools are tracking above the original guarantee.

The final September CoinMillion is scheduled for Sept. 27.

Nick Petrangelo won the $150,000 Triton 10th Anniversary Special in Jeju after striking an ICM deal with Joao Simao, although Simao took the larger payout. Petrangelo collected about $2.21 million and the title, while Simao earned about $2.52 million as runner-up.

The no-limit hold’em event brought the Triton Jeju series to a close. Card Player reported that the 67-entry tournament generated a $10.05 million prize pool, with 11 players paid after registration closed on Sept. 16.

Simao began heads-up play with better than a 3:1 chip lead, but the pair agreed to divide the remaining money by ICM, leaving $80,000 and the trophy to play for. Petrangelo then doubled twice before eliminating Simao.

PokerNews reported that the longtime friends, who had played online against one another since 2008, went all-in blind after making their deal. Petrangelo said the result capped a long Jeju trip with several deep runs: “It was a long trip, had a lot of deep runs, it was nice to finish with a good one.”

Triton treated the unusual conclusion as a shared celebration. The tour said Petrangelo and Simao declared themselves both winners and completed winner interviews and photographs together, even as Petrangelo was formally awarded the title. Simao said the chop made the tournament “so special that we have now two winners.”

The final table included Adrian Mateos, Thomas Boivin, Danny Tang, Dan Dvoress and Seth Davies. Mateos was third for about $1.29 million, Atanasov finished fourth for $990,000, and Boivin took fifth for $783,000. Dvoress, Davies and Tang were eliminated earlier at the final table.

The score took Simao’s Jeju earnings to about $9.87 million, nearly one-third of his listed $30.73 million in career tournament earnings. As we reported earlier this week, the Brazilian’s haul was driven by his record $7.25 million victory in the $200,000 Triton Invitational.

Petrangelo earned 720 Card Player Player of the Year points, moving inside the top 100 of the CoinPoker-presented race. Simao gained 600 points and rose to 48th.

Triton’s next stop is Northern Cyprus, where Triton One runs Nov. 5-15 before the Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus begins Nov. 15 and continues through Nov. 30.

A Marblehead, Massachusetts, player identified as R.B. won a $402,108 progressive jackpot at The Nash Casino in Nashua after a $5 side wager on three-card poker. The Sept. 6 payout is the largest progressive jackpot in New Hampshire casino history.

R.B. was dealt the four, five and six of spades, making a straight flush. That qualifying hand triggered a Bonus Spin Xtreme wheel spin, which landed on the top-tier Triple Diamond jackpot and paid the full shared progressive pool to the winner.

Bonus Spin Xtreme for three-card poker is an optional side wager, with rules that allow $1 or $5 bets. A qualifying poker hand triggers an electronic wheel prize, while the base game still requires its mandatory ante wager.

The Nash’s progressive pool draws prize money from about 30 participating tables at the casino and grows until a player hits the winning wheel outcome. General manager Eric Althaus said patrons and staff held their breath as the wheel turned after the straight flush was revealed.

The new mark surpassed the casino’s previous progressive record of $233,490, won by a Lowell, Massachusetts, resident on Valentine’s Day. In May 2025, the venue had described a $102,756 blackjack progressive jackpot won by a guest named Phouma as believed to be the state record at that time.

The Nash opened inside Pheasant Lane Mall in March 2025 and has since awarded 128 jackpots, including seven prizes above $100,000. Players have claimed more than $31 million in progressive winnings there, with nearly $17 million awarded in 2026.

The venue, which calls itself New Hampshire’s largest casino, offers more than 1,100 electronic games as well as table games and poker. Under New Hampshire’s charitable gaming model, 35% of daily table-game revenue must go directly to local nonprofits. The casino said it generated more than $19.5 million for 118 New Hampshire nonprofits in its first 12 months of operation.

Wang Ye won the final tournament of Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, taking down the $30,000 no-limit hold’em turbo for $256,000 and his first Triton title. He outlasted a 23-entry field in the event, which created a $690,000 prize pool and paid only five places.

Card Player reported that Wang entered heads-up play with better than a 2:1 chip lead over Kiat Lee, then sealed the win when his J♠7♣ made sevens full of jacks on a J♣10♠7♠9♦7♥ board. Lee had made a straight with 8♠4♣, but it was not enough to beat the full house. He earned $176,000 as runner-up.

As we reported earlier this month, Lee had already won the Jeju $40,000 mystery bounty for $619,000 and eight bounty envelopes, his fourth Triton title.

Matthias Eibinger finished third for $112,000 after his K♥10♥ failed to overtake Wang’s A♣3♣. Punnat Punsri eliminated Benjamin Tollerene in fifth, then Wang knocked out Punsri before the heads-up match. Punsri earned $81,000 for his third top-four finish of the festival, while Tollerene earned $65,000.

The win was Wang’s 20th Triton cash. He now has more than $13.7 million in career tournament earnings, including more than $11.8 million from Triton events. It was also his second title and seventh final-table finish of 2026.

Wang collected 252 Card Player Player of the Year points, bringing him to 3,200 and just outside the top 50 in the CoinPoker-sponsored standings. Punsri moved into first place after his 25th final table of the year, having accumulated four titles and 7,624 points. Lee rose to 4,741 points and 21st, while Eibinger reached 32nd and Tollerene 40th.

The turbo closed a 14-event Jeju II schedule that awarded about $103.2 million in prize money across 1,752 entries. Its largest event was the $200,000 Triton Invitational, which drew 176 entries, built a $34.6 million prize pool and was won by Joao Simao for more than $7.2 million.

A UK player using the screen name “visiontechno” turned a $25 buy-in into a $500,000 first prize in a PokerStars Spin & Go Max on Sept. 12. The six-handed game drew a 26,000x multiplier, described as the highest available at that buy-in for a six-player table.

The jackpot paid out $650,000 in total. Second place received $60,000, followed by $40,000 for third, $25,000 for fourth, $16,250 for fifth and $8,750 for sixth. There was no cashout option attached to the game.

Pokerfuse reported that PokerStars’ published payout table put the chance of the 26,000x multiplier at one in 1 million for a $25 Spin & Go Max. The format can run with three to eight players, although all six seats were filled in this jackpot game.

The result added a six-figure Spin & Go Max prize to an unusually busy stretch for PokerStars lottery sit & gos. As covered in August, the site awarded three $1.2 million jackpots in its $5 three-handed Spin & Go between July 17 and Aug. 12, each after a 240,000x multiplier landed.

Those three $5 winners were Denmark’s dillerfar19 on July 17, Argentina’s Anatsuk334 on July 26 and UK player Gwaugh1 on Aug. 12. Each took $1 million from a $1.2 million pool. Pokerfuse put the published odds for that $5 multiplier at one in 10 million and said the three hits matched PokerStars’ combined total of $1.2 million Spin & Go jackpots across 2024 and 2025.

The $1.2 million prize was a promotional top end at the $5 level rather than the regular structure’s standard maximum. PokerStars subsequently removed the 240,000x multiplier from that buy-in, leaving $50,000 as the stated maximum prize there, while million-dollar jackpots remained available from $100 buy-ins upward.

WSOP Paradise will feature a $250,000 buy-in Pro-Am bracelet tournament in the Bahamas this December, with professional players and approved amateurs starting in separate fields before meeting later in the event.

The three-day tournament pays a WSOP gold bracelet to its winner. Once the event reaches the money, the two fields combine and play down normally to a champion.

Professionals can register on their own, without an invitation. Amateurs face a different entry route: they must submit an application for approval by a WSOP Pro-Am committee, which will assess each applicant individually.

The setup differs from Triton Poker’s Invitational model, where pros must be invited by an amateur. PokerNews noted that Triton staged a $250,000 Invitational at WSOP Paradise last year, won by Kayhan Mokri for about $7.7 million.

As covered in August, the original WSOP Paradise schedule listed 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guaranteed prize pools. PokerNews now describes the festival schedule as containing 21 bracelet events including the Pro-Am, while WSOP’s official schedule release still lists 20, leaving the published event count inconsistent.

WSOP Paradise runs Dec. 2-17 at Baha Mar Hotel & Resort. Its $26,000 Super Main Event carries a $50 million guarantee, and WSOP has positioned the Bahamas stop as the event that decides the 2026 Player of the Year race.

Martin Zamani turned one ACR Poker Sunday into two Phil’s Thrill titles, winning the $10,300 main event and the $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO 6-Max nine minutes later on Sept. 13. The pair of victories paid more than $160,000 combined.

His larger score came in the $10,300 Phil’s Thrill, where he earned $122,500 after beating Linus “borntotilt” Loeliger heads-up. The tournament drew 35 entries, representing 27 players, and created a $350,000 prize pool; only five places paid.

As reported in our Sept. 13 coverage, the win was Zamani’s first Phil’s Thrill title. He summed up the session on X with a short post: “Hot day in the ACR Poker streets.”

Nine minutes after closing out the main event, Zamani won the $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO 6-Max for another $38,500. The Pot-Limit Omaha event drew 55 entries from 38 players and paid out $137,500. PokerListings reported that Zamani used two entries to reach the top spot in the Mini.

The two events run as weekly Sunday fixtures on ACR Poker. Phil’s Thrill begins at 2:30 p.m. ET and carries a $10,300 buy-in, while the Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO begins at 3:30 p.m. ET for $2,650, except on Sundays with a Venom Day 1 flight scheduled. ACR describes Phil’s Thrill as its biggest weekly tournament and says it was named after WPN CEO Phil Nagy.

PokerListings characterized the results as a recovery from a slight summer dip for Zamani, putting his SharkScope profit above $379,000. The outlet also described the scores as a bankroll boost before ACR’s OSS XL Nosebleed tournaments, which run Sept. 21-28 with buy-ins ranging from $5,200 to $25,500.

Jamie Dwan reached the final table of the WSOP Online $525 Mid-stakes NLH Second Chance event on Sept. 15, then turned down a final-table deal and exited in sixth place for $5,018. The payout was about $1,600 below the $6,618.90 he had been shown under the proposed arrangement.

The tournament drew 197 entries and reached a nine-player final table. Eight players opted into the deal before play began, leaving Dwan as the lone holdout.

PokerListings reported that Dwan posted a video in which, after seeing the proposed payout, he said, “Hmm… It’s pretty tough. I don’t know… I don’t know… I mean… Nah!” and clicked “Decline.”

Dwan said he had never encountered the situation before. He noted that players at his previous online final table had accepted a deal because it was late in Europe, but said he had paid to be in Canada for the series and was “fresh as a daisy.” He later described his drawn-out rejection of the offer as “brilliant trolling” in correspondence with Boris Angelov.

Angelov did not appreciate the approach, and the article said others at the table were unhappy as well. Commentary around the hand pointed out that four finalists represented Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and China rather than European countries.

Dwan’s decision did not lead to a deal-free finish. After his elimination, the remaining five players immediately struck an agreement, with four ultimately receiving more than they would have under the initial proposal.

Separately, a published 2026 WSOP Online schedule stated that final-table deals were prohibited. The available evidence does not explain how that rule applied to Dwan’s event or to the agreement reached after he was eliminated.

DraftKings has connected eligible Electric Poker players in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey into a shared three-state pool, a July 8 launch that gives its three-handed, super-turbo No-Limit Hold’em games a wider base of potential opponents.

Electric Poker is DraftKings’ only peer-to-peer poker product. Because each table begins when three players register, the immediate benefit is expected to be faster game starts and more simultaneous action across buy-in levels, rather than a change to the format itself.

The Michigan Gaming Control Board said it reviewed the platform and found DraftKings met all requirements for multistate internet poker. In Michigan, the product operates through the Bay Mills Indian Community, DraftKings’ operator partner for poker in the state.

The launch uses the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement, or MSIGA. Michigan joined the compact in 2022; its other members are Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Nevada and West Virginia. DraftKings has so far linked only the Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey markets.

The compact creates the legal basis for interstate games, but it is not a national license. States continue to control operator licensing, player-location checks, game approvals and consumer protections, while operators need authorization in every state where they offer the network. New or updated software must also be reviewed before launch and is subject to third-party laboratory testing.

Michigan additionally requires operators to set out how adjusted gross revenue and related tax revenue from multijurisdictional games will be allocated among participating jurisdictions before authorizing a launch. Players still must satisfy identity verification, geofencing, responsible-gaming controls and the operator’s account terms in the state where they are physically located.

The Seeker noted that the appeal of pooling is especially clear in peer-to-peer poker: a smaller standalone market can mean fewer available stakes, smaller tournament fields and longer waits for less popular games. A shared pool does not make accounts portable across state lines or remove local access rules, but it can improve game availability by bringing more active players to the same lobby.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Pennsylvania’s entry as MSIGA’s sixth member expanded the compact’s player base by more than 50%, bringing the shared market’s potential reach to more than 38 million Americans, including an estimated 150,000 online poker players in Pennsylvania. The agency said multistate access could support larger prize pools without higher buy-ins.

Michigan regulator Henry Williams said the authorization reflected the Bay Mills partnership and the state’s regulatory process. He said the board would continue to hold multistate operators to standards for fairness, security and player protection.

FINALVERDICT7 has won CoinPoker’s largest CoinMillion to date, beating a 5,321-entry field in the $215 tournament on Sept. 13 for $123,979. The victory also earned the player a physical trophy and a place in the CoinMillion Hall of Champions.

The field was the biggest across CoinMillion’s five events, and the champion’s payout was the second-largest first prize in the tournament’s history, according to Card Player. FINALVERDICT7 began Day 2 in 10th place and had accumulated less than $1,000 in tournament earnings on the platform before the win.

The event drew 3,969 unique players, all paying the $215 buy-in. Its turnout cleared the $1 million guarantee, producing a $1.06 million prize pool before re-entries. It overtook the 4,986-entry Sept. 6 CoinMillion, which we covered earlier this month as the previous platform record.

Doritos23 finished runner-up for $78,218 after entering the event three times. In the final hand, FINALVERDICT7 raised to two big blinds with pocket kings and Doritos23 defended a stack of fewer than 10 big blinds with pocket eights. Doritos23 moved all-in on a queen-high flop after a bet of less than half the pot, picked up a gutshot straight draw on the turn, but missed on the river.

ComoAAgua placed third after recording about $121,000 in winnings across 107 previous cashes. Most of the top 10 used a single entry, while CoinPoker ambassador Girafganger7 made a 31st-place finish.

CoinMillion uses 100,000-chip starting stacks and 10-minute blind levels. CoinPoker has scheduled the final September GOPC editions for Sept. 20 and Sept. 27, ahead of the series’ Sept. 28 conclusion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first bracelet event is set for Sept. 27.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WPT Global has moved ahead of CoinPoker into fourth place in Poker Industry PRO’s online poker room rankings after cash-game activity was added to its traffic data. The newly complete picture lifted WPT Global’s PRO Score from roughly 1,500 to around 2,000 before it settled at about 1,870 in the latest snapshot.

Pokerfuse reported that WPT Global had previously been represented in PRO DB only by multi-table tournament entries. SharkScope Analytics has since begun tracking its cash games, revealing a much larger cash-game component than the tournament-only figures indicated.

The update also produced an all-time high PRO Score of 2,082 at the end of August on a 30-day moving average. WPT Global now sits just ahead of CoinPoker, at a little over 1,800, while iPoker is sixth on 1,458.

PRO Score is a blended metric that weights cash-game strength and tournament volume into one comparable ranking number. Where cash-game data is unavailable, tournament entries are used to scale a network’s score so it can still be compared with fully tracked operators.

Poker Industry PRO launched PRO DB on April 13 in partnership with SharkScope Analytics. In a press release, Game Theory Optimal said the platform provides daily data for tracked networks across cash games and tournaments. For most operators, its cash-game figure is average concurrent players, including fast-fold tables, while its tournament measure is total daily entries.

The database tracked 35 networks at launch and describes coverage of 75 active online poker networks and almost 300 individual sites. Its methodology is published on PRO DB alongside date-stamped notes covering data-feed additions, changes and tracking issues.

The ranking remains headed by GGPoker on a PRO Score of 12,450, followed by Winamax at 5,040 and PokerStars at nearly 3,200. WPT Global’s 1,870 score leaves it well behind the top three, but its cash-game figure of 1,833 is much closer to PokerStars’ 2,274, a gap of about 24%.

The tournament comparison is far wider. PokerStars averages about 178,900 MTT entries, compared with WPT Global’s 73,300, or roughly 144% more. The contrasting measures underline why adding cash games materially changed WPT Global’s position.

WPT Global’s traffic has a substantial Asian component through network partners, even as the operator has sought to expand in Europe and Canada. Its games, guarantees and buy-ins are denominated in Chinese yuan, and its tournament schedule is designed around Asian player preferences. WPT Asia Overdrive ran in August with ¥200 million, or more than $20 million, in guarantees.

Pokerfuse said WPT Global’s growth had plateaued over the past couple of years while PokerStars moved ahead in the rankings. The cash-game data update gives a fuller view of WPT Global’s overall traffic mix and shows it is significantly larger by traffic than PartyPoker and 888poker.

Canada’s MrYoungShark won 888poker’s $109 Mystery Bounty Main Event on Sept. 14, beating a 683-entry field for $15,371 including bounties. The turnout was among the tournament’s lowest since 888poker reduced its guarantee from $100,000 to $80,000, and the regular edition overlaid the $80,000 guarantee by 117 entries.

MrYoungShark began the eight-handed final table with a commanding lead of 2.95 million chips, equal to 74 big blinds and more than twice PokerStrive’s second-place stack. The middle of the table was much tighter: kojgysto888 had 29 big blinds in third, while BigFish20 had 25 in seventh. Short stack 3pokeronly started with 13 big blinds and ultimately finished fifth for $1,637.

BigFish20 was eliminated eighth for $907, the only finalist to receive less than four figures from the $80,000 prize pool. Sugarrush2 collected $1,107 and Dimiasikk888 earned $1,903, while PokerStrive exited fourth for $3,172 and Denmark’s kojgysto888 took third for $3,680.

The Canadian reached heads-up play against Lithuania’s MantynisNA having already accumulated more than $8,000 in mystery bounties. MrYoungShark finished the job for the title, while MantynisNA received $6,027.

The result follows our Aug. 25 report on kingsluvan’s win in an earlier running of the same regular Mystery Bounty Main Event. In this format, eliminating an opponent during the bounty phase awards a randomized secret cash prize in addition to normal tournament payouts.

The win came days before 888poker’s XL Autumn Series begins Sept. 20. The nine-day festival runs through Sept. 29, has 41 numbered events and nearly $900,000 in guarantees, with 26 events using mystery bounties. Its $109 Mystery Opening Event begins at 6 p.m. BST on Sept. 20 with a reinstated $100,000 guarantee, after the regular event’s guarantee had been reduced to $80,000.

The series also includes a $250 Mystery Main Event with a $300,000 guarantee and a $25 Mystery Mini Main with a $50,000 guarantee. Main Event Day 1 flights began Sept. 13 and continue through Sept. 28, before the final table is streamed on 888poker TV’s Twitch channel Sept. 29.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released images of two men it says are suspected of robbing poker player Jared Griener at his rental home during the World Series of Poker. Detectives asked the public to help identify the men, and said they fled in a dark gray SUV after the July 12 robbery.

The case involves $57,500 connected to Griener’s WSOP winnings. Police described one suspect as a heavyset adult male with braids, distinctive tattoos on his left forearm, a black shirt, black shorts and white shoes with black soles. The second was described as an adult male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, red shorts and black shoes, according to FOX5’s report on the image release.

The images came more than two months after Griener said he was attacked after returning to the Las Vegas rental. His account was that two masked men were waiting inside, restrained him with duct tape and demanded a backpack containing tournament cash.

Griener had cashed several 2026 WSOP events, including a 218th-place finish in the $10,000 Main Event worth $57,500. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he had withdrawn about $60,000 from his WSOP account and that the backpack also held personal property, including Dior sunglasses, headphones and a phone charger.

He said the men took his car keys to retrieve the backpack from his vehicle, though they did not take the car. After being bound in the rental’s living room, Griener freed himself and ran barefoot to neighboring homes for help. Ring camera footage showed him with duct tape still around one arm asking a resident to call 911.

Police responded to the reported robbery at about 8:40 p.m. in the neighborhood on July 12. Neighborhood surveillance footage showed the two men arriving in a dark gray SUV, parking around the corner, walking toward the rental and returning to the vehicle about 20 minutes later. Griener has said the footage showed the men arriving roughly 10 minutes before he returned.

How the men entered remains unresolved. Malee Simpson, the homeowner, told News 3 there was no forced entry and that her cameras captured the suspects leaving, but not entering. She said they could have been let in, used the door code, or accessed the property through the backyard, side yard or garage.

Simpson said Griener rented the property for about six weeks with two roommates, and her review of footage found roughly 10 people had come and gone during that period. The home had one door code for the stay, with no separate codes for cleaners or maintenance workers, and people other than the three registered renters had used it.

No arrests had been announced. Anyone with information can contact Summerlin Area Command patrol detectives at 702-828-9481, or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Nevada at 702-385-5555 or online.

La Notte Degli Assi will return to Venice from Oct. 11-19 with a €1 million guaranteed Main Event at Casino di Venezia, described as the world’s oldest casino. The finalized schedule begins with four discounted Day 1 flights on Oct. 11-12.

The Main Event’s Days 1A-1D cost €400, while the €600 prime flights, Days 1E-1I and a Turbo, run Oct. 14-17. Every opening flight carries a 200,000-chip starting stack and 30-minute levels, except the Saturday Turbo, which uses 15-minute levels.

Players progressing to Day 2 on Oct. 17, Day 3 on Oct. 18 and the final table on Oct. 19 will move into longer 45- and 60-minute blind levels. PokerNews said that structure is intended to leave room for deeper-stack play late in the tournament.

The €1,500 High Roller starts at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14. It offers a 250,000-chip stack, 35-minute levels and 12 levels of late registration, before survivors return at 3 p.m. on Oct. 15 for the final day.

The festival also includes several lower-cost routes into its bigger events. A freeroll satellite at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 guarantees 12 seats and permits optional €20 rebuys. That evening brings a €150 no-limit hold’em side event at 7 p.m. and a €180 satellite into the High Roller at 9 p.m. A €60 Mega Satellite with €40 rebuys follows at 3 p.m. on Oct. 14, guaranteeing 25 tickets.

Corriere dello Sport STADIO first reported the Venice plan in May, when it listed the event as running Oct. 12-19 at Ca’ Vendramin Calergi and said further details on the buy-ins, structure and satellites would follow. The later schedule places the casino’s current home in a 15th-century Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal, which PokerNews said once housed Venetian Doges and was composer Richard Wagner’s final residence. Casino di Venezia was founded in 1638 and relocated to the palace in the 1950s.

La Notte Degli Assi began in Cologno Monzese in 2007 and later became an itinerant series, with past stops including Campione d’Italia, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino and Parma. Its largest edition at an Italian casino drew more than 750 players at Campione in 2010.

The Venice stop stems from a collaboration between Casinò di Venezia and the event brand, according to Corriere dello Sport STADIO, which said the partners aim to re-establish Texas Hold’em tournaments in the city on a stable basis. The outlet framed the project as part of a broader Italian live-poker relaunch, with Casinò di Saint Vincent also expected to open tournament tables by October.

La Notte Degli Assi’ most recent reported edition ran at Arena Casino in Tirana, Albania, in June 2025, carrying a €2 million guarantee and a €1,150 buy-in. The Venice Main Event starts with its first four opening flights on Oct. 11.

BOLUDO won OSS XL #99 $630 Sunday High Roller on Sept. 13, taking $131,893.36 after a field of 1,175 entries built a $705,000 prize pool.

The event beat its $600,000 guarantee by $105,000. BOLUDO’s payout was the largest individual score among the Sunday results highlighted by ACR Poker and represented more than 200 times the buy-in.

The same Sunday schedule also produced another six-figure winner, with NoHobbies taking $113,245.66 in OSS XL #102, the $1,050 Sunday Banana. That tournament drew 554 entries, generated a $554,000 prize pool and exceeded its $500,000 guarantee by $54,000.

A $2,650 PKO Super High Roller, OSS XL #101, drew 143 entries and paid out a $357,500 prize pool, $57,500 above its guarantee. Its champion, trabasum, collected $93,543.32 in total, including about $61,152 in bounties and $32,391 in regular prize money.

Sunday also opened the $66 Main Event, which carries a $500,000 guarantee. Day 1A attracted 2,401 entries and sent 239 players through to Day 2, led by Rastern001 with about 11.8 million chips. Satellite qualifiers for that event start at $6.60.

As covered in late August, OSS XL is a 336-event series with more than $50 million in guarantees running through Sept. 29. The $66 Main Event’s Day 1B is set for Sept. 20, while Day 1A qualifiers return for Day 2 on Sept. 27. The $2,650 and $1,050 Main Events also begin their opening flights on Sept. 20.

CoinPoker’s Global Online Poker Championship had awarded $44.52 million after its first 22 days, reaching 89% of the online series’ $50 million guarantee. The festival passed 1 million total entries during the Sept. 7-13 period, its third week of play.

Card Player reported that the week generated $14.41 million in combined prize pools across 1,166 tournaments. It drew 381,071 entries from 25,753 players. This follows our Aug. 5 report that CoinPoker launched the six-week, $50 million-guaranteed festival with separate regional schedules and buy-in levels.

Guarantees were beaten in 384 of 434 events tracked for the week. Those events produced $2.11 million above the $11.74 million initially guaranteed, indicating that most of the week’s reported events outperformed their advertised prize pools.

Several of the week’s larger tournaments cleared their targets. The $125 Big Weekender Final attracted 4,621 entries and built a $531,415 prize pool, with “ChampagneLove” taking $73,033. The $55 Weekender Final paid $250,015, including a $31,980 top prize for “drupswing7.”

The Sept. 13 CoinMillion drew 5,321 entries, and “FINALVERDICT7” won $123,979 after starting Day 2 in 10th place. CoinPoker also ran two $5,200 high rollers: partner Mario Mosböck won the 57-entry Gold Standard event for $87,780, while BevyOfBlank won the PLO Freestyle High Roller for $72,440.

The GOPC is scheduled to run through Sept. 28. CoinPoker’s tournament page lists a $25,500 Super High Roller Championship with a $1 million guarantee for Sept. 22, while the $530 Main Event carries the series’ largest guarantee at $3 million and concludes on Sept. 28.

Alessio La Francesca won his first World Series of Poker bracelet after topping a 1,514-entry field in GGPoker’s $1,500 GGMasters Freezeout Championship. The victory paid about $316,000 and included a $30,000 Super Pass for the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.

Day 2 began with 46 players remaining before the field narrowed to nine, according to PokerNews. Austria’s “Jokee90” missed the final table, while Dutch player “Gwn Accepteren,” whose screen name translates as “Just Accept It,” was the first finalist eliminated and collected about $39,500.

Anton Silyavko and Gustavo Pinto followed, earning roughly $51,200 and $66,400 respectively. Artur Berg exited in sixth, then Vinicius “DaddysRun” Escossi finished fifth for about $111,700 and Marty “dadneedsit” Mathis took fourth for about $144,100.

Patrick Brooks, a British grinder based in Mexico, finished third for about $187,900. His departure set up a heads-up match between La Francesca and Finland’s Elias Suhonen, who secured about $243,700 as runner-up.

Suhonen had recently won a €10,200 High Roller at the European Poker Tour Barcelona festival. La Francesca’s breakthrough followed a near miss at the 2025 WSOP Europe in Rozvadoz, where he finished 11th in the €2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Monsterstack, his closest prior finish to winning WSOP gold.

Ben Tollerene won the $50,000 Turbo Bounty Quattro at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju, defeating Daniel Rezaei heads-up to collect $652,000 and his fifth career Triton title.

The score included $240,000 in bounties, with the remaining $412,000 coming from the tournament payout. Rezaei earned $465,000 as runner-up, while Ding Biao finished third for $241,000.

The late-night turbo drew 35 entries, comprising 28 unique players and seven re-entries, for a $1.75 million prize pool. Nine $60,000 bounties were introduced at the final table, putting roughly one-third of the prize pool into knockout prizes. Only the final six players officially cashed.

Card Player reported that Rezaei led when the final six players were in the money, with Tollerene second in chips. Rezaei had already claimed the first bounty by eliminating Stephen Chidwick, catching a river 10 with pocket tens against Chidwick’s king-four.

Tollerene made his decisive early move at the final table in a three-way pot against Tom Fuchs and Michael Watson. His ace-eight flopped an ace against Fuchs’ king-five and Watson’s pocket fours, eliminating Watson in sixth for $84,000 and Fuchs in fifth for $169,000 while also bringing Tollerene two bounties.

Ding then eliminated Eelis Parssinen in fourth place for $139,000, winning a queen-versus-queen confrontation with a nine kicker against Parssinen’s six. Tollerene subsequently lost 75% of his stack without showdown to Rezaei, but doubled back before Rezaei made a straight to send Ding out in third.

Rezaei began heads-up play with better than a 3:1 chip advantage. Tollerene doubled with a flopped pair of fives holding six-five suited, moved into the lead, and ended the match on the following hand when his ace-king beat Rezaei’s ace-five.

The victory came one night after Tollerene placed third behind Nick Schulman and Matthew Wantman in another $50,000 event. That third-place finish paid $448,000. His two-day earnings therefore passed $1.1 million, after a Jeju stretch in which he had previously cashed twice through the first nine events, including an eighth-place final-table finish.

“I’m having a lot of fun,” Tollerene told Card Player after the win. He said he was motivated to improve despite not being fully satisfied with his play, while Triton quoted him saying he felt good, was sad there was no PLO and wanted to play more.

The win earned Tollerene 408 Card Player Player of the Year points and moved him to 41st in the yearlong standings. Rezaei received 340 points for second place and rose to fifth.

Bernhard Binder carried the chip lead into Day 3 of the $100,000 NLH Main Event at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, with 12 players still chasing a $4.145 million first prize at LES A Casino. Binder bagged 8.33 million chips after Day 2, ahead of defending Triton Main Event champion Danny Tang on 6.03 million.

The tournament finished registration as cards went in the air for Day 2, adding 36 entries to reach 196 and creating a $19.6 million prize pool. PokerNews reported that the final 12 had each secured $320,000, while the top 31 finishers were paid at least $173,000.

Binder’s late surge came in a huge pot against Miroslav Atanasov, who attempted a bluff that handed the Austrian the lead. Binder had already won his first Triton title in Jeju earlier this year, taking down the $125,000 NLH 7-Handed for about $2.14 million.

Tang is attempting to become only the second player, after Mikita Badziakouski, to win consecutive Triton Main Events. Yang Xu sat third with 5.23 million and was seeking his first Triton title. Danilo Velasevic, who started Day 2 as the leader and briefly reclaimed the lead late in the session, ended the night fourth on 5.18 million.

Nick Schulman returned with 4.08 million, while Isaac Haxton bagged 2.58 million. Haxton’s run was his 78th Triton cash and put a 35th final-table appearance within reach. Schulman had also recently finished runner-up in the Jeju $50,000 NLH 7-Handed, according to Poker.org.

The money bubble burst on the first hand of hand-for-hand play when Hannes Jeschka and Samuel Mullur were eliminated simultaneously. They split the $173,000 31st-place payout, receiving $86,500 each. Alex Foxen exited in 17th, Linglin Zeng and Jessica Teusl were the last two women eliminated in 16th and 15th, and Jesse Lonis was the final Day 2 departure in 13th after Tang called his 1.3 million-chip shove.

Day 3 resumed at 75,000/150,000 blinds with a 150,000 big blind ante, leaving 11 eliminations between the remaining field and the title.

Lilac Club Casino will stage its $60,000 Legends of Poker Tournament: One-Day Challenge on Thursday, Sept. 24, with Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb set to headline the field. The event begins at 4 p.m. at the Lilac Club Casino Poker Room in Rochester, New Hampshire.

An announcement published by the Des Moines Register lists Hellmuth, described as a 17-bracelet winner, and Deeb, described as a nine-bracelet winner, as the featured poker champions. Jason White, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and Brandon Cantu are also scheduled to join the tournament.

The Sept. 24 stop is Lilac Club Casino’s second major poker tournament featuring Hellmuth. He first played at the property last year, and the casino positioned his return as a follow-up to the inaugural event.

Players who knock out either Hellmuth or Deeb will receive a $500 Champions Bounty. Seats may be limited at the discretion of Poker Room management, and the casino directs players to its poker room for complete registration and satellite information.

Interest has already begun through the first satellite on Sept. 13, where several players earned main-event seats. A final Mega Satellite Tournament takes place Sept. 20. Players can also enter through a $600 buy-in available at the Lilac Club Poker Room from 9 a.m. that day.

The tournament will benefit Thriving Roots Childcare and the Seacoast Educational Endowment of Dover. Under New Hampshire’s charitable-gaming model, participating nonprofits receive a designated portion of gaming proceeds generated during their assigned dates.

Thriving Roots Childcare serves children from six weeks to six years old. Funds it receives are earmarked to replace flooring in its pre-K classroom and buy new playground equipment. The Seacoast Educational Endowment of Dover provides grants to Dover public-school educators for continuing education, classroom resources and teaching tools.

“Bringing an event of this caliber to New Hampshire is exciting, but its ability to support organizations serving local children, families, and educators is what makes it especially meaningful,” Granite State Gaming & Hospitality COO Eric Barbaro said. Granite State Gaming & Hospitality, an affiliate of G2 Gaming, oversees Lilac Club Casino and Beach Club Casino in Hampton Beach.

Live tournament rake has risen most noticeably at smaller buy-ins, tightening margins at the lower end, according to a Card Player comparison of events from 2025-26 with comparable tournaments in 2015 and 2019.

The review covered three tournaments at each of four price points: $10,000, $3,000-$5,000, $1,000 and $500. Its central conclusion was not that live tournament rake is climbing at an alarming rate across the board. Rather, small-stakes players are bearing the largest squeeze, while costs at higher buy-ins have remained roughly steady.

That distinction matters for return on investment. The analysis found that higher rake made only a small difference to the bottom lines of top players at their respective stakes, but said a player operating at 10% ROI is significantly affected by an increase of a couple of percentage points. More reentries and later registration have added to the pressure by draining bankrolls faster, it said.

Card Player argued that the gap in rake between a $500 and a $1,000 event can outweigh the relative difference in the strength of their player pools. If the fields are broadly similar, a winning player can post a better ROI in the larger buy-in because the fee is a smaller share of the entry and the player is competing for larger dollar amounts. More of each buy-in also reaches the prize pool.

For bankroll-constrained players, the article suggested selling more action to enter bigger events could be preferable to repeatedly playing high-rake lower-stakes tournaments. It also said players can pressure operators by avoiding events with higher fees, encouraging schedules with lower rake.

The concern around low buy-ins is not new. Red Chip Poker previously argued that many tournaments below roughly $150 have fees high enough to make a positive ROI doubtful even for a strong tournament player. Its example of an approximately $80 daily tournament in smaller Las Vegas rooms put total juice at about $25.

At the highest-profile U.S. series, the picture is more mixed. The WSOP collected about $47.3 million in tournament fees in 2026, almost unchanged from 2025 despite a slight increase in rake across the schedule. Its $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship drew 9,208 entries. The main event lost entries year-over-year for a second consecutive year even as the full WSOP set a record with about 251,900 entries.

The broader point of the comparison is that the buy-in threshold for a theoretically beatable live tournament is moving upward as operators’ costs rise, putting the greatest strain on players near the bottom of the live tournament ecosystem.

The World Poker Tour has added the $400 Super Gold Million to its 2026 WPT World Championship festival at Wynn Las Vegas, with at least $3 million guaranteed. The tournament runs Dec. 10-14 and is exclusive to live play, rather than an online event.

PokerNews described the Super Gold Million as a live version of ClubWPT Gold’s regular Gold Million. Its guarantee is triple that of the regular Gold Million, and WPT executive tour director Matt Savage confirmed on X that the new event is live-only.

The $10,400 WPT World Championship has $1 million in mystery-bounty pulls added by WPT for players who make deep runs.

The Wynn festival runs from Nov. 27 through Dec. 21, covers 85 scheduled events and serves as the culmination of WPT’s 24th season. PokerNews described this as the festival’s fifth year at Wynn Las Vegas.

The $1,100 WPT Prime Championship runs Dec. 5-12 with a $5 million guarantee. The $10,400 World Championship then begins Dec. 13 with the first of three Day 1 flights, moves to Day 2 on Dec. 16, and has a livestreamed final table scheduled for Dec. 20.

The series opens with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event carrying a $400,000 guarantee and closes with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo. The Super Gold Million overlaps the end of the Prime Championship and the opening phase of the World Championship.

World Poker Tour has released the full schedule for its 2026 WPT World Championship festival at Wynn Las Vegas. The 25-day series runs from Nov. 27 through Dec. 21, offers more than 85 events and carries more than $20 million in guarantees as the finale to WPT Season 24.

The expanded festival is four days longer than last year, according to Poker.org, and buy-ins range from $400 to $25,800. The schedule is weighted toward mid-stakes action, with numerous events priced from $600 to $1,600, while also including seniors, high rollers and a broad mixed-game slate.

The $10,400 WPT World Championship remains the central event. Its three opening flights run Dec. 13-15, with one entry permitted for each flight and a final re-entry window closing before Day 2 begins Dec. 16. The six-handed final table will be livestreamed and televised Dec. 20, with the winner earning a place on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.

WPT is adding $1 million in mystery-bounty cash to the Championship, separate from the prize pool built through entries. Once the bounty phase begins, the top 160 finishers will receive draws for that money.

Schuyler Thornton returns as defending champion after winning the 2025 event from a field of 1,865 entries. WPT’s event recap lists his first-place payout at about $2.26 million, including a $10,400 entry to this year’s Championship.

A new low-buy-in headliner, the $400 Super Gold Million, runs Dec. 10-14 with a $3 million guarantee. The live-only event has four starting flights, unlimited re-entry and a mystery-bounty format in which qualifying eliminations give players draws for extra cash and prizes. WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage confirmed that it will be exclusively live, rather than an online edition of ClubWPT Gold’s Gold Million.

The $1,100 WPT Prime Championship runs Dec. 5-12 with a $5 million guarantee, unchanged from last year. It uses four starting flights that combine into one Day 2 field. Aaron Johnson is the defending Prime champion after navigating 9,876 entries for just over $1 million.

The schedule also includes a $1,100 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship beginning Dec. 13 with a $250,000 guarantee. Satellites run throughout the festival, including a $200 Milestone Satellite on Dec. 6 that awards 50 Prime seats, and a $1,600 Milestone Satellite on Dec. 7 that distributes 25 prizes across Prime and World Championship routes.

Mixed-game options include T.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Limit Omaha 8, Limit Omaha 8/Stud 8, Mixed Triple Draw, Big O and PLO. The festival opens with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event carrying a $400,000 guarantee, while a $600 NLH Turbo closes the series. Wynn Poker Room will also host a WPT Meet-Up Game on Dec. 1, offering $1/$3 and $2/$5 cash games, special guests and giveaways.

As previously reported, WPT plans to begin Season 25 at NagaWorld in Phnom Penh next January with the WPT Cambodia Championship.

Tight Poker will run its first community freeroll on Oct. 19, a multi-table No-Limit Texas Hold’em event with $500 in Bitcoin prizes. The site says it is the first chance for its community to meet at the tables, and the tournament is open only to verified users.

According to Tight Poker’s announcement page, players do not pay a conventional cash buy-in. Instead, eligible users enter with a Weekly tournament ticket, and the event is capped at 200 players. The prize pool pays Bitcoin through 16th place, with $150 for first, $100 for second and $75 for third.

The payout ladder keeps going past the paid spots. Finishers from 17th through 25th receive a Monthly tournament ticket, which sends them into Tight Poker’s $1,000 monthly championship. Tight Poker describes that setup as creating two bubbles in the same event, one for getting paid and another for qualifying for the bigger monthly tournament.

The format is built to move quickly. Players start with 800 tournament chips, the opening blinds are 25/50, and blind levels rise every seven minutes. The site says the full weekly event is meant to last roughly one to two hours, with tables breaking down as players bust until a final table decides the first Tight Poker tournament champion.

RG.org describes freerolls as free-to-enter contests that let beginners gain real experience, test strategy against other players and potentially build a small bankroll without risking their own money. Tight Poker’s first offering ties the finish directly to both Bitcoin prizes and a path into its monthly championship.

Martin Zamani won ACR Poker’s $10,300 Phil’s Thrill on Sept. 13, taking his first victory in the event. The tournament drew 35 entries from 27 players and built a $350,000 prize pool, with payouts going to just five players.

PokerListings reported that the Phil’s Thrill score was only part of Zamani’s day. He also won two Phil Nagy-branded high-stakes tournaments on ACR Poker nine minutes apart, including the $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO 6-Max, which drew 55 entries from 38 players and paid out $137,500. Zamani collected $38,500 for that smaller win.

Phil’s Thrill is a weekly $10,300 buy-in event that runs every Sunday at 2:30 PM ET, according to ACR’s tournament page. The site describes it as the biggest weekly tournament in ACR Poker history and says it is named after WPN CEO Phil Nagy.

CardPlayer reported that the tournament was created after players asked for more consistent high-stakes action, prompting Nagy to say he would play too. The same report said final tables are streamed on Twitch with commentary from ACR Poker pro Rob Kuhn and guests, and that players can qualify through satellites and step tournaments.

PokerListings said Zamani’s two Phil’s tournament wins helped him shake off a slight summer slump and pushed his SharkScope profit past $379,000. He marked the night on X with a short post: “Hot day in the ACR Poker streets.”

He now has a fresh bankroll boost for ACR’s OSS XL Nosebleed series, which runs from Sept. 21 to 28 and features buy-ins from $5,200 to $25,500.

Matthew Wantman won his first Triton title in Jeju, taking down Event 11 of Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, the $50,000 seven-handed no-limit hold’em event. He beat Nick Schulman heads-up after the two agreed to a deal, with $30,000 still in play for the winner, and finished with the trophy and $836,721.

Triton’s report said the event drew 70 entries from 49 unique players, with 21 re-entries, and built a $3.5 million prize pool. The tournament ran on 13 September, and the series said Wantman and Schulman chose to keep playing heads-up only as long as needed after they chopped the payout.

The closing stretch produced an American podium sweep, with Ben Tollerene finishing third for $448,000. Aliaksandr Shylko took seventh for $168,000, Danny Tang was sixth for $213,000, Danilo Velasevic finished fifth for $273,000, and Dan Dvoress was fourth for $344,000. The final table also featured Tang and Dvoress alongside Schulman, who brought a Poker Hall of Fame résumé and eight WSOP bracelets into the match.

Card Player reported that the bubble did not burst until the second day and that the official final table of seven did not lock in until well into the evening. By the time heads-up began, the stacks were nearly even, with Schulman and Wantman both sitting around the mid-40 big-blind mark.

Wantman entered Jeju with well over $12 million in career earnings, plus a 2019 World Poker Tour title in Las Vegas, a first WSOP bracelet from 2025 and four PokerGO Tour titles. He later said he had not had time to process the result yet and described getting heads up against one of his best friends. The win added 714 Card Player Player of the Year points, lifting him to 3,287 and 50th place in the CoinPoker-sponsored yearlong race.

Valentin Lita won the inaugural WSOP Circuit Main Event at Caesars Virginia, beating a 665-entry field in the $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em championship. The victory gave him his first WSOP Circuit ring, a career-best $181,853, and a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package. The prize pool reached $1,007,475, more than double the event’s original $500,000 guarantee.

As covered when the series opened, Caesars Virginia hosted the first WSOP Circuit stop ever held in Virginia. The WSOP’s announcement said the Danville festival ran Sept. 3-14, featured 18 official ring events, and carried more than $1.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The Main Event began Sept. 10 and was billed as the flagship tournament of the series.

According to Poker.org, Lita did not start the final day with the chip lead. Runner-up Marshall White held a sizeable advantage when play began, but the field was reduced from seven-handed to four within the first half-hour after cards got back in the air. Lita said he was pretty confident and credited support from his wife, adding, “I got a lot of support from my wife, so that helps a lot.”

The report says the win capped a strong stretch for Lita, who had reached three other final tables over the previous two months. He moved from Romania to the United States 23 years ago and now lives in Ashburn, Virginia, where he owns a small construction company. After one frustrating spot, he said he talked it through with his wife and a close friend, then returned to the table and kept building his stack until he closed it out.

Joao Simao won the $200,000 Triton Jeju Invitational at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II for $7.25 million at LES A Casino in South Korea. The score was his biggest payday to date, his second Triton victory, and the result that put him on top of Brazil’s all-time tournament earnings list.

According to PokerNews, the run had plenty of turbulence before it turned into a title. Simao reached the money on Day 2, dropped to just two big blinds after one preflop encounter, and still fought back to return for the final day with 25 big blinds. He later burst the final-table bubble by sending Matthias Eibinger out in 10th place for $635,000.

As covered in our earlier Jeju update, Yang Wang had led the Invitational into the final 16 after the bubble hand. Simao then started the final table with the chip lead and the nine-handed finish unfolded from there. Eric Tsai went out in ninth, Thomas Boivin in eighth, Hannes Jeschka in seventh, Winfred Yu in sixth, Emilien Pitavy in fifth, and Wang in fourth, before Seth Davies finished third for $3.47 million. Card Player said Davies became the first player to appear on three Triton Invitational final tables.

Heads-up against Biao Ding, the players discussed a deal but never settled on one, so the full first prize stayed in play. Ding finished second for $4.94 million after a late turn all-in went Simao’s way, and the match lasted about two and a half hours. Simao said afterward that it was “by far the happiest moment of my career.”

The Invitational drew 173 entries, made up of 120 unique players and 53 re-entries, and built a $34.6 million prize pool. The top seven all earned seven figures, the bubble min-cash was $305,000 when Semi Sun exited one place shy of the money, and Card Player said the event did not award Player of the Year points because it was an invitational affair. Card Player also described the format as one that split early action between invited players and professionals before the fields merged later.

Clubs Poker opened its Omaha National Championship on Sunday, Sept. 13, kicking off a 15-day, Omaha-only series with 90 events, six daily tournaments and 10,000 SC in added leaderboard prizes. The festival also comes with tournament guarantees worth tens of thousands of SC, capped by a 5,000 SC guaranteed Main Event.

The new promotion followed the successful finish of Clubs Poker’s six-week No Fee Daily Mix series, which crowned six weekly champions.

The ONC schedule covers PLO, PLO5, PLO6, Big O and FLO8. Clubs Poker said the buy-in spread, from 5.50 SC to 88 SC, is meant to give players a daily option that fits their bankroll, and the lower-end events start at 5.5 SC and 11 SC with guarantees between 400 SC and 750 SC.

The series keeps six tournaments on the board every day and stays more or less steady across the festival. Some of the lower-end events could face overlay, based on turnout in the previous mixed-game series.

The Main Event sits at the top of the schedule as a single 88 SC tournament with a 5,000 SC guaranteed prize pool. It uses Omaha 4/5/6 format, alternating between three popular Omaha variants.

Clubs Poker is also adding limited merch rewards. Winning any ONC event earns an exclusive Champion Shirt, printed in limited numbers, while a player can claim the Champion Hoodie by winning three events during the series or by taking down the Main Event and another event.

The leaderboard side adds another 10,000 SC to the festival prize pool across three rankings. The Low and High leaderboards each pay 3,000 SC, while the Overall leaderboard pays 4,000 SC. Players qualify by finishing in the top 25 on Low or the top 15 on High and Overall, with top payouts of 450 SC, 600 SC and 800 SC respectively.

PokerStars Network has debuted with Betfair as the first brand to join the new setup. On August 13, Betfair moved off the iPoker network and began operating as PokerStars on Betfair, with access to PokerStars’ global dot-com player pool.

As reported in August, PokerStars had already said UK players would move onto Betfair later in the year. The company said the UK change was about how players access poker, not about removing PokerStars software, which it says has been live since 2001 and has been the industry standard for 25 years.

PokerStars said UK players will still be able to play Sunday Million, SCOOP, WCOOP and Spin & Go, and qualify for major live events such as the European Poker Tour. It also said fair-play and security standards will continue across the network, even if some players hold more than one brand account, while a player can only play on one account at a time.

The wider plan is to bring Paddy Power Poker and Sky Poker onto PokerStars software later this year. PokerStars says PSN is meant to connect players across Flutter brands in shared pools and rebuild liquidity, while chief commercial officer Mike Woodbridge said patchwork regulation had fragmented the global game, leaving thinner fields and smaller tournament prizes. Betfair managing director Kim Daly called the integration a way to unite two category-transformers and create an integrated poker, sports betting and premium casino experience.

GGPoker has widened its WSOP Express path to WSOP Paradise 2026, giving players another way to chase a Super Main Event seat without paying the full buy-in up front. The new route runs from a free starting ticket through low-stakes qualifying steps and ends at a $2,500 Express tournament that awards $30,000 Super Passes.

As covered in August, WSOP Paradise returns to Baha Mar in December with a $50 million guaranteed Super Main Event. Betting News said the promotion is aimed at that headline event, and that the festival runs from Dec. 2 through Dec. 17 with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guaranteed prize pools.

According to Betting News, the ladder begins with a free Step 0 ticket and an Avatar Race. Step 1 is an All-in or Fold 4-Max game with a regular $0.50 entry, Step 2 is a $2 Spin & Gold 6-Max, Step 3 is a $10 Sit & Go On-Demand stage, and Step 4 is a multi-day tournament that normally costs $150.

From there, players move into the final $2,500 Express tournament. Betting News said that stage awards 34 Super Passes worth $30,000 each, and that each package includes entry to the $26,000 Super Main Event, 13 nights of accommodation at Baha Mar, a last-longer promotion worth $10,000 in tournament dollars, Platinum Discord access and GGPoker x WSOP Paradise merchandise.

PokerNews described the same overall path as a free route through the WSOP Express tab in the GGPoker lobby. It said players can start with a free Step 0 ticket, then move through Step 1 at $0.50, Step 2 at $2, Step 3 at $10 and Step 4 at $150 before reaching the Super Pass stage.

There is one wrinkle in the coverage around the top prize pool. GGPoker’s main announcement and Betting News referred to a $50 million guaranteed Super Main Event, while one GGPoker package breakdown page said $60 million. Pokerfuse also said the promotion will hand out at least 25 WSOP Paradise packages every week, each tied to the $26,000 entry and a stay at Baha Mar.

PokerStars on FanDuel’s Ontario Dynasty Series opened on Sept. 12 and is set to run through Sept. 28. Coverage of the Ontario slate is split, with Bonus.com and PokerNews putting it at 60 events and Pokerfuse and F5 Poker counting 61.

As reported on Sept. 3, PokerStars on FanDuel had already unveiled the broader September Dynasty Series across its U.S. and Ontario sites. The Ontario launch also comes just after the free Summer Sendoff Freeroll Festival, which ran Sept. 4-13 with 10 events and C$10,000 in prizes for a 1-cent buy-in.

The Ontario series starts with the $50 No-Limit Hold’em Nightly Dynasty. PokerNews said the opening weekend has eight tournaments in all, and the biggest event in that stretch is the two-day $500 NLHE Storm beginning on Sept. 13.

Buy-ins on the Ontario schedule run from C$30 to C$1,500, and the lineup is NLHE-only. Pokerfuse said the mix includes regular events, PKOs and mystery bounties, while also noting that mixed games have not shown up on the new PokerStars on FanDuel platform.

The closing stretch is anchored by the $300 Dynasty Series Main Event and the $50 Mini Main Event. Bonus.com described the Ontario festival as one of the larger scheduled tournament offerings yet under the PokerStars on FanDuel brand in the province, while F5 Poker said no series-wide Ontario guarantee has been announced. Both marquee tournaments are set for Sept. 27.

Stake Poker has added the Weekly Treasure Hunt, a recurring Sunday Mystery Bounty tournament with a $20 buy-in and a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool. The current promotion runs from Sept. 10 through Dec. 31, and players can find it in the Stake Poker tournament lobby under “The Weekly Treasure Hunt.”

According to PokerStrategy, the format pairs normal tournament payouts with randomized Mystery Bounty prizes. That means knockouts can unlock extra rewards before the final table, which gives recreational players an added bit of drama and gives regular MTT players another layer of strategy to work through.

As covered in our Sept. 8 report on the $125,000 Stake Showdown, Stake Poker has continued to add more pieces to its tournament calendar. The Treasure Hunt itself is not new, either. Earlier in 2026, Stake ran a Saturday version with a $10,000 guarantee and a $10 buy-in, so this latest edition shifts the action to Sunday and raises both the entry fee and the prize pool.

The appeal is straightforward. There are no multi-step missions or complicated qualification requirements, just a weekly event that players can enter directly and play for a share of the guarantee. For grinders, that makes it another fixed Sunday stop on the schedule, while the mystery bounty layer gives each elimination a little extra weight.

Yang Wang led the $200,000 Triton Invitational into its final 16 after winning the bubble hand against Semi Sun at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II. The event drew 173 entries and built a $34.6 million prize pool, with 31 places paid, $305,000 locked up for everyone who made the money, and $7.25 million plus the Triton trophy waiting for the winner.

As covered in our earlier Jeju preview, the Invitational was part of Triton’s return to Les A Casino in South Korea for the series’ Asian debut there. Poker.org described the event as a record 60 VIP-professional pairings, and Day 2 began with 94 survivors from Day 1 plus 18 late registrants for 112 players total. Late registration was still open when play resumed and the prize pool had not yet been finalized.

The bubble hand was the big swing of the day. One PokerNews recap said Semi Sun had a top-three stack on the bubble, then moved all-in on the river as a bluff and ran into Wang’s full house. That same recap said Wang had been at risk himself minutes earlier before doubling with pocket aces and turning into the table leader.

After the bubble burst, play continued until 16 remained. Wang bagged 7.31 million chips, Hannes Jeschka finished second on 5.84 million, and Emilien Pitavy sat third with 4.18 million. Adrian Mateos, the most recent Triton Invitational champion, stayed in contention with 3.575 million, while each survivor was guaranteed $460,000. The 16 survivors were due back for Day 3 at 1 p.m. local time, with 35 minutes left in Level 23 and blinds of 50,000/125,000 with a 125,000 big blind ante.

ChampionPoker has opened its first online qualifiers for Triton ONE, with 20 guaranteed packages worth €9,000 each on offer. The satellite ladder starts at just €0.01 and moves players through a series of stages before the package finals.

As covered in our August report on low-cost routes into live events, ChampionPoker is now adding Triton ONE to that pattern, and Revenue Missions also give players another way to pick up Triton ONE tickets through regular play.

According to SpadePoker, the full promotion carries a combined package value of €180,000. Successful qualifiers will head to Cyprus for the European debut of Triton ONE, which the report says comes before the Triton Super High Roller Series at the Merit Royal Diamond.

The same report frames the move as a big shift for a brand that has traditionally been associated with huge buy-ins, elite professionals, and intense tournament action. Instead of paying thousands of euros directly, players can work through a structured satellite path, and the promotion is set up with some flexibility, including the option to start at the lowest level and enter the qualification path multiple times where permitted.

ChampionPoker says the qualifiers run from 14 September through 19 October, giving players a limited window to chase one of the 20 guaranteed €9,000 packages.

Poker Masters is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from Oct. 12-23 with a ten-event schedule inside PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino. The series runs from the opening $10,500 No-Limit Hold’em event through a $51,000 finale, and the overall champion will receive the purple velvet jacket.

Event #1 begins on Oct. 12 at the $10,500 NLH level, and five more events stay at that same buy-in. The middle of the schedule steps up to $15,700 for Events #7 and #8, then to $26,000 for Event #9 before the series closes with the $51,000 NLH final table.

The schedule page lists the venue as PokerGO Studio, ARIA Resort & Casino, 3730 S Las Vegas Blvd Suite 270, Las Vegas, NV 89158, and shows the series running Monday, Oct. 12 through Friday, Oct. 23. PokerNews says it will be on-site throughout the series to cover the high-stakes action.

The 2025 edition gave the purple jacket to David Coleman, who won the Poker Masters $1,000,000 Showcase for $270,000 and then finished runner-up to Brandon Wilson in the finale for $355,000. Last year’s series also featured several other familiar high-stakes names, including Andrew Moreno, Darren Elias, Chino Rheem and PokerGO head honcho Cary Katz.