888poker will run a PLO Weekend from Nov. 13-15, pairing 100% rakeback at dedicated tables with freerolls and newly added PLO5 and PLO6 tournaments. The event expands the site’s Omaha schedule beyond its existing PLO, PLO5 and PLO6 cash-game options for the three-day promotion.

PokerNews reported that the new tournaments will be added alongside existing cash games in those formats.

The addition of PLO5 and PLO6 events follows earlier 888poker Omaha weekends that combined cash-game rebates with tournament schedules. In April, the site returned every cent of qualifying PLO5 and PLO6 cash-game rake during an April 10-12 offer, although players had to generate at least $1 in rake to qualify. That promotion also featured five Omaha tournaments and freeroll satellites.

A February 2025 PLO Weekend used a similar formula, offering 100% rakeback on qualifying PLO5 and PLO6 cash-game rake, five special Omaha tournaments and freeroll satellites. Its $25 PLO4 Mystery Bounty Main Event carried a $10,000 guarantee and included a $1,000 jackpot bounty.

888poker launched five-card and six-card Pot-Limit Omaha in November 2024, accompanied by promotions designed to highlight their availability. Alongside standard PLO, PLO5 and PLO6, the site lists Hi/Lo, Big O and Drawmaha/Sviten among its Omaha variants.

Standard Pot-Limit Omaha deals each player four hole cards, compared with two in Texas Hold’em. Players must use exactly two cards from their hand and three from the board to make their five-card hand.

Kayhan “KayhanMok” Mokri won a combined $1 million from WhaleVibez across two high-stakes CoinPoker no-limit hold’em sessions last week. The heads-up games ran at $500/$1,000 with a $250 ante, continuing a matchup in which Mokri had already won about $500,000 in their first reported match.

The result included two pots worth more than a quarter of a million dollars. In the first, played with stacks of roughly 127 big blinds, Mokri opened the button to $2,500 and called a three-bet to $10,300.

WhaleVibez fired on every street of a J♣-10♠-8♦-4♦-6♥ board, betting $8,440 on the flop, $26,586 on the turn and $87,260 on the river. Mokri called the final bet with 10♥9♣ for a pair of tens, beating WhaleVibez’s ace-high bluff to collect a $253,713 pot.

The second featured hand was a flush-over-flush cooler with both players close to 150 blinds deep. WhaleVibez opened to $2,400 and called Mokri’s three-bet to $10,555 before Mokri bet the Q♥-6♦-4♦ flop for $7,131.

After both players checked the 3♥ turn, Mokri bet $17,936 when the 2♦ completed the board. WhaleVibez raised to $54,526, Mokri moved all in for $131,190, and WhaleVibez called with 8♦7♦ for a flush. Mokri’s K♦9♦ made the higher flush and secured the $298,254 pot.

Card Player said recent high-stakes no-limit action on CoinPoker had largely been in ring games. Mokri has also appeared in substantially bigger games on the site: Rakeback.com reported in January that he was among the first players at CoinPoker’s new $2,500/$5,000 tables and finished one session with a reported $500,000 overall profit.

Those January games also included a reported $1.1 million pot at $1,250/$2,500, in which Mokri beat Cardsforfun’s pocket aces. The latest result, however, came from a heads-up hold’em battle rather than those earlier, higher-stakes cash tables.

KKPoker has opened a 12-day login challenge for players who register between Nov. 10 and Nov. 20, 2026, at 09:59 GMT, offering daily rewards, three free-entry FLIP tournaments and a Lucky Wheel prize that can pay up to $1,000 in cash.

The challenge starts when an eligible new player registers. PokerStrategy.com reported that players only need to open the app on consecutive days and tap its in-app prize icon to collect each reward. They do not need to play hands or enter tournaments, but a missed login resets the streak.

Tickets for FLIP Freerolls arrive on the first, sixth and 12th consecutive login days. Each of the three freerolls has a $300 prize pool containing MTT tickets, satellite MTT tickets and SpinUp tickets. Once registered, players do not need to remain in the app because the FLIP game runs automatically and any winnings are credited directly to their accounts.

The FLIP format also has a Multi-Stack option. Players can spread earned tickets across different FLIP events or use multiple tickets in one tournament to begin with a larger stack.

Five straight daily logins unlock the Lucky Wheel before the full 12-day run is complete. Its prizes range from additional FLIP tickets to the $1,000 cash top prize. CanadianPoker.com also described the offer as the KKPoker November Login Challenge.

The new-player offer follows KKPoker’s HalloWIN festival, which we covered in October. New registrants can choose a first-deposit bonus alongside the limited-time login promotion, and KKPoker has also recently added Mixed Games beyond Hold’em and Omaha for newcomers to try.

KKPoker is preparing a $1M+ Holiday Event as its next major seasonal promotion after the November bonus period.

Stake.us’ Jacked Poker Series began Nov. 10 and is running through Nov. 30, with 176 poker tournaments offering a combined 1.5 million Stake Cash in prizes. Direct buy-ins range from 5 SC to 1,000 SC, while satellite qualifiers start at 0.50 SC.

According to Phandroid, players do not need a Stake.us promo code to enter the series. Satellites provide the lower-cost route into larger tournaments, and the schedule’s two biggest events are the Stake Showdown and the Jacked Main Event Final, both set for Nov. 29.

We reported Nov. 11 that Stake Poker had announced a Jacked Poker Series with 198 tournaments and $2 million in guarantees, figures that differ from this Stake.us report. The current Stake.us schedule lists 176 events and prizes denominated in Stake Cash rather than dollars.

The Jacked Main Event Final is not a standard direct-entry event. Only players who finish a Day 1 flight with chips can take part in the final stage.

Stake.us also offers weekly rewards in Gold Coins and free SC, alongside slots, live dealer games and Stake Originals. The stated participation conditions require players to be at least 21, or to meet the applicable minimum gambling age in their state, and to be located where online gambling is legal.

The source advises responsible play and directs people seeking help with gambling problems to the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey at 1-800-Gambler or Gamblers Anonymous at 855-2-CALL-GA.

Benedek Farkas erased a 15:1 heads-up chip deficit to win the $10,000 no-limit hold’em seven-max title at Triton ONE North Cyprus. He beat Dmitrii Kukhtarev in a 324-entry field and collected $572,000, his first six-figure live-tournament payout.

Kukhtarev began the final table with the lead, while Farkas was third among the seven remaining players. By three-handed play, Kukhtarev had more than three times the chips of his nearest rival; Igor Provkin then exited third for about $261,000 after his pocket fours lost a flip against ace-ten.

According to Card Player, Kukhtarev took 60.75 million chips into heads-up against Farkas’s 4.05 million. Farkas won most of the early pots, then made eights full of queens against Kukhtarev’s trip eights to cut further into the lead. He subsequently picked off a bluff to move ahead and built his advantage to about 5:1.

The final hand began with Kukhtarev limping 10♠7♣ and Farkas checking 5♦4♥. The 7♥5♠3♣ flop gave both players a pair, but the 6♦ turn completed Farkas’s straight and locked up the pot. Kukhtarev improved to two pair on the 10♣ river, called Farkas’s all-in bet, and finished runner-up for $362,000.

Farkas said he had an idea of how Kukhtarev played and called the match “a battle.” He said he needed luck when the stacks were 100 big blinds to seven, but believed he played well once the two were even.

The victory lifted Farkas’s recorded live cashes to more than $782,000. His previous largest payout had been $52,238 for second place in a €5,000 PokerStars Open Cannes event in 2025. The result also supplied 1,200 Card Player Player of the Year points, his first qualifying score in that race this year.

It followed Alin Ivan’s victory in the series-opening $3,000 QQPK Genesis event, as we reported Nov. 8.

Artem Osmirko won his second GGPoker GGMillion$ title of 2026 on Nov. 10, taking $406,521 from a 192-entry $10,000 high roller. He beat Pedro Padilha heads-up, leaving the Brazilian with $318,747 and pushing Padilha’s GGMillion$ earnings beyond $2 million.

The $2 million prize pool was still largely undecided when the nine-player final table began. The field had been cut to nine on Nov. 8 before play resumed two days later.

Osmirko began the final table with the largest stack and retained the lead throughout, according to PokerListings. He knocked out Valen_tina in eighth in a 47-big-blind king-queen-suited versus ace-deuce-off pot, then eliminated Andrii Dzerzhepilskyi in seventh when his ace-five suited cracked pocket kings in a 25-big-blind pot.

Tim Kramer was the first finalist out, earning $58,074, followed by Valen_tina for $74,066. Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas finished sixth for $120,475 after Gaspare Sposato made a better two pair on the river, but Sposato then ran ace-king into Padilha’s pocket aces and collected $153,650 in fifth.

Gabriel Tavares took fourth for $195,962 after bluffing into Osmirko’s trips. Padilha reached heads-up by eliminating Pascal Lefrancois in third for $249,924, improving pocket eights to a set against ace-three.

Osmirko held 15 million chips to Padilha’s 5.1 million when heads-up play began, a 94-big-blind stack against 32 big blinds. In the deciding hand, Padilha raised with king-nine of spades and called Osmirko’s ace-ten-of-clubs shove. The board did not help Padilha, securing Osmirko’s win.

The result followed three consecutive GGMillion$ final tables earlier in the year, one of which Osmirko won in July. That first title came in a 144-entry event with a $1.4 million prize pool and paid $303,531, along with a $10,000 package for the live GGMillion$ at the 2026 WSOP Paradise.

The GGMillion$ runs every Sunday on GGPoker, with $109 Steps satellites offering a route into the event.

Stake.us left Oklahoma on Oct. 30, two days before the state’s new ban on sweepstakes gaming took effect under Senate Bill 1589. Regular gameplay is no longer available to Oklahoma customers, although they can still redeem existing Stake Cash balances.

Clubs Poker also withdrew on Oct. 30. Global Poker ended sweepstakes play for Oklahoma players that day but continued to offer its Gold Coin games in the state, leaving three of the four main sweepstakes poker operators withdrawn before the law took effect.

ClubWPT Gold was the outlier in the group. It still listed Oklahoma as eligible for sweepstakes play when Poker Industry PRO checked on Nov. 9, according to Bonus.com, though that listing alone did not establish compliance with the new law.

SB 1589 puts dual-currency and virtual-token games within Oklahoma’s existing gambling offense, with no poker exemption. It targets casino-style games in which one currency is used for social play and another can be redeemed for prizes. The law defines a coin as a representative of value used for gambling, and violations are felony offenses.

The measure also reaches beyond operators. Suppliers, payment processors, geolocation providers and affiliates can face liability, a broad scope that Governor Kevin Stitt criticized when he vetoed the bill. Stitt said its language was “too broad,” but the Legislature overrode him May 14, voting 34-10 in the Senate and 68-19 in the House.

The ban does not affect tribal gaming conducted under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, so licensed Oklahoma tribal casinos remain unaffected. Oklahoma also has no regulated online casino market, leaving fewer legal online options for players affected by the sweepstakes restrictions.

PokerListings counted nine states with enacted sweepstakes casino bans as of October: California, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New York and Tennessee. Oklahoma became the 10th when SB 1589 took effect Nov. 1, while Idaho, Michigan, Nevada and Washington had already kept most sweepstakes casinos out through older gambling laws or enforcement.

A disputed river call on The Lodge Card Club’s Nov. 5 livestream turned into a widely shared poker rules controversy after a player known as Justin said “I call,” moved chips forward, then tried to take them back as San Kim began to reveal his hand. The floor ruled the action was a call, and the hand ended in a chopped pot.

Justin was facing an $8,700 river bet from Kim. He said he held ace-high and asked whether Kim could beat it, then said, “I gotta go anyway,” pushed a stack of chips forward and verbally called. After Kim moved to show his cards, Justin pulled the chips back and said, “I didn’t call.”

Jay Nguyen questioned Justin about the reversal, telling him: “You said, ‘I call.’” The ruling rested on Justin’s forward chip movement. More than 10,000 people were watching the livestream, and Justin had appeared on the stream a number of times before the hand.

Skull Mike, a regular Lodge stream commentator who was playing in the game, shared the hand and his original post drew more than 1.1 million views. The Lodge also circulated the clip and asked viewers whether it was “angle or an honest mistake.”

Reaction online was much harsher. Replies described the incident as cheating or an angle shoot, with some calling for Justin to be barred from the stream or given a lifetime ban. Skull Mike offered a different reading, calling the spot chaotic and saying Justin was a good man who got caught up in the moment as Kim reacted quickly and that he honestly forgot he had made a verbal call.

The Lodge’s published tournament rules list “call” among official betting terms and say players must make their intentions clear. They also warn that gestures made while facing action are at the player’s risk and can produce a ruling different from the player’s intended action. The club says floor decisions are made in the interests of the game and fairness, and are final.

Those Lodge rules apply to its tournaments. The Poker Tournament Directors Association’s 2026 rules similarly identify “call” as an official betting term and say use of such a term in a question or casual conversation may be ruled binding when it can reasonably be interpreted as intended action. The TDA advises players to phrase questions neutrally to avoid ambiguity.

Maryland’s Lottery and Gaming Control Commission ordered SpeedSweeps and Cashoomo on Nov. 2 to immediately stop unauthorized online gaming activity in the state. The commission said its review found both operators offering online casino games, poker and sweepstakes to people physically present in Maryland.

Each company was told to respond by email within 10 days, confirm it would stop offering those products in Maryland, and provide an operations-termination date and wind-down plan. The nearly identical notices also warned that failure to comply may jeopardize an operator’s eligibility for a future Maryland license, registration or certification.

The commission’s position is that the sites’ offerings meet all three elements of gaming: consideration, chance and prize. Maryland law makes gaming illegal unless it has been expressly authorized, and the commission determined that neither operator’s offerings were authorized.

Maryland currently permits real-money online wagering only through commission-licensed mobile sports wagering and commission-registered fantasy sports competitions. Maryland Lottery and Gaming says no other form of real-money online or mobile gaming or wagering is operating legally in the state.

In March legislative testimony, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency described consideration, chance and prize as a player paying to play for a chance to win a real-money prize. It also said online real-money games of chance, including poker, slots and prize-bearing sweepstakes games, are not authorized in Maryland.

The agency has been sending cease-and-desist notices to operators of illegal online games, and said about 25% of recipients had voluntarily blocked Maryland access to their games. But the commission can determine whether gaming is legal and send notices without having direct enforcement authority against operators that ignore them.

Maryland Lottery and Gaming periodically contacts platforms that appear to be operating illegally, asking them to either confirm they are not operating illegally or halt unauthorized activity. Its public cease-and-desist list is not intended to be a comprehensive record of illegal online gaming platforms.

The notices arrived after Maryland’s 2026 effort to legislate specifically around sweepstakes-style gambling did not become law. House Bill 295 failed to advance through the Senate, while a separate proposed measure, House Bill 1226, would have given the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division authority to issue cease-and-desist orders and pursue enforcement against illegal online gambling.

Vikki Goodwin’s six-point defeat of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Nov. 3 has improved the political outlook for Texas poker-room legislation, but it has not changed the law governing the state’s card clubs. Goodwin has supported putting poker legislation to voters, while Patrick had blocked gambling-expansion efforts in the Senate for years.

The election also gave Democrats control of the Texas House and put a Democratic governor in office, though Republicans retained the Senate by a 19-12 margin. That divided Legislature means the new alignment could make poker legislation easier to advance in 2027, but it offers no guarantee of passage.

Goodwin cannot legalize private poker clubs on her own, and she has not specifically endorsed their legalization. Still, she voted for the House’s failed 2023 gambling measure while serving as a state representative, and has said she wants to “put it to the people” on poker legislation.

As we reported on Nov. 3, Nathan Johnson’s attorney general victory also put a gambling-reform supporter in an office that can shape the legal discussion around Texas card rooms.

For players and operators, the immediate position is unchanged. Texas law makes playing and betting for money at card games a criminal offense, subject to a statutory defense when three conditions are met; keeping a gambling place is also an offense, with defenses available in some circumstances. The Texas State Law Library says private-club legality remains under debate.

Many rooms seek to fit within those defenses by operating as social clubs. Rather than take rake from pots, they charge memberships and seat fees, a model used by venues including Texas Card House and Champions Club. Club owners say that structure complies with state law, while critics contend it exploits a loophole.

The uncertainty has persisted through court disputes and enforcement action. The Texas Supreme Court declined in September 2025 to hear a Dallas certificate-of-occupancy dispute involving Texas Card House, leaving in place an appeals-court ruling that rejected a finding that the room had operated illegally. Authorities also raided The Lodge Card Club near Austin in March over suspected illegal gambling and other allegations; no criminal charges had been filed as of April 9, although seized assets were still being held.

Lawmakers could address the poker-club question through ordinary legislation without first amending the Texas Constitution. Broader casino or sports-wagering expansion faces a higher bar: a constitutional amendment needs two-thirds support in each chamber, or at least 100 House votes and 21 Senate votes, before going to voters.

The distinction is already visible in the first filings for the next session. Republican Rep. Charlie Geren has filed a resolution to let voters decide on casino gaming and sports wagering, not a poker-club bill. A similar gambling resolution passed the House in 2023 but failed in Patrick’s Senate.

The 90th Texas Legislature convenes Jan. 12, 2027, when lawmakers can take up either a targeted clarification for card clubs or wider gambling proposals.

The €1,500 WSOP Circuit Middelkerke Main Event began Wednesday at Casino Middelkerke Betfirst, opening its first of four starting flights at 12:30 p.m. local time. PokerNews live coverage recorded three registrations when cards went in the air, with play beginning at 100/200 blinds and a 200 ante.

Players receive 50,000 chips and play 40-minute levels until 15% of a starting flight remains. Those survivors advance to Day 2 already in the money. Unlimited re-entries are available through the first 12 levels, giving players further chances to qualify across flights A through D.

The Main Event is Event #6 on the official nine-event WSOP Circuit Middelkerke schedule. As covered earlier this month, the Belgian festival runs through Sunday, Nov. 15, with the €1,500 tournament serving as its centerpiece.

Four ring winners had already emerged before the Main Event started. Nathan Gullentops won the €300 Mini Main Event for €30,000, Pierre Titeca took the €550 Seniors Event for €8,600, Sebastian Mathisen won the €550 Knockout for €8,758, and Ingo Paulus collected €13,500 in the €550 Mystery Bounty.

The previous Middelkerke Main Event drew 414 players. Omar Lakhdari won that edition for €118,000 and his first Circuit ring, then added two more rings at the recent WSOP Circuit Paris stop.

Day 2 of the Middelkerke Main Event is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 14, while the wider festival concludes Nov. 15.

ClubWPT Gold’s 5 Million GTD Free Entry Tournament is under way, offering a 5 million-Chip guarantee and a 1 million-Chip top prize. The event began Nov. 1 and runs through Nov. 29, with free Day 1 flights available at least twice daily through Nov. 28.

As we reported Oct. 28, the tournament is ClubWPT Gold’s largest single event to date. The World Poker Tour says each player receives one free entry per Day 1 flight, which start at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. PT. Players who bust may re-enter for 100 Chips, and may buy one 50-Chip add-on in each flight.

The format gives players a way to build multiple stacks for the finale. Five percent of each Day 1 field earns a portion of that flight’s prize pool, while the top 3% advances to Day 2. Any player who advances more than once carries a combined stack into the final day.

Prizes are awarded in Chips, which ClubWPT Gold’s redemption rules value at $1 per Chip. The service is a sweepstakes-based poker club available in 45 U.S. states and territories, according to its tournament announcement. No purchase is necessary, and the promotion is void where prohibited; participation is limited to eligible players aged 21 or older and subject to geographic restrictions.

PokerOrg framed the event as an unusually soft freeroll, citing the tendency for free tournaments to attract newer and less experienced players. Doug Polk called it “the softest poker tournament of all time,” a characterization PokerOrg said could be credible given the site’s reputation for soft fields.

The main prizes are paid on Day 2, scheduled for Nov. 29. Additional Day 1 flights for the final week were to be announced.

Craig Mason won the WPT Venetian Las Vegas Fall Championship at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on Nov. 10, defeating Matt Affleck heads-up for the official first-place award of $358,800. It was Mason’s first World Poker Tour title, and the prize package also included a $10,400 entry to the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Mason called the result a dream, saying it meant everything to add a major title to his poker résumé. WPT CEO Adam Pliska said the victory puts Mason’s name on the WPT Mike Sexton Champions Cup.

The $5,000 buy-in championship ran Nov. 5-10 as part of the WPT Venetian Las Vegas Fall Festival. Its 510 entries, spread across three starting flights, created a $2.346 million prize pool, clearing the $2 million guarantee. The top 64 finishers made the money, with a minimum payout of $9,200.

The final three players agreed to adjusted payouts, although WPT’s published results retained the official payouts. Affleck was listed second for $301,000, while Daniyal Gheba took third for $276,000. Nick Pupillo finished fourth for $155,000, followed by Nick Yunis in fifth for $117,000 and Anthony Piacquadio in sixth for $88,000.

Gheba’s elimination set up the heads-up match. In Hand #146, he moved all in for 3.05 million from the small blind and Mason called from the big blind; Mason’s hand stayed ahead from flop through river to end Gheba’s tournament.

The heads-up lead changed hands. Affleck won key pots during Hands #147-156, including a queen-pair showdown in which his higher kicker played, and used all-in reraises to force folds from Mason. Mason recovered in the next stretch, taking a flop-and-turn pot in Hand #157 and winning a river call in Hand #160 to move back in front.

Affleck had also survived a pivotal confrontation with Mason on the unofficial final-table bubble, doubling through after making an all-in call for 600,000 and hitting a nine he needed to survive by the river. Notable in-the-money finishers included Phil Hellmuth in 20th, Jesse Lonis in 27th, Landon Tice in 28th, Asher Conniff in 40th and John Phan in 46th.

The Venetian festival continues through Nov. 15. Mason’s added WPT World Championship entry is for the $10,400 event at Wynn Las Vegas, which runs Dec. 13-20 and crowns Season 24’s final champion.

PokerGO has set out the final four stops in the race for its 2026 PGT Championship, adding a five-event ARIA High Roller Series with an above-standard points rate and five Dream Seats at January’s Last Chance festival.

The PGT ARIA High Roller Series runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. It comprises five single-day, $5,300 no-limit hold’em tournaments, with one event scheduled each day.

Cashers in those events receive 0.002 PGT points for every dollar of prize money, rather than the usual 0.0015-point rate for tournaments at that buy-in. The increased rate gives players a late opportunity to improve their standing before the season-ending championship qualification is settled.

PGT points are also available through 20 designated events at WSOP Paradise and the WPT World Championship. Each qualifying event in those two partner series awards 50% of the standard PGT points.

The final dedicated stop, PGT Last Chance, runs Jan. 4-9, 2027, at PokerGO Studio. Its schedule has six single-day $10,500 no-limit hold’em tournaments, ending with a Saturday, Jan. 9 finale.

The five highest finishers on the Last Chance series leaderboard who have not already qualified for the PGT Championship will receive Dream Seats. A player can earn one of those seats even without having played a PGT event during the season.

The Dream Seat route sits alongside leaderboard qualification for the $500,000 Championship freeroll. PokerNews previously reported that the top 40 season-long leaderboard players can enter, provided they have cashed in at least four PGT events, including at least one operated and owned by PGT, and opt in before Last Chance begins. Championship starting stacks are based on leaderboard position.

The freeroll pays five places. The winner receives $250,000, split between $100,000 in cash and $150,000 in PGT Passport credit, while the minimum $25,000 payout includes $10,000 in cash and $15,000 in Passport credit.

The PGT Championship is scheduled for Jan. 11-12, 2027, at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.

The World Series of Poker Circuit returns to Caesars New Orleans on Nov. 12 for its second stop at the Louisiana property this year, with 18 gold rings and more than $1 million in guaranteed prize money on offer. The 12-day festival runs through Nov. 23.

The headline tournament is the $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, which carries a $500,000 guarantee. It begins Nov. 19 and has three opening flights, running through Nov. 21, with each flight starting at 11 a.m. local time.

Players looking for lower buy-ins have a $400 Mini Main Event with a $150,000 guarantee and four starting flights, plus a $400 Monster Stack carrying a $100,000 guarantee over three flights. The schedule also opens with a $400 Double Stack event guaranteed at $25,000.

Other ring events include $400 Pot-Limit Omaha, PLO 8 or Better and Big O tournaments. A $400 Seniors event is open to players aged 50 and over, while the Ladies event costs $300.

This is New Orleans’ second Circuit festival of 2026. The first ran May 14-25 and also awarded 18 rings, marking the property’s first Circuit visit since its 2025 return, according to WSOP.com.

The previous two New Orleans Main Events produced more than $1.3 million in combined prize pools, and each winner received a six-figure payout.

Yousef Saleh won the 2025 New Orleans Main Event for $149,268 and his second Circuit ring after beating Kane Keller heads-up. That same series saw Maurice Hawkins win the $400 No-Limit Hold’em and $600 Pot-Limit Omaha events, taking his 20th and 21st Circuit rings and becoming the standalone all-time leader in Circuit ring victories.

PokerStars has set a five-stop European Poker Tour schedule for 2027 while reducing the EPT Main Event buy-in to €5,000, down from €5,300. PokerNews reported that it is the first change to the flagship event’s price in more than 15 years.

The company also standardized PokerStars Open Main Events at €1,250. That cuts the price from €1,650 at Open events attached to EPT festivals, while representing an increase on the €1,100 price previously used for standalone Opens.

PokerStars Open High Rollers at EPT festivals will cost €2,500. PokerStars said the wider pricing changes followed player feedback, particularly that Opens held at EPT stops had become too expensive. The company said the new €1,250 level should make the events more accessible while still helping it manage demand at its busiest venues.

The move also creates cleaner pricing across the tour. PokerStars said a single Open buy-in and a €5,000 EPT Main Event would make the schedule easier for players to understand and simplify registration. The changes form part of what the company described as a multiyear effort covering tournament logistics, table experience and stream coverage.

The EPT season begins in France and includes the return of EPT Malta, which was absent from the 2026 calendar. The complete program also includes two standalone PokerStars Open festivals and PokerStars’ sponsorship of the 2027 Irish Open.

As we reported in September, PokerStars first lowered the Prague Open Main Event from €1,650 to €1,100 and its High Roller from €2,700 to €2,200 after similar player feedback. That Prague festival runs alongside EPT Prague from Dec. 2-13, while the PokerStars Open Cup remained priced at €825.

PokerStars Open Campione is set to open the 2027 Open calendar at Casino di Campione in Italy from Jan. 8-17, with a €1,250 Main Event. Players qualifying for four PokerStars Opens through the Power Path can exchange those entries for one EPT Main Event entry.

The EPT debuted in 2004 and its Main Events have awarded more than €650 million in prize money. PokerStars said full fees will be published with each individual festival schedule, and said further 2027 changes are planned to improve the PokerStars Live experience.

Jonas67 turned a free CoinPoker Discord ticket into an $8,767 cash in a $1 million-guaranteed CoinMillion, finishing 11th from a field of 5,081 entries. The result was a new career-best online score for the player, whose previous largest online payout had been $69.

Card Player reported that Jonas67 won the entry through a giveaway in CoinPoker’s Discord channel, where the operator offers giveaways and freerolls. The player navigated a table that included CoinMasters and Global Online Poker Championship winners before falling short of the seven-handed final table.

The tournament, CoinMillion’s 12th edition, was its fifth-largest field to that point. It finished with a three-way deal: exemplary098539 was the official winner and collected $74,693, while xxcallmuck received the largest payout of $83,620. Third-place finisher DeoRibeiro earned $75,656, also more than the official champion.

Two other low-cost qualifiers made deep runs. Rikihhhh15 won a seat through a $24 satellite and finished fourth for $39,006, while FiveEighteen turned another $24 satellite seat into $14,927 for seventh place.

The three-way agreement was the sixth deal across the first 12 CoinMillion editions. The preceding event also ended with a negotiated payout arrangement, as we reported last week, when CSCcardGREEN took the official title after a heads-up deal with reveur.

CoinPoker describes the $215 CoinMillion as its flagship weekly tournament, with play beginning Sunday and resuming Monday. Players can enter through satellites and freerolls instead of paying the full buy-in, and final-table deal-making is permitted. The event’s record field remains the 5,404 entries drawn by the Sept. 27 GOPC CoinMillion.

Stake Poker will run its Jacked Poker Series from Nov. 11 through Nov. 30, with 198 tournaments and $2 million in guarantees. Direct entries range from $5 to $1,000, while satellites begin at $0.50; the schedule is listed in UTC.

The two biggest guarantees arrive Sunday, Nov. 29. The $200 Jacked Main Event carries a $250,000 guarantee and reaches its final stage that day, while the $1,000 Stake Showdown runs alongside it with another $250,000 guaranteed. Together, the events make up $500,000, or one-quarter, of the festival’s advertised guarantees.

The Main Event uses multiple starting flights. PokerStrategy described Stake Poker’s format as “Best Stack Forward”: players need to bag chips in at least one flight to progress, and players who qualify more than once can try to improve their stack in later flights. Only the largest successful stack advances, with smaller qualifying stacks forfeited rather than combined.

That account differs from World Poker Deals’ description of the Main Event, which said stacks from all starting flights are combined for Day 2. Players should check the tournament lobby for the operative rules before entering a flight.

The Stake Showdown’s satellite ladder begins at $0.50, then moves through $10 and $100 stages toward a $1,000 seat. As we covered in October, Stake Poker’s preceding Showdown carried a then-record $200,000 guarantee, after the September edition offered $125,000; the Jacked Series edition raises the figure to $250,000.

Elsewhere, the schedule includes the Weekly Treasure Hunt on each of the three Saturdays in the core series period. On Nov. 15, the $50,000-guaranteed Juicy Treasure Hunt and $30,000-guaranteed Mid Month Madness are due to run together, while the $100,000 Big Treasure Hunt is the largest listed guarantee outside the Nov. 29 headliners.

World Poker Deals characterized most of the schedule as low-stakes multi-table tournaments and listed PKO events with guarantees up to $7,700. It also said players can locate the festival in the Stake Poker app by searching “JS.” Not all satellites award entry to the same tournament, so players should confirm the destination ticket and qualification conditions in the lobby.

Quan Zhou won the $5,000 Triton ONE North Cyprus Mystery Bounty, beating Ihar Soika heads-up from a field of 607 entries to earn the scheduled first-place payout of $293,000 before bounty money.

The event needed an unscheduled third day after the final table was set close to midnight on Day 2. Nine players returned Nov. 10, led by Eric Tsai with 28 million chips, or 70 big blinds. Zhou started fourth in chips with 15.7 million.

Zhou eliminated Tsai in third place for $128,000 when his king-eight beat Tsai’s jack-six, then knocked out Punnat Punsri in fourth for $97,000. Soika took $179,000 for second place.

The heads-up match ended with Zhou holding A♥A♣ against Soika’s K♠2♣. Soika paired his king on the K♦ J♠ J♦ 5♣ 3♥ board, but Zhou’s aces remained ahead to seal the trophy.

The tournament paid 103 players and generated a total prize pool of about $2.76 million, according to Card Player and Triton Poker, with half assigned to the main payouts and half to mystery bounties. PokerNews’ event recap listed a $1.55 million prize pool, a differently reported figure.

The bounty count also varied across the reports. Card Player said Zhou collected six mystery bounties, while Triton Poker and PokerNews said he had five envelopes to draw. Tsai, despite finishing third, had 12 bounty envelopes. The largest envelope was worth $155,000, with two others worth $55,000 each.

Mikita Badziakouski finished sixth for $59,122, while Raul Yunusov placed fifth for $77,000. The final nine also included Daniel Braude, Hu Chengxu and Asaf Groofi.

The victory gave Zhou his first Triton ONE trophy. He had previously won two Triton Super High Roller Series titles, including the $25,000 Jupiter event in Jeju earlier this year for $1.3 million, and had finished seventh in the Triton ONE Jeju Main Event for $213,000. The North Cyprus result put Zhou alongside Artur Martirosian and Ngo Khoa Anh as winners on both Triton tours.

ACR Poker’s new weekly Quattro Mystery PKO series cleared its combined guarantee in its first completed Day 2, generating $84,415 across three buy-in levels against $75,000 guaranteed. The debut results came as the operator’s $20 million Online Super Series opened Nov. 8.

The $33 event accounted for $50,250 of the total after attracting 1,675 entries. Gem1norum won $16,458, including $13,127 in bounties. At the $5.50 level, 5,074 entries built a $25,370 prize pool, $5,370 above the $20,000 guarantee, and mAArio collected $4,047.

The $1.10 tournament drew the largest field, with 8,795 entries and an $8,795 prize pool against a $5,000 guarantee. maksimquaa won $1,252 in regular prize money and bounties.

The Quattro is a three-tournament weekly Mystery PKO offering. Its Day 1 flights use eight-minute levels, run for about one hour and 40 minutes, and advance roughly 25% of each field to Sunday Day 2. In the format, a revealed mystery prize is split evenly: half is paid immediately and half becomes a visible progressive bounty.

The Quattro follows ACR Poker’s Halloween Special Mystery PKO, whose three events produced $836,930 in prize pools against $650,000 guaranteed. The operator also opened Day 1 flights for its $109 Moneymaker Mystery PKO on Nov. 1; that tournament carries a $1 million guarantee and a $100,000 top mystery bounty.

The OSS opening day paid $1.2 million across five featured tournaments. Separately, the Nov. 8 WSOP Paradise Mega Satellite awarded seven $30,000 packages, following the Nov. 1 Mega Satellite covered in our prior report.

The next Quattro Day 2 is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2:30 p.m. ET. The Online Super Series continues through Nov. 24, with four Main Events guaranteeing a combined $4.25 million and Day and Evening Series leaderboards offering more than $77,000 in added prizes.

Cody Fisher of Strongsville, Ohio, won the inaugural WSOP Circuit Main Event at The Reserve in Toledo, taking $246,466 and his first Circuit gold ring. He ended the $1,700 tournament in a single hand, knocking out Adam Friedman and Nicholas Davidson together immediately after the dinner break.

The Main Event drew 991 entries and built a $1.5 million prize pool, clearing its $1 million guarantee. Fisher’s payday was his biggest tournament score by a wide margin, ahead of a previous best of $44,000.

Fisher started the final day second in chips but with barely more than one-third of Friedman’s 92-big-blind stack. Short stacks doubled repeatedly, and play was still seven-handed in the fifth hour. Fisher had then taken the lead with 30 big blinds.

He extended that advantage in a three-way pot against Friedman before dinner. Fisher returned with 28 million chips, equal to 56 big blinds, while Friedman had 13 and Davidson had 11. Fisher said having the five-time WSOP bracelet winner on his right rather than his left made his tournament easier.

On the first hand after play resumed, Davidson moved all-in with king-seven of diamonds and Friedman followed with ace-queen. Fisher called with pocket eights. The board came four of hearts, six of clubs, seven of clubs, two of diamonds and five of diamonds, giving Fisher an eight-high straight and ending the event at once.

Friedman collected $164,271 for second place and Davidson received $115,534 for third. Matthew Ploof finished fourth for $82,513, followed by Dennis Milko in fifth for $59,856 and Christopher Webb in sixth for $44,114.

The result had particular significance for Fisher and his fiancée, Madison, who were expecting their first child in April 2027. Both worked as servers, and Fisher said the prize would allow Madison to take time away from work after the birth. He said he hoped the 2027 WSOP Circuit Main Event in Toledo would be held before April 21 so he could defend the title.

PokerStars’ Spooky Season closed with a Brazil-heavy final table in its $109 No-Limit Hold’em Progressive KO Season Finale Sunday Million. Kume23 defeated Izinmsr heads-up for $79,149 after the $1 million guaranteed event drew 9,128 entries and finished with an $87,200 overlay.

Brazilian players took five of the nine seats at the final table and four of the last five places, according to PokerNews. The result completed the Halloween-themed series with Brazilian finalists claiming four of the tournament’s top five finishes.

As we reported in October, PokerStars had set a $1 million guarantee for the Spooky Season’s concluding Sunday Million.

Izinmsr entered heads-up with $14,480 already collected in bounties, then finished second for total winnings of $73,616. Thailand’s WrongOne364 placed third for $45,888, while Brazilian players fedazete and Gipzinho finished fourth and fifth, earning $24,166 and $36,282 respectively.

Estonia’s vdp2.0 was sixth for $18,449. Bulgaria’s Hristiyan “cskar4e1” Panchev, who had led the returning field and was the only player to convert a top-10 stack at that point into a final-table appearance, finished seventh for $15,036. Panchev had also won the $530 Bounty Builder High Roller for $14,214 while playing Day 1 of the Sunday Million.

Brazil’s Caue “cauee_am” Augusto de Macedo took eighth for $9,181, and UPERAD finished ninth for $9,651. The tournament had been reduced to 118 players after Day 1; PokerStars ambassadors Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg, Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg and Sebastian “peace&love” Huber all exited before then, cashing for $104, $192 and $628.

The $109 event used a Progressive KO format, meaning players could earn bounty money without reaching the regular prize-paying positions. Each entrant began with a $50 bounty, with half of an eliminated player’s bounty paid immediately to the player making the knockout and the other half added to that player’s own bounty.

Simon Britton captured his first WSOP Circuit ring by winning the $1,700 Main Event at Choctaw Casino & Resort. He outlasted a field of 793 entries, beat Chan Pelton heads-up and collected $208,295.

The result ended a frustrating stretch of near misses. Poker.org reported that Britton had finished second seven times in all: first in the 2024 World Series of Poker’s $300 Gladiators of Poker, then six more times over 17 WSOP Circuit final tables during the following two years.

Britton started the Choctaw final table in the middle of the pack before moving into the chip lead. His five-bet shove against then-leader Mason Bodnar got through, and he went on to finish the heads-up match with Pelton in only three hands.

Pelton had shared the table with Britton for roughly half of Day 2 and throughout the final day. Britton called his opponent “a blast to play against” but also “definitely a difficult opponent,” adding that the victory felt earned. “I’ve wanted a ring for a really long time,” Britton said. “To win a Circuit Main for my first ring just makes it feel extra special.”

Britton’s earlier Gladiators of Poker run had been his career-best score at that point. The 2024 event drew 20,647 players and generated a prize pool of about $5.1 million, according to PokerNews. Britton had been reduced to one big blind with three tables remaining, then rallied to lead the final 14 players going into the next day before eventually finishing runner-up.

The official WSOP Circuit Choctaw schedule listed the $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. WSOP Circuit events run year-round, and the series describes a ring as a permanent record that its holder is a champion.

ACR Poker’s November Online Super Series is underway with $20 million in guaranteed prize pools, the same headline amount advertised for May’s edition, but across a shorter 143-tournament schedule. The festival began Nov. 8 and runs through Nov. 24, with 77 Day Series events and 66 Evening Series events.

The four Main Events account for $4.25 million of the guarantee and carry buy-ins of $66, $215, $1,050 and $2,650. The $109 Moneymaker Mystery PKO adds a $1 million guarantee and a top mystery bounty worth $100,000.

As reported Nov. 8, the main change for this OSS is the split between daytime and evening tracks, each with its own leaderboard. The combined leaderboard pool exceeds $77,000 in cash and tournament tickets; the Day Series winner receives $7,500 and the Evening Series winner $5,000, with both also earning a ticket to the January NLH Venom tournament.

The November schedule is 28 events smaller than May’s 171-tournament OSS, which ran May 11-25 with more than $20 million guaranteed. The Main Event guarantee mix has also changed: May offered $1.5 million each at $2,650 and $1,050, $1 million at $215, and $250,000 at $66.

May’s two high-buy-in Main Events cleared their guarantees, paying $2.1 million in the $2,650 event and $1.9 million in the $1,050 tournament. At the lower end, the $215 Main Event drew 4,844 entries and narrowly reached its $1 million target with a small overlay, while the $66 event generated a $252,000 prize pool against a $250,000 guarantee.

The new series follows recent scrutiny over remote-access cheating allegations. ACR said Oct. 7 that its investigation found no compromise of its systems, software or official downloads, while the Winning Poker Network’s Game Integrity team reviewed more than 2 million hands linked to devices where MeshAgent had been detected and found no evidence that hole cards had been used. On Nov. 4, ACR made ScreenShield the default for all players across the network; it had previously been available only to selected players or those requesting it through Support.

Separately, Americas Card Room appeared on a Michigan Gaming Control Board list of 45 offshore operators sent cease-and-desist orders in the four months before April 7. Michigan requires operators offering online casino games or sports betting to state residents to hold a board license, and operators that ignore an order can face further civil and criminal enforcement.

The Moneymaker Mystery PKO has daily qualifying flights through Nov. 22, when surviving stacks combine for Day 2 at 3:05 p.m. ET. The $66 Main Event also holds its Day 2 that day, while the other three Main Events return a day later.

Daniel Cates won a $232,000 Hustler Casino Live pot from Mariano Grandoli on Nov. 6, getting all-in before the flop with A-Q against Grandoli’s A-5. The board ran K♦9♦4♦4♠10♠, leaving both players with ace-high but giving Cates, known as Jungleman, the winner with his queen kicker.

The confrontation followed a disagreement over the table’s stand-up game, CardPlayer reported. Cates believed he should receive a marker for winning the previous hand, while Grandoli argued that Cates had mucked and was not eligible. Cates sought a ruling while the next hand was being dealt because the marker could help him avoid the game’s cash penalty.

The stand-up game used $500 markers, and the table had begun it with eight markers in play. The seven-player session started as $50/$100 no-limit hold’em with a $100 big-blind ante before the players adopted a permanent $200 straddle, making the stakes $50/$100/$200.

Cates limped for $800 on the button with $115,250, and Grandoli raised to $5,000 from under the gun while holding $369,600. Cates made it $19,000, Grandoli four-bet to $45,000, and Cates shoved. Grandoli called, creating a pot of $231,750, rounded by Hustler Casino Live to $232,000 in total action.

Cates asked to run the board twice, but Grandoli chose a single runout. After the cards fell, Grandoli joked, “It’s a donation anyway, you’re welcome.”

The broadcast continued for roughly another hour. Poker Skill’s session recap put Harut narrowly ahead as the night’s biggest winner at $192,200, with Cates up $191,350. Grandoli finished down $229,000, while TJ won $67,300; Peter, AI Guy and Dumbledore ended down $59,000, $80,150 and $85,650, respectively.

CoinPoker has posted its biggest traffic day to date, reaching 32,023 simultaneous players during the launch of its PGT Online series. The record arrived after the room rolled out “The Next Level,” a client and product refresh that expanded its cash-game and tournament offering.

The traffic milestone coincided with some of CoinPoker’s busiest high-stakes cash-game action, according to PokerStrategy. The site has hosted numerous large games at the same time, while Railbird VIP has begun compiling results from the biggest online winners. Its 2026 profit race was described as close between GucciNIKE and Giselle54, with LLinusLLove and venivid1993 also in contention.

The new features were already live when the peak was recorded. Private Tables let users create cash games, select formats and settings, and control access to seats. Selected Min VPIP Tables are designed to encourage more hands being played, while the client also lets cash-game players offload profit without leaving a table.

The Next Level package also includes Mystery Bounty tournaments, client changes for mobile play and multi-tabling, player tags, HUD and notes tools, bet sizing, sit-out controls, and visual updates. CoinPoker says the work followed a March platform relaunch, after which it collected player feedback to improve the experience.

As we reported Nov. 6, CoinPoker’s former VIP Arena has been rebranded as PokerGO-linked High Stakes Poker Online, with a minimum-VPIP rule on selected tables that can remove players deemed too tight. The section starts at $50/$100, and F5 Poker reported stakes as high as $5,000/$10,000, with buy-ins of $400,000 at that top level.

The earlier high-stakes action included $500/$1,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em. GucciNIKE won a $416,540 pot-limit Omaha pot against Kayhan Mokri, while Allinyouwin led the weekly profit list at about $428,000, narrowly ahead of LLinusLLove’s roughly $413,000.

PokerStrategy compared the current concentration of large online games with Full Tilt Poker’s Rail Heaven era, when large cash games and a busy high-stakes scene included heads-up no-limit action. CoinPoker’s latest traffic peak adds a broader player-volume record alongside that high-stakes activity.

Christopher Marcadet won the €1,100 PokerStars Open Aix-en-Provence Main Event, beating 859 entries for a career-best €130,000 at Pasino Grand. The four-day no-limit hold’em finale ended Nov. 8 and closed the PokerStars Open festival in France.

The tournament created an €824,640 prize pool and paid 129 places. Jordan Ayasse finished third for €62,000, leaving Marcadet to face Switzerland’s John Rezzonico heads-up; no deal was made despite the €43,000 gap between the top two payouts. PokerNews reported that Rezzonico collected €87,000 for second, a huge result for a player whose prior recorded earnings were below $2,000.

Dinh Nguyen took fourth for €45,000 and Omar Lakhdari earned €34,000 in fifth. Chenxiang Miao was the first player eliminated from the final table, receiving €13,000, while Arno Peonnet and Laurent Lebar were eliminated next, followed by Krzysztof Zapolski in sixth.

For Marcadet, a French player now based in Hungary, the title was his largest live tournament result and first six-figure cash. He travelled from Budapest to play in his native country, and the €130,000 score took his career live earnings toward $350,000. His previous best recorded payday was $36,790 for a runner-up finish in a $600 event at The Venetian Las Vegas in 2022.

Marcadet, who primarily plays online, said he was still processing the victory. He called the trophy at a PokerStars festival “a real milestone” and praised both the organization and tournament structure.

The win also delivered 912 Card Player Player of the Year points, his first qualifying score of the year, moving him into the top 1,000 of the 2026 standings presented by CoinPoker.

PokerStars returned to Pasino Grand with Texapoker for this festival, several years after the venue last staged a France Poker Series edition. Marcadet said he plans to return to Aix-en-Provence to defend the title and play other PokerStars Open stops.

The next PokerStars Open Main Event is a €1,650 event at EPT Prague, running Dec. 2-7.

PokerStrategy.com has opened a community raffle offering two $1,060 WPT World Championship satellite tickets, with each entry costing one Strategy Token. The tickets, supplied by WPT Global, total $2,120 in value and put raffle winners on the road to the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas.

The raffle closes Friday, leaving only a short entry window. The tickets are not direct seats in the $10,400 championship: WPT Global’s online qualification ladder starts at $1.10 and progresses to weekly $1,060 Sunday Mega Satellites.

Those weekly Mega Satellites run through the campaign, with the last scheduled for Nov. 29. A player who wins a WPT Global online route receives a $12,400 package comprising the championship buy-in, a $2,000 travel stipend, merchandise, a discounted Wynn room rate, Player Lounge access and express registration.

PokerStrategy introduced Strategy Tokens as the replacement for its StrategyPoints loyalty currency. Members earn them by registering with participating poker rooms through PokerStrategy and linking the account on their profile page. Tokens remain active for the current month and previous three months, with the oldest month’s balance expiring on the first day of a new month.

The raffle adds a live-poker-oriented redemption to uses that already include CoinPoker tournament tickets, December Community Freeroll access and GTO Strategy discounts. PokerStrategy divides members into User, Player and Grinder token tiers, with Grinder status reached after generating 100 tokens.

The WPT World Championship festival runs at Wynn Las Vegas from Nov. 27 through Dec. 21 as the finale of Season 24. It is set to include more than 85 tournaments and over $20 million in guarantees, with buy-ins ranging from $400 to $25,800.

The $10,400 WPT World Championship itself runs Dec. 13-20 with three starting flights and $1 million in added mystery-bounty cash and prizes. Other scheduled highlights include the $1,100 WPT Prime Championship, with a $5 million guarantee, and the $400 Super Gold Million, a Dec. 10-14 Mystery Bounty event with a $3 million guarantee.

Players can win an online WPT package from age 18, but must be at least 21 to play the live event at Wynn Las Vegas.

FullHouseCrypto opened its Black Friday Cash Rush on Nov. 9, offering eligible cash-game players a single weekly quest that can award up to $150 in Instant Cash. The promotion runs through Nov. 15 and uses a random-reward format rather than a conventional Black Friday discount.

To finish the quest, a player must win 10 hands after the flop at stakes of at least $0.10/$0.20. PokerStrategy reported that the reward is credited automatically once that target is met, with possible prizes including Instant Cash, prize-draw tickets and premium technology prizes.

The quest is available at No-Limit Hold’em, PLO5 and PLO6 cash tables. It does not apply at Rapid or All-in or Fold tables, so players using those fast-fold formats cannot count their hands toward the Black Friday target.

That exclusion separates Cash Rush from FullHouseCrypto’s concurrent Fast Fold campaign, which runs from Nov. 2 through Nov. 15 at Rapid and All-in or Fold tables. That promotion uses daily missions and can also award Instant Cash, prize-draw tickets and technology prizes.

Cash-game players are not the only ones with an active offer during the period. FullHouseCrypto is also running its $1.5 million guaranteed Mystery Bounty Series for tournament players, featuring random Mystery Bounties and additional High Roller satellites in its final week.

The Black Friday promotion follows the end of FullHouseCrypto’s earlier Halloween offer and Daily PLO Quests.

The iPoker network’s Bounty Hunter Series: Halloween Edition is entering its closing weekend, with the €50 Ultra Main scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15, at 14:00 GMT. The Mystery Bounty tournament carries a €150,000 guarantee, while the festival has more than €5 million guaranteed across its Oct. 25-Nov. 16 run.

SpadePoker identified the Ultra Main and the €250 Zombie Hunter Cup as the final two headline events. The Zombie Hunter Cup has a €200,000 guarantee and multiple Day 1 flights through Monday, Nov. 16, before surviving players return for Day 2 at 19:00 GMT.

The series has tournament buy-ins from €1 to €500, with satellites starting at €0.10. Its schedule includes Progressive Knockout, Mystery Bounty and multi-flight knockout events. In a PKO, the value of a player’s bounty is visible before a call; Mystery Bounty prizes remain concealed until the knockout is made.

Players can also pursue satellite entries through three Revenue Missions. Each mission can be completed up to three times, allowing a maximum of nine satellite tickets, but must be activated in the RedStar Poker client before the qualifying period ends.

Three opt-in daily leaderboards divide events by buy-in: Scout for €1 to €15 tournaments, Hunter for €20 to €75 and Eliminator for €100 to €500. Their prizes are entries to Bounty Hunter Series events, while the season-long Last Survivor leaderboard awards general tickets to its top 150 players and determines the Player of the Series.

A separate Avatar Hunt: Vampire promotion offers themed client items, including 2D and 3D avatars, table animations and emoticons. Its four missions must be completed in sequence after opting in, and each can be finished once.

The Ultra Main Revenue Mission closes at 18:00 GMT on Nov. 15. The two Zombie Hunter Cup missions close at 18:00 GMT on Nov. 16, while final daily-leaderboard scoring ends at 08:00 GMT on Nov. 17.

Lex Veldhuis will return to live World Series of Poker action at WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas, ending a long gap from the festival’s live tables. The streamer said he will be there from Dec. 10 through Dec. 18 and will begin with the $25,000 Super Main Event, which he called “one of the most insane poker tournaments ever.”

His most recent WSOP cash came in 2012, and he has not made a live final table for 17 years. Veldhuis said the “ass-whooping” he had planned for the WSOP was delayed until the Bahamas stop.

The trip follows a renewed enthusiasm for poker after his move to GGPoker. Veldhuis said the site’s volume of action, large guaranteed events and path toward $5,000 Main Events with $25 million guarantees had reignited his competitive drive. He described it as the most action he had seen in years.

As we reported Nov. 3, Veldhuis joined GGPoker’s GGTeam as its Global Streaming Ambassador after leaving PokerStars following a 17-year partnership. Before agreeing to the deal, he spent time weighing his next step and had already played extensively on GGPoker while watching how his audience responded.

Veldhuis said talks about quality-of-life features, streamer integration, the site’s stream team and his possible role fit his longer-term goals in both poker and broadcasting. He also said that grinding PLO for elite status and the long hours that came with it had reduced his enjoyment of the game.

His recent online results included fifth, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th-place finishes in bracelet events or related series events. The series was not financially successful for him, he said, but he enjoyed the experience, learned from it and played more high-stakes poker than usual, including difficult high-roller side events. His stream numbers were also strong.

Veldhuis plans to bring his family to the Bahamas, vlog the Super Main Event and potentially meet GGPoker colleagues and speak with media. WSOP Paradise was created through a partnership between WSOP and GGPoker and offers bracelet events plus large guarantees. A published 2026 series guide lists 20 bracelets and $120 million guaranteed at Baha Mar from Dec. 2 through Dec. 17, meaning Veldhuis’s stated stay runs one day beyond that listed festival schedule.

The 2026 888LIVE UK Poker League Grand Final will return to Coventry in December, led by a £560 Main Event carrying a £100,000 guarantee. Players can qualify for 30 of those Main Event seats through an online freeroll route that begins Nov. 8.

PokerNews reported that UK-based 888 players must complete at least 40 eligible online tournaments between Nov. 8 and Nov. 28 to earn a ticket to the Grand Final freeroll. Each qualifying tournament, including BLAST events, must have a buy-in of at least $5.

The freeroll starts at 7 p.m. GMT on Dec. 6. Its top 30 finishers will each receive a £560 Main Event seat, for a total stated value of £16,800.

The qualification target is higher than it was for Coventry’s 2025 freeroll, when players needed 35 online tournaments to earn entry. That promotion also awarded 30 Main Event seats worth £16,800 in total.

Live action begins Dec. 15 with the first of three flights in the £250 No-Limit Hold’em Opening Voyage, which has a £50,000 guarantee. Tony Phillips won the same event in 2025 for £12,350.

The £1,100 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller also carries a £50,000 guarantee. Ryan Mandara won that tournament at last year’s Coventry stop for £15,390.

The Main Event has four starting flights: one begins Dec. 17, two run Dec. 18, and the final flight is Dec. 19. Day 2 begins at noon GMT on Dec. 20 and plays until a champion is decided.

Coventry’s last UKPL Main Event, held in November 2025, drew 303 entries and produced a prize pool of about £143,900, comfortably clearing its £100,000 guarantee. Terelle Tavares won £27,518 following a three-handed ICM deal with Vitor Da Paiva, who took £23,213, and Wayne Peach, who collected £20,109.

The Grand Final will be held at Grosvenor Casino at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Alin Ivan turned his first Triton ONE appearance into a title, winning the $3,000 QQPK Genesis opener in North Cyprus for $450,000. The 26-year-old Romanian beat Viktor Kudinov heads-up after a tournament that ran to an unplanned third day.

The event drew 912 entries across four starting flights and generated a $2.44 million prize pool, with 146 players paid. It was held at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Casino and awarded Ivan both a Triton ONE trophy and a special QQPK trophy.

Six players returned for the extra final day after Xuan Liu was the last elimination on Day 2. Ivan quickly removed two Chinese rivals, while Kudinov began the final session as chip leader.

At three-handed play, Kudinov held about 56 big blinds, Ivan had 42 and Ruslan Kasper had 15. Each had locked up at least $191,000, with $450,000 still available to the winner. Kudinov had already recorded four previous cashes worth more than $400,000 before reaching this stage.

Ivan took a pivotal lead with a queen-two hero call on an eight-queen-five-four-king board. Kudinov had moved all-in with six-two as a bluff. Kasper then departed in third for $191,000, leaving Ivan to face Kudinov for the trophy.

Ivan maintained the advantage in heads-up play and sealed the win when his ace-queen beat Kudinov’s ace-four. Kudinov collected $272,000 for second.

Pavel Ignatov finished fourth for $143,000, followed by Zhang Yang in fifth for $111,000 and Chen Peng in sixth for $82,000. Liu took seventh for $59,048, Aleksandr Kirichenko was eighth for $42,000 and Sardor Shagulyamov finished ninth for $33,000.

Ivan called the result “an unbelievable experience” that he had dreamed about since the beginning of his poker career. The QQPK Genesis was the opening event of the Triton ONE festival, which also included an $8,000 Main Event.

Phil Hellmuth made four of a kind during Day 1B of the WPT Venetian Las Vegas Fall Championship, according to a World Poker Tour live update. The post was titled “From Day 1B: Phil Hellmuth Fuels Up and Makes Quads” and paired the hand with the line: “food really does make you lucky at the poker table.”

The update was dated Nov. 7, one day after the event’s official schedule listed the Day 1B starting flight.

The $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em WPT Fall Championship was Event 19 of the WPT Fall Festival at The Venetian Resort. It carried a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, with players receiving 50,000 starting chips and playing 60-minute levels in the opening flights.

The official festival schedule listed starting flights on Nov. 5, Nov. 6 and Nov. 7. Day 2 was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Nov. 8, followed by Day 3 on Nov. 9, when the field was to play down to six players for a PokerGO-streamed final table, and the finale on Nov. 10.

Hellmuth also posted that he was playing Day 1C on Nov. 7, with his son Nick Hellmuth in the event as well. He said he expected to begin at 6:30 p.m., while Nick would start earlier.

The championship was part of the WPT Fall Festival, which ran from Oct. 28 through Nov. 15 and advertised nearly $4 million in guaranteed prize pools across its schedule.

The WSOP Circuit is underway at Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, Illinois, with 18 official ring events and more than $1.5 million in guaranteed prize money through Nov. 16. It is the second WSOP Circuit series of the year at the Fox River venue.

The $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event has a $600,000 guarantee. Its three Day 1 flights begin Nov. 12 and continue Nov. 13 and 14, with one re-entry allowed in each flight.

The $400 Mini Main Event has a $250,000 guarantee and five starting flights that ran from Nov. 5 through Nov. 7. The $400 Monster Stack, guaranteed for $200,000, has four starting flights from Nov. 8 through Nov. 10.

The schedule also gives mixed-game players three $400 ring events: PLO 8 or Better, six-handed Pot-Limit Omaha and Big O. Each has a $25,000 guarantee. The roster includes a $300 Ladies event with a $10,000 guarantee, plus two $400 Seniors tournaments, each with $50,000 guaranteed and a 50-and-older requirement.

Other events on the schedule include a $500 40/40/40 No-Limit Hold’em opener for players aged 40 or older, a $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a $50,000 guarantee, and a $400 Double Stack Closer with $25,000 guaranteed. PokerOrg will provide coverage of the Main Event through its Instant Live feed, with reporter Liam Gannon and photographer Hayley Hochstetler on site.

Grand Victoria, a riverboat casino about 40 miles west of Chicago, previously hosted Circuit series in 2022 and early 2023.

Rivers Casino Philadelphia’s November poker schedule includes more than $250,000 in cash-game promotions and a five-tournament Holiday Deepstack Weekend set for Nov. 27-29. The late-month series runs from Friday through Sunday over Thanksgiving weekend.

The casino announced its November offerings Oct. 30, according to Play Pennsylvania. Its poker room is offering daily high-hand payouts of up to $1,000 during the month, alongside weekly no-limit Texas hold’em tournaments and other special events.

The high-hand schedule included $1,000 awards on Nov. 6 and 7, with selected sessions on those dates also paying $250 and $400. The more than $250,000 figure covers the month’s cash-game promotions rather than tournament guarantees or prize pools.

Rivers has confirmed that the Holiday Deepstack Weekend contains five events, although the available schedule does not provide details for every tournament. Holiday Deepstack Event No. 4 is listed as a $160 no-limit hold’em Ultra Stack event.

The casino’s poker room has 28 tables and advertises regular tournaments and promotions. Players seeking a live-game seat can call 215-717-3883 to join the waiting list; tournament information is also available through the casino website, the @RiversPokerPhl X account and the Bravo Poker Live app.

The Holiday Deepstack Weekend begins Nov. 27 and concludes Nov. 29.

JackPoker ran its Fast Fold Quests promotion from Nov. 2 through Nov. 15, giving players in its Rapid and All-in or Fold games a mission-based route to cash rewards and entries for a final prize draw. Players could collect up to 14 draw tickets across the two-week promotion.

The offer used both daily and weekly quests. Two daily missions became available each day, but the second remained locked until a player completed the first. Completing both daily quests earned one grand-prize-draw ticket, while weekly missions offered further rewards.

Rewards were credited as soon as a quest was completed, although the requirements and prizes varied by account type. CardPlayer’s Nov. 5 report detailed the headline draw prizes: Instant Cash awards worth up to $1,000, an iPhone 18 Pro Max, a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold or Z Flip, a PlayStation 5 Pro and premium headphones. The promotion also included additional Series tournament tickets.

The Fast Fold campaign focused on cash-game formats while JackPoker’s $1.5 million guaranteed Mystery Bounty Series ran over the same Nov. 2-15 window. As we reported earlier this month, that tournament series paid random real-money bounty prizes when players eliminated opponents.

The quest setup followed JackPoker’s recent use of daily task promotions, including its Halloween Omaha quests, but shifted the eligible games to the site’s Rapid and All-in or Fold formats.

JackPoker ran its $1.5 million guaranteed Mystery Bounty Series from Nov. 2-15, putting random knockout prizes at the center of its November tournament schedule. Players who eliminated an opponent could reveal a Mystery Bounty, with the prize value unknown until it appeared and credited instantly as real money.

PokerStrategy detailed the series as part of a two-track promotion that also included Fast Fold quests for cash-game players.

JackPoker held a High Roller Satellite each day from Nov. 9-15, offering an additional route into the Mystery Bounty Series Main High Roller Event. Players could enter those satellites through a deposit of at least $300 or a $50 direct buy-in, and rebuys were permitted.

The room also offered a $10 tournament ticket to players making a $40 deposit, giving them another entry option. Alongside the tournament series, its Fast Fold campaign targeted Rapid and All-in or Fold cash tables with daily and weekly missions, instant-cash rewards worth up to $1,000, and entries into a larger prize draw.

Cash-game players could complete Fast Fold challenges to collect up to 14 draw tickets. The prizes included an iPhone 18 Pro Max, a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold or Z Flip, a PlayStation 5 Pro and premium headphones.

The Mystery Bounty schedule followed JackPoker’s Full House of Horror Halloween festival, which ran through Nov. 1, as covered in our Oct. 12 report.