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The $1,700 Main Event in Verona, NY drew 996 entries against its $1M guarantee. Final results were still being posted. In side events, Kristan Mackiewicz won the $400 Ladies Event ($13,364, 167 entries), Sean Roberge took $400 Event #12 ($23,510, 345 entries), Kirkwood Saccardo won the $600 Event #13 ($30,819) and Aidan Arnesen took the Turbo Double Stack ($22,207).
The $5,000 Main Event in Las Vegas has Day 1 flights Nov. 5-7 and a PokerGO-streamed final on Nov. 10. The Fall series runs Oct. 28 to Nov. 15 and includes a $1,100 event with $500,000 guaranteed.
Sean Winter beat Sam Laskowitz heads-up to close the 2026 Poker Masters at the PokerGO Studio, and Adrian Mateos clinched the Purple Jacket when Jeremy Ausmus went out in fourth.
Negreanu led the $26,000 Event #9 final table but finished second, as Seward won his first PokerGO Tour title and $412,500.
Anniversary Week runs Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 with no opt-in: gift SNG and MTT tickets for every player who has played a real-money hand, nightly Splash the Pot at two stakes from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET, Run It Back draws for SNG runners-up, and added satellite seats all week. On Sunday, Nov. 1, $222 is added to the Mini Main prize pool and $2,222 to the Main Event pool, and PokerNews counts over $4,000 in added seats and prize money across the week.
The $400 Monster Stack at the WSOP Circuit stop in Verona, NY drew 1,611 entries, and Stephen Posa took the ring. Ben Ramon also won the $1,100 event ($54,291, 248 entries) and Thomas Catana took the PLO8 ring ($12,930).
Scalf played it out with no chop to win $7,101 from 97 entries and a $23,280 prize pool. Next up at the room is The National, a one-day $1,100 event with a $50K guarantee on Saturday, Oct 24.
The $600 cross-property event drew 4,167 entries across 16 flights at MGM National Harbor and Borgata, clearing its $2 million guarantee. Joseph Cutler, who BetMGM says won his seat online, took the title and $308,500.
BetMGM says the Hybrid Championship is back: it starts online on the evening of Nov 8 and finishes live at Borgata on Friday, Nov 13. The Fall Open's online events are on our Online page.
The 17-event series opened Oct 21 with $600K in total guarantees. Event #1 ($400, $200K GTD) runs flights through Oct 24, and anyone who bubbles a flight gets a $200 entry into Event #17.
Ausmus beat a 58-entry field in the $15,700 event, then Aram Oganyan heads-up, for $278,400. The final table also had Adrian Mateos and Joe McKeehen.
Lehr came from behind against chip leader Vitalijs Zavorotnijs to win the $15,700 event for $277,200, his second PGT title. Adrian Mateos still leads the Purple Jacket race with two events left.
The New York State Gaming Commission told operators to do more to spot at-risk bettors or face new rules. Its draft rules would make each sportsbook name a responsible-gambling lead and stop promotions to flagged users.
Down to his last chips five-handed in the $10,500 Event #6, Vaysman rallied and then beat Sean Winter heads-up for his first PokerGO title. Joey Weissman finished sixth.
The $400 Mini Main kicked off the Turning Stone Circuit stop with 2,409 entries, and Khaled Aljoma took the ring and $102,251. Earlier, Scott Hosbach won the 40/40/40 opener ($40,470, 727 entries) and Mark Moody took the Seniors event ($31,747, 520 entries).
Lonis beat 371 entries in a $1,000 WSOP Online Mystery Bounty bracelet event, taking $33,688 for first plus $25,891 in bounties, including a $14,000 envelope. It's his first bracelet since 2023.
The cross-property $600 Lions of the East drew 4,167 entries over 16 flights at MGM National Harbor (954 of them) and Borgata, for a $2,083,500 prize pool. The combined Day 2 played at Borgata on Oct 18, with $308,500 set aside for the winner, according to posts on X.
A $55 multi-flight tournament with $125,000 guaranteed runs on WSOP Online, with Day 1 flights Oct 18-26. Players who bust can fire another flight, and the NJ pool is shared with PA, MI and NV.
After the recent superuser hacking scandal, GGPoker banned all third-party software, including HUD and tracking tools like Holdem Manager 3 and PokerTracker 4. It also added a screen guard and win-rate anomaly detection.
Investigative producer Nicole Noren told the Columbia Journalism Review she left ESPN in 2023, after 24 years, when it launched ESPN Bet, citing her family's history with gambling addiction. ESPN denies that business deals affect its journalism.
After bubbling three of the first four Poker Masters events, Adrian Mateos won Event #5 ($10,500 NLH, 85 entries) for $229,500 and took the Purple Jacket lead. Nick Schulman was runner-up, and Jeremy Becker finished third.
Fresh off his second WSOP bracelet in an online event, Joey Weissman won Event #3 ($10,500 NLH) at the 2026 Poker Masters for $218,400 and his fifth PokerGO Tour title. The event drew 78 runners for a $780,000 prize pool.
Six-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos finished 13th, the stone bubble, in Events #1, #3 and #4 at the 2026 Poker Masters. His only cash so far was a runner-up finish to Nick Palma in Event #2.
MGM National Harbor runs The National, a $1,100 NLH with $50,000 guaranteed, on Sat Oct 24 at 11:15 AM. The room is adding seats to the prize pools of Wednesday's $200 NLH and its $20K GTD Cakes Bounty Classic, and a $140 satellite runs Friday.
BetRivers' 100-tournament championship (Sept 27-Oct 11) on its PA/MI/DE/WV network drew 18,224 entries and paid out $624,115. Thirteen players won more than one title, and four won three each, including streamer Dan "DrDadPoker" Schill, who won six titles this summer.
Palma topped 84 entries in Poker Masters Event #2 ($10,500 NLH) for $235,200, winning heads-up against Mateos with a river straight. The win had poker X buzzing on Wednesday night.
Pokerfuse reports Caesars is preparing a new platform for WSOP Online, the biggest site in NJ, PA and MI, and looks at who could supply the tech, from GGPoker to iPoker.
Poker's all-time live earnings leader filed a civil suit in Clark County, Nevada, claiming GGPoker's parent company NSUS broke promises of an ownership stake. GG's CEO has asked the court to dismiss it, and both filings are pending.
Alberta's new regulated market went live with 888poker as the first poker operator, another sign of North American online poker slowly expanding.
With the year-end stretch ahead, CardPlayer says no one has locked up 2026 Player of the Year yet.
The $600 Lions of the East series has been running starting flights at MGM National Harbor and Borgata, with players posting deep runs (and bad beats to a royal flush) from Day 1A at Borgata. The final day flight is set for Saturday.
The 50-table Venetian room is moving dealers to slide dealing, which keeps hole cards flat on the felt so nobody can catch a peek. South Point started the trend, and some players want rooms everywhere to follow.
The young pro beat Justin Zaki heads-up to win the Poker Masters opener and his first PokerGO title.
A Wyoming legislative committee voted unanimously to advance a bill making it a felony to run an online sweepstakes casino, which would make it the 15th state to ban them. The bill would also clarify which agency regulates them.
Gianquitti beat a 1,011-entry field in the $1,700 Main Event at Harrah's Pompano Beach for $248,632 and his first Circuit ring. The turnout blew past the $1M guarantee by more than $500K.
A CardPlayer column argues the new wave of lottery-style bounty formats is pushing tournaments too far toward gambling over skill.
An Oct. 12 post from @pokerclub_games ties Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler's mixed-game series to the 2026 Borgata Fall Poker Open. Per the official schedule, the open has 11 leaderboard events, including the $25K H.O.R.S.E. and $35K T.O.R.S.E. Championships, $60K in combined championship guarantees. The separate $50K PLO 8-Max Championship is not one of the 11.
Wilson took down the Super High Roller Bowl XI title and a seven-figure score.
The Seminole Tribe, which owns Hard Rock and holds Florida's exclusive online sports betting deal, filed suit in Broward County saying DraftKings' prediction-market products are an illegal sportsbook. It's the tribe's first legal move against a prediction platform.
Poker Industry PRO tallied more than $600M in prize pools and 10M+ entries across September's online tournament series worldwide, a record fall season.
A security researcher says a remote-access tool hidden in third-party poker software let one player watch roughly 30 victims' screens during real-money games. CardPlayer reports the allegations; nothing has been proven in court.
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