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Hun Wei Lee beats Joe Hachem heads-up to win the 2026 Victorian Poker Championship Main Event. Lee took home AUD $350,000 at Crown Melbourne, while Hachem added another $210,000 to his tournament earnings after winning Event #9 earlier in the series.

Hun Wei Lee - $350,000
Joe Hachem - $210,000
Zac Miravet - $135,000
Ben Richardson - $90,000
Bobby Zhang - $72,500
Nektarios Dimitrakis - $58,000
Higor Seibel - $47,500
Jyrki Hilakari - $38,000
Michael Tomeny - $30,500

All prizes are in Australian dollars.

Boyan (@boyanpoker)

It’s a joy to see @JosephHachem remain one of the game’s best ambassadors.Now 20+ years as a world champ, he’s still competitive whenever he plays; but above all, he has fun, and always remains well-mannered.Just look at him here, after finishing runner-up to Hun Wei Lee.

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Final six set for televised WPT Shooting Star Championship final table. The players have got plenty of time to think about how they're going to play it. They'll play down to a winner in Las Vegas on December 15 during the WPT World Championship series, with $470,500 up top.

Quoc Mai – 10,165,000
Chahn Jung – 9,075,000
Ziao Guo – 4,095,000
Shawn Daniels – 3,000,000
Eric Zheng – 2,065,000
William Davis – 700,000

Both Phil Hellmuth and son Nick were eliminated on Day 3, in 48th and 51st place respectively. Both cashed for $11,400.

2026 WPT Shooting Star Championship final table.

Full chip counts and seat draw for Day 3 of the WPT Shooting Star Championship. Action resumes at 11:15am PT.

Matt Savage (@SavagePoker)

Day 3 Chip Counts and Seat Assignments for @WPT @Bay101Casino. Still 12 Shooting Star Players remain including local sensation @Phil_Hellmuth looking for his 1st WPT title. Follow the action at https://t.co/26H93ONohF

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WPT heads back to Vegas. Once the Shooting Star Championship is over, the WPT is heading to the Venetian for the Las Vegas Fall Festival, which starts Wednesday and runs until November 15.

The $5,000 buy-in WPT Venetian Las Vegas Fall Championship runs November 5-10, with a $2 million guarantee. The final table will be livestreamed. After that, all focus turns to the 2026 WPT Championship at the Wynn.

Joe Giron/World Poker Tour

CoinPoker and PokerGO team up for PGT Online. There are $250 million in total guarantees with six series running from November 2026 to November 2027.

The Kickoff Series starts November 8, with $50 million guaranteed. Across the year, 50 players will qualify for a live final at the PokerGO Studio in January 2028, where one player will win the $1 million prize.

CoinPoker (@CoinPoker_OFF)

INTRODUCING PGT ONLINE!Six massive series. $250M GTD across the season. A year of poker!CoinPoker and @PokerGO bring the Tour online, starting with the PGT Kickoff Online: $50M GTD, November 8–30.Play your way through PGT Online challenges for the $1M Vegas Final - a live…

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'Back in the high life again'.

Phi Hellmuth and his son Nick have both made Day 3 of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship. Daddy Hellmuth posted the news from his (driverless) cab while getting down to some Steve Winwood. As you do.

Anyone else hoping to see them clash at the table on Monday?

phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth)

Father/son to Day 3 of World Poker Tour!In the money of the @Bay101Casino @WPT, along w my son @nick_hellmuth! Thrilling to have my sons play poker w me, more thrilling to have them play WPT Main Events w me, even more thrilling to have one make it w me to Day 3!!#POSITIVITY

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Full chip counts for Day 2 of the WPT Shooting Star Championship. The bounties are marked with a gold star. Play restarts at 11:15am local time.

Bay101 Casino (@Bay101Casino)

Chip Counts and Seat Assignments for Day 2 of the @WPT Shooting Star Championship, which restarts at 11:15am Sunday.

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Andrew Lichtenberger releases new poker book, Khemset Holistic Poker Codex.

"In this three-volume codex, I go through first principles and poker theory before shifting the discussion to my views on philosophy and the nature of reality, ultimately tying them together with the goal in mind of sharing a practical and actionable holistic perspective for poker as well as life more broadly," Lichtenberger explains.

A hardcover collector's edition, limited to 500 copies, is available now for $85. A cheaper paperback edition may follow.

Andrew Lichtenberger (@luckychewy)

I set out to write the best poker book ever and, while that may or may not have come to fruition, I’m fairly certain that it’s the most unique one ever written.It’s been a long process writing the book which I’m now pleased to share with the world: the Khemset Holistic Poker…

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Nick Palma and Chris Brewer at the Poker Masters. Is this the best version of the meme ever? We'll never look at the two players quite the same again.

GC8282 (@GC8282130901)

@Nick_Palma1010 thats how u do it?

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Irish Open satellites start this Sunday.

It's one of the longest-running and best-loved live poker series in the world, and you can get there from €1 when satellites kick off for the Irish Poker Open at PokerStars this Sunday.

The action in Dublin runs from March 18-29, 2027 - see the article below for more.

Ignore the hangover: 2027 Irish Poker Open starts the day after St. Patrick’s Day Starting the day after St Patrick's Day, the 2027 Irish Poker Open looks to keep the party going.

Adam Hampton / October 21, 2026

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