Live Poker Updates & Breaking News

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17

After bubbling three events, Adrian Mateos leads Poker Masters #5. The Spanish pro finished second in Event #2 and is now looking to win his first title and make a run for the Purple Jacket – awarded to the player of the series. It's a stacked final table with Nick Schulman in second and Jeremy Becker in third.

Watch the livestream from 4pm ET on the PokerGO YouTube channel. There's $229,500 up top for the champion. 

  1. Adrian Mateos: 3,020,000
  2. Nick Schulman: 2,195,000
  3. Jeremy Becker: 1,715,000
  4. Martin Zamani: 1,540,000
  5. Robert French: 1,140,000
  6. Keith Lehr: 775,000
  7. Matthew Wantman: 280,000 
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

Women's cash game stream with Marle Spragg tonight. The Hippodrome Casino in central London plays host to the UK leg of WPT Ladies Weekend (October 16-18). Spragg is playing in a livestreamed cash game on Friday, October 16, which starts at 7.30pm UK time on the Hippodrome YouTube channel. 

Vitalijs Zavorotnijs leads Poker Masters #4. It's set to be a fascinating final-table stream later, with Jamie Dwan, Nick Palma and Andrew Lichtenberger all in contention.

Palma is gunning for his second Masters title of the series after winning Event #2, and made an incredible fold against Zavorotnijs late in the day to secure his spot in the final five.

On a board of , Zavorotnijs shoved with , and Palma – with little more than the pot behind – folded for a lower straight.

Watch the hand below, starting at 4:29:20. Today's stream starts at 4pm ET.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

GGPoker introduces new security measures: The online poker platform has updated its security system with five new features – including the banning of all third-party software and automation tools like Jurojin, Hand2Note, and PokerTracker 4. 

For more information, click the link below. 

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GGPoker Security UpdateWe’re introducing new measures to protect our community, including new client security features and a ban on all third-party poker software and automation tools.Full details here 👇https://t.co/DxwP6sMz15

WSOPC Turning Stone kicks off Thursday: The cards are officially in the air at the WSOP Circuit festival in upstate New York as Event #1: $400 40/40/40 No-Limit Hold'em gets the action started. 

Flight A of Event #2: $400 Mini Main Event gets underway later today at 4pm local time. 

Andy 'BowieEffect' Wilson wins first GGMillion$: The British online poker legend triumphed over a stacked final table to claim his first GGMillion$ title. 

Wilson had to outlast the likes of Simon Mattsson, Joao Viera, Chris Nguyen, and others in order to claim the $437,338 first-place prize. 

If you want to check out the full replay , it's still live on the GGPoker YouTube channel. 

The 'bot detective' is back, and naming names:

Poker player and coach Vojtech Cervinka, on his MTT Database Review X account, has published more findings into alleged bot activity on the QQPK site.

According to Cervinka, the post includes a 'full list of 11,469 nicknames belonging to accounts I'm virtually certain are bots'.

Full story on the way.

MTT Database Review @MTT_Data_Review
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QQPK MTT bot investigation (July 16 – October 11, 2026):-24M player-hands across 3.78M hand histories.-I estimate that roughly 17.5M of those hands (over 70%) were played by bots.-Approximately 12,000 bots in total.-Full list of 11,469 nicknames belonging to accounts I'm…

Jeremy Ausmus leads final six in Poker Masters Event #3 $10,500 NLH. The third event in the series drew 78 entries for a prize pool of $780K There's $218,400 up top for the winner. 

Adrian Mateos went out on the bubble for the second time in three events. He had his aces cracked in Event #1 and lost with A-K last night. He finished second to Nick Palma in Event #2. 

2026 Poker Masters Event #3 final table

  1. Jeremy Ausmus: 2,695,000
  2. Brock Wilson: 1,750,000
  3. Dylan Linde: 1,640,000
  4. Joey Weissman: 1,525,000
  5. Shannon Shorr: 1,305,000
  6. Daniyal Gheba: 835,000
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