The fight over America's controversial gambling tax rules is back on Capitol Hill: The House Ways and Means Committee will meet on Wednesday to consider the bipartisan ‘FULL HOUSE Act’, which could allow gamblers to once again deduct 100% of their losses against their winnings.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Aden Salazar wins TCH Austin $750K GTD Mini Main: The $600 buy-in event attracted 2,270 entries, with Salazar taking home $160K.
The Main Event starts tomorrow, and 2026 WSOP Main Event winner Lucas Jumalon is already in the house, alongside his dad, Butch.
France's Pierre Chevalier wins 2026 WSOP Circuit Paris Main Event for €260K. He topped a field of 1,282 entries, the largest ever for a WSOP Circuit Main Event in Europe. Davidi Kitai finished fifth, with Natasha Mercier ninth.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Jamie Dwan just keeps winning. The Brit added a fourth Championship of Online Poker title with a win in the WCOOP $2,100 PKO Super High Roller.
Fresh off of big wins at the WSOP, the GUKPT, and the EPT, Dwan's summer heater looks to be stretching into the autumn months.
Brazil dominating WSOP Online: 22 bracelets have been awarded to date on GGPoker, and Brazilian players have won five of them, alongside 10 other podium finishes. Russia are second in the bracelet table, with Germany a distant third.
Nilson Sales became the latest Brazilian winner, taking down the $250 Beat the Pros Bounty NLH.
Brazil's success is good news for the country's other players, too, with Brazil currently in line for the top $200K freeroll. Everyone who plays a bracelet event is eligible to participate in their country's freeroll.
GGPoker is staying in the Netherlands for another five years. According to CasinoNieuws, the Dutch Gaming Authority has granted the poker online giant a new license that will see it operating through to 2031.
Brendan Sleutel, Compliance Manager at GGPoker said: "We have been active in the Netherlands for five years now, and we get to add another five years to that. Naturally, we are proud of that."
Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb to play $60K Legends of Poker Tournament: One Day Challenge. The $600 buy-in tournament plays on Thursday, September 24 at 4pm at the Lilac Club Casino Poker Room in Rochester, New Hampshire.
The tournament will benefit two local nonprofit organizations, Thriving Roots Childcare and the Seacoast Educational Endowment of Dover. And it could benefit you, too: knock out either Hellmuth or Deeb and you'll pocket a $500 bounty.
Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus keeps fighting. And she's just announced that her fix for the controversial gambling loss tax deduction hurting many US poker players "has finally been included in a tax package."
$4.1M up top in the Triton $100K Main Event: 196 entries are currently down to 39 as Tuesday's Day 2 plays out in Jeju, Korea.
Nick Schulman, Alex Foxen and Jesse Lonis all have top 10 stacks at time of writing, with Wesley Fei leading the pack. The top 31 will get paid, with a min-cash worth $173K.
Top 5 payouts look like this:
- $4,145,000
- $2,790,000
- $1,968,000
- $1,596,000
- $1,263,000
Watch along at Triton Poker Plus .
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Doug Polk and Bobby James are livestreaming $50/$100 PLO5 now: Two tables, five hole cards. Who will come out on top?
Meet the WSOPC Virginia final table: The inagural $1,700 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event at Caesars Virginia is down to its final seven players.
Marshall White holds a commanding lead with 10,570,000, more than double the stack of anyone else at the table. The final seven return Monday at 12 PM ET in Level 28 with blinds of 60,000/120,000 and a 120,000 big blind ante.
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The Triton Invitational is now heads-up: It's Ding Biao vs. João Simão for the trophy and the $7,250,000 first prize. The two players couldn't agree on a deal, so they're playing heads-up for $2.31M.
The Triton Poker $100K Main Event is underway: 40 players are already in action in Jeju, including Isaac Haxton, Phil Ivey, Stephen Chidwick and Artur Martirosian.
Registration remains open until the start of Tuesday's Day 2.
3 'VIPs' at the Triton Poker $200K final table: The field for the invitational in Jeju famously comprises non-pro VIP players plus their invited pros.
They're currently down to 8 survivors, of whom Wang Yang, Biao Ding and Winfed Yu are representing the VIP side of the field. You can watch now at Triton Poker .
Want to hang out with Martin Kabrhel, '24/7'?
Czechia's all-time tournament #1 is hiring.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Just 16 players left at the end of Day 2 in the $200K Triton Invitational. And the field still includes Adrian Mateos, looking to win back-to-back Invitationals in 2026. The champ will be crowned on Monday.
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LuckyChewy brings The Art of War to the poker table: "Ever since I first read The Art of War, I thought it would make for a cool video series to go through it in depth, explore the ideas at face value, and extrapolate how they relate to poker and strategic decision-making under uncertainty."
Check the first chapter below.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Thomas Eychenne wins again. The French pro has followed up his High Roller victory at EPT Barcelona with first place in the PLO High Roller at the Super Circuit stop in Canada for $130,000 CAD.
Hustler Casino Live All-Star Game: That's your viewing sorted for early next week, with Alan Keating and Nik Airball headlining on Tuesday night.
Insane live poker read: This new strategy video from The Chip Race contains, according to David Lappin, "one of THE BEST descriptions of a live tell and how it could be exploited that I have ever heard!"
Makes ya think: as the famous saying goes, "The guy who invented money was smart, but the guy who invented chips was a genius."
Phil Ivey is the first player eliminated from the $200K Triton Invitational. You can watch his demise below, but don't worry, he's already hit the rebuy desk.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Oops, he did it again: Niklas 'Lena900' Astedt is showing why he's one of the most feared online players there's ever been.
Fresh from a victory in Wednesday night's $1K PLO event in PokerStars' WCOOP, the Swede added another notch to his belt last night with a $103K win in the $5K Thursday Thrill.
Astedt is now tied for 2nd with Denis Strebkov on the all-time WCOOP winners' list with 14 titles, and fast closing in on Benny Glaser's record (16). Full story below.
The best of Texas Mike. He's got heart, he's got nerves of steel, and he's got a lot of money. Check out his highlight reel from High Stakes Poker.
Phil Ivey pulls $400K jackpot bounty at Triton Jeju. Wai Kiat Lee won the $40K NLH Mystery Bounty last night, while Ivey finished ninth. But he just pulled the jackpot bounty. Or a representative did – Ivey's too busy to pull his own bounties.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
The 2026 WSOP Paradise Parlay is here. It might not be as generous as last year, when a cash in the Main Event gave you eligibility, but it's still free money for anyone who made a final table or won a bracelet event this year.
Canadian Benjamin Veenstra is playing the Super Circuit Main Event final table right now. This crazy bluff against Nick Palma helped him get there.
The WSOP Circuit Texas Card House festival starts today. And shot clocks will be in effect in marquee events.
Phil Ivey makes impressive fold in Triton $50K: As if we needed anymore empirical evidence that Ivey is the GOAT.
Would you find the fold button in this spot?
Uh oh, did someone make him mad? Online poker end boss Niklas 'Lena900' Astedt came close to winning the 20th anniversary Sunday Million at PokerStars this week, but in the end he had to take the L.
Did it slow him down? Not one bit. He just picked up the 13th WCOOP title of his incredible career in the $1K PLO event, for almost $21K.
Astedt is now tied with Patrick Leonard, Joao Vieira and Tobias Leknes on 13 WCOOP wins, just 3 behind all-time leader Benny Glaser.
Where did his name come from? No, not 'Ethan Yau', we're talking about the name 'Rampage'.
Turns out he tried 20 different content creation gigs before he settled on poker, and 'Rampage' came from the first. But what was it?
There's a new book coming from Dara O'Kearney & Barry Carter: trouble is, they need a title.
Got any ideas? Carter will pay you (in memes).
Will Givens at the Super Circuit Canada: The WSOP account is really going to town on poor Givens. After the last video used "What was he thinking?" as the thumbnail, this extended highlights package of his Day 5 collapse goes with "Worst choke." Kick a man when he's down...
Matt Savage drops amended 2026 TDA Poker rules: They’ll be on the website soon, but if you want to be first, you can get them through Dropbox.
Meet the WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event final table: The stage is set, with nine players left in the hunt for the ring and the $1,500,000 CAD first prize. Chance Kornuth is second in chips, with UK pro Jack Salter in seventh. The chip leader is Canadian Mayukh Chakraborty, who only has $3,260 in prior tournament winnings.
Aaron Quon bubbled the final table for $120,000 CAD, while Nick Palma finished in 16th for $85,357 CAD. Action starts at 11am local time and is being streamed on the WSOP YouTube channel.
Final table chip stacks
- Mayukh Chakraborty (Canada): 25.6 million
- Chance Kornuth (USA): 24.1 million
- Jonathan Bussieres (Canada): 15.7 million
- Felipe Baraky (Brazil): 15.4 million
- Robert Renaud (Canada): 14.4 million
- Benjamin Veenstra (Canada): 13.3 million
- Jack Salter (UK): 9.3 million
- Parth Mansukh (Canada): 6.3 million
- Deven Lane (Canada): 5.9 million
Blake Ellinghaus wins WPT bestbet Scramble Championship ($294,900): Jared Reinstein finished runner-up for $184,000, while Bryan Paris was third. Ellinghaus' win was worth more than all of his prior recorded winnings ($142,895).
Watch all of the action from the final table below.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
30 remain in the WSOP Canada Super Circuit ME: Nicky Palma is sitting in 3rd, while former WPT LA Poker Classic winner Paul Klann is chip leader and the only player with >100bb.
Big hitters eliminated on Day 4 included Daniel Negreanu and Will Givens.
They'll play six more levels today from 11am local time.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Where's the best place to play cash games in Las Vegas? Frankie C has the full breakdown – check it out.
Non-stop party: It's been 25 years now that PartyPoker has been dealing out games online.
Two members of the original Hendon Mob - Barny Boatman and Joe 'The Elegance' Beevers - have got together with Barry Carter to share some of their favorite stories from a quarter century of PP.
Grandmaster Cash: Chess queen and PokerStars ambassador Jennifer Shahade has taken down a live event at the Maryland State Poker Championships.
She chopped the event but flipped for the trophy. That almost never happens in chess.
Biggest bluff on High Stakes Poker: If you didn't catch the bluff that Texas Mike pulled on Andrew Robl last week, don't miss out again. It's pure savagery.
Alex Boika wins first Triton title in Event #5 $25K NLH: Seth Davies finished fifth for $226,000, while Boika picked up $761,000 and his first trophy on the Super High Roller Series.
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Ike goes to war: If he'd won this hand, he might have gone on to win his second Triton title.
Instead, Ngo Khoa Anh won his first for $1,090,000 in the $25K NLH Titi Poker event in Jeju, after taking down two Triton ONEs. Anatoly Filatov finished runner-up.
575 tournament bots banned by WPT Global: Vojtech Cervinka, behind the X account MTT Database Review, does the lord's work and has just got another swathe of bots banned. And it sounds like WPT Global did the right thing all the way through the process.
Espen Jorstad wins third WCOOP title: The Norwegian pro – under his Stars alias 'SamSolverel' – beat Finnish player 'realsuhisjii' for $18,890 in bounties and $14,358 in prize money.
'AHTOCb' wins PokerStars Sunday Million 20th Anniversary: The Belarusian player won $176,310 and $79,026 in bounties for a total score of $255,336. Niklas 'Lena900' Astedt finished eighth.
Two new WSOP Super Circuit stops announced. After the success of the Super Circuit Canada (Day 4 of the Main Event is today), the WSOP has announced stops in Rozvadov and the Dominican Republic.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Daniel Iachan wins the Maryland State Poker Championship Main Event ($78,112): He made a three-way deal with Justin Arnwine and Aaron Pinson.
WSOP Super Circuit Main Event Day 3 players on dinner break: Canadian Rayan Chamas is leading the remaining 196 players. Will Givens is sixth, while Chance Kornuth and Andy Stacks are also rocking big stacks. Daniel Negreanu is currently on the livestream feature table.
The winner of the biggest Canadian event of all time will get $1,500,000 CAD.
