Lonis wins 3rd WSOP bracelet: After late-regging the WSOP Bracelet Event #16 – NLH $350K GTD Mystery Bounty, Jesse Lonis struck pay dirt with a third WSOP bracelet win.
Live Poker Updates & Breaking News
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
Moneymaker LIVE for Venom: The ACR Poker Team Pro is taking over the site's Twitch and Kick channels to livestream his Day 2 play in the $1.5M GTD Venom PKO PLO.
As of writing, he's got a top five stack with 62 players remaining and is nearly ITM.
'Disrespecting the game. That's what you did'.
On the bubble of last week's Poker Masters $10K NLH event, Canada's John Krpan took issue with Clemen Deng not forcing his opponent all-in for his last chip.
Deng, as the big stack, obviously did so in order to prolong the bubble and maximize the chips he could win while his opponents waited for the shortie to bust.
Nick Palma tried to explain the strategy but Krpan wasn't having it, saying "I don't want to hear from you anymore."
WPT Prime Cyprus Championship final table streams today. The $1,100 Main Event attracted 953 entries at the Chamada Prestige Hotel and Casino, with the tournament scheduled to crown its champion today. The livestream starts at 2:30pm EEST or 7:30am ET.
Said Tahar is the chip leader, with a stack of 80bb, and there's $171,600 and a seat to the $10,400 WPT World Championship for the eventual winner. Here's the final table seat draw.
- Johan Storakers – 1.75M
- Joseph El Khoury – 2.43M
- Andreas Christodoulo – 7.75M
- Ismail Yagci – 950K
- Bora Kurtulus – 5.43M
- Said Tahar – 12M
- Ivelin Kolev – 4.53M
- Sergiu Cornea – 2.8M
Not for my mum. Patrick Leonard took to X to answer questions about the high rake on CoinPoker, and he was nothing if not honest. In a lengthy thread, he explains why he thinks cash games are broken and recommends MTTs instead. He also says, "Would I tell my mum to come and try CoinPoker cash games and grind up the stakes? No I wouldn't."
More details on GGPoker security changes. Third-party tools will be banned from December 1, and GGPoker says it's integrating the community's most-requested multi-tabling features directly into its poker client. Read more below.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
Eric Tsai wins $1,046,600 in Jeju for his first seven-figure cash. The Taiwanese player defeated Calvin Lee heads-up in the 60K Super High Roller at the KPC Poker October Series.
The $60,000 event attracted 66 entries and generated a $3,706,600 prizepool. Lee earned $700,000 as runner-up, with Ryuta Nakai in fifth and Ethan 'Rampage' Yau in seventh.
- Ting Yi 'Eric' Tsai: $1,046,600
- Calvin Lee: $700,000
- Hugues Girard: $470,000
- Mehdi Chaoui: $370,000
- Ryuta Nakai: $300,000
- Marius Kudzmanas: $240,000
- Ethan Yau: $190,000
- Manuel Fritz: $150,000
- Candy Lin: $120,000
Sean Winter leads final seven in Poker Masters Event #6. It's tight at the top, though, with Victoria Livschitz just 10K behind. Action resumes on Monday with the stream going live at 4pm ET.
- Sean Winter: 1,405,000
- Victoria Livschitz: 1,395,000
- Justin Vaysman: 1,205,000
- Sam Laskowitz: 1,115,000
- Brandon Wilson: 1,085,000
- Tony Gregg: 805,000
- Joey Weissman: 795,000
Omar Sader
