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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31

Rampage loses a bundle on Hustler Casino Live. He ended up down $176K on High Stakes Friday, thanks in part to the hand below. "Yeah, I wanted to fold," he said after calling the $125K bet on the river. 

Hustler Casino Live @HCLPokerShow
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$321,000 POT 💰💰When it’s your night, it’s your night And when it’s not @rampagepoker’s night, it’s definitely not his night 🤦‍♂️

Nacho Barbero leads WSOP Circuit Main Event in Madrid. He was only there to chill with friends and play padel before heading to North Cyprus for Triton, but decided to fire a late bullet in the Main Event. He's since run his stack up to 1.6 million and leads the remaining 123 players on Day 2.

Nacho Barbero is Bagel Barbero so far this summer with 0 fantasy points.

Sergei Kislinskii wins 2026 PGT Sprint Event #4 ($91,200). He topped a 57-entry field and beat Brandon Sunshine heads-up for his first PGT title. Andrew Lichtenberger was fourth and Nick Palma cashed in ninth. Event #5 starts on Monday.

Sergei Kislinskii. Sergei Kislinskii.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

More on that fold from Nick Palma. Palma made one of the best folds you'll ever see in the recent Poker Masters series. Here's what Sam Greenwood made of it. 

Sam Greenwood @SamGreenwoodRIO
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Unlocked for everyonehttps://t.co/IZqbz7obAG

The GOAT of poker on GTO. Check out Adrian Mateos on the Raise Your Edge podcast, where he reveals his four secrets for crushing poker.

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Garrett Adelstein threatened with first lawsuit following release of new book. Apparently, he "done fucked up" but Adelstein's not backing down and stands by everything he wrote in Beneath the Cards. Surely even more reason to read it.

Garrett Adelstein @GmanPoker
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“You done fucked up.”Last night, someone named in my book called to threaten me with a lawsuit.During our brief chat, this guy repeatedly tried (unsuccessfully, obviously) to get me to say I made a mistake in Beneath the Cards. I didn’t. He then told me “I’ll see you in…

Jesse Lonis wins PGT Sprint #3.

There are 7 PGT Sprint events on the schedule in total, running until November 4, and Jesse Lonis has just taken down the 3rd for $101K.

The New Yorker joins Chino Rheem and Brock Wilson in the winners' circle, all 3 of them winning $5.3K events. There's one more tourney at that price point to run, before the final 3 events up the buy-ins to $10.5K.

Jesse Lonis wins PGT sprint #3.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

Build a poker bot in 60 minutes and win $100K. Sequoia Capital, OpenAI and Citadel Securities have opened applications for No Limit, a poker bot-building competition for university students and recent graduates. Competitors can enter solo or in teams of two, with just one hour to build a bot that can lay waste to the opposition. 

Sequoia Capital @sequoia
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Announcing No Limit: a bot building tournament hosted by @Sequoia, @citsecurities and @OpenAI.Teams of 1 or 2 get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch.Agents play thousands of games across six scored rounds.Open to university students and recent grads (‘25 or ‘26).…