Garrett Adelstein returns to Bally Poker Live: Mark your calendars, ladies and gentleman. G-Man is back on October 6, live from The Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.
Live Poker Updates & Breaking News
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
"Hey, you're a sick f**k." Brad Booth talks about that hand against Phil Ivey on High Stakes Poker. Let the nostalgia wash over you and find out what happened when the cameras stopped rolling.
Are you a bag of tells at the poker table? Charlie Carrel is here to help.
2026 WCOOP numbers are in. There were 593,189 total entries with $49,054,415 in prize pools. Winners took almost $8 million of this, with Felipe ‘lipe piv’ Boianovsky taking the single biggest prize of $551,632 for winning the $10K Main Event. ‘FAL1st’ was the overall Player of the Series and winner of the High Leaderboard.
GGPoker launches new PKO format with bounties worth up to $1.5 million. The new Ocean KO format adds a twist to the standard PKO bounty. When you knock someone out, you spin a wheel that adds a random multiplier of up to 400x.
KO a ‘Legendary Shark’ and you could scoop an instant $1.5 million. How are the big multipliers funded? Most spins land on 1x or below. Ocean KOs launch on October 4.
First knock-on effects for poker of Brazil's online gambling ban. The ban isn't meant to affect poker, but PokerStars has acknowledged that some Brazilian players are having issues logging on to its client since the new measures came into effect.
In a statement, PokerStars said, "We are investigating these access issues, including whether internet service provider restrictions are affecting PokerStars poker, and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible."
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Jonas Kronwitter wins Event #7 of the 2026 PGT PLO Series for $267,563 after an ICM deal heads-up. Nick Palma was out on the very first hand of the $15,700 PLO final table after picking up 
and getting his chips in against chipleader Joni Jouhkimainen's 
. Jouhkimainen flopped a flush to extend his lead, but eventually finished runner-up.
- Jonas Kronwitter: $267,563*
- Joni Jouhkimainen: $215,062*
- Jeremy Druckman: $131,625
- Matthew Wantman: $97,500
- Lautaro Guerra: $73,125
- Nino Pansier: $53,625
- Nick Palma: $39,000
*ICM deal was agreed heads-up
Matt Berkey: “Peter recognized he was compromised in this hand immediately.” While the latest Hustler Casino Live drama rumbles on, with staking at the heart of it, Berkey points out why buying or swapping action while playing games like Squid creates a huge problem.
Tomoyuki Maeda wins APT Jeju Zodiac Classic for $170K.
One of the showpiece events of every APT stop, the Jeju edition of the Zodiac Classic sponsored by Natural8 drew 373 entries, more than doubling the tournament guarantee and creating a prizepool of $889K.
The win by Japan's Maeda has bumped his recorded career tournament earnings up by 6x.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2
PGT PLO final table LIVE: The final seven players in Event #7 are playing down to a winner with $292,500 up top – check out the livestream to follow the action.
Finnish PLO legend Joni Jouhkimainen leads the pack, with Lautaro Guerra, Nick Palma, and Matthew Wantman also in the mix.
Got any Doyle Brunson stories? Share them on this thread.
Today is the fourth annual Doyle Brunson Day. Make your excuses to the boss, play poker instead and celebrate the life of the Godfather of Poker. And if you look down at 
, you know what you need to do.
Double or nothing? Jared Bleznick lost $250K in his last heads-up PLO battle with Eelis Pärssinen. Now they're running it back – and doubling the stakes to $500/$1K and $1K/$2K. Find out what happened below.
Sam Soverel wins $15,700 PLO Series Mystery Bounty for 17th PGT title: He won $250,000 including bounties on Thursday night, vaulting him to the top of the series leaderboard with two events remaining. It's his fourth PGT win of the year and, more significantly, his record-extending 17th title – four clear of Alex Foxen in second.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
The moment Alejandro Lococo won the 2026 WCOOP $1,050 Main Event (Medium). It's another huge win for Papo MC – this time for $343K.
Feel the energy. Want to know how to pull the jackpot bounty envelope? Just follow Sean Winter's approach. Dust... dust... dust... bink. You have to match the energy in his celebrations, too.
Brazil dominates 2026 WCOOP. Brazil won more bracelets than any other country at the recent 2026 WSOP Online festival, and has now topped the country standings by a wide margin in the just-concluded WCOOP.
Country leaderboard
- Brazil – 84 titles
- UK – 42
- Austria – 27
- Canada & Finland – 16
- Argentina – 15
Renan Bruschi and Johannes Straver led the individual title count with four apiece, with five players, including Benny Glaser, one behind.
4 titles
- Renan 'Internett93o' Bruschi
- Johannes 'Jepser8' Straver
3 titles
- 'ameliaroy007'
- '|gammi|€120'
- 'moggiii'
- 'DeanoSupremo'
- Benny 'RunGodlike' Glaser
A little bit of WCOOP history: It took 26 editions, but Mongolia finally has its first WCOOP champion. 'Billionai8' won the $109 PKO Series Saver for $32,520.
Alex Thompson enjoys breakout win in WPT Australia Championship. He had a total of $103,365 in live tournament earnings ahead of the A$5K event in Sydney. When he beat Filip Radic heads-up and topped a 527-entry field, he won A$465,900, including a seat in the 2026 World Championship.
“I still can’t really comprehend how massive it is,” Thompson said afterward.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
James Chen bounty hunting in Las Vegas. Chen won Event #4 of the 2026 PGT PLO Series, claiming eight of the 14 bounties in play in the $10,500 PLO Quattro Bounty event. That meant his bounty haul of $132,000 outscored his first-place prize money of $107,000.
The UK's Richard Gryko was runner-up, collecting $68,400 in prize money and another $32,000 in bounties for a total haul of $100,400.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Scary thread from a very credible source. A new online cheating scandal has erupted and there are details of the tech side of it in the thread below. Look out for a full story soon.
Marrakech Express: The Irish Open has released a complete schedule for its upcoming stop in Marrakech, Morocco.
From November 10-15, the Casino de Marrakech will play host to a 36-event slate – including a €1,155 Main Event.
Phenom Poker announces inaugural Phenom Series of Poker (PSOP): The king of mixed games online has announced its first series, with 92 events running from October 23 to November 15.
Expect all your favorite games and more, from NLH and PLO to mixed and niche formats including Archie 66, Dramaha, Sviten Special and Badeucy. Buy-ins range from $25 to $5,000 for the 9 Game Mix Masters High Roller.
Register before an event starts to receive 10% more starting chips. There's $706,500 guaranteed, with 250,000 $PHNM and two WSOP Paradise packages added.
Latest HCL drama rumbles on. It's tough to cover this concisely, because every time there's an HCL drama, the usual suspects come out to wage their own personal battles. But we'll give it a go.
This one concerns Britney and CYe, with allegations over missing chips, staking and unpaid money. Ryan Feldman came out to bat for Britney. Charlie Carrel is on team CYe. Garrett Adelstein popped up to take more shots at Feldman and Airball. And Wesley Fei threatened to tell all in the pursuit of "truth and seeking justice" (he doesn't like Britney).
Does Britney control the lineups on HCL? Where did the missing chips go? Who's staking who? Is anyone playing with their own money? Who knows.
Xuan Liu has just put out a video where she says what we're thinking: "Quite frankly, I think this is rather embarrassing for everyone involved." Don't expect an objective take here, though. She admits she's a friend of Britney's, and that the HCL regular has taken pieces of her and put her in good spots.
Rob Kuhn on a sun run. He took down the Caribbean Poker Series Main Event for $155,670 on Sunday. Last night, he made the final table of the OSSXL #1 Main, with $518,759 up top. Play resumes at 2:05pm ET, with the final table streaming on the ACR client.
Moneymaker dominates the GOAT: Chris Moneymaker won last night's $15K buy-in OSS XL Phil's Nosebleeds event, beating Alex Foxen heads-up for the $214,987 first prize.
Justin Arnwine can't stop winning. He just went back-to-back at MGM National Harbor, winning the $1,300 RGPS Main Event for $79,501. He won his last one in November 2025 with one buy-in. This time, it took him eight.
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Amateur beats the pros to win the Winamax Poker Open Aix-les-Bains Main Event. 23-year-old French accountant Lucas Archeny came out on top of a stacked 2,873-entry field to win the €150K first prize. Archeny hadn't cashed in anything above a €350 buy-in before and had total live winnings of just $23,854.
Final table set for last event of 2026 WSOP Online festival. The $10K GGMillion$ brings the 33-event festival to a close, with a bracelet, $2.2M and a $30K WSOP Paradise Super Pass up top for the winner.
Roeland Peeks has a huge chip lead. Can he convert? You can watch all the action on the GGPoker YouTube channel from 2:45pm ET.
Michael Mizrachi made a deep run and held the chip lead at one point after his aces held against kings and queens, but he was eliminated in 27th for $76,226.
$10K GGMillion$ final 9
1: Roeland Peeks – 69M (172bb)
2: Sergio Aido – 29M (73bb)
3: Matheus Cardoso – 15M(37bb)
4: Niklas Astedt – 15M (37bb)
5: Ole Schemion – 13M (32bb)
6: Chris Nguyen – 11M(28bb)
7: Johannes Straver – 10M (24bb)
8: Oshri Lahmani – 8M (19bb)
9: Alessandro De Michele – 7M (17bb)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Negreanu out, Veldhuis climbing in final WSOP Online event: Daniel Negreanu's 2026 WSOP Online is over. Despite three final table appearances, he ends the series still chasing a ninth bracelet.
Negreanu played a big one against Leon Sturm to bust the $10K GGMillion$ High Roller on Day 2. After flatting a raise with 
, he back-jammed 41.2BBs facing a squeeze from Sturm and ran right into the German's 
.
Veldhuis, meanwhile, is sitting comfortably on a stack of roughly 60BBs – and his stream is still live .
Negreanu and Veldhuis live for Day 2 of $10K GGMillion$: With less than 200 players still in the hunt and $2.2 million for first place, the sweat is on for Daniel Negreanu and Lex Veldhuis.
And if you want to watch along, both players are live-streaming their gameplay on YouTube .
Benny Glaser wins 19th WCOOP title: Despite not playing a full schedule, the Brit has notched three titles across this year's WCOOP series – bringing his total haul to 19, the most of any player.
There's only a few days left, but with Glaser's track record a 20th title might arrive sooner rather than later.
Rob Kuhn wins Caribbean Poker Series Main Event for $155,670: The ACR Poker ambassador picked up a Moneymaker Poker Tour trophy on Sunday night – and celebrated the victory in style.
First place doesn't always pay the most. Daisuke Abiko has won the APT Jeju Mystery Bounty Hunter after striking a heads-up deal with Jianfeng Sun – but Sun walked away with considerably more from the regular prize pool. Abiko took $44.6K, while runner-up Sun banked $62.8K.
Abiko did get the Mystery Bounty Silhouette Lion Trophy, another $7K in bounties and a $10K APT Championship seat – while almost tripling his previous biggest live cash.
Video captures shocking attack on player at Minnesota poker table. A video shared by TimeTravelerPoker on X is going viral. It shows an older poker player being punched repeatedly at Shooting Star Casino before the attacker throws a small table and runs away.
There are no details of what led to the altercation, and TimeTravelerPoker – who says the poker player is a friend of his – didn't record the footage himself.
Daniil Kiselev wins the 2026 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event for $1M. In the final hand, he limped 
before shoving over a raise from Mehmet Biskin. Biskin called with K-Q, but Kiselev paired his three to secure the biggest win of his career.
Speaking afterward he said, "Please, don't tell anyone about that last hand. I thought he had something weak when he made that raise, so that's why I shoved." Too late.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Alexandra Botez wins Poker Champs $250K prize: After taking out 'PaymoneyWubby' in the semi-final round, Botez defeated 'Sodapoppin' in the grand final of the ClubWPT Gold tournament.
Doug Polk livestreamed both of the semi-final matches, the third-place match, and the grand final – check out the full replay below.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Negreanu downed by Kabrhel in WSOP Online $10K HU Championship: The Round of 128 match between the two took a little more than an hour and a half to complete.
Negreanu live-streamed his gameplay throughout match, with cards up and a lengthy delay – roll the tape below to see the battle play out.
Bellagio Mix goes live on Phenom Poker: Have you ever wanted to test yourself in the Big Game at Bobby's Room in Las Vegas?
Well, here's your chance to do so – but at slightly more reasonable stakes and against much less intimidating opponents.
With 13 poker variants, the Bellagio Mix includes flop games, stud games, draw games, and the big-bet games – see the post below for more details.
Another PokerStars Spin & Go jackpot: Alright, this is getting out of hand now. That's the fourth massive jackpot to hit over the course of a few months.
In a $25 Spin & Go Max tournament, the UK's 'visiontechno' took home the lion's share – banking $500,000 of the $650,000 jackpot. The other six players split the remaining $150,000.
It was a one-in-a-million spin – and everyone at the table got a piece.
Maybe it's time to consider becoming a Spin & Go pro?
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Negreanu going LIVE: As he chases bracelet #9, Daniel Negreanu will have his livestream running.
With a longer delay, he won't be able to interact with the chat – but we'll forgive him for that. It's a bracelet event final table, after all. He can't be all loosey-goosey and talking to the viewers.
PLO really is his jam: Daniel Negreanu made another WSOP Online final table on Thursday, navigating his way to the final seven players in the $5K High Roller Bounty PLO.
With 35.4BBs, he'll start the final table 4/7 in the chip counts.
Is a ninth bracelet in the cards? We'll find out tomorrow.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
ClubWPT Gold exiting Nevada?: Users based in Nevada have shared an email announcement from the site that states it will be "winding down" its services in the state due to operational changes made in response to regulatory action.
Sweepstakes gameplay on the site will reportedly be unavailable from September 28 onwards. ClubWPT Gold also recommends that players submit any redemption requests before October 2.
As of the time of writing, no confirmation of the announcement has come from the site.
If the news is true, and it looks to be, the timing couldn't be worse with the big winter series looming ahead.
Negreanu back on the bracelet hunt: After a pair of close calls earlier this week, Daniel Negreanu is back in the streets fighting for the $5,000 High Roller Bounty PLO title.
The Canadian is live-streaming his gameplay now.
More Poker Champs first-round action: Today's matchups include Alexandra Botez vs. 'erobb221' and 'loltyler1' vs. 'YourRAGE'.
Doug Polk is live-streaming the action, with his own commentary.
Johannes Straver completes WCOOP hat-trick: The Dutchman won his third title of this year's series in the 67-entrant $5,200 Super Tuesday.
Straver defeated Portugal's Joao Viera heads-up to claim the $90,420 first-place prize.
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The WPT Australia Championship is underway. Or should that be down-underway?
The AUD $5K event runs to September 30 at The Star in Sydney.
Andrew Lichtenberger features in new Late Reg Podcast: Phil Laak, Brian Rast, and 'LuckyChewy' go deep on intuition, spirituality, telepathy, and the intersection between all three that occurs at the poker table.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Phil Nagy responds: In a lengthy post to social media, WPN/ACR Poker CEO Phil Nagy responded to specific complaints about the site's withdrawal system and clarified its policies.
Nagy acknowledged and took ownership for errors made in communications with players, but firmly reiterated that overall liquidity was not an issue and that the policies in question exist due to money laundering concerns.
Xuan Liu signs with KPC Poker: The Canadian pro, who has over $4M in career tournament earnings, will be representing the brand at the KPC Poker Series in Jeju next month.
