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Daniil Kiselev Wins $1M Mediterranean Poker Party.

Daniil Kiselev Wins $1M Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event

Daniil Kiselev has won the $5,400 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event in North Cyprus, turning a dominant final-table performance into a $1 million payday. The Russian player came through 972 entries at Merit Crystal Cove and defeated Mehmet Biskin heads-up…

September 28, 2026Cyprus Poker, Live Poker, Poker Tournaments

Marek Uharcek wins at King's Resort.

Marek Uharcek Wins First Poker Title and €95K at King’s

Cash-game specialist Marek Uharcek wins his first tournament title, taking the King's Million €1,500 PLO Championship for €95,000.

September 27, 2026Czech Poker, Live Poker, PLO, Poker Tournaments

Benny Glaser at a live poker game table.

Benny Glaser Wins TWO WCOOP Titles in One Day, Takes Record to 19

Benny Glaser won the $530 Stud and $530 HORSE on the same day to take his all-time WCOOP record from 17 titles to 19.

September 27, 2026Benny Glaser, Online Poker, PokerStars, WCOOP 2026

Casino Secrets graphic showing a chained laptop, playing cards, poker chips and a padlock, with leaking digital text.

Casino Secrets Leak Exposes Regulator Behind Offshore Poker Licences

A huge Casino Secrets leak from the Curaçao Gaming Authority has exposed sensitive gambling industry documents and raised fresh questions about offshore poker regulation, operator security and how safely player data is handled.

September 27, 2026Online Poker, Poker Business, Poker Industry

Lee Wee Liew wins at APT Jeju.

Lee Wee Liew Stops Zhiyi Wang Repeat to Win APT Jeju Korea National Cup

Lee Wee Liew denied Zhiyi Wang back-to-back Korea National Cup titles to claim the biggest APT victory of his career in Jeju.

September 26, 2026Asian Poker Tour, Jeju

Poker in Brazil with Brazilian flag and poker cards and chips.

Brazil Bans Online Betting, But What Does It Mean for Poker?

Brazil has dropped one of the biggest gambling stories of the year by effectively shutting down its regulated online betting market. For poker players, though, the obvious question has a much less dramatic answer: poker does not appear to be…

September 26, 2026Brazil Poker, Online Poker

Britney Jing Hits Back at C Ye in high-stakes staking storm.

Britney Jing Hits Back at C Ye’s $18K Claim With ‘Buy Yourself a Bag’ Messages

Britney Jing has hit back at C Ye’s $18K poker staking claim, posting private messages that appear to show the disputed balance being waived.

September 25, 2026Britney Jing, High Stakes Poker, Hustler Casino Live, Poker Players, Women in Poker

Johannes Straver Wins Fourth WCOOP 2026 Title.

Johannes Straver Wins Fourth WCOOP 2026 Title for $167K

Johannes "Jepser8" Straver has turned an already absurd WCOOP into something even harder to explain, winning the $10,300 Thursday Thrill for $167,733 and collecting his fourth title of the 2026 series. The Dutch high-stakes regular had already won three WCOOP…

September 25, 2026Johannes Straver, PokerStars, WCOOP, WCOOP 2026

The Asian Poker Tour Jeju 2026.

APT Jeju Opens 135-Event Festival With KRW 2.2B Main Event

APT Jeju begins with 135 events across 13 days and a KRW 2.2 billion guaranteed Main Event at LES A Casino in South Korea.

September 25, 2026Asian Poker Tour, Jeju, Live Poker, Poker Tournaments

Alan Keating's Hero Call Ventures poker tournament.

Alan Keating Launches Hero Call Ventures With $100 Poker Game

Alan Keating launches Hero Call Ventures with a $100 San Francisco founders poker tournament where entrepreneurs pitch for investment.

September 25, 2026High Stakes Poker, Poker Business, Poker Players, US Poker

Poker player Patrick “pads1161” Leonard.

Patrick Leonard Misses WCOOP Title 16 by One Opponent

Patrick “pads1161” Leonard has spent WCOOP 2026 collecting titles, final tables and another reminder that even the best online tournament players can still run into a door at heads-up. The British pro came within one opponent of winning his third…

September 24, 2026British Poker Players, Patrick Leonard, PokerStars, UK Poker, WCOOP, WCOOP 2026

Ari Engel and Daniel Lowery WSOP winners.

Ari Engel and Daniel Lowery Hit 21 WSOP Circuit Rings

Ari Engel and Daniel Lowery won their 21st WSOP Circuit rings less than 24 hours apart at Council Bluffs, leaving both five behind record-holder Maurice Hawkins.

September 24, 2026WSOP, WSOP Circuit

Paul Volpe Wins Borgata Big, Big Championship.

Paul Volpe Wins Borgata Big, Big Championship for $492K

Paul Volpe wins the $5,300 Borgata Big, Big Championship for $492,415 after recovering from eight big blinds and making a heads-up ICM deal.

September 24, 2026Borgata, Live Poker, Poker Tournaments

Cooper Feltham Wins WPT Prime Australia.

Cooper Feltham Wins WPT Prime Australia After 17BB Comeback

Cooper Feltham has turned a 17-big-blind final-table stack into the biggest live tournament win of his career, taking down the WPT Prime Australia Championship at The Star Sydney for A$187,793. The Australian did it the hard way. Feltham began the…

September 24, 2026Australia Poker, Live Poker, WPT

CoinPoker's GOPC has beaten the series guarantee with a week to go.

CoinPoker GOPC Pays $88.4M After Clearing $50M Guarantee

CoinPoker's first Global Online Poker Championship finished with $88.4 million in prize money paid, comfortably clearing its original $50 million guarantee after 37 days of tournament action. CoinPoker's completed GOPC report lists 48,815 unique players, more than 2.1 million total…

September 23, 2026CoinPoker, GOPC, Online Poker

Andrii Novak wins WSOP Online main event.

Andrii Novak Wins WSOP Online Main Event for $3.93M

Andrii Novak has turned the biggest stack at the 2026 WSOP Online Main Event final table into his first World Series of Poker bracelet and a $3,931,259 payday. The Ukrainian high-stakes regular topped 6,008 entries in the $5,000 Main Event…

September 23, 2026Online Poker, World Series of Poker, WSOP, WSOP Online

Abby Merk poker player.

Abby Merk Viral Lodge Hand Sparks Poker Etiquette Debate

Abby Merk has found herself in the middle of one of poker's stranger social-media storms after a $1/$2 cash-game hand at The Lodge Card Club turned a routine piece of table talk into a debate about friendship, soft play and…

September 22, 2026Abby Merk, AbbyPoker, Live Poker, Texas Poker, The Lodge Card Club

Photo from Russell Westbrook Poker Night.

Russell Westbrook Poker Night Raises $912,500 With Ivey at the Table

Russell Westbrook's annual charity poker night has raised $912,500 in Las Vegas, with Phil Ivey, Michael Mizrachi, Alan Keating and Bill Perkins among the poker names helping push the six-year fundraising total to almost $3 million. The sixth Why Not?…

September 22, 2026Celebrity Poker, Charity Poker, Phil Ivey, Poker Players, World Poker Tour

Poker player Eric Slick Ric Chang.

Eric Chang Wins Record WSOP Circuit Austin Main Event for $433K

Eric "Slick Ric" Chang has won the biggest $1,700 WSOP Circuit Main Event ever held, turning a comeback from a single big blind into a $433,670 payday at TCH Social Austin. Chang beat 2,090 entries in Texas to claim his…

September 22, 2026Texas Poker, World Series of Poker, WSOP Circuit

Andreas Freund poker player.

Andreas Freund Wins First WSOP Bracelet After Negreanu Bust

Andreas Freund has won his first World Series of Poker bracelet after a wild $10,000 GGMillion$ Pot-Limit Omaha final table that briefly looked ready to become another Daniel Negreanu victory lap. Instead, the Austrian cracked open the tournament in one…

September 22, 2026GGPoker, High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, World Series of Poker, WSOP

Congya Zhang Turns WSOP Breakthrough Into $300K Cyprus Win.

Congya Zhang Turns WSOP Breakthrough Into $300K Cyprus Win

Congya Zhang has turned the best summer of her poker career into something bigger, winning the $2,200 Global Poker Championship at the Mediterranean Poker Party for $300,000 just a couple of months after her deep run in the WSOP Main…

September 21, 2026China Poker, Cyprus Poker, Merit Poker, Women in Poker

Ian Simpson Wins UKPL Manchester High Roller and Main Event.

Ian Simpson Wins UKPL Manchester High Roller and Main Event

Ian Simpson has managed the poker tournament equivalent of winning both legs of a cup tie, taking down the UKPL Manchester High Roller and then following it with victory in the Main Event for more than £54,000 in combined prize…

September 21, 2026888Poker, British Poker, British Poker Players, UK Poker

WSOP Circuit Liechtenstein Main Event beats guarantee.

WSOP Circuit Liechtenstein Main Event Breaks CHF750K Guarantee

The WSOP Circuit Main Event at Grand Casino Liechtenstein has pushed past its CHF750,000 guarantee, with 587 total entries creating a prize pool of CHF760,762 and CHF150,000 waiting for the eventual champion. That is not a monster overlay story or…

September 20, 2026Live Poker, Poker Tournaments, WSOP, WSOP Circuit

Daniel Negreanu Heads to Canada for WSOP Online Bracelet Hunt.

Daniel Negreanu Heads to Canada for WSOP Online Bracelet Hunt

Daniel Negreanu lives in Las Vegas, owns eight World Series of Poker bracelets and represents the company that now owns the WSOP brand. Yet when he wants to chase a bracelet in one of the biggest online events of the…

September 20, 2026Canada Poker, Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker, Online Poker, WSOP

WSOP Circuit Panama Returns With $500K Main Event.

WSOP Circuit Panama Returns With $500K Main Event

Panama City is getting another dose of WSOP Circuit poker this November, and the headline number is an easy one for tournament players to understand: a $1,700 Main Event with $500,000 guaranteed. The stop runs November 5-15 at the Sortis…

September 20, 2026Live Poker, WSOP, WSOP Circuit