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Topping a field of 2,699 entries to claim a $1,538,430 prize pool, Antonio Galiana secured his third WSOP bracelet by winning the $600 Super Six Bounty 6-Handed NLH event at GGPoker, according to PokerNews. Galiana collected $155,340 in total earnings including bounties, defeating Brazil’s Jonatas Gomes heads-up — Gomes taking home $108,380 as the runner-up.…

Fabiano Kovalski claimed €385,430 in total prize money — bounties included — after winning the €3,250 EPT Mystery Bounty event at EPT Barcelona on August 27, 2026, a result that PokerNews reported extended a remarkable pattern of success for the player at that specific festival. According to PokerNews, five of Kovalski’s six biggest live cashes…

Eight hundred and forty-four entries, a €2,046,700 prize pool, and a heads-up battle against Natasha Mercier — that was the gauntlet Scott Margereson navigated to win the €2,700 EPT Second Chance at the 2026 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona festival, a victory that pushed the United Kingdom pro past $5 million in live tournament earnings,…

Five of the eight finalists in the 888poker $80,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event were from Ukraine, according to PokerNews, with a player identified as “kingsluvan” ultimately claiming the championship and $10,549 in prize money. The runner-up spot went to “Travel99,” listed by PokerNews as representing Canada, who collected $6,260 for the finish. The event drew…

Four years after earning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in an online event at GGPoker, Stefan Schillhabel added a second on August 23, 2026, outlasting a field of 7,277 players to win the $100 Flip & Go tournament, according to PokerNews. The Austrian player took home $150,740 from a $1,195,005 prize pool —…

For the 14th consecutive year, 2006 WSOP Main Event champion Jamie Gold brought Hollywood’s poker community together for a cause — and in late July, the Variety Children’s Charity Poker Event at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles raised more than $250,000 for children with disabilities, special needs, and developmental challenges in Southern California. UFC announcer…

A week of high-stakes poker in Barcelona produced its first major result on August 22, when Tom Fuchs claimed the €100,000 EPT Super High Roller title and collected €1,126,540, according to PokerNews’ live reporting from the series. With that event wrapped up, attention has shifted to two tournaments still working toward their conclusions. The €5,300…

A friendly bet over a hat, a first-ever visit to Fremont Street, and a grocery run in Las Vegas — the third installment of 888poker’s 2026 World Series of Poker documentary series trades tournament drama for a candid look at how the brand’s ambassadors spend their downtime. PokerNews published coverage of the episode, titled “888poker…

A runner-up finish can haunt a player for years, but Spain’s Daniel Vicente turned that frustration into gold by winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha event on GGPoker, according to PokerNews. Vicente had previously finished second in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship at the 2025…

With a heads-up deal sealing €266,030 and the champion’s trophy, Klemens Roiter claimed victory in the €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em Unlimited Re-Entry event at the 2026 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona, according to PokerNews. Roiter outlasted a field of 39 entries that generated a total prize pool of €936,390, with only the top six finishers receiving…

A prize pool of nearly $1.9 million and a field of 781 entries set the stage for Event #3 of the 2026 WSOP Online at GGPoker — and when the cards were finally on their backs at the end of heads-up play, it was Nikita Kalinin claiming his first World Series of Poker bracelet alongside…

Twenty-five years into its history, the World Championship of Online Poker is returning to PokerStars with its most structured schedule in recent memory — 121 events spread across September 6 to September 30, 2026, with six Main Events carrying a combined guarantee of more than $6.5 million, according to PokerNews. Buy-ins span an unusually wide…

Playing under the alias “Fino y Elegante” and carrying 140 big blinds — the largest stack at the table — Lucas Teixeira Rodrigues entered the final table of Event #2 in the 2026 GGPoker WSOP Online festival with a clear advantage and never relinquished it, according to PokerNews. The Brazilian player went on to win…

Entering heads-up play with just 21.5 big blinds against an opponent sitting on 123.2, Argentina’s “Fedevalle” looked like a heavy underdog — but managed to pull off a remarkable comeback to claim the 888poker $80,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event title and a $7,103 top prize, according to PokerNews, which reported on the result on August…

Finland’s Elias Suhonen topped a 31-player field and defeated Nicholas Seward heads-up to claim €114,200 from a €310,000 prize pool in the €10,200 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2026 PokerStars EPT Barcelona festival, according to PokerNews. It was, per PokerNews, the fourth six-figure live score of Suhonen’s career — and the largest prize among the…

A $700 buy-in bounty tournament with more than 3,600 entrants produced a six-figure payday to open the 2026 WSOP Online at GGPoker. PokerNews reported that Raphael Caixeta won the $700 7th Annual WSOP Kick-Off event, claiming the first bracelet of the series along with $207,167 in combined prize money and bounty payments, plus a $30,000…

With a $50,000 minimum buy-in and $100/$200 stakes on the table, Daniel Negreanu is set to make his long-awaited Hustler Casino Live debut on August 28. Hustler Casino Live confirmed Negreanu’s place in the lineup via a post on X, describing him as an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner and a GGPoker ambassador, according to PokerNews.…

Facing growing scrutiny over market integrity, Kalshi is bringing Nasdaq’s market-surveillance technology into its monitoring infrastructure — a move the exchange says is designed to detect insider trading, manipulation, and other forms of market abuse across its prediction-market products. The Nasdaq Market Surveillance platform will sit on top of Kalshi’s existing systems and extend coverage…

Eleven years after capturing the World Series of Poker Main Event title, Joe McKeehen added another marquee result to his résumé on August 12, taking down the $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship event in Hollywood, Florida for $462,600. The 673-entry field generated a $3,262,704 prize pool, according to PokerNews, making it one of…