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News · 2 Oct 2026

Dvoress closes to within $5m of Negreanu as Canada's money list is re-read

A reading of Canada's all-time money list on 2 October 2026 puts Daniel Dvoress at $55,680,885, about $630,000 up in three weeks and roughly $5m behind Daniel N…

News · 2 Oct 2026

Denmark licenses poker clubs in their own right: nine permits against seven casinos

Spillemyndigheden's register of licensed gambling operators puts nine Danish venues under a licence category called 'public poker tournament' — more than the co…

News · 2 Oct 2026

Hamburg's poker floor is open seven nights — and Berlin now runs a tournament every day

Spielbank Hamburg's Casino Esplanade now publishes a No Limit Hold'em and Omaha cash game from Thursday to Tuesday, on top of its long-standing Wednesday Pot Li…

News · 2 Oct 2026

Hong Kong's all-time money list is the most top-heavy in Asia — and its ninth-place grinder has never won six figures

Daniel Chi Tang has cleared $45 million and Elton Tsang sits on $31.5 million, between them holding more than half of everything Hong Kong's top fifteen have ev…

News · 2 Oct 2026

Poland's all-time money list 2026: twenty millionaires, and most of them live abroad

Twenty Polish players have now passed $1m in live tournament earnings, with Wiktor Malinowski's $13,853,907 nearly double second place. Reading the top twenty's…

News · 2 Oct 2026

Romania licenses poker clubs as their own category — and has issued exactly one licence

Romania is one of the few European countries that licenses poker clubs separately from casinos, which means its regulator publishes exactly which addresses may …

News · 1 Oct 2026

Grosvenor's run-in to the end of 2026: three G200 rounds, a £280,000 Manchester festival and a £250,000 Behemoth

Grosvenor's published UK calendar leaves a dense final quarter: three two-venue G200 rounds through October, November and December, a sixteen-day £280,000 festi…

News · 1 Oct 2026

US all-time money list, autumn 2026: who is climbing and who is only standing still

The Hendon Mob's United States money list, generated 30 September 2026, now needs $28.9 million to make the top 25. Comparing each player's current global rank …

World Series of Poker — WSOP Circuit schedule · 1 Oct 2026

The WSOP Circuit's autumn run: twenty stops, and half the map is outside the United States

The World Series of Poker's published Circuit calendar for autumn 2026 lists twenty stops between late September and early December. Eleven are in the United St…

Torneos.poker · 30 Sept 2026

Argentina's live poker calendar fills out for the last quarter of 2026

Four Argentine venues have now published or announced festivals between October and December: the Patagonia Poker Series at Casino del Río Cipolletti, the Iguaz…

Grosvenor Poker — GUKPT tour page and live poker calendar · 30 Sept 2026

GUKPT's 20th season heads to Blackpool with a GBP 500,000 Grand Final to follow

Grosvenor has published the full schedule for GUKPT Blackpool, the penultimate stop of the tour's 20th season: thirteen numbered events from 29 October to 8 Nov…

WSOP.com · 30 Sept 2026

WSOP Circuit's first Malta stop reaches its €1,500 Main Event

The WSOP Circuit's debut stop at Casino Malta in St. Julian's opened its €1,500 Main Event on 30 September, the eighth of twelve ring events on a schedule that …

Torneos.poker · 29 Sept 2026

Chile's live poker has moved north: OSOP Prime is under way in Ovalle while Santiago waits

The one Chilean festival running this week is not in Santiago. The Ovalle Series of Poker Prime edition started on 29 September at Ovalle Casino & Resort in the…

Golden Nugget Las Vegas - Poker Room · 29 Sept 2026

Downtown Las Vegas' only poker room has moved into the Golden Nugget's Rush Tower

Anyone walking into the Golden Nugget expecting to find the poker room where it used to be will be walking the wrong way. The resort now places the room in its …

MERKUR Spielbanken · 29 Sept 2026

The WestSpiel name has gone: Germany's NRW casinos now answer to MERKUR Spielbanken

westspiel.de no longer resolves to a site of its own — it redirects to merkur-spielbanken.de, where the six North Rhine-Westphalian casinos German players still…

Asian Poker Tour · 28 Sept 2026

Asia's live poker season has moved to Korea and Taiwan — and skipped Manila entirely

The Asian Poker Tour's twentieth-anniversary season runs five festivals in 2026, all of them in Korea or Taiwan, and none in the Philippines. It closes in Taipe…

Dusk Till Dawn · 28 Sept 2026

Dusk Till Dawn rebuilds its tournament ladder around a GBP 1m WSOP Circuit in November

Nottingham's Dusk Till Dawn has retired its long-running DTD250 branding in favour of DTD150 and DTD300 events, and pointed the whole autumn schedule at a WSOP …

Irish Poker Open · 28 Sept 2026

The Irish Open goes to Morocco: 36 events in Marrakech this November

The Irish Open published the schedule for its first North African festival on 28 September: 36 events at the Casino de Marrakech from 10 to 15 November 2026, wi…

News · 28 Sept 2026

MGM Resorts will no longer take other casinos' poker chips

A notice on the Bellagio poker room's page tells players that MGM Resorts no longer accepts poker chips from other operators, and that MGM chips earned in poker…

Tsogo Sun · 28 Sept 2026

SA Poker Open returns to Montecasino with R10m guaranteed and a Hendon Mob debut

Tsogo Sun has the 2026 SA Poker Open running at Montecasino's Poker Lounge in Fourways from 11 September to 8 November, a nine-week festival it bills as the big…

News · 28 Sept 2026

Wynn's 2026 WPT World Championship adds a $400 event with $3 million guaranteed

The WPT World Championship returns to Wynn Las Vegas from 27 November to 21 December 2026 for a fifth year, and the room's own page names a new headline event: …

Casinos Poland · 26 Sept 2026

Casinos Poland opens a second Wrocław casino on the Rynek — and quietly becomes a seven-casino group

Poland's largest land-based casino operator has opened a new casino in Wrocław's Hotel Korona, at Oławska 2 on the corner of the Rynek, its second in the city. …

Japan Open Poker Tour · 26 Sept 2026

Japan's biggest festival returns to Shinjuku in October — and its Main Event has no buy-in

The Japan Open Poker Tour's 2026 Tokyo #03 festival runs 8 to 12 October at Bellesalle Takadanobaba with eighty-one numbered events, topped by a 500,000 yen NLH…

News · 25 Sept 2026

BSOP Millions 2026 schedule fills out: over 100 events and a R$15 million Championship

BSOP has now published the full card for its season-closing festival in São Paulo. The R$25,000 BSOP Championship carries R$15 million guaranteed, the largest g…

Torneos.Poker · 25 Sept 2026

Mexico's live season is announcing bigger guarantees than its schedules

Four Mexican festivals announced between October 2026 and January 2027 carry MXN 24 million in combined guaranteed prize money — led by MXN 15 million for the N…

News · 25 Sept 2026

The biggest online cash game in the world is now on CoinPoker — and a Norwegian won $1.2 million in 47 hands of it

When GGPoker moved its biggest cash games behind private hosts in November 2024, the public nosebleeds did not disappear — they moved. A dataset of 2.6 billion …

Torneos.poker · 25 Sept 2026

The WSOP Circuit returns to Argentina: Rosario confirmed for 4-12 November

City Center Rosario has confirmed a World Series of Poker Circuit stop from 4 to 12 November 2026, bringing the travelling WSOP brand back to Argentina. The eve…

BSOP — Campeonato Brasileiro de Poker · 24 Sept 2026

BSOP Millions 2026: a R$ 10 million guaranteed Main Event closes the Brazilian season

The BSOP publishes its final and largest festival of the year: sixteen days at the WTC Sheraton in São Paulo from 13 to 28 November, with R$ 10 million guarante…

Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand) · 24 Sept 2026

New Zealand's online casino licensing regime is law - but not open for business until 2027

The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 has commenced and its regulations are published, but the Department of Internal Affairs says the licensing system is being p…

World Poker Tour · 24 Sept 2026

WPT puts its whole December card at the Wynn — World Championship starts 13 December

The World Poker Tour's published schedule now stacks four December events into one room at Wynn Las Vegas: the $1,100 WPT Prime Championship from 5 December, a …

Playground — tournament calendar · 23 Sept 2026

Playground publishes its WSOP Circuit schedule: 18 rings, a $2,500 Main Event and a $5,000 High Roller

The November WSOP Circuit stop at Playground near Montreal now has a full card. Eighteen ring events run from 2 to 16 November 2026, opening with a six-flight $…

SZTFH — Engedélyek (közhiteles) · 22 Sept 2026

Hungary's legal poker map: ten card-room licences, six clubs, five cities

The public register kept by Hungary's gambling regulator, SZTFH, lists ten card-room licences. They belong to six clubs: two large multi-room venues in Budapest…

News · 17 Sept 2026

Ireland closed its card rooms and the poker moved into hotels — €2.3 million guaranteed across nine festivals this season

Dublin's best-known card club shut in 2019 and was never replaced. Irish live poker did not shrink — it relocated to hotel ballrooms, a Kerry arena and a Ballsb…

News · 17 Sept 2026

Norway's only legal poker tournament starts next week — and the law caps the first prize at ₹2 million

The Norgesmesterskap i poker runs 25 September to 4 October at a conference hotel by Oslo Airport. It is the one poker festival Norwegian law permits each year,…

News · 16 Sept 2026

Austria's autumn: a €1 million Main Event, four festivals in three weeks, and a tournament where everyone cashes the same

Casinos Austria has stacked its heaviest poker calendar of the year into September, October and November 2026 — topped by the €1,000,000-guaranteed CAPT Million…

News · 16 Sept 2026

R$15 million guaranteed in one event: inside Brazil's November festival

BSOP Millions runs sixteen days at the WTC Sheraton in São Paulo from 13 November, with a R$10 million Main Event and R$15 million on the Championship — and eve…

News · 16 Sept 2026

Polish poker doesn't happen in casinos. It happens in pubs, and its big events are in Bratislava

We went looking for Poland's card rooms and found the casinos publish nothing at all. What we found instead was a league circuit running most nights across 26 c…

News · 15 Sept 2026

"Licensed in Costa Rica" means no licence at all

Costa Rica appears in the small print of more gambling sites than almost any jurisdiction on earth, and it has never issued a gambling licence. We looked at wha…

News · 15 Sept 2026

Germany has 15 state casinos advertising poker. Only about half deal it

We read the game pages of every Bavarian state casino and every Merkur casino in North Rhine-Westphalia. "Poker" on a German casino's games list usually means a…

News · 15 Sept 2026

We finished the German poker map. The best room in the country is the one nobody talks about

Two runs and twenty-eight German casinos later, the map is done. Wiesbaden turns out to publish terms no other German room comes close to — and two entire feder…

News · 15 Sept 2026

Eighteen events for under $2,200: inside Playground's October festival

The MSPT Canadian Poker Championship runs 1–12 October at Playground near Montreal. We have published all eighteen events — and the schedule says something clea…

News · 15 Sept 2026

We audited every market against the poker rooms' own terms. Twelve were wrong

Poker rooms publish lists of countries they will not accept, and those lists are longer than most players realise. We checked all 141 of our market pages agains…

News · 15 Sept 2026

Paraguay opened its market. Ecuador voted to stay shut. Both within a year

Law 7438/2025 ended Paraguay's state gambling monopoly and licensed online casino gaming through competitive tender. Two months earlier, Ecuadorian voters rejec…

News · 15 Sept 2026

Sweden has no casinos left, and Poland won't let you play online. We removed both operators

Our two biggest empty markets turned out to be empty for reasons worth publishing. Sweden abolished land-based casinos entirely; Poland reserves online poker to…

News · 15 Sept 2026

We mapped every card room in Britain. One company owns almost all of them

Thirty-three of Britain's casino poker rooms belong to Grosvenor. Genting, the other big chain, has quietly stopped spreading poker almost everywhere — except S…

News · 15 Sept 2026

Mapping Britain's card rooms: who actually still deals poker

We spent this week checking which British casinos still spread real poker rather than just three-card poker on the pit floor. Four Metropolitan Casinos rooms we…

News · 14 Sept 2026

Alberta's regulated market is live, but nobody is dealing poker yet

Alberta opened Canada's second regulated online gambling market on 13 July 2026. GGPoker registered with the AGLC on 12 August but still has no operating licenc…

News · 14 Sept 2026

Three countries, no market: how Japan, Mexico and Argentina produce champions anyway

None of the three has a functioning domestic online poker market — Japan bans gambling outright, Mexico runs online as an annex to 1947-era permits, Argentina l…

News · 14 Sept 2026

Britain's autumn is the busiest live calendar in Europe — here's all of it

Eight festivals between mid-September and mid-December, across six cities, with guarantees from £50,000 to £550,000 — and a £90,000 national bad beat jackpot si…

News · 14 Sept 2026

Ukraine has a licensed online poker market. Almost nobody writes about it

Ukraine gives online poker its own licence category — rarer than it sounds — regulates it through PlayCity, and has operators withhold 18% tax plus a 5% militar…

The Hendon Mob · 13 Sept 2026

Khoa Anh Ngo wins Triton's Golden Decade event in Jeju for $1.09 million

Vietnam's Khoa Anh Ngo took down the $25,000 Triton Golden Decade event at Triton Jeju II on 6 September 2026 for $1,090,000, his first seven-figure cash and th…

World Poker Tour · 13 Sept 2026

WPT autumn 2026: Sydney this week, then Texas, Bay 101, Seoul and the Venetian

The World Poker Tour's published schedule for the rest of 2026 starts at The Star Sydney on 17 September and runs through the Lodge in Texas, Bay 101's Shooting…

The Hendon Mob · 12 Sept 2026

Dvoress closes on Negreanu, and Brazil's high-roller generation rewrites its money list

Two countries, two changing lists. In Canada, Daniel Negreanu still leads with $60.7 million but Daniel Dvoress ($55.1M) is within one big result of overtaking …

The Hendon Mob · 12 Sept 2026

Fedor Holz passes $50 million as Germany's all-time top 15 gets a new look

The German all-time money list has been reshuffled by an extraordinary 2025–26 on the high-roller circuit. Fedor Holz is the first German past $50 million in li…

The Hendon Mob · 12 Sept 2026

Britain's all-time money list: Chidwick at $79M, Heath closing on $40M, and a pot-limit Omaha wave

The UK all-time money list as published by The Hendon Mob in September 2026 is led by Stephen Chidwick ($79.3M, second in the world) and Ben Heath ($38.9M), wit…

The Hendon Mob · 12 Sept 2026

Bryn Kenney nears $91 million as America's top 15 all hold $37M or more

The United States all-time money list, as published by The Hendon Mob in September 2026, is the deepest in poker: Bryn Kenney leads the world with $90.8 million…

PokerNews · 11 Sept 2026

Pedro Padilha wins $50k at Triton Jeju for $1.4 million, Brazil's fourth Triton title

Brazilian pro Pedro Padilha took down the $50,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II on 11 September, agreeing a heads-up deal with Nick Pe…

PokerNews · 11 Sept 2026

GGPoker opens a free satellite route to the $50 million WSOP Paradise Super Main Event

WSOP Paradise returns to Baha Mar in the Bahamas from 5 to 18 December 2026, headlined by a $26,000 Super Main Event with a $50 million guarantee. GGPoker, whic…

PokerNews · 11 Sept 2026

Patrik Antonius loses $20 million heads-up match to 'Monarch' at Triton Jeju

The richest heads-up match ever played ended on 11 September at Triton Jeju with Ossi 'Monarch' Ketola beating Patrik Antonius for the full $10 million each had…

PokerNews · 11 Sept 2026

WSOP Circuit comes to Malta: €1,500 Main Event and twelve rings from 25 September

The WSOP Circuit's European swing lands at Casino Malta in St. Julian's from 25 September to 5 October 2026. The €1,500 Main Event has four starting flights and…