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The Heads-Up Match Lasted One Hand. Dvoress Had Pocket Threes and Made a Wheel.
Daniel Dvoress won the $30,000 no-limit hold'em eight-max event at Triton Jeju II on September 9, beating 135 entries and a $4,050,000 prize pool for $942,000 and his seventh trident trophy. He took a 4.5 to 1 chip lead into heads-up play against Xuan Liu and needed one deal to finish it. The chips went in preflop.…
September 09, 2026
On Day 4 of the CA$5,000 WSOP Super Circuit Main Event at Playground in Kahnawake, with 99 players left and blinds at 25,000, Daniel Negreanu opened to 50,000 from the hijack with the ten of diamonds…
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September 08, 2026
Late registration closed on the CA$5,000 WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event at Playground in Kahnawake with 2,844 entries and a prize pool of CA$13,082,400, which is CA$3,082,400 past a guarantee…
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September 07, 2026
ACR Poker closed its Dual Mystery Bounty Venoms with 6,030 combined entries and $15.095 million in final prize pools, and the most efficient piece of decision-making across both events was a…
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September 06, 2026
Klemens Roiter of Austria has finally converted thirteen consecutive Triton final tables into a trophy, the poker equivalent of a man who buys thirteen lottery tickets a week for a decade and is…
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September 05, 2026
Alexandros Theologis of Greece already had ten million dollars in career earnings, proof he did not need a Triton trophy to count as a success. He went and won one anyway, taking his first Triton…
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September 04, 2026
Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer and a man who has built a meaningful chunk of his media career narrating other people's bets, went on his own podcast and narrated one of his own. He said he gave…
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Chance Kornuth Played Two Different Seven-Figure Final Tables at Once. He Lost Both.
Chance Kornuth spent August 31 and September 1 doing something most players would need a week to recover from just watching: final-tabling both Americas Cardroom Mystery Bounty Venom events at the…
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September 02, 2026
Benjamin Rolle, the German pro who plays as 'bencb789,' won the 2026 WSOP Online $1,500 Millionaire Maker on September 1, the kind of result that makes a solver quietly close its own laptop. He beat…
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September 01, 2026
Eric Wasserson broke the biggest record in his sport's television history, and then, because apparently that wasn't enough content, broke it again two days later. On the August 31 broadcast of High…
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August 31, 2026
Fabiano Kovalski of Brazil has decided one specific building in Barcelona is simply where he lives now, financially speaking. He won the EPT Barcelona €10,300 High Roller on August 29 for $843,645,…
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