Full chip counts and seat draw for Day 3 of the WPT Shooting Star Championship. Action resumes at 11:15am PT.
WPT heads back to Vegas. Once the Shooting Star Championship is over, the WPT is heading to the Venetian for the Las Vegas Fall Festival, which starts Wednesday and runs until November 15.
The $5,000 buy-in WPT Venetian Las Vegas Fall Championship runs November 5-10, with a $2 million guarantee. The final table will be livestreamed. After that, all focus turns to the 2026 WPT Championship at the Wynn.
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CoinPoker and PokerGO team up for PGT Online. There are $250 million in total guarantees with six series running from November 2026 to November 2027.
The Kickoff Series starts November 8, with $50 million guaranteed. Across the year, 50 players will qualify for a live final at the PokerGO Studio in January 2028, where one player will win the $1 million prize.
'Back in the high life again'.
Phi Hellmuth and his son Nick have both made Day 3 of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship. Daddy Hellmuth posted the news from his (driverless) cab while getting down to some Steve Winwood. As you do.
Anyone else hoping to see them clash at the table on Monday?
Full chip counts for Day 2 of the WPT Shooting Star Championship. The bounties are marked with a gold star. Play restarts at 11:15am local time.
Andrew Lichtenberger releases new poker book, Khemset Holistic Poker Codex.
"In this three-volume codex, I go through first principles and poker theory before shifting the discussion to my views on philosophy and the nature of reality, ultimately tying them together with the goal in mind of sharing a practical and actionable holistic perspective for poker as well as life more broadly," Lichtenberger explains.
A hardcover collector's edition, limited to 500 copies, is available now for $85. A cheaper paperback edition may follow.
Nick Palma and Chris Brewer at the Poker Masters. Is this the best version of the meme ever? We'll never look at the two players quite the same again.
Irish Open satellites start this Sunday.
It's one of the longest-running and best-loved live poker series in the world, and you can get there from €1 when satellites kick off for the Irish Poker Open at PokerStars this Sunday.
The action in Dublin runs from March 18-29, 2027 - see the article below for more.
Nick Palma eliminated from Poker Masters $50K in 8th. It means Jeremy Ausmus is the only player who can catch Adrian Mateos at the top of the series leaderboard. He needs to finish first or second.
It's not all about the Purple Jacket. There are seven players left in the final event of the series, five get paid and there's $620,000 up top. You can watch it play out from 4pm ET on the PokerGO YouTube channel.
- Marius Gierse: 1,185,000
- Sam Laskowitz: 995,000
- Jeremy Ausmus: 945,000
- Sean Winter: 900,000
- Dan Smith: 895,000
- Igor Yaroshevskyy: 725,000
- Chris Brewer: 535,000
Race for the Purple Jacket. With Adrian Mateos in the clubhouse on 451 points, here's how Nick Palma or Jeremy Ausmus could win the overall Poker Masters title.
- Adrian Mateos: 451 points
- Nick Palma: 407 points
- Jeremy Ausmus: 321 points
With the following points up for grabs, Palma just needs to cash to overtake Mateos. Ausmus needs to finish at least second. A win for Ausmus would see him don the Purple Jacket regardless of where Palma finishes. If he finishes second, he needs Palma to finish fourth or worse.
- $620,000 + 248 PGT points
- $387,500 + 155 PGT points
- $248,000 + 99 PGT points
- $170,500 + 68 PGT points
- $124,000 + 50 PGT points
Watch the rest of Day 1 play out below.
