What the poker world is talking about this week. Each item is a short summary in our own words with a link to the original story. East Coast stories come first.
Palma topped 84 entries in Poker Masters Event #2 ($10,500 NLH) for $235,200, winning heads-up against Mateos with a river straight. The win had poker X buzzing on Wednesday night.
Pokerfuse reports Caesars is preparing a new platform for WSOP Online, the biggest site in NJ, PA and MI, and looks at who could supply the tech, from GGPoker to iPoker.
The $600 Lions of the East series has been running starting flights at MGM National Harbor and Borgata, with players posting deep runs (and bad beats to a royal flush) from Day 1A at Borgata. The final day flight is set for Saturday.
Gianquitti beat a 1,011-entry field in the $1,700 Main Event at Harrah's Pompano Beach for $248,632 and his first Circuit ring. The turnout blew past the $1M guarantee by more than $500K.
Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler's mixed-game series is being folded into the 2026 Borgata Fall Poker Open, with 11 events and $60K in combined championship guarantees, according to posts sharing the schedule.
A thread retelling how Ivey's $9.6M baccarat win at Borgata and £7.7M at Crockfords were never paid out after courts ruled for the casinos drew more than 500K views this week. The Borgata case ended in a confidential settlement in 2020.
The Seminole Tribe, which owns Hard Rock and holds Florida's exclusive online sports betting deal, filed suit in Broward County saying DraftKings' prediction-market products are an illegal sportsbook. It's the tribe's first legal move against a prediction platform.
Poker's all-time live earnings leader filed a civil suit in Clark County, Nevada, claiming GGPoker's parent company NSUS broke promises of an ownership stake. GG's CEO has asked the court to dismiss it, and both filings are pending.
Alberta's new regulated market went live with 888poker as the first poker operator, another sign of North American online poker slowly expanding.
With the year-end stretch ahead, CardPlayer says no one has locked up 2026 Player of the Year yet.
The 50-table Venetian room is moving dealers to slide dealing, which keeps hole cards flat on the felt so nobody can catch a peek. South Point started the trend, and some players want rooms everywhere to follow.
The young pro beat Justin Zaki heads-up to win the Poker Masters opener and his first PokerGO title.
A CardPlayer column argues the new wave of lottery-style bounty formats is pushing tournaments too far toward gambling over skill.
Wilson took down the Super High Roller Bowl XI title and a seven-figure score.
A resurfaced video and memoir excerpts about Maguire's high-stakes home games had X split between calling his style ruthless and calling it bullying. These are Bloom's own published accounts.
Poker Industry PRO tallied more than $600M in prize pools and 10M+ entries across September's online tournament series worldwide, a record fall season.
A security researcher says a remote-access tool hidden in third-party poker software let one player watch roughly 30 victims' screens during real-money games. CardPlayer reports the allegations; nothing has been proven in court.
Sources: PokerNews, CardPlayer, Poker Industry PRO, Pokerfuse and public posts on X. We summarize and link and never republish full articles. Updated Oct 15, 2026.