Online poker news written from the payout tables: tournament results, series reports and record fields. Each story links to the event records it reports and names its sources.
Vladimir Minko beat Juan Dominguez heads-up in the $10,000 GGMillion$ on November 3 for $404,362 from 202 entries, after starting the final table third in chips.
Brazil's Fabiano Kovalski won the $10,000 GGMillion$ for $464,794 from 237 entries, beating Jon Vallinas heads-up after ten earlier final tables had ended without a title.
Two weeks after the $1,000,000 score, TonyTheToenailcollector won CoinPoker's $1,050 Sunday Grand for $74,432; the same weekend's $215 CoinMillion went to habfer for $114,480 from 3,655 players.
Kgbseven asked for a deal heads-up in CoinPoker's $215 CoinMillion, whalefish said no, and the next hand decided a $43,600 gap: $120,500 to the winner from 4,891 entries, $76,900 to second.
The online route to the $10,400 WPT World Championship Main Event at Wynn Las Vegas: Sunday satellites from $1.10 steps, a $2,000 stipend in the package, and a $100,000 Golden Ticket for the first 30 qualifiers.
CoinPoker's The One paid its guaranteed $1,000,000 to TonyTheToenailcollector after 24,075 entries across 26 Day 1 flights. The sources disagree on the field; the ledger keeps both figures.
The $5 Ocean KO Opener drew 420,084 entries for a $1,932,386 prize pool, beating the 2015 record of 253,692. Ukraine's Sange Savchenko won $52,665 plus $9,152 in bounties on October 13.
PokerStars' 25th WCOOP ended on October 8 with 121 events, 350 tournaments and just over $49 million paid. The six Main Events paid more than $7.5 million, Glaser reached 19 titles and Brazil took 86.
Three NLHE Main Events, three first prizes: $551,632 from 289 entries, $343,242 from 2,310 and $172,022 from 14,533. Boianovsky is the first player to win both the SCOOP and WCOOP High Main Events.
The event-by-event table for the first 33 events of 888poker's XL Autumn Series, from a $3,472 Super KO pool to the $100,000 Mystery Opening Event, ahead of the $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Main Event.
Less than three hours separated Glaser's win in the $530 Seven Card Stud from his win in the rescheduled $530 HORSE on September 26. The two titles took his WCOOP record to 19 as the Main Events began.
Ukraine's Andrii Novak beat Germany's Simon Beckmann heads-up in the $5,300 WSOP Online Main Event; the top three alone took $9.3 million, the largest payouts on the ledger.
Three bracelets and three Super Passes in the opening stretch of WSOP Online 2026: $747,545 to Zhiqiang Shen from a $5,753,675 pool, $371,793 to Ilia Arkhipov and $256,542 to Arthur Thiriart.
Online poker news on this desk starts with a payout table. When a room or a reporting outlet publishes the full final table of a major event, the desk records it, then asks whether the result says something beyond itself: a field size nobody has seen before, a first prize that moves a player up the all-time list, a guarantee beaten by a wide margin or missed. If it does, there is a story; if it does not, the result goes on the ledger without one. That is why the online poker news section is shorter than the results section, and why every article has a final table in its sidebar. A record field, such as the 420,084 entries of the Ocean KO Opener, is a story; a routine Sunday is a row.
Series reports follow the room's own release, and tournament results stories follow the payout table. PokerStars closed WCOOP 2026 on October 8 with a paid total of just over $49 million, 350 champions and a titles-by-country list led by Brazil with 86; the desk's wrap reports those totals and nothing the release did not state. Where two outlets disagree on a figure, as Card Player and CoinPoker did on the field of The One, the article says so and the record carries both.
Player interviews, hand-by-hand live reporting, and anything the desk cannot source. There is no attempt to explain why a player won beyond what the hand history or the report shows; when Fabiano Kovalski converted his eleventh GGMillion$ final table after ten losses, the story is the run, not a theory about it. Readers who want the hand can load the history into the replayer; readers who want the full series can open the series page from the badge on each article.
Tournament results and the stories inside them: a record field, a series closing with its totals, a player ending a run of lost final tables, a guarantee beaten or missed. Each story is tied to the event records it reports on, which sit in the sidebar of the article.
Usually the same day the room or a reporting outlet publishes the payout table, which can be a day or two after the final hand. The article date is the publication date; the event date is on the event record.
No. The desk writes from published results and official series releases. Player signings, platform changes and regulation are mentioned only where they bear on a result or a series, and are sourced when they are.
From the sources listed at the end of each article, with the event records linked beside it. A figure that appears in the text appears in the record, and the record names where it was printed.
Yes: every article tagged with a series is listed on that series page, and the series board links to them. The WCOOP 2026 wrap, for example, sits under WCOOP 2026 alongside the six Main Event results.