Poker news: 19 to 27 October 2026
8 stories from the poker world, 19 to 27 October 2026, each in a few sentences. Published 27 October 2026.
26 October 2026
CoinPoker and PokerGO launch PGT Online with $250 million in guarantees
CoinPoker and PokerGO have launched PGT Online, an online version of the PokerGO Tour with $250 million in guarantees spread over six series that run until November 2027. The first, the $50 million KickOff Series, runs from 8 to 30 November, with headline buy-ins from $530 to $1,500. The tour ends with a $1 million winner-takes-all live final for 50 players at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas in January 2028.
Players on CoinPoker can win one of the 50 seats in the $1 million final through challenges and qualifier tournaments in the app, since the seats cannot be bought.
Source: VIP-Grinders
23 October 2026
Sean Winter wins Poker Masters finale as Mateos takes Purple Jacket
Sean Winter won the $51,000 buy-in Event #10, the last event of the 2026 Poker Masters at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, for $620,000 after beating Sam Laskowitz heads-up. The event drew 31 entries for a $1,550,000 prize pool. Adrian Mateos of Spain won the Purple Jacket as the series' top points scorer once Jeremy Ausmus, the only player who could still catch him, went out in fourth place.
The Poker Masters is part of the PokerGO Tour, which CoinPoker players can now follow online through the new PGT Online series.
Source: PokerNews
22 October 2026
Triton sets Northern Cyprus schedule to close its tenth-anniversary year
Triton Poker has published the schedules for its last stop of 2026 at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino in Northern Cyprus: 16 Triton ONE events from 5 to 15 November and 16 Super High Roller Series events from 15 to 30 November. Buy-ins go up to $200,000 for the Triton Invitational, and the $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event runs from 10 to 15 November.
Online satellites on the iPoker network lead to the $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, so this is the schedule those qualifiers are playing for.
Source: PokerNews
21 October 2026
APT Online pays $5.74 million in its first eight trophy events
The Asian Poker Tour's online series on Natural8 runs from 11 October to 2 November with 20 trophy events and $40 million in guarantees, up from $25 million in 2025. Its first eight trophy events built $5.74 million in prize pools from 25,224 entries. Entries rose 2.5% on last year, while Natural8 raised the guarantees on those events by 26.42%, from $3.61 million to $4.56 million.
Each trophy winner also gets a $10,000 seat in the APT Championship Main Event in Taipei, and the series runs on Natural8 until 2 November.
Source: PokerTube
21 October 2026
Marius Kudzmanas wins $15,000 King's Main Event in Jeju
Marius Kudzmanas of Lithuania won the $15,000 buy-in King's Main Event at the KPC festival at LES A Casino in Jeju, South Korea, for $533,800. The event drew 169 entries over three flights for a $2,372,760 prize pool, and Peng Huang took $350,000 as runner-up. Kudzmanas also won the WSOP Europe Main Event in Prague in April for €2,000,000.
The reigning WSOP Europe Main Event champion has now won a second large Main Event this year, which makes him a player to watch in high-stakes tournaments.
Source: SoMuchPoker
20 October 2026
iPoker becomes Triton's official satellite partner for Northern Cyprus
Triton Poker named the iPoker network its official satellite partner, with 19 iPoker sites, including bet365, Grosvenor Poker and RedStar Poker, running qualifiers for the Triton ONE Main Event in Northern Cyprus. The satellite steps start at €0.01 and end in a €500 final, and 20 packages worth €9,000 each will be awarded. Each package covers the $8,000 entry to the Main Event, which runs from 10 to 15 November, and pays the rest as cash for travel and hotel costs.
Players on iPoker sites can now win a seat in a Triton Main Event starting from a €0.01 satellite.
Source: PokerNews
19 October 2026
Ivelin Kolev wins WPT Prime Cyprus Championship for $171,600
Ivelin Kolev of Bulgaria won the $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Cyprus Championship at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino on 19 October and took $171,600. He started heads-up with close to a 7-to-1 chip lead over Said Tahar, who received $100,000 for second place.
It shows that a $1,100 World Poker Tour event can pay its winner more than $170,000, a buy-in within reach of many online tournament players.
Source: PokerNews
19 October 2026
GGPoker will enforce its third-party software ban from 1 December
In a second statement on 19 October, GGPoker set 1 December as the date its client starts scanning for third-party poker tools such as PokerTracker 4, Holdem Manager 3, Hand2Note and Jurojin, and warning accounts that have one open. The ban itself was announced on 15 October. GGPoker also said it will add table swapping, layout locking and focus management to its own client in phases.
Players who use a HUD or tracker on GGPoker need to change how they play before the client starts scanning for these tools on 1 December.
Source: VIP-Grinders
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