If you want to catch up on poker news from September 7–13, 2026, this was the week Jeju posted a seven-figure first Triton title and GGPoker's WSOP Online paid a bracelet from a field of nearly 48,000. Brazil's Pedro Padilha closed the $50,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II for about $1.4 million. The same stop produced a rematch heads-up between Daniel Dvoress and Xuan Liu. Online, the $250 Mystery Millions ballooned past 47,000 entries, and the Rounder Cup that last week's August 31–September 6 roundup flagged as a battle of the continents actually finished. In Florida, a $580 satellite ticket became a World Poker Tour title.

The sections below stick to reporting you can verify from sources dated in this window—chiefly PokerNews, Poker.org, CardPlayer, Poker.pro, and PokerPro. Last week already covered Alexandros Theologis in Event 1 and the WCOOP schedule. This week leaves those headlines alone and follows the results that closed between September 7 and 13.

Pedro Padilha Wins the Triton Jeju II $50,000 for $1.4 Million and His First Title

According to PokerNews on September 11, 2026, Brazil's Pedro Padilha won the $50,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II for $1,400,860 and his first Triton title. Poker.org, writing the same day, lists 129 entries and a $6,449,998 prize pool, with 20 players paid. It was the festival's biggest buy-in to date. Padilha and Nick Petrangelo agreed an ICM deal heads-up. PokerNews says they left about $200,000 extra to play for; Padilha collected the listed first prize, and Petrangelo took $1,201,140 for second. Padilha is the fourth Brazilian champion on the tour.

Thirty-two players returned for the final day, with Mehdi Chaoui leading a group that also included Phil Ivey and Wai Kiat Lee inside the top five. Ren Lin busted the bubble for the third time in his Triton career, ace-queen into Petrangelo's aces. Alejandro Lococo went out tenth. Alex Boika led the official nine, which still included Petrangelo, Ivey, Lee, Eelis Parssinen, and Padilha. Japan's Yoko Sasaki finished ninth for $155,000 after running into Petrangelo's tens, falling short of becoming the second woman to win a Triton Super High Roller Series title. Parssinen, still hunting a two-card Triton win, busted eighth for $200,000 when Yang Wang's queens held.

Ivey got shorter as the blinds moved and lost nines to Petrangelo's jacks, seventh for $271,000. Lee had just won the $40,000 Mystery Bounty the day before; Boika's sixes sent him out sixth for $361,000. Padilha then dumped Wang in fifth ($461,000)—Wang's deepest Triton run—and Boika took out Aren Bezhanyan in fourth ($574,000). Three-handed, Petrangelo cracked back before Boika rivered a flush through Petrangelo's trip aces. Padilha finished it himself, ace-king holding against Boika's ace-nine, and Boika collected $697,000 for third. Heads-up, Padilha held the lead. The last hand, per PokerNews, was Petrangelo calling off king-four against queen-eight; the eight arrived on the turn. "It's the best feeling," Padilha told Triton media. "People are so happy for me. I want to give one kiss to all Brazilian people."

The rest of the Jeju week filled in around that number. According to PokerNews on September 10, Lee won the $40,000 NLH Mystery Bounty for $619,000 plus eight bounty envelopes, his fourth Triton title and second of 2026, beating Jamil Wakil heads-up ($419,000). Ivey finished ninth there for $62,000. According to PokerNews on September 11, the United States' Alex Anton won Event #9, the $30,000 NLH Turbo, for $577,000 from 70 entries, beating Artur Martirosian ($411,000) for his first Triton title three months after a WSOP bracelet. PokerPro, on September 8, reports two more maiden champions the same day: Vietnam's Ngo Khoa Anh took the $25,000 NLH Titi Poker for $1,090,000 from 210 entries and a $5,250,000 prize pool, and Belarus's Alex Boika took the $25,000 NLH 8-Handed for $761,000 from 131 entries. If you only check Jeju once a week, last week's story was Theologis in Event 1. This week's is Padilha's $50,000, with a cluster of first-time winners around it.

Aleksandr Kropotov Wins the WSOP Online Mystery Millions for $631,459

According to PokerNews on September 9, a Russian-listed player showing as Aleksandr Kropotov (sasha1317! in the GGPoker lobby) won Event #17, the $250 Mystery Millions, for $631,459 including bounties, a bracelet, and a $30,000 Super Pass into the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. The tournament drew 47,798 entries and built a $10,993,540 prize pool. Day 2 started with 4,083 players. The $1 million mystery bounty did not wait for the final table: Germany's DrAvacado pulled it in 169th place and left with $1,003,197 including bounties, more than the champion's listed first prize. If you follow mystery formats, that is the number that actually moved.

PokerNews says Kropotov dominated the nine-handed final table and eliminated all but one of his opponents. Ukraine's Denys Chufarin, sixth in last week's Millionaire Maker, sat down shortest and busted ninth for $85,282. Francisco Zufia took eighth ($101,691) and Gay Peng Tan seventh ($132,486). Eric Bonin, listed from Mexico, had already pulled $142,050 in mystery bounties and busted sixth for a combined $306,963—more than fourth place on the payout table. Norman Schreck ($220,753) and Mikhail Suy ($283,313) followed. Austria's Oliver Bosch finished third for $363,048. Heads-up, Kropotov beat Canada's Jessica Moors, who collected $480,160 for second. Kropotov's own bounty line was only $24,530; the $606,929 prize is the core of the score. He sat down for the final as chip leader with 120 big blinds.

The same GGPoker window produced two other bracelets worth naming if you are tracking the series rather than a single headline. According to PokerNews on September 8, Brazil's Bruno Ikeda won Event #16, the $500 Deepstack NLH Championship, for $194,703 from 3,971 entries and a $1,886,225 prize pool, his first bracelet after losing a 2022 heads-up for the $840 6-Handed Bounty to Joni Jouhkimainen. Fellow Brazilian Lucas Teixeira finished second for $152,663; Teixeira already won the $300 Gladiators of Poker last month for $579,752. The top 465 were paid. Seunghyuk Jung busted tenth. According to PokerNews on September 10, Sweden's Max Stenberg won Event #18, the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, for $282,125 from 327 entries and a $1,553,250 prize pool, denying Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu ($209,290) and finishing ahead of Lautaro Guerra in fourth. Michael Mizrachi, the 2025 WSOP Main Event champion, busted 13th.

Daniel Dvoress Beats Xuan Liu in a Rematch to Claim His Seventh Triton Title

According to PokerNews on September 9, Canada's Daniel Dvoress won the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed for $942,000 and his seventh Triton title. CardPlayer, writing the same day, lists 135 entries and a $4,050,000 prize pool, with 23 players paid. The heads-up opponent was Xuan Liu, who beat Dvoress in the WPT Global Slam at Triton Montenegro last May for $860,000 and became the first woman Triton champion. This time Dvoress closed it. Liu collected $638,000 for second. "You know, she really tried to make it a deja vu because she's like, 'Deja vu. Remember last time you did all the work?'" Dvoress told PokerNews. "But yeah, I guess we're one-one though, so that's fair."

There was little doubt whose event it was on the day. Dvoress started with the chip lead and never gave it up. "I think I won every single all in," he said, "or something close to that." Taiwan's Candy Lin made the official final table and finished fourth for $348,000 when her nines lost to Dvoress's king-eight suited. He then knocked out Lithuania's Gytis Lazauninkas in third ($424,000) and took a dominant lead into heads-up. The rest of the table looked like a high-stakes roll call: Ben Tollerene eighth ($118,000), Lun Loon seventh ($160,000), Jingyao Yan sixth ($217,000), Stephen Chidwick fifth ($279,000). CardPlayer notes that seven Triton titles now ties Dvoress with Michael Watson and Matthias Eibinger for second on the all-time list; only Jason Koon, with 12, sits ahead.

Dvoress had already been well placed in the Triton Player of the Year race, and he said as much afterward. "The player of the year race is for sure important. It's obviously it's a prestigious thing to win. And then it's also quite a lot of money." He hopped straight into the $40,000 Mystery Bounty rather than linger on the trophy. If you are reading Jeju as a scoreboard, Padilha is the new name and the bigger first prize. If you are reading it as a plot, Dvoress–Liu is the hand the week actually remembered, because it had already happened once, in the other order.

Blake Ellinghaus Turns a $580 Satellite Into a WPT Title in Jacksonville

According to Poker.pro on September 10, 2026, the United States' Blake Ellinghaus won the WPT bestbet Scramble Championship at bestbet Jacksonville for $294,900, a seat on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup, and his first WPT title. He did not buy in for $5,000. He qualified through a $580 satellite. The championship drew 294 entries across three starting flights and built a $1,337,700 prize pool, clearing its $1,000,000 guarantee. The top 37 were paid, with a min-cash of $9,100. First prize includes a $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in December.

Six players returned for the streamed final. Hugh Membrino doubled through Ellinghaus early, then busted sixth for $57,000. Michael Macchia finished fifth ($75,000) when his nines ran into Jared Reinstein's aces. Ellinghaus sent Skyler Dennis out fourth ($100,000) with queens against ace-six on a jack-jack-two-two-eight board. The name at the table was Bryan Paris, who plays online as bparis and was the second player after Chris Moorman to pass $10 million in online tournament cashes. Paris arrived with a little more than $1 million in live earnings and an EPT Monte Carlo title from 2014. He got it in with nines, found Ellinghaus's jacks, and watched a set become a full house. Third place paid $135,000, his first WPT final table.

Heads-up began with Ellinghaus holding 12,225,000 to Reinstein's 2,325,000. Reinstein found back-to-back doubles across 26 hands, then lost the last one. WPT's live updates recorded it in full: Ellinghaus limped, Reinstein checked, both checked a jack-eight-five flop, Reinstein led 200,000 on a three turn, Ellinghaus raised to 850,000, and Reinstein called. The river seven brought a check and an all-in. Reinstein called with seven-six for a rivered pair of sevens and ran into six-four for an eight-high straight. Second place paid $184,000. Poker.pro, citing The Hendon Mob, says Ellinghaus now has $437,795 in live earnings; his previous best cash was $34,147. "It's the coolest accomplishment in poker that you can think of," he told WPT reporters. "To be on a trophy with all of the legends of the game."

The 294-entry field is down from last year, when Connor Rash won from 327 entries for $315,530. Poker.pro notes the Scramble usually runs in November and moved to September 4–9 for 2026, into a busier stretch of the calendar. This was the tour's thirteenth championship at bestbet, a relationship that goes back to Tony Ruberto in Season X. Season 24 continues in Australia: the AUD $1,500 WPT Prime Australia Championship at The Star Sydney runs September 17–22, and the AUD $5,000 WPT Australia Championship follows September 24–30. If you mainly follow mid-stakes live stops rather than Triton, this is the week's headline that does not require a $50,000 buy-in to care about.

Joao Hayashi Wins the Rounder Cup and the Battle of the Continents for the Americas

According to PokerNews on September 7, Brazil's Joao Hayashi won Event #15, the $1,000 Rounder Cup Battle of the Continents, for $164,990, his first WSOP bracelet, and a $30,000 Super Pass. The event drew 1,022 entries and a $970,900 prize pool. Four Day 1s were restricted to Asia, Eurasia, Europe, and the Americas; survivors combined on Day 2. Last week's August 31–September 6 roundup left that final as a preview. Hayashi closed it for the Americas.

All 100 Day 2 players were already in the money. Cashes outside the final nine included Ole Schemion, Daniel Negreanu, Mark Radoja, David Miscikowski, Andras Nemeth, Tom Talboom, and 11th-place David Mzareulov. Each of the nine finalists locked up at least $20,623. Israel's Ravid Garbi busted ninth. Mongolia's Sanchuu5527 took eighth ($26,745), Christian Rudolph seventh ($34,684), Atzamot sixth ($44,980), and Taiwan's flyingcowkiss fifth ($58,332). Another Brazilian, Regis "AnimalRaro" Cardoso, finished fourth for $75,648. Diego Zeiter took third ($98,103). Heads-up, Luxembourg-listed sensor77 collected $127,224 for second. PokerNews noted that Brazilians then had three wins, three runner-up finishes, and four thirds from 15 completed events; Ikeda added a fourth win the next day in the Deepstack.

Hayashi also bagged 2,988,483 for Day 2 of the $500 Deepstack, 12th of 103 returning players, before Ikeda closed that one. Taken together, the throughline across all five stories is that Jeju posted the week's newest live title, and GGPoker posted the week's largest field. Triton Jeju II is still going. According to PokerNews, the $200,000 Invitational is already a record, with at least 60 pairs and a prize pool of at least $24 million; Jules Dickerson led Day 1, and Day 2 was scheduled to merge the fields on September 13. WSOP Online still runs through September 29, WCOOP through September 30. Expect the next roundup to stay on those two calendars and on whoever closes the Invitational.