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All the hot takes on the 2026 WSOP schedule drop. PokerStars x FanDuel Merger: All the hot goss

The Grinder is heading to Europe as WSOPE 2026 raises the stakes.

With all the buzz around the WSOP 2026 Las Vegas schedule, revealed earlier this week to overwhelmingly positive reactions from the poker community, it’s easy to forget that the action isn’t stopping in Nevada.

The spotlight is also shifting across the Atlantic, as World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) returns in grand fashion at a brand-new venue: King’s Casino, hosted in partnership with Hilton Prague at the end of March.

And the headlines keep coming.

Poker legend Michael Mizrachi, better known as “The Grinder,” has confirmed he’ll be taking part in WSOPE. The Hall of Famer and reigning WSOP 2026 Main Event and Poker Players Championship winner brings even more star power to an already stacked European festival.

Virginia’s online poker dreams are still alive.

Virginia’s move toward regulated online poker and casino gaming just survived the legislative equivalent of a coin flip. As Anuj reports for pokerfuse, the state’s House and Senate both barely passed bills legalizing online casino games, with the House needing a second vote to push it through.

Both bills would put the Virginia Lottery Board in charge of licensing and oversight, allowing each of the state’s five land-based casinos to link up with three online brands.

What makes us think FanDuel Poker from PokerStars is coming soon?

Well, we know that FanDuel are testing a poker client in New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania under combined PokerStars-FanDuel branding.

Plus we have spotted job posts for poker roles at FanDuel.

Oh and three, a long-time product manager at PokerStars made a move to FanDuel.

The WPT Asia Series is now running on WPT Global until March 15, offering a whopping ¥100,000,000 in guaranteed prizes and nine exclusive WPT rings.

Entry fees start at just ¥33, making it accessible for just about everyone who likes a little gamble. The festival features more than 100 daily events and a leaderboard with ¥3,000,000 up for grabs.

PokerStars’ APPT is set to return to Korea after a seven-year hiatus.

Thanks to a tip from Maureen Bloechlinger, a huge advocate for women in poker and Founder of Globetrotting Poker & GP Women, it looks like PokerStars’ APPT is set to return to Korea after a seven-year hiatus.

A new landing page for APPT Korea has quietly appeared on the PokerStars Live website. While key details such as festival dates and tournament schedules haven’t yet been released, the venue has been confirmed: the series will take place at Paradise City, Incheon, South Korea.

The last time PokerStars hosted APPT Korea was in April 2019, at the very same Paradise City venue. Stay tuned for more details as they emerge.

The FanDuel x PokerStars merger rumor mill churns on, and we are partly to blame.

Nick’s latest piece on pokerfuse suggests we might actually see FanDuel and PokerStars join forces in the US. For nine months, there has been little more than speculation about merging the two under parent company Flutter, but now some concrete signs are emerging that is actually might be happening.

What’s the maddest story you’ve heard at the poker table?

Honestly not much beats this!

Tony Dunst challenges Phil Hellmuth to put is money where his mouth is.

Hellmuth thinks we are in the middle of a poker boom. I am not so sure and neither is WPT host Dunst, who is calling for Phil to lay $10k on the line.

Do you think the WSOP main will break 10k entries this year?

WSOP quietly fixed a Main Event error after sharp eyes caught it.

Well, this is interesting 👀

For a brief moment, the WSOP+ app listed the $10,000 Main Event buy-in breakdown as $9,270 + $730.

That immediately raised eyebrows because every other $10K event on the schedule is structured as $9,300 + $700.

Turns out? The app was wrong.

Credit to Kevin Mathers, Blaise Bourgeois, and Ian Simpson for spotting the discrepancy and asking the right questions on X. After it was flagged, Jeff Platt, who now works with WSOP, confirmed the correct structure is $9,300 + $700 and shortly after, the app was updated.

In the end, it got sorted.

But this is the Main Event. The biggest tournament in poker. The details have to be right.

Should the WSOP Main Event coverage be mainstream? We think so.

Where else are there skill-based competitions where $10 million is on the line?

Buuuuut I think organizers will have their work cut out for them, as recent attempts—_looking at you, WSOP Paradise docu-series_—have failed to capture the imagination of people outside of the poker world.

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