Big tournament action returned in September. German pro Moritz Dietrich took down the $5,000 buy-in 2024 WSOP Online International Main Event at GG Poker for $4,021,012. Dietrich outlasted 6,146 entries in the record-setting field, and he also navigated a tough virtual final table that included Rui Ferreira, Isaac Baron, Diogo Coelho, and Benjamin Rolle. The WSOP Europe began and early bracelet winners included Poland's Przemyslaw Szymanski (WSOPE Event #1 €315 The Opener), Ukraine's Volodymyr Kokoulin (WSOPE #2 €550 PLO [8-Max]), and Brazil's Vivian Saliba (WSOPE Event #3 €2,000 PLO).

The 2024 Poker Masters, the latest stop on the PokerGo Tour, concluded on Thursday at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. American pro Jim Collopy won the coveted Purple Jacket that is awarded to first place on the leaderboard. Collopy did not win any specific events but reached the got hot at the right time and advance to the final table in four-straight events, or in half of the events in this year's Poker Masters. He was propelled to the top of the leaderboard with two second place finishes and one third-place finish.

American pro Stephen Song outlasted 1,975 entrants to win the €5,300 buy-in 2024 EPT Barcelona Main Event for a score worth over €1.29 million. Song survived a final table that included Marius-Catalin Pertea, David Coleman, Rania Nasreddine, Andrew Hulme, and Boris Kuzmanovic. Song and British pro Andrew Hulme cut a heads-up deal, but Song went on to win their heads-up joust and Hume banked €1.16 million.

Get ready for the triumphant return of the biggest and most prestigious online tournament series in the world. The 2024 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starting this Sunday, September 8 exclusively on PokerStars. This annual festival of poker will run the remainder of the month and end on October 2. This year's WCOOP has a total of 379 tournaments spread across three tiers of buy-ins with guaranteed prize pools over $80 million. The Main Event World Championship in both NLHE and PLO is slated for September 29.