Another round-up of poker news including the outcome of the $10m Guaranteed World Championship of Online Poker Main Event, partypoker unleash a monster, and Phil Galfond involves himself in Daily Fantasy Sports.

The 2017 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is over for another year, and Steve “SvZff” van Zadelhoff is the Champion of the World.

The man with the most cultivated beard in the business defeated a field of 2,183 entrants to capture the $1.64m first prize in the $5,300 buy-in event. The Dutch grinder qualified for the event via a $215 online satellite, but alas, swapped action until he only had 16%, good for $262,400.

Another player who is sitting in a backyard somewhere blowing comforting smoke rings while in a deep state of reverie is Nick Petrangelo. The former Global Poker Index (GPOI) #1 ranked player in the world, beat the current #1 ranked player in the world, Bryn Kenney, to take down the $25,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) event for $625,000.