News ACR Poker’s $6.5M Dual Venom PKOs Reach Their Final Tables Today Owen Gaines Owen Gaines is a professional poker player and author who has played an estimated ten million hands and written four poker strategy books. October 21, 2026 Both events beat their guarantees to reach $6,862,500 in combined prize pools. Nyts14 and tigerseyes lead the fields, while Pepareg1 has a shot at both titles when play resumes at 4:05 p.m. ET.Two Venom titles will be decided today, and Pepareg1 still has a chance to win both. ACR Poker’s Dual Venom PKOs return for their final tables on Wednesday, October 21, at 4:05 p.m. ET, with nine players left in No-Limit Hold’em and seven in Pot-Limit Omaha.Both $2,650 buy-in tournaments beat their guarantees. The $5 million GTD NLH event drew 2,143 entries and built a $5,357,500 prize pool. The $1.5 million GTD PLO event attracted 602 entries for $1,505,000, bringing the combined total to $362,500 above the advertised guarantees.Nyts14 leads the Hold’em final table with 144,317,123 chips, ahead of ArkaduktusFrRM and Pepareg1. On the Omaha side, tigerseyes has the biggest stack at 60,885,019, with vousconfus and Brian Hastings next in line.Pepareg1 is third in NLH and seventh in PLO. That leaves two very different jobs for the same player: pursue the leaders in Hold’em while trying to climb off the bottom of the Omaha chip counts.There is recent precedent for that kind of busy final day. ACR Pro Chance Kornuth reached both Venom final tables in the previous Dual Venoms, finishing seventh in NLH and sixth in PLO. Pepareg1 now gets a chance to turn a double appearance into a title.The listed first-place prizes are $332,932.28 in NLH and $128,622 in PLO, before bounties. Every finalist has already secured a regular payout, but the progressive knockout format leaves another source of money to chase with every elimination. Nyts14 leads the nine player NLH final tableNyts14 returns with roughly twice the average stack and a 28,137,028-chip lead over second-place ArkaduktusFrRM. Pepareg1 follows with 90,194,276, while Lappy and WhatDoWeHave round out the top five. Chip Rank Leaderboard Chip Rank Player Chips 1 Nyts14 144,317,123 2 ArkaduktusFrRM 116,180,095 3 Pepareg1 90,194,276 4 Lappy 75,534,164 5 WhatDoWeHave 70,451,686 6 PushLightYear 60,800,682 7 meteli goli 44,020,731 8 RippersNdarts 25,144,332 9 TIKITAKA11 16,256,911 The remaining players are guaranteed at least $34,052.27 from the regular prize pool. Reaching the top four takes that payout above $173,000, and the final three will each collect at least $240,369.59, with bounty winnings added separately.tigerseyes heads the seven player PLO lineuptigerseyes starts with a lead of 19,638,961 chips over vousconfus. The next two stacks are much closer: Brian Hastings trails second place by just 478,142 chips, with Blessed33 fourth at 35,541,239. Chip Rank Leaderboard Chip Rank Player Chips 1 tigerseyes 60,885,019 2 vousconfus 41,246,058 3 Brian Hastings 40,767,916 4 Blessed33 35,541,239 5 Juantman 23,804,888 6 Tweetme 20,561,097 7 Pepareg1 17,993,783 BooooomHeadsot finished eighth for $18,610.83 in regular prize money, leaving seven players to return today. All seven are assured at least $25,687.34 from the regular pool, while a top-three finish is worth at least $93,194.11 before bounties.Pepareg1 has two titles to chaseMaking one Venom final table is a deep run. Pepareg1 has made both, surviving fields that produced 2,745 combined entries across the two tournaments.The two remaining stacks have already secured $59,739.61 in combined regular payouts, before adding any bounty winnings. There is considerably more available if either run reaches the final few places.The stronger starting position is in NLH, where Pepareg1 sits behind only Nyts14 and ArkaduktusFrRM. In PLO, the shortest stack has ground to recover, although Tweetme and Juantman are the next two players ahead in the standings.The payouts still leave plenty riding on knockoutsEach event splits its total prize pool equally between regular prizes and bounties. For NLH, that means $2,678,750 in each pool. PLO has $752,500 in each. Those bounty pools cover the whole tournament, including money already won along the way.The regular payouts for the remaining places are listed below. They exclude bounty winnings and are the scheduled amounts before any final-table deal. NLH and PLO Regular Prizes Place NLH Regular Prize PLO Regular Prize 1 $332,932.28 $128,622.00 2 $332,931.12 $128,621.81 3 $240,369.59 $93,194.11 4 $173,550.85 $67,526.34 5 $125,306.56 $48,927.55 6 $90,466.74 $35,451.78 7 $65,318.64 $25,687.34 8 $47,162.07 — 9 $34,052.27 — Look at the top two places: the scheduled regular payouts differ by just $1.16 in NLH and 19 cents in PLO. The bounty side gives players a major financial reason to keep hunting the title even when the regular prize ladder is almost flat heads-up.Under the PKO format, a knockout pays half the eliminated player’s bounty immediately, while the other half increases the bounty on the winner’s head. A player who has collected several knockouts can therefore become a valuable target for everyone else.Follow the final tables todayBoth final tables are scheduled to resume at 4:05 p.m. ET today. Watch the final-table stream on ACR Poker’s official Twitch channel, on a 30-minute delay with hole cards shown.