Upcoming Poker Series Schedule for Online and Live Players

Last Updated on September 11, 2026 by Bala Kumar

Introduction

A lot of poker schedules you’ll find online are already out of date by the time you read them, dates get pushed, main events wrap early, and “upcoming” tournaments quietly become “completed” ones. As of today, September 11, 2026, here’s where things actually stand: the WSOP’s live summer series is fully done, but online, GGPoker’s WSOP Online and PokerStars’ WCOOP are both running right this week. Meanwhile the live calendar has already shifted into its fall stretch, WSOP Circuit stops across the US and Europe, WPT’s swing through Asia, and two big season closers in December.

This piece covers both sides of the game — online series you can jump into today, and live series worth planning travel around — with real, current dates rather than a placeholder schedule.

2026 WSOP — 57th Annual Edition: Where It Actually Stands Now

The 2026 World Series of Poker ran from May 26 to July 15 at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, with 100 live bracelet events. Because of a new multi-year ESPN broadcasting deal, the Main Event final table was pushed later than usual, wrapping on August 5. Lucas Jumalon, a 22-year-old from Spokane, Washington, won it — defeating Finland’s Lauri Saaskilahti heads-up for the $10,000,000 top prize, becoming the second-youngest Main Event champion in history behind Joe Cada.

So if you were planning around the idea that WSOP is still “upcoming” for 2026, it isn’t — live WSOP is done for the year. What’s live right now instead is the online continuation of the brand: WSOP Online 2026, running on GGPoker.

WSOP Online 2026 — Live Right Now on GGPoker

This is the single most time-sensitive item in this whole guide. WSOP Online 2026 is running from August 16 through September 29, awarding 33 gold bracelets with total guaranteed prize pools approaching $70 million.

Every bracelet winner also receives a $30,000 Super Pass, which includes direct entry into the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event in December — a nice bridge between the online and live sides of the WSOP brand. GGPoker remains the official international satellite provider for WSOP-branded online events, with entries into bracelet tournaments available from well under $10 through multi-tiered satellites.

WCOOP 2026 — Also Live Right Now on PokerStars

Running in the exact same window as WSOP Online, PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway from September 6 to 30, 2026 — its 25th edition. It’s a genuinely massive series: 121 events, 350 total tournaments, and six Main Events carrying a combined guarantee north of $6.5 million.

●       Low tier NLHE Championship — $109 buy-in, $1.25 million guarantee

●       Medium tier NLHE Championship — $1,050 buy-in, $2 million guarantee

●       High tier NLHE Championship — $10,300 buy-in, $2.5 million guarantee

●       Additional Main Events across PLO, HORSE, Razz, Triple Draw, 8-Game, and Progressive Knockout formats

Buy-ins across the full WCOOP schedule range from $5.50 to $25,000, with the six flagship Main Events clustered on September 27 and 28. Satellites start at $0.55, and PokerStars is also running a WCOOP Lucky Dip promotion distributing $500,000 in tournament tickets during the festival.

WSOP Circuit — The Live Fall Backbone

With the flagship summer series wrapped, the WSOP Circuit is carrying most of the live tournament calendar through the rest of the year. 2026 marked the Circuit’s first-ever Texas stop (Austin, April 23–May 4), and the international footprint keeps expanding — Malta, Belgium, Spain, and Italy all feature on the fall schedule.

Every stop qualifies its ring winner for the WSOP Tournament of Champions, and Main Event buy-ins across nearly all Circuit stops sit around $1,700 — the accessible entry point into official WSOP-branded live poker.

World Poker Tour — Season 24, Fall Swing

WPT’s Season 24 opened back in January with Giuseppe Iadisernia’s win at WPT Lucky Hearts in Florida, and the tour has kept moving through Cambodia, Las Vegas, and now into a genuinely global fall stretch.

●       WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star — San Jose, California, October 16 – November 1

●       WPT Venetian Fall Championship — The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, following February’s $2 million guaranteed spring edition

●       WPT Seoul — INSPIRE Entertainment Resort, South Korea, October 30 – November 9: the tour’s first-ever event in the country

Buy-ins remain split across two clear tiers: WPT Prime events sit around $1,100, aimed squarely at recreational players, while WPT Main Tour Championship events run $3,500 and up. The WPT World Championship, historically the December closer at Wynn Las Vegas, carries a $10,000 buy-in and typically produces some of the tour’s largest prize pools of the year.

European Poker Tour — Two Stops Remain

EPT’s 2026 season already delivered a loaded first half. Jorge Abreu won the €5,300 Main Event at EPT Paris in February for over €1.1 million, and EPT Barcelona — run August 16–29 — produced a massive 2,045-entry Main Event field, won by Manuel Ferrari for €1,002,488 after a three-way deal.

The only stop remaining is the season closer: EPT Prague, running December 2–13, 2026 at the Hilton Prague. Last year’s edition drew more than 1,200 Main Event entries and a prize pool north of €5.9 million — Prague is also where the season-long PokerStars Live League standings across the High, Medium, and Low tiers get finally decided.

EPT qualification runs exclusively through PokerStars’ Power Path system, with satellites starting from $0.50 and a Gold Pass package worth up to €10,300 available as a top prize.

Triton Poker — 10th Anniversary Season

Triton’s 2026 calendar has been lighter than usual, with just two confirmed stops for its 10th anniversary year. Triton ONE and the Super High Roller Series both ran in Jeju back in March, and the Montenegro stop ran May 13–28 at the Maestral Resort in Budva — where Adrian Mateos won the $200,000 Triton Invitational for a career-best $6.37 million.

No further 2026 stops have been officially confirmed as of this writing, though Triton has historically closed its year with a stop tied to WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas. Minimum buy-ins across Triton events typically run $50,000 to $250,000+, keeping the series firmly in invitation and high-bankroll territory — though every event streams free on Triton Poker’s YouTube channel.

Asian Poker Calendar — Building Toward a Record Finale

The Asian Poker Tour is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026 with a five-stop calendar that has already broken records this year. After APT Jeju (Sept 25–Oct 4), the tour heads into its biggest event of the year:

APT Championship 2026 — Red Space and Asia Poker Arena, Taipei, Taiwan, November 13–29. A 17-day, 210-event festival headlined by a $10,000 buy-in Main Event carrying a $5 million guarantee. The 2025 edition set the all-time Asian poker attendance record with 28,265 total entries and $34 million awarded — the 2026 edition is expected to match or exceed that.

WPT Australia is also running through the fall at The Star Casino in Sydney, adding another confirmed Asia-Pacific stop to an already busy region.

Major Online Poker Series Beyond WSOP Online and WCOOP

Outside the two headline series running this month, both major platforms maintain deep year-round online schedules worth knowing about:

How to Qualify Online for Major Live Events

●       WSOP Main Event / WSOP Paradise — GGPoker satellites internationally, starting from well under $10; WSOP Online bracelet winners get a direct $30,000 Super Pass.

●       WSOP Circuit ring events — GGPoker’s WSOP Circuit Online satellites feed directly into live ring events.

●       EPT events — PokerStars Power Path, satellites from $0.50, with a Gold Pass package worth up to €10,300.

●       WPT Championship and Prime events — WPT Global’s Passport qualifier system, entries from around $0.55.

●       WCOOP and Sunday Million — direct entry on PokerStars, or via ongoing daily satellites.

Final Thoughts

The honest picture of live and online poker right now, in mid-September 2026, is two parallel calendars running at full speed. Online, WSOP Online and WCOOP are both mid-festival this exact week, giving players a genuine shot at bracelet and championship titles from home. Live, the calendar has already shifted into its fall stretch — WSOP Circuit stops filling nearly every week through November, WPT making its first-ever trip to South Korea, and EPT Prague and WSOP Paradise both closing out the year in December within days of each other.

Whichever side of the game you play — grinding a $5.50 WCOOP satellite or planning a trip to a WSOP Circuit stop — the key is checking each series’ own current schedule before committing, since dates and guarantees do shift as the year plays out.

If you’re building toward any of these events, it’s worth sharpening your instincts first in a low-pressure setting — reading bet sizing, understanding bubble and ICM pressure, and getting comfortable with bounty formats before there’s real money on the line. That kind of practical, structured practice is exactly what poker club games are built for, and it’s a smart step before jumping into any tournament on this list.

Bala Kumar

Founder of PokerClubGames.com and a Poker Researcher with 10+ years of experience in SEO, WordPress development, and gaming content strategy. Specializes in researching online poker sites, poker apps, tournaments, bonuses, and poker strategies. Experienced in poker platform reviews, affiliate marketing, and creating SEO-focused poker content for global audiences.

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