Live Poker Tournament Calendar 2026: Find and Play the Best Tournaments Worldwide

Last Updated on August 7, 2026 by Bala Kumar

If you’ve ever tried to plan a poker trip around “whatever’s running that week,” you already know the problem. Tournament schedules live in a dozen different places, a casino’s own site, a tour’s press releases, a forum thread someone updated three months ago,  and by the time you’ve cross-checked buy-ins and start dates across five tabs, half the appeal of the trip has drained out of you.

This page exists to fix that. Below, you’ll find a live, filterable calendar of tournaments running right now and in the weeks ahead, plus a breakdown of how the major tours differ, so you’re not just picking a date, you’re picking the right event for your bankroll and your game.

How to Use the Tournament Finder

The calendar above the listings lets you filter by start date, end date, and country, which matters more than it sounds. A lot of players search by city or casino name and miss events at the same venue running under a different series banner, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, for example, is currently mid-way through its own SHRPO series while also hosting standalone deep stack events that aren’t technically part of it. Filtering by date range and country first, then scanning venue names, tends to surface more than a straight keyword search does.

Here’s a live snapshot of what’s running right now, from August 6 through August 20, 2026, including the full event-by-event breakdown for each series so you can see exactly what’s on offer at every buy-in level, not just the headline Main Event.

Major Series of Poker – The Tour: MSPT Rivers Chicago

Rivers Casino, Des Plaines, USA · Aug 4 – Aug 9, 2026

WSOP International Circuit – WSOPC Šamorín

This is a good example of what a well-built Circuit stop looks like: a €135 satellite feeding a €1,350 Main Event (a 10x overlay if you’d have paid full price anyway), a dedicated Ladies Night ring event, and a Highroller for players who want to skip straight to the deep end at €3,300.

Asia Pacific Poker Tour – APPT Manila

Okada Manila, Philippines · Jul 28 – Aug 10, 2026

Manila on August 6 alone is running fourteen separate events across one venue — from a ₱2,365 Main Event qualifier step (roughly $41 USD) all the way up to a ₱270,720 Super High Roller (around $4,700 USD). That’s the widest single-day spread of any stop on the current calendar, and it’s exactly the kind of schedule that rewards showing up a few days into the series rather than just parachuting in for the Main Event: three separate events (the Survivor Knockout High Roller, Mystery Bounty, and APPT Open) are already wrapping up on their Final Day, meaning players who arrived earlier in the series have had three extra shots at the prize pool that Day 1A players haven’t.

Other Series Running This Window

That’s a genuinely global spread on a single mid-August week, a €260 opener in France, a $10,000 eight-handed event in Florida, and a ₱270,720 super high roller in Manila all running within days of each other. That’s fairly normal for the calendar right now; late summer is one of the densest stretches of the year because most regional tours are trying to land their marquee series before the WPT and EPT fall schedules pick up steam.

Which Tour Should You Actually Play?

This is the question that matters more than any individual date, so it’s worth being direct about it rather than just listing tours.

WSOP Circuit events are the most consistent option if you want a reliable structure and a shot at a ring, without the intensity (or buy-in) of the Main Event itself. Buy-ins for Circuit Main Events typically land in the $1,100–$1,700 range, with high roller side events running $3,000–$5,000. The trade-off is that Circuit stops move fast, most run 10 to 14 days across a full casino, so if you’re not local, you’re picking a narrow window inside a broader series.

WPT (World Poker Tour) events sit a notch higher in prestige and buy-in, usually $3,500 and up for Main Tour stops, with the WPT Prime sub-brand offering a genuinely useful middle ground around $1,100–$1,600 for players who want the WPT name and structure without the five-figure buy-in. If you’re chasing a WPT Champions Cup and the recognition that comes with it, this is the tour, but expect deeper fields and tougher play at the top buy-in levels.

APPT (Asia Pacific Poker Tour) is worth watching specifically if you’re comparing value across currencies, Manila’s Main Event buy-in works out to roughly $1,200 USD, which is competitive with a WSOP Circuit Main Event, but the side-event ladder in Manila this month runs unusually wide, from a ₱2,365 satellite step all the way to a ₱270,720 Super High Roller. Few single stops anywhere offer that much range in one venue.

Regional and casino-branded series (Grand Prix Unibet, MSPT, SHRPO) are where most recreational players actually get the most value. Buy-ins start well under $500, structures are usually deeper than a comparable WSOP Circuit event at the same price, and the fields are softer. If your goal is playing volume and improving rather than chasing ranking points, this is genuinely the smarter lane, not just the cheaper one.

Reading a Tournament Listing Correctly

A few details in listings like these trip people up constantly, so it’s worth spelling out:

• “Day 1A,” “Day 1B,” “Day 1C” means the tournament has multiple starting flights that merge into a single field. You only need to register for one flight, picking the one that fits your schedule, not “the best” one, since they all feed the same final structure.
• A buy-in listed at “0” almost always means the event is a satellite, freeroll, or a continuation day for players already in the field (a “Final Day” listing), not a free-to-enter Main Event.
• Satellite listings (“Satellite to WSOPC #7 Championship Main Event”) are cheap entry points that award seats into the bigger event rather than cash — a €135 satellite that awards a €1,350 Main Event seat is effectively a 10x overlay if you’d have paid full price anyway.

Planning Around a Series, Not Just a Date

If you’re building a trip around one of these stops, the smartest approach is picking the series first and the specific event second. A 10-day series like WSOPC Šamorín or SHRPO Hollywood typically front-loads its cheaper opens and mid-tier events, then stacks the Main Event and high rollers toward the back half. Arriving in the first two or three days usually means better satellite value and more side-event options if your Main Event run ends early, arriving on Main Event Day 1 alone means you’re locked into a single shot with no fallback.

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Bala Kumar

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