How to Find Poker Tournament Schedules: CardPlayer, PokerAtlas & Morea

Last Updated on September 2, 2026 by Bala Kumar

You booked the flight. You booked the hotel. You show up at the poker room, and the $1,100 Main Event you came for started yesterday.

It happens more often than anyone admits. Tournament schedules

 live in a dozen places, half of them are out of date, and casinos change structures with two days’ notice. There is no single source that gets everything right, so the trick is knowing which tool answers which question.

Here’s the full map.

CardPlayer tournaments: the master calendar

If you only bookmark one page, make it this one. The CardPlayer tournament schedule is the closest thing poker has to a global fixture list, and it has been running since 1988.

What it does well. Every organised series, worldwide, in one chronological list. Right now, as of early September 2026, the database is carrying 73 series in September alone, 59 booked for October, and 47 already listed for November. That’s not tournaments, that’s series, each one containing anywhere from 10 to 100 individual events.

To give you a sense of what’s actually live this month:

How to actually use it. There are two views, and most people never find the second one. Month/Series shows you the big picture: every series running in a given month with start and end dates. Day/Event breaks it down to individual tournaments on individual days, which is what you want once you’ve picked a destination. Toggle between them at the top of the page.

You can also drill into any single casino. CardPlayer keeps a page for most major rooms with buy-ins, start times, and blind structures.

What it won’t tell you. Daily tournaments. The $150 nightly stay at your local room is not in there. CardPlayer covers organised series, not the everyday grind. It also can’t tell you whether registration is still open or how many players have entered.

PokerAtlas: the room-level tool

This is what CardPlayer isn’t. PokerAtlas goes deep on individual poker rooms in the US and a growing list of international venues, and it’s the better answer for daily tournaments and cash games.

Live waitlists, current games running, tournament start times, buy-ins, rake, structure sheets, and player reviews of the room itself. If you want to know whether the $2/$5 at a specific card room is running at 9pm on a Tuesday, this is the tool.

Coverage is thinner outside North America, so it’s less useful for European or Asian trips.

Bravo Poker Live: what’s happening right now

Bravo is the app that plugs directly into many casinos’ floor management systems, which means it shows you real-time seating and tournament data rather than a published schedule. Vegas rooms lean on it heavily. If you’re already in the city and want to know where the action is this hour, Bravo beats any calendar.

The catch is that only participating rooms appear, so it’s patchy outside the major markets.

The Hendon Mob: for results, not schedules

Worth knowing about even though it solves a different problem. Hendon Mob is the definitive database of tournament results — who cashed, for how much, going back decades. Use it to research a field before you enter, check whether a series historically draws the numbers it advertises, or track your own record.

PokerNews and the live reporting portals

PokerNews, PokerGO and the tours’ own sites run live reporting during major events, along with their own tournament calendars. These are the fastest to update when something changes mid-series, because reporters are physically in the room. Good for the big stuff, less complete for the small stuff.

The source everyone forgets: the casino itself

Every aggregator is downstream of the venue. If the room’s website, Facebook page or X account says the structure changed, that’s the truth and CardPlayer will catch up in a day or two. Before you travel, spend two minutes on the room’s own page. Before you leave for the room, check their social feed.

Online tournaments are a separate problem

None of the above properly covers online MTT schedules. The client lobby is your primary source, and it’s the only one that shows late registration status, current entries, and whether an overlay is building. For major online series, the operator’s promo page has the full schedule and the aggregator calendars are usually a few days behind.

Regional coverage worth knowing

CardPlayer’s international coverage has improved a lot, and the September list alone includes stops in South Korea, Australia, Malta, Morocco, Cyprus, Latvia, the Netherlands and Taiwan. For Asia specifically, the tours to watch are APT, APPT and Triton, all of which run regular Jeju and Manila stops.

For India, the domestic circuit lives mostly on operator sites and local poker media rather than the international aggregators, so check those directly for anything running inside the country.

Which tool for which question

How to actually plan a trip

1. Start broad. CardPlayer month view, pick your window, see what’s running anywhere you’d be willing to travel.
2. Narrow to two or three series. Compare buy-in ranges and how long each runs.
3. Pull the day-by-day. Switch to the event view and map out which flights and side events fit your dates.
4. Verify on the source. Open the casino’s own tournament page and confirm the dates and buy-ins match.
5. Check the field. Hendon Mob for last year’s numbers, so you know whether the guarantee is realistic.
6. Re-check 48 hours before. Schedules move. Registration caps change. Two minutes now saves a wasted trip.

Four mistakes that cost people money

Trusting a screenshot. Someone’s post from three weeks ago is not a schedule. Always click through to a live page.

Ignoring the time zone. A 12:00pm start on a US site means local casino time, not yours. Sounds obvious. People still miss Day 1s over it.

Missing the flight structure. Big series run multiple Day 1 flights. If you only see one date, you may be looking at a partial listing.

Not reading the structure sheet. Two events with identical buy-ins can play completely differently. Levels, starting stack, and late reg window matter more than the headline number.

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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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