The Hendon Mob Championship London 2026: Full Tournament Schedule Revealed

The Hendon Mob has released the complete schedule for The Hendon Mob Championship London, its third and final standalone festival of 2026. It runs from 1–6 December at Genting Casino Stratford in East London.

The Hendon Mob Championship (THMC) is now in its ninth year. Most THMC events run as one trophy tournament inside bigger festivals organised by other tours. A few times a year, though, THMC hosts its own festival with a full schedule of side events alongside the headline Championship. London is the third of these in 2026, after Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham in July and Grand Casino Liechtenstein in August.

The week starts on Tuesday 1 December with a £30+£5 satellite into the £250+£30 Main Event, and more satellites run throughout the festival. The first trophy event is the £180+£20 NLH THMC Deepstack Opener, with a £30,000 guarantee. Day 1 is on Wednesday 2 December, and the event finishes on Thursday 3 December. Players start with 50,000 chips on 30-minute levels, and registration stays open until the start of Day 2.

The headline event is the £250+£30 THMC Main Event. It starts on Thursday 3 December and has seven Day 1 flights. The prize pool is guaranteed at £150,000, and Day 2 starts on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday there’s also a rake-free £250 Flip and Go, where players go all-in on the first hand and the survivors go straight to Day 2. The first five flights use 30-minute levels. There’s also a 15-minute turbo flight and a 10-minute hyper-turbo flight. Every player starts with 30,000 chips and can re-enter twice per flight.

The festival has two more trophy events. On Saturday at 4:15pm there’s a £180+£20 Pot Limit Omaha 4/5 Card tournament, and on Sunday at 6:15pm the £90+£10 NLH Closer ends the week.

The Hendon Mob Championship Schedule

£250+£30 THMC Main Event – £150,000 GTD (Event #2)

• Thursday 3 December, 18:15 – Day 1A
• Friday 4 December, 13:15 – Day 1B
• Friday 4 December, 18:15 – Day 1C
• Saturday 5 December, 13:15 – Day 1D
• Saturday 5 December, 18:15 – Day 1E
• Sunday 6 December, 10:15 – Day 1F Turbo
• Sunday 6 December, 12:15 – Day 1G Hyper Turbo
• Sunday 6 December, 14:15 – Flip and Go (rake-free, £250)
• Sunday 6 December, 15:15 – Day 2 (plays to a winner)

Side Events Schedule

£180+£20 THMC Deepstack Opener – £30,000 GTD (Event #1)

• Wednesday 2 December, 18:15 – Day 1
• Thursday 3 December, 16:15 – Day 2

£180+£20 PLO 4/5 Card – £10,000 GTD (Event #3)

• Saturday 5 December, 16:15 – Single-day event

£90+£10 THMC Closer – £5,000 GTD (Event #4)

• Sunday 6 December, 18:15 – Single-day event

The full festival schedule, including all satellites, is on The Hendon Mob website.

How This Year Compares

The Main Event has the same £280 buy-in and £150,000 guarantee as last year, when Greece’s Dimosthenis-Stefanos Ioannidis won the title at the same venue. This year there’s an extra Day 1 flight and a new Flip and Go, but last year’s Friday Night Deepstack has been dropped, leaving four trophy events instead of five. About £250 of each Main Event buy-in goes into the prize pool, so the field needs roughly 600 entries to reach the guarantee. If it falls short, the casino covers the difference (an overlay), which is good news for everyone who plays.

Latest THMC Champion

The most recent Hendon Mob Championship event ended this week at Casino de Marrakech in Morocco, as part of the Irish Open International Marrakech. Kaapo Tapio of Finland won the title from a field of 193 after a heads-up deal with Ilyase Bouzouani of the Netherlands. The buy-in was 3,800 MAD (about €300), and Tapio won 116,000 MAD, the biggest live cash of his career so far.

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