PartyPoker Tour Reveals 6-Stop Calendar for 2027

If you were wondering whether the PartyPoker Tour would survive beyond its second season, the answer arrived this week. PartyPoker has locked in six stops for 2027, four in Spain and two in Ireland. It has also kept the €500 Main Event that has quietly become one of the best-value live tournaments in Europe.

The timing is fitting. The news landed while the tour is in the middle of its first-ever Irish festival, at the Macau Sporting Club in Cork (9–15 November). Tour ambassadors Joe Beevers and Barny Boatman have been playing there alongside Irish legend Padraig Parkinson. Below you’ll find the full calendar and what has changed from 2026. More usefully, you’ll also see what this year’s real field sizes suggest about where you should play.

PartyPoker Tour 2027 Calendar at a Glance

#	Stop	Dates	Status
1	Bilbao, Spain	22–28 February 2027	New destination
2	Seville, Spain	5–11 April 2027	Returning
3	Cork, Ireland	24–30 May 2027	Returning
4	Madrid, Spain	5–11 July 2027	Returning
5	Barcelona, Spain	27 September – 3 October 2027	New destination
6	Dublin, Ireland	15–21 November 2027	New (Irish winter stop moves here from Cork)

Venues for 2027 have not been confirmed yet. Based on 2026, Seville and Madrid will likely return to Casino Admiral and Casino Gran Vía, but treat that as an educated guess until PartyPoker publishes the full festival schedules.

The Core Schedule: What You Can Play at Every Stop

One of the smartest things the tour has done is keep its format almost identical from stop to stop. You know what you’re getting before you book the flight. For 2027, every schedule will include:

Event	Buy-in	Who It Suits
Mini Main Event	€150	First-time live players, tight bankrolls, anyone wanting a warm-up
Mystery Bounty	€250	Players who enjoy variance and the chance of a big bounty envelope
Main Event	€500	The headline event: regulars, online qualifiers and recreational players with some live experience
High Roller	€1,000	Experienced players looking for tougher, smaller fields

In 2026, the Main Event had four starting flights, one played as a turbo and another as a hyper-turbo. That matters more than it looks. If you only have a long weekend, you can still get a real shot at the Main without blocking out three full days at the table.

Where your €500 goes: On the 2026 tour, €445 of each €500 Main Event buy-in went into the prize pool, which is an 11% fee. PartyPoker has repeated its promise that nothing else will be taken from prize pools beyond the fees listed on the schedule. That sounds like a small detail, but hidden staff fees and “admin” deductions are a common complaint at many mid-stakes festivals, so having it in writing is worth something.

What the 2026 Results Tell Us About 2027

Announcements are nice, but numbers tell you where the action actually is. Here’s how six of the 2026 Main Events played before Cork, each with a €100,000 or £100,000 guarantee:

Stop (2026)	Entries	Prize Pool	Champion
Sheffield	273	£121,485	Siddharth Sudunagunta
Seville	383	€170,435	Francisco Garrido Cruz
Madrid	535	€238,075	Alexey Neofitov
Manchester	260	£115,700	Michael Breen
Glasgow	355	£157,975	Robbie Bull
Castellón	368	€163,760	Jonathan Rees

Data from PokerNews and PokerTube coverage of the 2026 PartyPoker Tour.

Run the averages and a clear pattern appears:

Region	Main Events	Average Entries
Spain	Seville, Madrid, Castellón	about 429
UK	Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow	about 296

Madrid alone attracted almost 2.4 times the entries it needed to cover its guarantee. That goes a long way towards explaining why 2027 leans so heavily on Spain. It also explains the move into Bilbao and Barcelona, two cities with established casino poker scenes that the tour hasn’t yet tapped.

The guarantee maths, simplified

With €445 of each entry going to the prize pool, about 225 entries cover a €100,000 guarantee. All six of these Main Events cleared that mark, most of them comfortably. For players, that means two things. You’re unlikely to find an overlay (a prize pool topped up because the field fell short), but you’re also unlikely to turn up to a thin, half-empty festival.

Stop by Stop: What to Know Before You Book

Bilbao (22–28 February): the season opener

Bilbao is a brand-new destination and the first stop of the year. Opening festivals tend to draw a strong local turnout, plus the online qualifiers who have been grinding satellites over the winter. February in the Basque Country is mild compared with much of northern Europe, and the city’s food scene alone makes it an easy sell for a poker trip.

Seville (5–11 April)

In 2026, Seville was the tour’s first stop outside Great Britain and drew 383 Main Event entries. The move from mid-March to early April puts it near the start of Seville’s busy spring season, so book accommodation early.

Cork (24–30 May)

Cork gets a quick return after this month’s debut, this time in late spring instead of November. Irish players are known for turning out in big numbers: the 2026 Irish Open Main Event in Dublin drew a record 5,003 entries. An early-summer date should also suit travelling players.

Madrid (5–11 July)

Madrid had the tour’s biggest Main Event of 2026, with 535 entries. It moves from May to July for 2027, so expect hot weather. If 2027 is anything like 2026, expect the largest field of the season and the longest Day 2.

Barcelona (27 September – 3 October)

Thanks to the EPT, which usually visits in late summer, Barcelona is one of the best-known poker cities in Europe. A late-September PartyPoker stop avoids clashing with the EPT and offers a much cheaper way to play live poker in the city.

Dublin (15–21 November)

The Irish winter stop moves from Cork to the capital. Dublin is easier to reach from most of Europe and North America, so this stop could attract a more international field than Cork does.

What About the UK?

This is the big question for many readers. In 2026 the tour visited Sheffield, Manchester, London and Glasgow, and the PartyPoker Tour first launched in the UK in 2025. Yet no UK stops appear in the 2027 announcement.

Don’t assume the UK has been dropped just yet. Promotional artwork for the 2027 tour shows placeholders for two UK events and one in Canada. Our reading is that the Spanish and Irish dates were ready to confirm, and the rest will follow once venue deals are signed. If you’re based in the UK, watch for an update early in the new year.

Qualifying Online: The Tour Path

Online qualifying continues on PartyPoker through the Tour Path, which aims to send around 2,000 qualifiers to the 2027 live events. If it hits that target, that’s more than 300 qualifiers per stop on average, a big share of a typical Main Event field.

In practice, that means two things:

• Satellites are a real route in. If €500 plus travel feels like a stretch, a few small-stakes satellite attempts are a sensible way to get there without risking your full live bankroll.
• Fields will include plenty of online regulars. Expect more aggressive play than at a typical local casino Main Event, especially in the turbo flights.

Streaming and the Player Experience

Every 2027 final table will be streamed live with English and Spanish commentary. That’s unusual for a tour at this buy-in level, and it says a lot about who PartyPoker is targeting. Antonio Sapio, Director of Operations at VibeLive, the agency supporting the tour, put the idea simply: poker “should be accessible, enjoyable and rewarding for everyone.”

Whether or not you buy the marketing, the format backs it up: low entry points, predictable schedules, published fees and a camera on the final table.

How the PartyPoker Tour Compares with the Irish Open

Feature	PartyPoker Tour 2027	Irish Open 2027 (Dublin)
Main Event buy-in	€500	€1,150
Typical Main Event field	250–550 (2026 range)	5,003 in 2026
Schedule	6 confirmed stops	One festival, 18–29 March
Cheapest core event	€150 Mini Main	Varies across 48 events
Best for	Value, deep runs, first live trips	Huge fields, big top prizes

The trade-off is simple. A big festival like the Irish Open offers life-changing top prizes, but you’re one of thousands. A PartyPoker Tour Main Event has a few hundred players, so a skilled player has a far better chance of a deep run. Most 2026 winners took home between €20,000 and €30,500. That isn’t life-changing, but it’s a great return on €500.

Practical Tips for Planning Your 2027 Trip

• Use the Mini Main as your scout. At €150, it’s a cheap way to get used to the room, the dealers and the local players before the Main.
• Pick your starting flight on purpose. Standard flights reward patience; turbo and hyper flights reward short-stack skill. Play the format you’re actually good at.
• Budget for the whole festival, not one event. A sensible plan is to have enough for the Main plus one re-entry or a side event, without touching money you need at home.
• Book Madrid and Seville early. They were the tour’s two busiest Spanish stops in 2026, and both cities fill up quickly in spring and summer.
• Watch for the full schedules. Venues, guarantees and side events will be confirmed stop by stop, usually a few weeks before each festival.

Final Thoughts

The PartyPoker Tour has found a formula that works: low buy-ins, honest fees and consistent schedules in cities people actually want to visit. The 2026 data shows Spain is where the big fields are, and the 2027 calendar follows that demand. If the missing UK and Canadian dates arrive as the placeholders suggest, 2027 could be the tour’s biggest year yet. For now, six confirmed stops give you plenty of chances to plan a poker trip that doesn’t need a high-roller bankroll.

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