GGPoker PLO Series November 2026: $20 Million Guaranteed, Six $1M Events and How to Play It Smart

Pot-Limit Omaha players get their own festival again this month. GGPoker‘s PLO Series returns on Sunday, November 1, and runs until November 17. It guarantees $20 million across more than 450 tournaments, all of them Omaha.

That’s a big number for a game many Hold’em players still treat as a side dish. To put it in context, GGPoker’s dedicated Omaha festival guaranteed $5 million just five years ago. Below you’ll find what’s on the schedule, which events need how many runners to hit their guarantees, how this edition compares with past ones, and how to approach it whether you’re a PLO regular or a Hold’em player thinking about switching.

Quick facts

• Dates: November 1–17, 2026
• Site: GGPoker (GG Network)
• Total guarantee: $20,000,000
• Tournaments: 450+
• Buy-ins: $15 to $10,000
• Smallest guarantees: $10,000
• $1M guaranteed events: six
• Leaderboard: $200,000 shared among the top 1,500 players

What’s on the Schedule

The series covers the full range of stakes. Micro-stakes players can enter for $15, while high rollers have $10,000 tournaments to choose from. The guarantees start at $10,000 and go up to $1 million, so there’s real money at every level of the schedule.

Most of the headline value sits in six seven-figure tournaments, which together account for $6 million, or 30% of the total guarantee.

The six $1 million guaranteed events

1. 10,000GGMillion Pot-Limit Omaha – Sunday, November 1, 19:00 UTC
2. 10,000GGMillion Pot-Limit Omaha – Sunday, November 8, 19:00 UTC
3. 10,000GGMillion Pot-Limit Omaha – Sunday, November 15, 19:00 UTC
4. $25 PLO Ocean KO (multi-stage) – final stage Monday, November 2, 18:30 UTC
5. $215 PLO Mystery Bounty Main Event (multi-stage) – final stage Monday, November 9, 18:30 UTC
6. $1,050 PLO Bounty High Roller (multi-stage) – final stage Monday, November 16, 18:30 UTC

How many entries does each $1M event need?

The guarantee only tells half the story. What matters to players is how likely each event is to have an overlay, which happens when entries fall short and the site covers the gap. Here are rough break-even numbers, assuming the usual GGPoker fee structures (check each lobby for the exact split):

• 10,000GGMillion PLO: about 100 entries
• $1,050 PLO Bounty High Roller: about 1,000 entries
• $215 PLO Mystery Bounty Main Event: about 5,000 entries
• $25 PLO Ocean KO: about 43,000–45,000 entries

The GGMillion$ events are the ones to watch for overlay value. A $10,000 PLO field of around 100 players is a realistic target but far from certain, especially if a field shows up three Sundays in a row. The $25 Ocean KO needs a huge number of entries, but the Ocean KO format has shown it can draw them (more on that below).

Ocean KO: The New Format Everyone’s Talking About

If you haven’t played an Ocean KO yet, here’s the short version. It’s GGPoker’s take on the jackpot progressive knockout. Every bounty works like a normal progressive knockout, but when you collect one, a random multiplier is applied. Most of the time it’s small. Occasionally it’s enormous: multipliers can reach as high as 400x, which means a few dollars of bounty can turn into a four-figure payday in a single hand.

The format launched on GGPoker only in October 2026, and it has already set a world record. The $5 Ocean KO Opener attracted 420,084 entries, beating the 253,692-player PokerStars Common Cents Kick-Off from 2015. It built a prize pool of $1,932,386, almost double its $1 million guarantee.

That record matters for the PLO version. Omaha player pools are smaller than Hold’em pools, so the PLO Ocean KO won’t hit those numbers. But it shows that cheap jackpot-bounty events can pull far bigger fields than traditional formats. Stage 1 flights of the $25 PLO Ocean KO are already running, with the final stage on November 2.

One important difference for beginners: in a mystery bounty, every bounty prize, including the biggest one, must be awarded. In an Ocean KO, a jackpot multiplier isn’t guaranteed to land. It’s pure luck of the draw.

How This Edition Compares With Past Omaha Series

GGPoker ran its Omaha festival under the name “Omaholic Series” for several years before rebranding it as the PLO Series this summer. The growth is easy to see:

• Omaholic Series, March 2021: $7,000,000 GTD, 105 events
• Omaholic Series, November 2021: $5,000,000 GTD, 290 events
• Omaholic Series, April–May 2025: $10,000,000 GTD
• PLO Series, August 2026: $20,000,000 GTD
• PLO Series, November 2026: $20,000,000 GTD, 450+ events

The most useful comparison is the average guarantee per tournament. In November 2021, $5 million spread across 290 events worked out to roughly $17,000 per event. This time, $20 million across 450+ events works out to about $44,000 per event, more than two and a half times as much.

Running two $20 million Omaha series within three months, in August and again in November, also suggests GGPoker is confident about turnout. If the August edition had flopped, it’s unlikely they would have repeated the full guarantee this quickly.

The $200,000 Leaderboard

Every PLO Series tournament earns leaderboard points, and the top 1,500 players share $200,000 in prizes. Here are the highlights:

• 1st: T$10,000 plus a 10,000GGMillion PLO High Roller ticket
• 2nd: T$10,000 plus two $2,500 WSOP Express tickets
• 3rd: T$5,000 plus two $2,500 WSOP Express tickets
• 4th–5th: T5,000orT2,500, plus a $2,500 WSOP Express ticket
• 51st–100th: T$250 plus a $150 WSOP Express ticket
• 101st–200th: T146–T246 plus a $54 Weekender PLO Bounty ticket
• 1,001st–1,500th: T$20

The points formula reportedly rewards finishing position relative to field size, with bigger prize pools worth more. In practice, a deep run in a large field counts for far more than a min-cash. You don’t need to play $1,000 events to climb. A grinder who plays a lot of mid-stakes events and goes deep a few times can realistically finish in the paid range.

New to PLO? Here’s What Changes From Hold’em

If you’re coming from No-Limit Hold’em, three things will catch you out early.

• You must use exactly two hole cards. In four-card PLO, you get four hole cards, but your final hand uses exactly two of them plus three from the board. If you hold four hearts and the board has one heart, you don’t have a flush. This trips up nearly every beginner at least once.
• Pot-limit caps your bets. You can only bet or raise up to the size of the pot. Big all-ins usually build up over several streets rather than arriving with one shove before the flop.
• Equities run much closer. In Hold’em, aces are a huge favourite over most hands. In PLO, even the best starting hands are rarely more than 65–70% favourites before the flop. Swings are bigger, so variance is higher.

The most useful habit to build is nut awareness. In Hold’em, two pair or a set is often good enough. In PLO, with so many cards in play, someone often holds the nuts or close to it. Ask yourself before every big pot whether your hand is the best possible one, or just a good one.

Five-card PLO (PLO5) adds a fifth hole card, which makes hands even stronger and draws even more common. If you’re new to Omaha, start with standard four-card PLO.

Practical Tips for the PLO Series

• Choose your $1M event by bankroll, not by headline. The $25 Ocean KO is the cheapest way into a seven-figure prize pool, but its multipliers make it extremely volatile. The $215 Mystery Bounty Main Event is a good middle ground. For the 10,000GGMillion events, look for satellites rather than buying in directly unless your bankroll supports it.
• Plan for PLO variance. Because hands run so close, downswings in Omaha tournaments are longer and deeper than in Hold’em. If you normally keep 100 buy-ins for Hold’em tournaments, it’s sensible to keep more for PLO, or to play lower stakes than usual.
• Check final-stage times in your time zone. The big finals run at 18:30 and 19:00 UTC. That’s evening in Europe, early afternoon on the US East Coast (where US Daylight Saving ends on November 1), and after midnight in India and most of Asia. Make sure you can stay awake for a deep run before you enter.
• Expect no HUDs at the table. GGPoker banned third-party HUDs in October 2026. That helps recreational players, because regulars can’t lean on detailed stats about you. Your own observation and note-taking matter more.
• Use the mystery bounty phase. In the $215 Mystery Bounty, bounties usually only become available later in the event. Short stacks often play more aggressively once the bounty phase starts, so adjust your calling ranges as the event moves into it.
• New to GGPoker? The site’s standard welcome offer is a 100% match up to $600, released through rake and tournament fees over 90 days. There’s also a free-play alternative in some markets. Check the terms for your country before you deposit.

Who Is the PLO Series For?

The festival works best for three groups. First, Omaha regulars, who get a dense schedule at every stake for two and a half weeks. Second, micro- and low-stakes players, who get access to seven-figure prize pools for $25 to $215. Third, Hold’em players who want to learn Omaha, because a dedicated festival is the one time of year when the PLO lobby is full at every buy-in level and hour.

The main downside is player-pool size. Even at $20 million in guarantees, Omaha fields are smaller than Hold’em fields, and some events may run with overlays while others draw a tougher crowd of specialists. Picking events carefully is part of the skill.

Full schedules, satellites and the leaderboard are available in the PLO Series tab of the GGPoker lobby. We’ll be covering the GGMillion$ PLO results and the big multi-stage finals as the series unfolds.

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