Live poker tournaments by country: schedules, buy-ins and guarantees

Every tournament on this site is a dated record built from the organiser's own published schedule, with the buy-in, the guarantee where one is advertised, and the date we last read the page. Pick a country to see its calendar: the festivals and tour stops at the top of the year, and the weekly fixtures that make up most of the live poker actually played.

What a tournament record here contains

A record carries the event name as the organiser prints it, the venue and city, the start and end dates, the buy-in in the currency it is charged in, and the guarantee if the organiser advertises one. Multi-event series also carry the individual events in a schedule, so a festival page shows the Main Event alongside the side events rather than collapsing a fortnight into a single line.

What a record does not carry is an estimate dressed up as a fact. Where an organiser has not yet published next season's dates, we say so on the page instead of carrying last year's dates forward — that mistake is easy to make, because tour sites frequently leave a finished edition up as though it were upcoming.

Festivals and tour stops

The major circuits are covered where they reach a market we serve: the GUKPT, G200 and Goliath in the United Kingdom, the CAPT in Austria, the BSOP in Brazil, the Master Classics of Poker in the Netherlands, the WSOP Circuit across its international stops, and World Poker Tour and WPT Prime events. These are the events with the published structures, the large fields and the guarantees, and they are usually announced months ahead.

Weekly and monthly fixtures

For most players the useful calendar is not the festival six months away but the Thursday bounty at the nearest room. Recurring card-room fixtures are listed as their own records — the German Spielbank dailies, the British weeklies at Stratford, Glasgow and the Empire, the Las Vegas deepstack series — because a room's regular schedule is what someone actually plans an evening around.

How current the calendar is

Tournament facts go stale faster than anything else on this site, so every record is on a review interval and carries the date it was last checked. Events that have been played are archived rather than left up with a past date, and an event whose organiser has changed the buy-in or the venue is re-read rather than patched from memory. If a date here disagrees with the venue's own page, the venue's page is right and ours needs a re-check.

Before you travel

Re-confirm the structure and the registration window with the venue directly before booking anything around an event. Late registration, re-entry rules and start times change in the final week far more often than dates do, and a festival's own schedule PDF is updated well after the pages that link to it. Minimum age, identification requirements and the tax treatment of a win differ by country — each market page covers those for its own jurisdiction.