Polish Poker Series publishes its winter season: two MASTERS finals, and Warsaw plays through Christmas

Poland's league circuit has published dates to the end of January 2027. The season ends in two MASTERS finals — Łódź over two nights before Christmas, Szczecin on 28 January — and Warsaw is the only city whose league night does not stop for the holidays, playing on 23 and 30 December. Buy-ins are still almost entirely absent from the schedule.

The Polish Poker Series schedule now runs to 28 January 2027, and reading it city by city shows a circuit that has settled into quite different rhythms in each of its rooms.

Two season finals are still to come, both called MASTERS. Łódź plays its over consecutive nights just before Christmas — Tuesday 22 December at 18:00 and Wednesday 23 December at 18:30, the two starts half an hour apart for no reason the schedule gives. Szczecin plays its on Thursday 28 January 2027 at 18:00, at the end of a league run of eight numbered Ligowy nights that begins on 19 November.

The holiday weeks separate the cities sharply. Szczecin's league stops after 17 December and puts a Christmas tournament on Wednesday 23 December in its place, then goes quiet until 7 January. Łódź finishes on 16 December and plays only its MASTERS after that. Bytom's calendar runs out altogether after a Mystery Bounty on 5 December, and Kielce's after its two-day Mikołajki festival on 4 and 5 December. Warsaw, alone, carries on: its Wednesday league at Montownia Rozrywki Flop & Łuża is listed for 23 and 30 December, making it the only Polish Poker Series league night scheduled between Christmas and the new year.

Sopot is the exception of a different kind. It is the only city with a clear tournament ladder — a Friday deep stack whose figure moves between 150 and 400 across the run, a single satellite the evening before each of its two remaining high rollers, and those high rollers themselves on 28 November and 26 December. The Christmas Day satellite, on 25 December at 19:00, is the only event listed anywhere in Poland on that date.

What the schedule still does not say is what any of it costs. Figures appear only inside event names — Specjal DEEP 300, HIGH ROLLER 600, Texas Hold'em (250) — with no currency and nothing labelling them as entry fees, and most rows carry no number at all. Several cities, Bytom and Kielce among them, are listed without a venue name; the schedule gives a map link and leaves it there. Checked against the mid-October reading, Sopot's forward Friday figures are unchanged, which suggests the circuit sets them for the season rather than adjusting week to week.

The circuit's larger buy-in events remain outside Poland, at Banco Casino Bratislava. That continues to be the clearest statement of how the Polish market is shaped: league and freeroll play at home, prize pools over the border.