Poker in Panama: live tournaments, venues and what we can verify

Panama's live poker calendar is small but it punches above its weight: the WSOP Circuit visited Panama City twice in 2026, in May and again in November, and both stops ran full twelve-event schedules.

What live poker runs in Panama

The centre of gravity is Panama City, and the recurring fixture is the WSOP Circuit. The tour ran there from 7 to 17 May 2026 at the Hotel Hilton Panamá on Balboa Avenue, and returns from 5 to 15 November 2026 at the Sortis Hotel, Spa & Casino. Both stops carried twelve numbered events and a $1,700 no-limit hold'em Main Event.

The November schedule is a fair picture of what the city's tournament poker looks like: buy-ins from $300 to $3,000, most of the field clustered between $400 and $600, multi-flight structures on the four biggest events, three pot-limit Omaha tournaments, and unlimited re-entry throughout. Our event pages carry the flight dates, starting stacks, level lengths and late-registration cut-offs as the tour published them.

One practical point that catches travelling players out: the city has used a different hotel for each of its two 2026 Circuit stops. Check the venue for the specific stop you are booking.

What we have not verified, and why we are saying so

We have not published anything here about Panama's gambling licensing regime, its regulator's current register, the tax treatment of a player's winnings, or the minimum age for casino entry. The reason is narrow and worth stating plainly: on 26 October 2026 the regulator's own website was not readable by either route available to us, and we do not publish legal claims from search summaries or second-hand coverage. The same goes for the Sortis property's own pages, which we could not read either — so there is no street address, table count or opening hours on our venue page for it.

When those pages are read, this section will be replaced with sourced detail. Until then, treat anything you read elsewhere about Panamanian gambling law as needing a check against the regulator directly. Nothing on this page is legal advice; it is general information about a live tournament calendar.

Playing online from Panama

Where this site shows an operator for Panama, that is a commercial listing and we are paid if you sign up through it — our affiliate disclosure explains the arrangement. What it is not is a statement that a given room is licensed in Panama, because that is exactly the question we could not settle from a primary source this month.

If you do play, treat poker as entertainment rather than income. Welcome offers of the kind these rooms advertise release in stages as you generate rake, and only the released portion is money you can actually withdraw — read the terms before you deposit against one.

What is thin here and what we are working on

Panama has no player pages on this site yet. The national money list is the obvious place to build them from, and that source has been unreachable for us since mid-October. Cash-game information for both Circuit host hotels is also missing. Those are the two gaps we would fill first.