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The World Poker Tour has added the $400 Super Gold Million to its 2026 WPT World Championship festival at Wynn Las Vegas, with at least $3 million guaranteed. The tournament runs Dec. 10-14 and is exclusive to live play, rather than an online event.

PokerNews described the Super Gold Million as a live version of ClubWPT Gold’s regular Gold Million. Its guarantee is triple that of the regular Gold Million, and WPT executive tour director Matt Savage confirmed on X that the new event is live-only.

The $10,400 WPT World Championship has $1 million in mystery-bounty pulls added by WPT for players who make deep runs.

The Wynn festival runs from Nov. 27 through Dec. 21, covers 85 scheduled events and serves as the culmination of WPT’s 24th season. PokerNews described this as the festival’s fifth year at Wynn Las Vegas.

The $1,100 WPT Prime Championship runs Dec. 5-12 with a $5 million guarantee. The $10,400 World Championship then begins Dec. 13 with the first of three Day 1 flights, moves to Day 2 on Dec. 16, and has a livestreamed final table scheduled for Dec. 20.

The series opens with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event carrying a $400,000 guarantee and closes with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo. The Super Gold Million overlaps the end of the Prime Championship and the opening phase of the World Championship.

World Poker Tour has released the full schedule for its 2026 WPT World Championship festival at Wynn Las Vegas. The 25-day series runs from Nov. 27 through Dec. 21, offers more than 85 events and carries more than $20 million in guarantees as the finale to WPT Season 24.

The expanded festival is four days longer than last year, according to Poker.org, and buy-ins range from $400 to $25,800. The schedule is weighted toward mid-stakes action, with numerous events priced from $600 to $1,600, while also including seniors, high rollers and a broad mixed-game slate.

The $10,400 WPT World Championship remains the central event. Its three opening flights run Dec. 13-15, with one entry permitted for each flight and a final re-entry window closing before Day 2 begins Dec. 16. The six-handed final table will be livestreamed and televised Dec. 20, with the winner earning a place on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.

WPT is adding $1 million in mystery-bounty cash to the Championship, separate from the prize pool built through entries. Once the bounty phase begins, the top 160 finishers will receive draws for that money.

Schuyler Thornton returns as defending champion after winning the 2025 event from a field of 1,865 entries. WPT’s event recap lists his first-place payout at about $2.26 million, including a $10,400 entry to this year’s Championship.

A new low-buy-in headliner, the $400 Super Gold Million, runs Dec. 10-14 with a $3 million guarantee. The live-only event has four starting flights, unlimited re-entry and a mystery-bounty format in which qualifying eliminations give players draws for extra cash and prizes. WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage confirmed that it will be exclusively live, rather than an online edition of ClubWPT Gold’s Gold Million.

The $1,100 WPT Prime Championship runs Dec. 5-12 with a $5 million guarantee, unchanged from last year. It uses four starting flights that combine into one Day 2 field. Aaron Johnson is the defending Prime champion after navigating 9,876 entries for just over $1 million.

The schedule also includes a $1,100 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship beginning Dec. 13 with a $250,000 guarantee. Satellites run throughout the festival, including a $200 Milestone Satellite on Dec. 6 that awards 50 Prime seats, and a $1,600 Milestone Satellite on Dec. 7 that distributes 25 prizes across Prime and World Championship routes.

Mixed-game options include T.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Limit Omaha 8, Limit Omaha 8/Stud 8, Mixed Triple Draw, Big O and PLO. The festival opens with a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event carrying a $400,000 guarantee, while a $600 NLH Turbo closes the series. Wynn Poker Room will also host a WPT Meet-Up Game on Dec. 1, offering $1/$3 and $2/$5 cash games, special guests and giveaways.

As previously reported, WPT plans to begin Season 25 at NagaWorld in Phnom Penh next January with the WPT Cambodia Championship.

Tight Poker will run its first community freeroll on Oct. 19, a multi-table No-Limit Texas Hold’em event with $500 in Bitcoin prizes. The site says it is the first chance for its community to meet at the tables, and the tournament is open only to verified users.

According to Tight Poker’s announcement page, players do not pay a conventional cash buy-in. Instead, eligible users enter with a Weekly tournament ticket, and the event is capped at 200 players. The prize pool pays Bitcoin through 16th place, with $150 for first, $100 for second and $75 for third.

The payout ladder keeps going past the paid spots. Finishers from 17th through 25th receive a Monthly tournament ticket, which sends them into Tight Poker’s $1,000 monthly championship. Tight Poker describes that setup as creating two bubbles in the same event, one for getting paid and another for qualifying for the bigger monthly tournament.

The format is built to move quickly. Players start with 800 tournament chips, the opening blinds are 25/50, and blind levels rise every seven minutes. The site says the full weekly event is meant to last roughly one to two hours, with tables breaking down as players bust until a final table decides the first Tight Poker tournament champion.

RG.org describes freerolls as free-to-enter contests that let beginners gain real experience, test strategy against other players and potentially build a small bankroll without risking their own money. Tight Poker’s first offering ties the finish directly to both Bitcoin prizes and a path into its monthly championship.

Martin Zamani won ACR Poker’s $10,300 Phil’s Thrill on Sept. 13, taking his first victory in the event. The tournament drew 35 entries from 27 players and built a $350,000 prize pool, with payouts going to just five players.

PokerListings reported that the Phil’s Thrill score was only part of Zamani’s day. He also won two Phil Nagy-branded high-stakes tournaments on ACR Poker nine minutes apart, including the $2,650 Mini Phil’s Thrill PLO 6-Max, which drew 55 entries from 38 players and paid out $137,500. Zamani collected $38,500 for that smaller win.

Phil’s Thrill is a weekly $10,300 buy-in event that runs every Sunday at 2:30 PM ET, according to ACR’s tournament page. The site describes it as the biggest weekly tournament in ACR Poker history and says it is named after WPN CEO Phil Nagy.

CardPlayer reported that the tournament was created after players asked for more consistent high-stakes action, prompting Nagy to say he would play too. The same report said final tables are streamed on Twitch with commentary from ACR Poker pro Rob Kuhn and guests, and that players can qualify through satellites and step tournaments.

PokerListings said Zamani’s two Phil’s tournament wins helped him shake off a slight summer slump and pushed his SharkScope profit past $379,000. He marked the night on X with a short post: “Hot day in the ACR Poker streets.”

He now has a fresh bankroll boost for ACR’s OSS XL Nosebleed series, which runs from Sept. 21 to 28 and features buy-ins from $5,200 to $25,500.

Matthew Wantman won his first Triton title in Jeju, taking down Event 11 of Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II, the $50,000 seven-handed no-limit hold’em event. He beat Nick Schulman heads-up after the two agreed to a deal, with $30,000 still in play for the winner, and finished with the trophy and $836,721.

Triton’s report said the event drew 70 entries from 49 unique players, with 21 re-entries, and built a $3.5 million prize pool. The tournament ran on 13 September, and the series said Wantman and Schulman chose to keep playing heads-up only as long as needed after they chopped the payout.

The closing stretch produced an American podium sweep, with Ben Tollerene finishing third for $448,000. Aliaksandr Shylko took seventh for $168,000, Danny Tang was sixth for $213,000, Danilo Velasevic finished fifth for $273,000, and Dan Dvoress was fourth for $344,000. The final table also featured Tang and Dvoress alongside Schulman, who brought a Poker Hall of Fame résumé and eight WSOP bracelets into the match.

Card Player reported that the bubble did not burst until the second day and that the official final table of seven did not lock in until well into the evening. By the time heads-up began, the stacks were nearly even, with Schulman and Wantman both sitting around the mid-40 big-blind mark.

Wantman entered Jeju with well over $12 million in career earnings, plus a 2019 World Poker Tour title in Las Vegas, a first WSOP bracelet from 2025 and four PokerGO Tour titles. He later said he had not had time to process the result yet and described getting heads up against one of his best friends. The win added 714 Card Player Player of the Year points, lifting him to 3,287 and 50th place in the CoinPoker-sponsored yearlong race.