Stake Poker Adds $2 Million Jacked Poker Series for November
The 198-tournament festival culminates with $500,000 guaranteed across the Jacked Main Event and Stake Showdown on Nov. 29.
- Stake Poker’s Jacked Poker Series runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 30 with 198 tournaments and $2 million in guarantees.
- The $200 Jacked Main Event and $1,000 Stake Showdown each guarantee $250,000 on Nov. 29.
- PokerStrategy and World Poker Deals gave conflicting descriptions of how multiple Jacked Main Event qualifying stacks are treated.
- Stake Showdown satellites start at $0.50 and progress through $10 and $100 stages.
Stake Poker will run its Jacked Poker Series from Nov. 11 through Nov. 30, with 198 tournaments and $2 million in guarantees. Direct entries range from $5 to $1,000, while satellites begin at $0.50; the schedule is listed in UTC.
The two biggest guarantees arrive Sunday, Nov. 29. The $200 Jacked Main Event carries a $250,000 guarantee and reaches its final stage that day, while the $1,000 Stake Showdown runs alongside it with another $250,000 guaranteed. Together, the events make up $500,000, or one-quarter, of the festival’s advertised guarantees.
The Main Event uses multiple starting flights. PokerStrategy described Stake Poker’s format as “Best Stack Forward”: players need to bag chips in at least one flight to progress, and players who qualify more than once can try to improve their stack in later flights. Only the largest successful stack advances, with smaller qualifying stacks forfeited rather than combined.
That account differs from World Poker Deals’ description of the Main Event, which said stacks from all starting flights are combined for Day 2. Players should check the tournament lobby for the operative rules before entering a flight.
The Stake Showdown’s satellite ladder begins at $0.50, then moves through $10 and $100 stages toward a $1,000 seat. As we covered in October, Stake Poker’s preceding Showdown carried a then-record $200,000 guarantee, after the September edition offered $125,000; the Jacked Series edition raises the figure to $250,000.
Elsewhere, the schedule includes the Weekly Treasure Hunt on each of the three Saturdays in the core series period. On Nov. 15, the $50,000-guaranteed Juicy Treasure Hunt and $30,000-guaranteed Mid Month Madness are due to run together, while the $100,000 Big Treasure Hunt is the largest listed guarantee outside the Nov. 29 headliners.
World Poker Deals characterized most of the schedule as low-stakes multi-table tournaments and listed PKO events with guarantees up to $7,700. It also said players can locate the festival in the Stake Poker app by searching “JS.” Not all satellites award entry to the same tournament, so players should confirm the destination ticket and qualification conditions in the lobby.
