King’s Resort Unveils €10 Million Autumn Flagship
The King’s Million European Poker Championship runs Sept. 16-Oct. 6 and is led by a €5 million Super Main Event.
King’s Resort in Rozvadov has unveiled the King’s Million European Poker Championship, a new festival set for Sept. 16-Oct. 6 that carries more than €10 million in total guarantees. The headliner is a €5 million Super Main Event with a €1,150 buy-in, giving the room a big autumn anchor after WSOP Europe left town.
As reported in August, King’s Resort had already lined up the IPS Summer Edition for late summer, and the new championship takes over the main autumn calendar. PokerTube frames the series as the resort’s answer to WSOP Europe’s move to Prague, after the autumn stop had run in Rozvadov every year from 2017 through 2025 before shifting this spring into a March-to-April window. Federico Brunato told the outlet that many operators do not fully understand what players are really looking for, and argued that communities are built around the experience, not the number attached to it.
That shift was already visible in the 2026 WSOP Europe schedule, which ran from March 31 through April 12 with 15 bracelet events. PokerTube says the Prague debut drew a 2,617-entry Main Event, more than triple the previous high of 817, and generated a €13.085 million prize pool. Across the full 15-event festival, 15,779 entries came from more than 80 countries and total prizes reached €39.5 million.
The King’s Million schedule is built around a string of side events as well. PokerNews lists a €250 Mini Main Event with a €1 million guarantee, a €400 Deepstack with €300,000 guaranteed, a €1,000 Mystery Bounty on Sept. 23 with a €1.5 million guarantee, and Omaha events that include a €1,500 European Poker Championship PLO and a €3,000 PLO High Roller, both set at €500,000 guaranteed. Later in the month, the €600 Monsterstack starts on Sept. 27 with a €1 million guarantee, six regular starting flights and a Flip and Go Pineapple route into Day 2 on Sept. 30. PokerTube says four more guaranteed events round out the schedule, ranging from a fast-paced bounty format to a tournament reserved for players 50 and older.
The Super Main Event begins on Sept. 30 and runs through Oct. 4, with seven regular starting flights plus a Flip and Go Pineapple option. PokerNews says the EPC continues into the first week of October with a €500,000 guaranteed EPC Masters and a €100,000 guaranteed Closer, while PokerTube adds that satellites into the Super Main are already running and that King’s Resort’s September slate includes the German Poker Tour and Ola Poker Tour earlier in the month, putting roughly €10.8 million in guarantees in play across Rozvadov that month alone.
