Phenom Poker Puts Mixed Games at the Center of Its First PSOP Series
The 92-event online schedule opens Oct. 23, with a 9-Game Mix Masters High Roller replacing a traditional hold’em main event.
- PSOP I runs from Oct. 23 through Nov. 15 with 92 events and more than 700,000 CHIP guaranteed.
- The series has 34 mixed-game tournaments and closes with the 9-Game Mix Masters High Roller.
- Buy-ins range from 25 to 5,000 CHIP, while satellites and freerolls feed every event.
- A 250,000-PHNM rewards pool is divided between the performance-based leaderboard and entry-based PSOP Rally.
Phenom Poker will launch the Phenom Series of Poker, or PSOP, on Oct. 23, making a mixed-game high roller rather than a no-limit hold’em main event the series’ headline finish. PSOP I runs through Nov. 15 and has 92 events with more than 700,000 CHIP guaranteed.
Buy-ins range from 25 to 5,000 CHIP. CHIP is the site’s in-game currency and is pegged one-to-one with the U.S. dollar, putting the overall guarantee at more than $700,000 at that rate.
Poker.org described PSOP as Phenom Poker’s first tournament series. Its 34 mixed-game tournaments include 8-Game, 9-Game, 10-Game, mixed NLH/PLO, TORSE, Razz Fusion, Big Bet Mix and Super Stud, alongside hold’em, Omaha, draw and stud events in Championship, Masters and PKO formats.
The closing headline tournament is Event #91, the 9-Game Mix Masters High Roller. It carries a 50,000 CHIP guarantee and a 5,000 CHIP buy-in.
The emphasis follows Phenom Poker’s broader shift toward rotational and niche mixed formats. The site had initially put more attention on no-limit hold’em and PLO, with Yeh saying 90% to 95% of players came from those games, before the team moved toward a mixed-game focus after finding players preferred rotational games.
Satellites and freerolls offer entry routes to every PSOP event, with satellites starting at 2.50 CHIP. Each tournament also has a Last Chance satellite two hours before its start, while players registered before the first hand of any numbered event receive a 10% deeper starting stack.
The series has 250,000 PHNM in additional rewards, split between a 150,000-PHNM leaderboard and up to 100,000 PHNM through the PSOP Rally. Leaderboard points are based on finishing position in the 92 numbered events, while the Rally awards points for paid entries, including satellites and re-entries, whether or not a player cashes.
The leaderboard pays 150 places, with all earned PHNM locked for one year. Its winner receives a WSOP Paradise Event #10 package worth 16,000 USDT in addition to 25,000 PHNM; the top Rally milestone winner receives a WSOP Paradise Event #1 package valued at 6,500 USDT.
The Rally awards five points for every 100 CHIP in buy-ins, and its highest milestone requires 1,000 points, equivalent to 20,000 CHIP in entries. Entering each of the 92 PSOP events once would cost 28,900 CHIP.
