WSOP Online Fall Series Returns With 33 Bracelets and More Mystery Bounties
The Sept. 27-Nov. 10 U.S. schedule keeps its four-state pool while average buy-ins fall to $758.
WSOP Online’s domestic Fall Bracelet Series returns Sept. 27 with 33 gold bracelets for players in Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The seven-week schedule runs through Nov. 10, with tournaments roughly every other day and two bracelet events on several Sundays.
The four states will again play in one shared player pool. That setup first arrived for the 2025 fall series, when Caesars said Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan were pooled for the first time.
Buy-ins range from $250 to $3,200, but the schedule is less expensive on average than last year’s. Pokerfuse puts the average buy-in at $758, down from $831 in 2025, largely because the calendar has one $3,200 event rather than two. The average has fallen sharply since the inaugural 2022 fall series, when it stood at $1,565, even as each edition has kept the 33-bracelet count.
Mystery bounties take a larger share of the program. Eight of the 33 events use the format and carry combined guarantees of $2.2 million, up from six such events with $1.9 million guaranteed last year.
The largest is the $1,000 NL Hold’em Mystery Bounty Championship on Oct. 18, which guarantees $350,000. The former NL Hold’em Crazy 8’s has switched to a mystery bounty format, with an $888 buy-in and $250,000 guarantee. The schedule also includes a $500 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max with a $200,000 guarantee.
Pot-Limit Omaha remains at three bracelet events, while the number of progressive knockout tournaments has been reduced. There is no freezeout bracelet event this time after one appeared in 2025. Elsewhere, the NL Ultra Deepstack buy-in rises from $500 to $600, and Triple 3’s Tip Off has been replaced by a same-buy-in Mega Stack event.
The series gives U.S.-based online players a second major annual chance to win a bracelet without travelling to Las Vegas. Pokerfuse noted that a bracelet win still enters a player in the official WSOP record books, although the fall festival generally draws less participation than the summer online schedule.
It remains unclear whether 2026 bracelet winners will receive WSOP Paradise packages. Last year’s fall bracelet winners were offered packages, but the current WSOP Online site and series material make no mention of a similar promotion.
Pokerfuse also raised the possibility that this could be the last fall series run on 888poker-powered software, as WSOP’s agreement with 888 is due to expire this year. Whether Caesars Online extends that arrangement has not been disclosed.
The first bracelet event is set for Sept. 27.
