The 2026 live poker calendar, counted

Everybody who plays live poker keeps a mental version of the calendar: the two or three tours

they follow, the stop they always travel to, the festival a friend mentioned. Nobody keeps the

whole thing, because the whole thing is not published anywhere. Each tour publishes its own

schedule, and that is where it ends.

So we built it. Every night a job reads the tours' own schedules and the big aggregators, and

writes what it finds into one database. This is what that database says about 2026.

292 festivals, 63 tours, 36 countries

That is the year as it stands today. Not tournaments — festivals: a WSOP Circuit stop or an

EPT leg, each one carrying anywhere from a handful to a hundred numbered events.

The average festival runs 9.3 days. The longest on the 2026 calendar runs 51.

September is the busiest month, December the emptiest

September, October and November hold 107 of the 292 — more than a third of the year in three

months. December collapses to seven: the rooms empty out for Christmas and the tours know it.

The week you cannot be everywhere

On 4, 5 and 6 September 2026, twenty-one festivals are running at the same time, on four

continents. That is the peak of the year. If you have ever felt that the good stuff always

clashes, it is not a feeling — it is the shape of the calendar.

Where they actually play

Las Vegas and Madrid tie at the top with 10 festivals each in 2026, followed by Alicante and

Murcia with eight, and Sevilla and Barcelona with seven.

That Spanish weight in the top ten is worth being honest about. Spain has a genuinely dense

circuit — the CEP, the CNP, Winamax, 888poker LIVE and half a dozen more all tour the same

casinos — but it is also the country our sources cover in the most depth. Counting **only what

is still to come**, the United States is the country with the most poker ahead of it, not Spain.

Coverage is not the same thing as reality, and a calendar that does not say so is lying to you.

What is missing

Plenty. Asia is thin. Latin America is thin. Several large tours publish their schedules as a

picture, or as a PDF, or three weeks before the first event, and those are hard to read

automatically and easy to get wrong.

If a tour you play is not here, tell us and it goes in. That

is the whole point of publishing the calendar rather than keeping it.

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