The PokerGO Tour is fresh off the conclusion of its 2025 season, where it crowned Alex Foxen the Player of the Year and Chad Eveslage the PGT World Champion. After a brief pause for reflection and celebration, the PGT has announced a list of the 2026 tournaments that will be contested in the PokerGO Studios for the first half of the year. What has not been released, however, is the remainder of the tournaments that will make up the roster.
PGT 2026 Kicks Off Next Week
The 2026 PGT schedule begins on Tuesday, January 26, with the PGT Kickoff Series. This six-tournament series at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas will feature four $5,000 No Limit Hold’em events. The Main Event will be a $10,000 No Limit event, with a Single Day Turbo for $10K wrapping up the schedule on January 31, while the Main Event final table takes place.
In this particular event, the PGT is trying something a bit different. All players who cash and earn PGT points will see those points doubled. This is the way for players to maximize their pursuit of the PGT Player of the Year and get into the 2026 PGT Championship Invitational to be held in 2027.
The PGT announced four other tournament schedules for the first half of 2026. They are:
2026 PGT Mixed Games – February 3-11 – tournaments featuring a mixed game format, buy-ins ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, and held at the PokerGO Studios.
2026 Super High Roller Bowl: Mixed Games – February 12-14 – a singular $100,000 buy-in tournament at the PokerGO Studios.
2026 PokerGO Cup – March 1-15 – a ten-tournament series with buy-ins from $3,000 to $15,000, held at the PokerGO Studios.
2026 PGT Pot Limit Omaha Series – March 20-29 – an eight-tournament series focusing on Pot Limit Omaha and its variants. This is the only PGT-sanctioned event held outside the confines of the PokerGO Studios, as it will take place at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.
Other Tournaments?
One thing that is a bit odd about the PokerGO Tour announcement is that no other tournaments that are conducted by “other” organizations have been named as points-paying events.
For the 2025 PGT schedule, a total of 147 events earned points towards the PGT Championship Invitational. This included events from the World Series of Poker, PokerStars-sponsored tournaments (notably the North American Poker Tour), and a focus on Texas card rooms and their “High Roller” offerings. Missing from the proceedings are the high-dollar tournaments from the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour, which used to appear on the PGT rankings (as recently as 2024), but seem to have been dropped by the PGT for unknown reasons.
As for 2026, the WSOP has not announced its tournament schedule yet, so the PGT does not know which tournaments will be eligible there. The European Poker Tour has announced four tournaments that would qualify for the PGT, a High Roller (€25,000) and a Super High Roller (€100,000) at each of the announced EPT stops in Paris and Monte Carlo. This also does not include anything that the WPT might announce for its festivities around the world, or for other international competitions.
The lack of “other competitions” may indicate that the PGT is looking to segment its product away from the primary tournament circuits. This could be a plan by PGT ownership to make their tour the focal point for a particular group of players, rather than using the other circuits and their players, and perhaps challenge “the powers that be” (AKA the WPT, WSOP, EPT, etc.). Whether the PGT will return to inclusion of the world’s biggest buy-in tournaments, regardless of the acronym, is up to them, but for now, you can view the PokerGO Tour schedule on their website.
