Online Poker Series Board: Schedule, Results and Guarantees for Every Major Festival

Reading the schedule: three kinds of online poker series

The board mixes three things the rooms call an online poker series. The festivals are the big ones: WCOOP and SCOOP on PokerStars, WSOP Online on GGPoker, the XL series on 888poker, each a few weeks long with a hundred-plus events and a Main Event at the end. The standing weeklies are a single tournament repeated every week under one name, with a running list of winners: GGMillion$, CoinMillion, the Sunday Grand. And the one-off specials, like CoinPoker's The One, are built around a single guaranteed number, in that case $1,000,000 to the winner for a $250 entry.

The three kinds of online poker series behave differently on the ledger. A festival produces a burst of results and then a series release with totals; a weekly produces one result every seven days and never closes; a special produces one result and a lot of entries. The status column keeps them apart.

Results and guarantees, side by side

Where a room published what it paid, the board shows it; where it only published what it promised, the board shows the guarantee with "gtd" after it. The distinction matters more than it looks. PokerStars' WCOOP 2026 release gave a paid total of just over $49 million and a Main Event guarantee of $6.5 million, so both are known. 888poker's XL Autumn Series published event-by-event prize pools for its first 33 events (from $3,472 for a $8.80 Super KO to $100,000 for the Mystery Opening Event) and a $300,000 guarantee for the Mystery Main Event, but no paid total, so the board shows the guarantee. A series page that states a figure says which of the two it is.

A guarantee beaten by a wide margin is the usual story at the top of the market: the WCOOP $1,050 Main Event guaranteed $2,000,000 and drew 2,310 entries for more than $2.3 million, and the $5 Ocean KO Opener turned a $1,000,000 guarantee into $1,932,386. Overlays, where the guarantee is not reached, tend to happen in the High tiers of a crowded week; the ledger records the prize pool in those cases too, and the series notes say what the room covered.

Main events and player of the series

Every festival ends with a main event, and the biggest rooms now run it in three tiers at once. The WCOOP 2026 Main Events were $109, $1,050 and $10,300 in NLHE and the same three prices in PLO; the six together paid more than $7.5 million. The series pages list every main event with its final table where one was published, and the leaderboard winner where the room runs one: the WCOOP 2026 Player of the Series was FAL1st, who also appears on the ledger in fifth place in the $530 Stud. A Player of the Series title is won on volume across the whole schedule, so the desk records the prize and not the finishes behind it. One open question the desk could not settle from the published material is the WCOOP start date; the release gives the closing date, October 8, and the Main Event launch, September 26, but not the first day of the schedule.