If you have been quietly going about your life for the last few days, you might have missed that the 2026 World Series of Poker Europe has started. It would have been easy to miss it; the tournament schedule has been under radio silence unless you have a particular app for updates. This move, a dubious one by the WSOP, is ensuring that no one even knows what is going on in one of the premier events on the tournament poker schedule, the WSOP-E.
Lots of Missteps from GGPoker and WSOP
First, the powers that be with GGPoker and the WSOP decided that moving the annual event from the fall to the spring was a clever idea. In its entire history, the WSOP-E has been held in the fall, most recently at the venerable King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, following the summertime poker world excursion to Las Vegas. Perhaps because it wasn’t getting the attention GGPoker and the WSOP wanted, or maybe because the number of participants in the European event had been declining, the decision was made late last year to move the European schedule forward.
Instead of its usual October start, the 2026 WSOP-E was moved to the end of March. For the next two weeks, from March 31 to April 12, poker’s elite players and dreaming amateurs will be heading to Prague and the Hilton Atrium Prague, where the King’s Casino will host the action, battling it out on the felt for one of the first fifteen bracelets for 2026.
There is a plethora of guaranteed events for the players to take part in, including a massive guarantee for the Main Event. Four tournaments have already started, including the European version of ‘The Colossus,’ a €500 buy-in event. Beginning tomorrow will be the Main Event for the 2026 WSOP-E, a €5,000 buy-in event with a massive €10 million guarantee.
While the Main Event plays out, ten other tournaments, including an ‘EU v. The World’ match, the WSOP-E Circuit Championship (with a €1.5 million guarantee), and a Super High Roller event with a €20,000 buy-in, will also award bracelets.
But What if You Can’t See What’s Going On?
All this poker action would be catnip for fans of the game, but what if you cannot watch – or even read – about what is going on?
The WSOP-E page touts that you can “watch the action” on their dedicated WSOP Channel on YouTube, but a quick trek there shows that they haven’t added any videos, let alone have any live action, since last year’s WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas. There is no schedule even presented for when they will run action from King’s Casino, nor any indication that the WSOP-E is even going on.
For those who would rather read about what is going on, there is also no available outlet for such reports. The WSOP website does not present any “Live Reporting” mechanism, nor do any of the usual suspects offer any live reporting of the action from the floor in Rozvadov. If you want anything that comes close to a ‘live reporting’ aspect, you must tap into something that was supposedly created to ease player registration for events, and NOT meant to be a live updates application.
The former WSOP+ has now become WSOP Live, and it is still the way GGPoker and the WSOP prefer for poker players to register for events. For the 2026 WSOP-E, however, it has additionally become the ONLY way for people to get any updates from the floor at King’s Casino. The reporting has moved to the “Stories” tab, and you must filter the content before you can find the event you want.
Suffice it to say, this is NOT the way a major poker tournament festival should be run. Currently, they are into Day 2 of The Opener, a mystery bounty event, with 24 players out of the original 2,195 entries that started the tournament. They are playing for a €150,000 first-place prize, but the big draw is the bounty awards, which are slightly more than €1 million. Benny Glaser is the lone notable player in the field.
Alongside The Opener, The Colossus is currently running its two flights with slightly more than 1500 entries logged into the rolls. This is all leading up to the opening three flights of the €5,000 Main Event, which will take place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The field for the Main Event will come together on Monday for the first action as a combined field.
That is, if anyone could see it…
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