The World Series of Poker will stage its fifth Fall WSOP Online Poker Festival from Sept. 27 to Nov. 10, offering 33 online gold-bracelet events to players in Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The four jurisdictions will compete in a shared player pool under a multi-state compact, a structure expected to enlarge tournament fields and prize pools. Events on WSOPOnline.com are set to begin between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET, with buy-ins ranging from $250 to $3,200.
Pokerfuse reported that the fall schedule gives US-based players a second major annual route to an official bracelet without travelling to Las Vegas.
This year’s average buy-in is $758, down from $831 in 2025 and well below the $1,565 average for the inaugural fall series. Pokerfuse attributed much of the year-on-year decline to fewer high-roller events: the schedule has one $3,200 tournament, compared with two last year. The High Roller Championship on Nov. 8 carries the slate’s highest entry fee.
Mystery bounty tournaments account for eight of the 33 events, up from six in 2025. Their combined guarantees total $2.2 million, compared with $1.9 million across last year’s six events, with individual guarantees ranging from $200,000 to $350,000.
In the format, players who reach the money receive bounty prizes when they eliminate opponents, with the amounts varying because the bounty pool is not distributed evenly. The $1,000 NL Hold’em Mystery Bounty Championship on Oct. 18 has a $350,000 guarantee, while the NL Hold’em Crazy 8’s has been recast as an $888 mystery bounty with a $250,000 guarantee.
No-limit hold’em makes up 30 events, while the remaining three are pot-limit Omaha tournaments. Those include a $500 PLO 6-Max event on Oct. 8, a $400 PLOSSUS progressive knockout on Oct. 24 and a PLO Mystery Bounty event with a $200,000 guarantee on Oct. 25. The programme contains no other game variants.
The schedule has dropped the freezeout bracelet event included in 2025. The NL Ultra Deepstack buy-in has risen from $500 to $600, and Triple 3’s Tip Off has been replaced by a Mega Stack event at the same buy-in. The NL Hold’em Online Championship is scheduled for Nov. 1, before the festival concludes on Nov. 10.
