Key Takeaways
- Guarantees for WCOOP are up 20% on the $50 million guaranteed last year and larger than the $55 million SCOOP earlier this year.
- Partypoker’s Powerfest has a guaranteed prize pool three times the size of the series held in September 2016.
- The latest reports on 888’s XL Eclipse indicate the schedule will actually exceed $8 million, more than previously stated.
- MPN’s new UCOP ups the guarantees to $750,000, though spread across many more events.
The final schedules for the September Majors are now released, with PokerStars, 888, partypoker and MPN all increasing their total guaranteed prize pools for their flagship fall events.
Across the four series, over $100 million will be guaranteed in prizes over almost 750 separate guaranteed tournaments. That is almost double the total prizes from the same series in 2016, even surpassing the tournaments scheduled earlier this year in spring. For many operators, these will be the largest tournament series they have ever scheduled.
