More Live Poker Events Announced for 2024

The 2024 live poker calendar still isn’t complete, but is nicely taking shape. Several live poker operators have recently announced additional events for their 2024 schedules. Here are details of those new events, some of which are not even listed yet on live poker databases.

PokerStars are notoriously slow with their announcements, but as someone who used to work at the PokerStars live events department, I’ll share a little secret about why this is the case. The main reason for this is that PokerStars Live does everything by the book, which means not cutting corners and crucially waiting for full legal and contractual sign off before announcing new seasons of tours. Negotiations with venues don’t take much time, but lawyers do. While this policy clearly hurts PokerStars as it tends to minimise the time they have to market events, it does ensure that all the legal questions have been thoroughly considered and enables the team to focus on the task of running and managing the events to the highest standard in the industry.

While there is still no news about the schedule’s of the APPT or the LAPT, PokerStars has recently released details of further stops on some of their national tours in Europe. Their national tours are mid-major series that feature a €1,000 buy-in main event and includes the France Poker Series (FPS), the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), the Estrellas Poker Tour (Spain) and the Eureka Poker Tour (everywhere else in Europe). They run the European Poker Tour events as combined stops with a national tour main event and sides kicking off each festival, before the higher stakes tournaments take place. The national tour stops that are linked with the EPT events were already known, but they have now augmented the Estrellas and Eureka tours with additional stops for 2024.