Several Spring Online Poker Series Start on the First Weekend in May

GG Poker continues to make waves with the GG Poker World Festival and have upped the guarantees for this year’s edition by $50m when compared with the same festival in 2023. The 2024 World Festival on GG Poker comes with $250m in tournament guarantees. 

Just let that sink in for a minute before you read on….that’s a staggering quarter of a billion dollars. The festival is split into four separate buy-in tiers, with 400 tournaments scheduled in each tier. There are also separate leaderboards with a total of $2.5m in additional prizes to be awarded.

Low: Tournaments with buy-ins from $2.50 to less than $25

Medium: Tournaments with buy-ins from $25 to less than $150

High: Tournaments with buy-in from $150 to less than $1,050

Super: Tournaments with buy-in of $1,050+

The World Festival begins on May 5th and continues until June 11th. It includes regular daily events as well as several phase tournaments, which run throughout the series and have their final days towards the end of the six week festival. Every day there are numerous tournaments to choose from with the events with the biggest guarantees typically taking place at the weekend.

To tle part in the World Festival, players need to be registered as account holders at GG Poker. If you are yet to register, use the GG Poker bonus code wired to get started with a 100% deposit match worth up to $600.

All the events taking place on Sunday 5th May, the opening day of GG Poker's $250m guaranteed World Festival:

PokerStars long established SCOOP begins on Sunday 5th May and continues until 29th May featuring $75m in prize pool guarantees and 128 tournaments in total. SCOOP was the first online festival to split itself into different buy-in tiers. 

It operates with three different buy-in levels, but events are not as rigidly placed into tiers based on buy-ins. The tiers are instead relative to each event on the schedule, with low, medium and high buy-ins for each tournament. Each of these tiers also have leaderboards with $100,000 in prizes up for grabs for best performing players. 

The opening weekend of SCOOP feature PKOs as the main offering, all start at 17.30 (UK):

The Spring Festival at WPT Global has $7m guaranteed in prizes and players will get 100% rakeback on all tournaments during the series, including feeders and satellites. The festival also begins on May 5th and runs until 26th of the month, with the main Sunday event on May 22nd being a $300 Progressive Knockout (PKO) with a $1m guarantee. 

There are incredibly also three major WPT tournaments during the Festival - including the $1million GTD  $3,500 Championship, a $1,060 WPT Prime and a $530 WPT500. The series includes a leaderboard contest with significant cash rewards and tickets to WPT live events.

To take part in the Spring Festival requires registering with WPT Global. New players can use the WPT Global Poker Promo Code WIRED when registering to get a welcome bonus of up to $1,200.

With the $12.5m Venom now concluded, ACR’s next big thing is the OSS XL Series. Many of ACR’s online series use the acronym OSS, which stands of Online Super Series. This XL version runs from 5th - 27th May and includes $40m in prize pool guarantees.

There are three main events, which all have day 1s taking place on Sunday 19th and 26th with their day 2s on May 27th.

There are many tournaments every day throughout the series with buy-ins to suit most bankrolls. ACR also will offer a series of mini-leaderboards throughout the series, focusing on different game types to keep the competition diverse and engaging.

The Elite Series began on iPoker last weekend and has a long way to go, as it does not wrap up until June 4th. Availaible on sites like Grosvenor Poker, the Elite Series features over 500 tournaments with €7m in guarantees. The Winter Edition of the Elite Series also had a €7m guarantee, but total prize pools ended up exceeding €10m. iPoker’s online series have stepped up several notches in the last year, benefitting from the expertise of Baard Dahl, the site’s Network and Promotions Manager, who previously was one of the star employees in PokerStars’s tournament management team

Phase (or flighted) events make up a significant part of the Elite Series schedule, with the biggest guarantee of the series being €250,000 for the Mystery Main, which has its day 2 on Monday 27th May and costs just €50 to enter, with flights taking place every day. There is also a €30 Mystery Bounty event, which has its day 2 on May 20th, with a €100,000 guarantee on its prize pool. Like most other online series, the Elite Series divides its tournaments into three tiers, for low, medium and high buy-ins and has separate leaderboards for each.

For those who are looking for regular non-flighted tournaments, the key event on Sunday 5th March is the Sunday Main, with a €100 buy-in and an €80,000 guarantee.

The Elite Series will run a cumulative leaderboard with points accumulated across all events. Winners can earn exclusive entries to live Grosvenor tournaments and additional cash prizes.