Your Q2 2026 WPT® Live Calendar: Where To Play And How To Qualify

Q2 2026 WPT® live poker at a glance

Confirmed official WPT® Main Tour stop: WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship, April 24–29, $3,500 buy-in, $3 million guarantee.

Next key official date: June 1, 2026, when WPT® says the second-half schedule announcement is coming.

Best current WPT® Global-linked travel option you can plan around now: Battle of Malta via WPT® Global, with a $1.10 (or freeroll) → $11 → $110 → $1,600 package path and 2 x $1,600 packages guaranteed every Sunday. 

This is a WPT® Global-linked partner trip, not an official WPT® Main Tour stop.

What is officially confirmed on the WPT® calendar right now

If you are planning only from official WPT® Main Tour pages, there is one live stop you can confidently book today: Seminole. The WPT® event page lists the Championship at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood with April 24–29, a $3,500 buy-in, and a $3,000,000 guarantee.

The wider festival dates are a little different depending on which WPT® page you use. WPT®’s February 18 press release frames the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown festival as April 8–28, 2026, and frames the $3,500 WPT® Championship as April 24–28. The event page lists the Championship as April 24–29.

For players, the practical takeaway is straightforward: Seminole is the one confirmed official Main Tour target in Q2, and June 1 is the next major schedule watch date.

Seminole is the one official stop to act on now

Because the official calendar is thin, the Seminole stop matters more than usual. Not because there are hidden stops elsewhere, but because this is the one event the Main Tour is publicly pointing players toward right now.

A thin quarter can actually help. Instead of splitting attention across multiple official WPT® dates, you have one clear target and a simple planning decision.

How to qualify live at Seminole

The on-site satellite ladder is the most practical route into the $3,500 Championship if you prefer to qualify live rather than buy in directly.

Here are the key Championship feeders on the official day-by-day schedule:

• April 19: $400 Mega Satellite, 5 seats guaranteed.
• April 22: $400 Milestone Satellite, 20 seats guaranteed.
• April 22: $400 Turbo Satellite, 5 seats guaranteed.
• April 22: $550 Milestone Satellite, 10 seats guaranteed.
• April 23: $400 Milestone Satellite, 20 seats guaranteed.
• April 24: $400 Milestone Satellites, with 10 seats guaranteed at 10AM, 3PM, and 7PM.
• April 25: $400 Mega Turbo Satellite, 2 seats guaranteed.
• April 25: $375 Mega Super Turbo Satellite, 1 seat guaranteed.

Seminole’s structure sheets also state that in at least some WPT® Championship satellites, one in every ten entries wins a $3,500 seat, with residual cash paid after seats are awarded. That matters because these are not all-or-nothing qualifiers. They are built as usable feeder formats.

WPT® Global options

For official WPT® Main Tour planning, the current Q2 answer is Seminole. For players building around WPT® Global-linked live travel instead, the map looks different and depends on what is running in the WPT® Global promotions hub at the time.

The key point is classification. 

A WPT® Global-linked partner trip is a travel and qualification option tied to WPT® Global promotions. It is not the same thing as an official WPT® Main Tour stop listed on the WPT® calendar.

Battle of Malta is the clearest current WPT® Global-linked travel option

For readers planning around WPT® Global-linked travel, Battle of Malta is the clearest Q2 trip you can build around right now.

The festival runs May 27 through June 3 at Casino Malta, that the satellite route is $1.10 (or freeroll) → $11 → $110 → $1,600 package, and that 2 x $1,600 packages are guaranteed every Sunday, with $550 added to every $110 satellite.

Each $1,600 package includes:

• €600 Battle of Malta Main Event entry
• 4 nights hotel
• $200 travel stipend
• $100K Golden Ticket
• Last Longest entry
• WPT® Global merch

One detail needs to stay precise. WPT® Global’s Battle of Malta promotion pushes a €700,000 Main Event guarantee, while Battle of Malta’s broader summer-edition marketing uses a €1,000,000 festival guarantee. 

Those are different numbers for different parts of the series. Offer details are subject to eligibility criteria and promotion terms.

What to do right now

If you want the simplest planning answer, here it is.

Build around the one confirmed official WPT® Main Tour stop on the calendar right now: Seminole. If you prefer to qualify live, the on-site satellite ladder is the most direct route.

If you want a WPT® Global-linked travel option you can qualify into now, treat Battle of Malta as the clearest current path. Keep the labeling clean in your planning. It is a WPT® Global-linked partner trip, not an official WPT® Main Tour stop.

If you are undecided on later Q2 or second-half travel, watch June 1. That is the key official hinge date WPT® has already posted for its Season 24 Second Half Schedule Announcement. Q2 may look very different after that update lands.

That is the cleanest read on the quarter. One confirmed official Main Tour stop. One big official watch date. And, for now, a qualification map that matters more than calendar depth.