€2,500,000 GTD iPoker Festival Winter series

The iPoker network has decided to finish this year with the Poker Festival Winter series. The guaranteed prize pool of the festival will be the largest in the last few years - €2,500,000. The fifth part of it will go to the multi-day Main Event (€200 buy-in IPF #105 - € 500,000 GTD).

New iPoker record

This year, the European iPoker Network has decided to catch up with its main competitors in the field of tournaments. Following the spring May Poker Series (MPS) with €1,500,000 GTD across 67 events, an even bigger festival has been announced for the last month of 2021.

iPoker Festival Winter will take place from December 3 to 12. Its schedule boasts 111 events with a total guarantee of €2,500,000.

This is the biggest tournament series ever for iPoker. Neither of the ten iPOPS in the last decade has reached the million euro mark. Even 888Poker didn't hold a tournament series with more than $2,000,000 GTD this year.

Features of the series

What is hiding behind the numbers this time compared to MPS?

The increase in the guarantees and the number of events was proportional, but the average prize money per event, excluding the ME, has slightly decreased - from €19,697 to €18,182. This happened primarily because €500,000 of the total prize money has gone to the Main Event.

It can be justified by a change in the tournament structure. Now, in almost all events, except for nine, there will be no unlimited rebuys and add-ons during the late registration period, but only 3 re-entries instead.

At the same time, the minimum buy-in will be increased to 20 euros. During the spring series, you could participate in 13 events for just €10, and in two others - even for €5.

Major events and missions

Another feature of the iPoker Festival Winter will be the presence of several big tournaments with €100K+ GTD.

Date	Event	Buy-in (€)
3-5.12	IPF #26 - €100,000 GTD	50
3-5.12	IPF #29 - €100,000 GTD	100
5.12	IPF #28 - €100,000 GTD	100
6-12.12	IPF #102 - €150,000 GTD	50
12.12	IPF #104 - €100,000 GTD	100
6-12.12	IPF #105 - €500,000 GTD	200
12.12	IPF #107 - €100,000 GTD	1.000

As you can see from the table, three of them will not even be multi-day events. Satellites with buy-ins ranging from €1 to €50 will be available from November 29. Each player who generates at least €100 in rake during December until the end of the festival will receive a €20 ticket.

For completing special missions (opt-in required in the "Promotions" section of the poker client), players will receive tickets to 3 freerolls with a prize pool of €1,000 each, which will be held on December 13.