$6.5 Million GTD
October 4th-21st
Two Venoms. Twice the knockout potential.
One Venom wasn’t enough for October.
The Venom returns with $6.5 million guaranteed across two massive Progressive Knockout tournaments: a $5 Million GTD NLH PKO and a $1.5 Million GTD PLO PKO. Pick your game, or take a shot at both.
Build your stack. Collect bounties. Chase the title. With two Venoms on the schedule, there’s more than one way to land a serious payday.
TWO VENOMS. $6.5 MILLION GTD
$5 Million GTD NLH PKO
($2,650 Buy-in)
- Five Day 1s beginning Sunday, October 4th
- Bounties can climb to tens of thousands of dollars.
- The champion last year won over $675,000 in prize money and bounties.
$1.5 Million GTD PLO PKO
($2,650 Buy-in)
- Five Day 1s beginning Sunday, October 4th
- Equals our largest PLO PKO event ever.
Venom Fever Satellites
Win your Venom seat for a fraction of the buy-in—or start your path for free—during our satellite extravaganza from September 29 to October 18.
Hundreds of seats are up for grabs through Direct Satellites, Mega Satellites with paths starting at $0, and Survivor Flips Step Satellites starting at just $0.80.
Dual Venom PKO Schedule
Each Venom has five Day 1 flights, allowing you plenty of opportunities to build your stack and make Day 2.
- Day 1A: Sunday, October 4th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 1B: Thursday, October 8th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 1C: Sunday, October 11th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 1D: Thursday, October 15th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 1E: Sunday, October 18th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 2: Monday, October 19th – 1:05pm ET
- Day 3 (NLH Only): Tuesday, October 20th – 1:05pm ET
- Final Table: Wednesday, October 21st – 4:05pm ET
*There is no Day 3 for the PLO tournament.
Knock ’Em Out. Collect Bounties. Do It Again.
In the Dual Venom PKOs, you can start earning before you reach the final table. Pick off opponents, build your stack and chase a share of $6.5 million guaranteed across the two tournaments.
NLH or PLO? There’s no wrong answer.
Folding the winner might be one.
Terms and Conditions
These terms apply to each of the Dual Venoms individually.
- Once you qualify to Day 2, you can’t register into any other Day 1 flight with any other WPN account. You can enter a separate Day 1 with the same account to combine stacks for Day 2.
- Only players holding multiple tickets are permitted to sell the additional tickets. If you hold a single primary ticket, it is not allowed to be sold.
- Players who have multiple Venom tickets that they want to sell can do so at a mutually agreed price with the buyer. Both parties need to send an email here from the email address linked to their WPN player account, stating the agreed price and their willingness to buy/sell the tickets.
- Players with one entry, who want to buy additional ones, can do so. However, if the extra entry (or entries) is not used by the end of late registration on the final Day 1 (October 18th, 2026), you will have to wait until the next Venom.
- Only $2,650 Venom tickets can be transferred to other players. Tickets for any other event are non-transferable and will expire within 1 year from issue date.
- $2,650 Venom tickets must be used solely for Venom events.
- You are only allowed to use one WPN account for the October Venom event.
- Players with multiple tickets across different WPN accounts must reach out to customer service to consolidate their tickets into a single account before the start of Day 1A of the Venom event on Sunday, October 4th.
- If a player does not contact customer service to consolidate their tickets into one account, all their tickets will be forfeited once the tournament starts, and all their WPN accounts will be permanently banned.
- Players who are found to have played the October Venom from multiple Winning Poker Network accounts will have their winnings confiscated.
- Final Table deal-making is allowed.
- Americas Cardroom retains the authority to modify the terms and conditions leading up to the event within a reasonable period.
Venom Special Schedule
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