CoinPoker Tournaments — Schedule & Events Guide

World Poker Masters: $25 Million Guaranteed

The World Poker Masters is CoinPoker's flagship tournament series and the crown jewel of its tournament schedule. With $25 million in combined guaranteed prize pools, it stands as the largest crypto-native poker tournament series ever organized. The series runs across multiple events with varying buy-in levels, ensuring accessibility for players at every bankroll size.

The World Poker Masters includes main events with substantial guarantees, side events at accessible buy-ins, and a comprehensive satellite schedule that lets micro-stakes players qualify for the biggest events through multi-step qualifier paths. A player starting with a $0.50 satellite can realistically work their way up to a seat in a major World Poker Masters event through a series of qualifiers.

What makes the World Poker Masters particularly interesting for experienced tournament players is the overlay potential. CoinPoker's player pool, while growing, is still smaller than the major networks. When guarantees are set aggressively, the result is overlay — prize pools that exceed the total buy-ins collected. This creates positive expected value for everyone in the field, effectively giving you more prize pool to compete for than was contributed by the entries.

Tony G, CoinPoker's co-owner and WPT champion, has been vocal about the World Poker Masters as a statement of CoinPoker's ambition to compete with the established major tournament series. While the $25M guarantee does not match PokerStars' Sunday Million in terms of single-event size, it represents a massive commitment from a growing platform and signals CoinPoker's long-term investment in becoming a serious tournament destination.

Daily Tournament Schedule

CoinPoker runs multiple MTTs throughout the day, with events starting at regular intervals across a range of buy-ins. The daily schedule includes freezeout, re-entry, and turbo formats in both No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Buy-ins for daily events typically range from $1 to $55, with guarantees scaled appropriately from $500 to $10,000.

The schedule is heaviest during European evenings and North American afternoons, reflecting CoinPoker's primary player base geography. Sunday features the largest regular weekly events, with enhanced guarantees and higher buy-in options that draw bigger fields.

For tournament grinders, CoinPoker's daily schedule offers a solid session of 5-15 simultaneous events depending on the time of day. While this is fewer options than ACR's 50+ daily tournaments or PokerStars' hundreds, the quality of the value — softer fields, overlay potential, and the ability to satellite into larger events — often compensates for the smaller selection.

Tournament Structure and Fees

CoinPoker tournament fees range from 2% to 8% of the buy-in, which is competitive with industry standards. Lower buy-in events tend to carry higher percentage fees (7-8%), while larger buy-in events have lower fees (2-4%). These fees are comparable to what ACR, PokerStars, and GGPoker charge for similar events.

Tournament structures use standard blind escalation with antes introduced at appropriate levels. Late registration is available for most events, typically closing after several blind levels. Re-entry events allow busted players to re-enter during the late registration period for an additional buy-in.

It is important to note that CoinPoker's 33% flat rakeback applies to cash game rake only — it does not apply to tournament fees. Tournament players earn value through the tournaments themselves (prize pools, overlay, soft fields) rather than through rakeback. However, tournament grinders who also play cash games between events receive the full 33% rakeback on their cash game volume.

Satellites: Your Path to Big Events

CoinPoker runs a comprehensive satellite schedule feeding into World Poker Masters events, weekly features, and other high-buy-in tournaments. Satellites start as low as $0.50, making them accessible to players at any bankroll level. Multi-step satellite paths allow a $0.50 investment to potentially turn into a seat at a major event worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

The satellite fields at CoinPoker tend to be softer than those at major sites, reflecting the overall recreational player base. Experienced satellite grinders will find good value in CoinPoker's qualifiers, particularly for World Poker Masters events where the seats awarded have substantial value.