ClubWPT Gold Bankrolls Part of the 2026 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas

A Fifth Year at the Wynn

The World Poker Tour has locked in its marquee winter stop. The World Poker Tour sent out a press release confirming that the 2026 WPT World Championship Festival will be coming back to the Wynn, running Nov 27 — Dec 21, bringing a rich and colorful winter schedule. It's the tour's biggest live gathering of the year, and this edition marks the fifth straight year of the WPT-Wynn partnership.

WPT CEO Adam Pliska framed the milestone in an official statement, calling the event "the gold standard for player experience, venue, and fun."

What ClubWPT Gold Is Putting Into the Pot

The headline $10,400 buy-in World Championship gets extra juice this year. The tournament will play out in the mystery bounty format, with $1,000,000 in cash added to the bounty prize pool by ClubWPT Gold. Structurally, there will be three starting flights available, and players will be allowed to enter once per flight, with the final opportunity to join the tournament just before Day 2 action begins.

It's a notable moment for ClubWPT Gold's brand — moving from strictly an online satellite feeder to an actual cash sponsor of the live Championship's prize pool.

A New Live Spinoff and the Rest of the Schedule

The festival's newest addition borrows its name from ClubWPT Gold's popular online series. Running Dec 10 — 14, the $400 Super Gold Million tournament is powered by ClubWPT Gold and boasts a big guarantee of $3,000,000. Despite the shared branding, this one's a live-only affair — WPT executive tour director Matt Savage confirmed on X that the Super Gold Million is exclusively a live tournament, distinct from the recurring Gold Million that runs online.

The rest of the 25-day schedule is stacked. The festival will host its $1,100 WPT Prime Championship from Dec. 5-12, with a $5 million guaranteed prize pool. Another major staple event is the $1,100 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship, starting Dec. 13 with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Online Satellites: The Practical Path for US Players

For most American grinders, the realistic route into any of this is through satellites rather than a straight buy-in. Online qualification paths are available on ClubWPT and ClubWPT Gold. On-site, the ladder keeps building throughout the trip: satellites run throughout the schedule at multiple price points, including a $200 Milestone Satellite on December 6 awarding 50 seats directly into the Prime Championship, and a $1,600 Milestone Satellite on December 7 splitting 25 prizes across paths into both the Prime and World Championship.

If you're planning to grind ClubWPT Gold satellite tournaments over the next couple of months, expect volume — lots of flights, lots of re-entries, and lots of small-stakes variance to sort through before you know if the plan actually worked.

What It Means for Players

Three practical takeaways if you're eyeing a Wynn seat this winter:

• Budget for flights, not just buy-ins. Multi-flight structures (three for the World Championship alone) mean your effective cost to guarantee a Day 2 seat can be higher than the sticker buy-in once you factor in re-entries.
• The $400 Super Gold Million is a different animal than the online Gold Million. Don't confuse the live-only spinoff with the recurring online series when planning your qualification path.
• Track the grind, not just the highlights. Because ClubWPT Gold doesn't allow on-screen HUD overlays, most players have no real visibility into their actual win rate across weeks of satellite volume — they remember the near-misses and forget the slow leaks. Running your hand histories through a ClubWPT Gold tracker after the session, rather than during it, gives you the same win-rate, ROI, and leak-finding data serious online grinders rely on — just reviewed post-session instead of live, which keeps you fully compliant with the platform's rules.

If you're new to importing ClubWPT Gold or ClubGG hands into DriveHUD 2 or 3 for this kind of review, the setup guide walks through capture and import step by step, and it's worth doing before a big festival push rather than after a disappointing month of online satellites.

The full Wynn schedule, including undercard events and mixed-game offerings, is still being finalized in places, so check the official WPT site for updates as December approaches.