Circus Poker Series 2026 in Namur: Dates and Schedule
The Circus Poker Series returns to Circus Casino Resort Namur from 17 to 29 November 2026. The festival advertises €2 million in guaranteed prize pools, led by a €2,200 Main Event with an €800,000 guarantee. The programme also features the €550 Circus Cup, a Mystery Bounty, a €4,000 High Roller and several side events.
Two weeks of live poker in Namur
The 2026 edition runs for 13 days at Circus Casino Resort Namur. Its opening day is Tuesday 17 November, with the €250 Big Tuesday Special and satellite tournaments listed on the organiser’s schedule. The main festival tournaments begin the following day, with the first flight of the Circus Cup on Wednesday 18 November.
The published schedule gives the series a broad mix of No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Mystery Bounty, six-handed poker and turbo events. It also includes satellites for some of the headline tournaments. That makes the event calendar wider than the Main Event alone: different tournaments are spread across the full run, while the biggest guarantees are concentrated in the closing stretch.
The €800,000 Main Event anchors the closing week
The €2,200 CPS Main Event carries an €800,000 guaranteed prize pool. The organiser’s announcement lists a 50,000-chip starting stack and 60-minute levels on the main Day 1 flights. Four Day 1s are scheduled: Tuesday 24 November at 14:00, Wednesday 25 November at 13:00, Thursday 26 November at 13:00 and a second Thursday flight at 20:00.
The detailed day-by-day programme places Day 2 on Friday 27 November, Day 3 on Saturday 28 November and the final on Sunday 29 November. There is, however, a date discrepancy across the event pages: the PokerStars Live overview lists the Main Event as running from 24 to 30 November, while the detailed organiser schedule ends it on 29 November, matching the festival’s published closing date. The final-day listing should be checked against the official day-by-day schedule before making plans around it.
Circus Cup and Mystery Bounty lead into the Main Event
The €550 Circus Cup runs from 18 to 23 November and carries a €400,000 guarantee. Its starting flights are spread over several days, followed by the final day on Monday 23 November. This places the Cup in the first week of the series and gives it a separate headline position before the Main Event begins.
The €1,100 Mystery Bounty is scheduled from 22 to 25 November, with three Day 1 flights and its final day on Wednesday 25 November. The published figures for its guaranteed prize pool do not match: the Circus Poker announcement and detailed organiser schedule state €250,000, while the PokerStars Live overview lists €300,000. The article therefore does not present either amount as settled; the event’s own schedule is the place to check the current figure.
The €4,000 High Roller takes place on 24 and 25 November. The organiser’s full schedule lists a €120,000 guarantee. Its dates overlap with the first two Main Event flights, so the final week has more than one major tournament running at the same time.
Side events fill the rest of the programme
The daily schedule also lists Pot-Limit Omaha, a €1,100 Second Chance, an €800 six-handed event and further No-Limit Hold’em tournaments. The Circus Cup’s €400,000 guarantee and the Main Event’s €800,000 guarantee account for €1.2 million of the €2 million total guaranteed prize pool announced for the series; the rest is spread across the other scheduled events.
The final day on Sunday 29 November includes the Main Event final, the six-handed final, a €200 Sunday Closer and a €150 Last Chance Hyper Turbo. That closing-day schedule gives the event more than one final table to follow and keeps side-event play on the programme after the Main Event reaches its conclusion.
Venue and practical details
The venue is Circus Casino Resort Namur, at Avenue Baron de Moreau 1, 5000 Namur. PokerStars Live lists the minimum age as 21 and a smart-casual dress code. On-site buy-ins can be paid in euros in cash or by debit or credit card, according to the event information page. Residents of Belgium and other EU countries can enter with a passport or identity card; a driving licence is not accepted.
The programme is a live poker festival rather than an online series. For ongoing Belgian tournament coverage, see our Poker news section.
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