PokerStars Live League Returns in 2026 With €250,000 in Prizes

PokerStars has confirmed the return of the PokerStars Dwell League for 2026, as soon as once more including a season-long leaderboard race throughout its European reside occasions calendar. With greater than €250,000 in whole prizes on provide, the league rewards consistency and quantity throughout the yr, with factors out there at each main cease.

The PokerStars Dwell League runs throughout all European PokerStars reside occasions, together with European Poker Tour (EPT) festivals, PokerStars Opens, and the PokerStars-sponsored Irish Open.

Gamers earn factors all year long based mostly on efficiency, with the primary alternative to get on the board coming at PokerStars Open Campione, which started at this time and runs via to February 1 at Casinò di Campione.

“We’re excited to carry again the PokerStars Dwell League for its second version and provides our gamers one other go at claiming the leaderboard titles,” stated Willie Elliot, PokerStars Dwell Occasions Buyer Engagement Supervisor.

“The league provides a season-long edge to each cease on the calendar and provides the group one thing further to chase from the primary occasion of the yr proper via to the finale.”

Three Leaderboards, One Season-Lengthy Race

As with final yr, the league is cut up into three tiers based mostly on buy-in degree: Excessive, Medium, and Low. Throughout the three leaderboards, a complete of €157,500 in PokerStars LIVE credit score will likely be awarded to the highest three finishers in every class.

Excessive Tier

Eligible occasions: €4,900 buy-in and aboveFirst place: €50,000 PokerStars LIVE creditSecond place: €25,000Third place: €12,500

Medium Tier

Eligible occasions: €1,000 to €5,500 buy-inFirst place: €25,000Second place: €12,500Third place: €6,250

Low Tier

Eligible occasions: €1,200 buy-in and belowFirst place: €15,000Second place: €7,500Third place: €3,750

New for 2026, the highest 30 finishers in every tier may also qualify for a particular reside freeroll with a €100,000 prize pool, set to happen on the first EPT of 2027.

Up to date Factors System for 2026

Leaderboard factors are awarded based mostly on three components:

Match buy-inField sizeFinishing place

Gamers earn factors whether or not or not they money, whereas in-the-money finishes use a method based mostly on International Poker Index rankings, with minor changes.

For 2026, PokerStars has tweaked the system to position better emphasis on final-table appearances and event wins in comparison with the 2025 version.

Purchase-in ranges have additionally been adjusted in order that occasions within the €1,000 to €1,200 vary rely towards each the Low and Medium leaderboards, whereas tournaments priced between €4,900 and €5,500 award factors for each Medium and Excessive tiers.

Final 12 months’s Champions Set the Benchmark

The inaugural PokerStars Dwell League produced tight races throughout all three tiers in 2025, with the ultimate cease of the yr — PokerStars Open Cannes — proving decisive within the ultimate standings.

Enrico Camosci claimed the Excessive Leaderboard with 4,025 factors, edging out Klemens Roiter, whereas Aleksejs Ponakovs completed third.

Spain’s Gerard Rubiralta Cortes topped the Medium Leaderboard forward of Petre Ionescu and PokerStars ambassador Kenny Hallaert.

Within the Low class, Steinn Thanh Du Karlsson secured first place, adopted by Andreas Froehli and David Docherty.

Gamers can observe their progress and monitor the leaderboard races all year long through the PokerStars Dwell app, with reside updates out there from PokerStars Open Campione onward.

Calum has been part of the PokerNews staff since September 2021 after working within the UK vitality sector. He performed his first hand of poker in 2017 and instantly fell in love with the sport.

Calum has written for varied poker retailers however discovered his residence at PokerNews, the place he has contributed to numerous articles and reside updates, offering insights and reporting on main poker occasions, together with the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).