Only ten of the 92 events are hold'em. Sit with that for a second. Phenom Poker's first full championship series, the Phenom Series of Poker, runs 23 October through 15 November 2026 and guarantees 706,500 CHIP, and it has been built by people who think a 2-7 Razz tournament belongs on a Tuesday night. If your entire game is shove charts and three-bet ranges, there is still a schedule in here for you. It is just a short one.
The full schedule went live on 28 September 2026, announced through Phenom's X account and a series hub on its own site. Twenty-four days, 92 numbered events, buy-ins from 25 to 5,000 CHIP, satellites from 2.50, and roughly 250,000 PHNM tokens (Phenom's estimate) layered on top through a leaderboard and a volume race. There are also two WSOP Paradise packages to the Bahamas hanging off the end of it. We have gone through the schedule, the FAQ and the terms so you can spend your time picking events instead. If you are new to the room, our Phenom Poker review covers the crypto cashier, the rakeback model and what the traffic looks like on a normal night.
The dates that matter
Phenom's own pages disagree with themselves by a day on when qualifying starts. The announcement post and the countdown on the series hub point to Friday 2 October 2026 for the first satellite; the terms put the reload bonus at 3 October and call that "the same day the satellites start." One of those is off by a day, so treat the weekend of 2 to 3 October as go time and check the lobby. Everything else is nailed down.
All start times are GMT, and the schedule page lets you flip the whole grid to your own zone, which is a small thing that most rooms still get wrong. Events run in a tight late-afternoon-to-evening window, mostly 18:00 to 21:00 GMT, three to six per day, an hour apart. That is early-to-mid afternoon in New York and late morning on the West Coast (the US clocks go back on 1 November, so the second half of the series lands an hour earlier on the wall clock), which makes this a lunchtime series for Americans rather than a midnight one. Europeans get the classic after-work slot.
Where the 706,500 actually sits
We added up all 92 guarantees from the schedule page and they come to exactly 706,500 CHIP, so the headline number is not rounded up from anything. CHIP, for anyone who has not logged in since August, is Phenom's in-game currency. It launched on 24 August 2026, it is pegged one-to-one to the US dollar, and you get it by depositing stablecoins, which the site describes as handing cash to a casino cage and getting chips back. The X announcement quoted the guarantee in USDC; the series pages quote it in CHIP. Same money, different label.
The split by buy-in tells you what kind of series this is. Half the events, 46 of 92, cost 100 CHIP or less, but between them they carry only 114,000 of the guarantees. The ten events at 1,000 or more carry 245,000. The 500 CHIP Championship tier is the real engine, fifteen events holding 217,500.
A few of the small ones are priced generously. Seven events guarantee sixty times their buy-in, all at 25 or 50 CHIP: the opening-night NLH PKO (25 for 1,500), the Big O Turbo, A-5 Triple Draw, PLO6 Bounty, the 25 CHIP H.E.R.O.S., the PLO 6-Max and the final-day NLH/PLO Mix (50 for 3,000). Whether those turn into overlays depends on how many people Phenom can pull into a Tuesday draw-game tournament, and nobody knows that yet, which is exactly why the value-hunting crowd will be watching the first week's lobbies closely.
Ten hold'em events and 82 invitations to learn something
Phenom has never pretended to be a hold'em room. When its tournament director Andrew Yeh, who won the 2022 WSOP $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship for $487,129, spoke to Poker.org in February 2026, he said the goal was "a site where everyone can play every game imaginable," and that he wanted a series "probably either right before or right after the WSOP." It ended up landing after the summer and just ahead of WSOP Paradise, which is a smarter slot than either: nothing else big is running, and the mixed-game crowd that plays Paradise's 8-Game and 9-Game events is exactly who this schedule is aimed at.
By our count, 32 of the 92 events are Omaha in some form (PLO, PLO5, PLO6, Big O, Omaha 8, double board, bomb pot), and they carry 251,000 of the guarantees. Eighteen are PKO or bounty formats. The rest is the deep end: 8-Game, 9-Game and 10-Game rotations, Triple Draw in three flavours, Badugi, Badeucy, Badacey, Razz, Stud 8, Dramaha, Dramadugi, and a handful of house inventions like Archie 66, Sviten Special, Circus Mix and something called Chop Shop Mix, which appears twice. The 13-game Bellagio Mix that Phenom added to its cash tables on 26 September does not have its own event, but the games inside it are scattered all over the grid. If you have ever wanted a tournament title in a game your friends cannot spell, this is the series.
The tier names tell you the stakes at a glance. Plain names are the 25 to 200 CHIP events. "Championship" is the 500 CHIP tier. "Masters" is 1,000, with its own trophies. There is one High Roller, and it closes the series.
Two scoreboards, two trips to the Bahamas
On top of the prize pools, Phenom is adding what it estimates at 250,000 PHNM, its own token, through two separate races that read completely different things. You do not opt in to either. Enter one satellite and both start counting.
The Leaderboard rewards finishing. It only reads the 92 numbered events, it only scores cashes, and it pays 150,000 PHNM across 150 places: 25,000 for first, 15,000 for second, 10,000 for third, down to 250 each for places 91 to 150. Your finishing position gives a base score (100 for a win, 75 for second, 55 for third, sliding to 5 for any other cash) which then gets multiplied three times: by buy-in, by field size, and by 1.2 if the event was a mixed game. That last multiplier is a quiet nudge. Phenom wants its leaderboard winner to be someone who played the rotation games, not someone who ran hot in three PKOs.
So a single High Roller win with a small field beats a mid-stakes Masters win with a big one, but not by the margin you might expect, and four cheap wins across the mixed events add up faster than either. The maths favours volume in games with a multiplier. The person who tops this board will probably have played 40 events, not four.
The PSOP Rally rewards showing up. Every paid entry counts, satellites and re-entries included, at 5 points per 100 CHIP of buy-in, and you collect tokens at eight milestones from 15 points (25 PHNM) up to 1,000 points (3,000 PHNM). Nobody gets cut off and nothing is ranked; hit a milestone and it pays, regardless of what the rest of the field does. Milestones do not stack, you get the highest one you reach. The arithmetic: a 100 CHIP buy-in earns 5 points, a 1,000 earns 50, the 5,000 High Roller earns 250, and playing all 92 events once is 28,900 × 0.05 = 1,445 points, so the top milestone at 1,000 points, which is 20,000 CHIP in buy-ins, leaves you 8,900 CHIP of events you can skip and still get there. Someone grinding twenty 100 CHIP events plus a handful of 25 CHIP satellites lands around 100 points, which is the 100 PHNM tier. Rally points land the moment the buy-in leaves your account, so a first-hand bustout still scores, a detail that will comfort someone on 3 November.
Then the Bahamas. WSOP Paradise is the World Series' winter festival at the Baha Mar resort in Nassau, this year running 2 to 17 December 2026 with 20 bracelet events and $120 million in guarantees. The Leaderboard winner gets a package Phenom values at 16,000 USDT into Event #10, the $10,000 8-Game Mixed on 9 December with a $1 million guarantee, flights and hotel included. The highest Rally points total gets a 6,500 USDT package into Event #1, the Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty on 2 December with $5 million guaranteed. The 8-Game seat going to the leaderboard is the tell about who Phenom expects to win it. One player can take both, and the ambassadors and Team Pros are not excluded from any of it, so yes, you could be racing Viktor Blom for a plane ticket. Packages cannot be cashed out or transferred; if the winner cannot travel, it moves down the tiebreak list.
One caveat on the tokens, stated plainly because Phenom states it plainly: every PHNM won in the series is locked for twelve months, counted from the day it is credited. It sits in your account, it is yours, and you cannot sell, transfer or withdraw it until late 2027. Phenom does not publish a dollar value "because the price moves." The token has traded on a decentralised exchange since January 2026 - the switch from a non-tradeable ownership token to an openly traded one with rakeback paid in USDT. So the 250,000 PHNM is real, it is locked, and what it is worth in November 2027 is anyone's guess. Value the cash prize pools as cash and the tokens as a bonus you will find out about later.
Getting in for 2.50
The satellite ladder is the most complete thing about the series. Phenom says more than 230 satellites are scheduled across seven levels, 2.50 at the bottom and 500 at the top, with more being added. A 2.50 satellite pays a seat into a 25 CHIP event, which is the cheapest route to a Wall of Fame plate on any site we know of. The bigger events get a step chain one level below: 5 into 50 into 500, 10 into 100 into 1,000, and 50 into 500 into the 5,000 finale. Every one of the 92 events also has a Last Chance satellite on its own day, starting exactly two hours before the event.
That two-hour gap is not decoration. Phenom is handing anyone registered before the first hand is dealt a 10% deeper starting stack, the Early Bird boost it normally caps at a handful of seats per tournament, and for the series the cap is gone. Win your seat in the Last Chance and your registration is taken the moment the satellite ends, so you get the boost too. Register during late reg and you do not. The extra chips are tournament chips only; nothing is added to the prize pool and nobody else's payout shrinks.
There are freerolls into the 25, 50, 100 and 500 tiers, with the 100 and 500 versions named the Gold and Platinum freerolls after Phenom's loyalty tiers. Tickets die with the series on 15 November, and not every satellite level runs every day, so a 500 CHIP ticket won on 14 November needs something it can enter on the 15th. Winning a seat also commits you to playing the event; PSOP satellites do not let you unregister. Win a second seat into the same event and the duplicate converts to tournament money worth the buy-in plus fee, spendable on anything else in the series. Seats and tickets cannot be sold or handed to a friend.
The deposit side is a reload: 150% match up to 3,000 USDT, opening 3 October, released in stages against rake at 3.5 times. Check the arithmetic before you get excited: clearing the full 3,000 means generating 3,000 × 3.5 = 10,500 USDT of rake during the promotion, which is a serious volume of cash games and tournaments in about six weeks. The good news is that all rake counts, on any game at any stake, and whatever you have cleared when the window shuts is yours. Nothing already released is clawed back.
The small print that will actually come up
Deals are allowed, heads-up only, and they never end the tournament. The software runs an ICM chop on the remaining money by chip counts, then you keep playing for the title, the trophy and the leaderboard points, which follow the official finishing order no matter what the money did. So a deal for more than first-place money still scores 75 points if you lose the last hand. Anyone who has ever chopped and then gone through the motions for a trophy will recognise the format, except here the points make the motions matter.
By entering, you agree that some of your hands, hole cards included, can be used in Phenom's coverage and marketing, alias only, with a delay of an hour or more on anything that shows cards. Streaming your own play is encouraged, with a delay. Staking is fine; a backer who plays your account or coaches you mid-hand is not, and the usual collusion, multi-accounting and real-time-assistance rules void your points on both boards. If an event is cancelled before the money, buy-ins are refunded; if it is cancelled on the bubble or later, the remaining pool is settled by chip counts and the leaderboard points are split in the same proportions. A disconnection is not grounds for a refund. Standings during the series are provisional and sync from the results API every few minutes; final ones are confirmed after Event #92 pays out, and prizes go out within 14 days of that. The series is open to every territory Phenom serves, with no jurisdiction excluded from the leaderboard, the Rally or the packages.
Why a 700K series matters on a room this size
Nobody is going to confuse 706,500 with a GGPoker or PokerStars series budget, and Phenom is not trying to. This is a room whose official rep was still telling the Two Plus Two forum "we are still working on tournaments, every single day" in early 2025. It ran its first branded series, Road to Vegas, in May 2026, and expanded its daily schedule from 50 to 70 events on 6 September, with 49 of those 70 in non-hold'em formats. Peak traffic, as our review notes, is a few hundred players on a good evening, heavier in North American hours. Guaranteeing 92 events against that pool is a bet with the site's own money, and the series terms are careful enough (the tie-break cascades, the cancellation maths, the deal rules) to suggest someone expects the bet to be tested.
For players, that is the point. A mixed-game series with real guarantees, a satellite ladder that starts at 2.50, a leaderboard that pays out 150 deep and a schedule that fits between the summer and Paradise is a rare thing. Whether the guarantees hold or overlay, the first two weeks will tell everyone what the room can carry. Either way, the person who wins the 9-Game Mix Masters High Roller on 15 November gets a plate on a wall that Phenom says is permanent. Ninety-two of those plates are currently blank.
Sources: Phenom Poker's PSOP hub, schedule, FAQ and terms pages (terms last updated 22 September 2026) and its X announcement of 28 September 2026; Poker.org, "Every game imaginable" (2 February 2026); Pokerfuse, The Rail (20 January 2026); WSOP.com, Paradise 2026 schedule; PokerNews, 2026 WSOP Paradise schedule (20 August 2026); Phenom Poker blog posts on CHIP (22 August 2026) and the daily schedule (6 September 2026).
