Live poker tournaments in Brazil: the 105-event BSOP Millions grid and the club festivals

Brazil's live calendar has two layers, and most calendars only show one of them.

The first is the BSOP — the Campeonato Brasileiro de Poker — which moves between São Paulo and resort stops through the year and closes with BSOP Millions, the largest festival in South America by guarantee. BSOP Millions 2026 runs from 13 to 28 November at the Complexo WTC in São Paulo. We read the tour's own day-by-day grid on 11 November 2026 and counted 105 numbered events across the sixteen days.

The second is the club scene, and it never stops. At H2's São Paulo club the Fun Festival runs across the same weeks as BSOP Millions with its own grid of named events, three or four a day, priced from R$ 50 to R$ 2,000. The two festivals are in the same city at the same time and compete for the same players, which is a large part of why the Brazilian November is the busiest month in Latin American poker.

Poker here is a competitive game of skill played for entertainment. Buy-ins below are in Brazilian reais as the organisers print them.

BSOP Millions 2026, 13–28 November, Complexo WTC, São Paulo

105 numbered events across sixteen days, counted off the tour's own grid on 11 November 2026. The spine is four Torneio Gold tournaments — the BSOP Championship (R$ 25,000, R$ 15,000,000 guaranteed), the BSOP Main Event (R$ 5,000, R$ 10,000,000), the Millionaire Maker (R$ 1,200, R$ 5,000,000) and the Super Million (R$ 2,500, R$ 1,000,000) — with a high-roller programme above them and field events below.

The grid shows how the fields are built. The Main Event has ten Day 1 flights, 1A to 1J, two a day from 16 to 20 November, all starting with 40,000 chips. The Championship has four flights from 21 to 24 November with 100,000 chips and 60- then 90-minute blind levels, the slowest structure on the schedule. The Start-Up Mystery Million opens the festival with eight flights in four days. Eleven events cost R$ 50,000 or more; four Super 500s and a BSOP Primeira Vez cost R$ 500.

We hold an individual page for each numbered event, carrying its date, start time, buy-in, starting stack, blind-level length and late-registration deadline as the tour printed them and the date we read them. That is deliberate: the tour re-numbers and occasionally re-prices the grid as the festival approaches, so a figure quoted in a summary two months out is worth less than the event page it came from. Where our own records and an older version of this page disagreed on a buy-in, the event page is the one that was re-read most recently.

A guarantee is a minimum prize pool. It is not an expected return for anyone entering, and a large guarantee behind a small buy-in means a large field, which means a small chance of a deep run for any individual player. The Mystery Million and Millionaire Maker formats are built exactly that way.

The H2 Fun Festival, 8 November to 1 December, São Paulo

The club-scene counterweight, and the layer that makes the Brazilian calendar different from the European one. Brazil licenses no land-based casinos, so live poker outside the touring festivals is played in members' clubs, and the biggest of them run month-long festivals of their own.

H2's São Paulo grid shows the range: a R$ 2,000 High Roller 100K H2Unique and a R$ 1,500 50K High Roller Unique at the top, a R$ 450 300K Main Event with eight Day 0 and Day 1 flights in the middle, and R$ 60 dailies underneath — Texas Blind Bomb, Crazy Pineapple, Omaha Choice, Win the Button. The experience events sit around R$ 200: the Wine Experience, the H2 Sushi, the Mystery Gift, the Supremo. Several formats repeat, the R$ 290 Capital Poker Fest five times across the month, so a player in the city for a week can usually find the same event twice.

One thing to carry into any of them: the club prints the figure in each event's name — 300K, 100K, 50K — as the prize pool it is targeting, and it does not print the word guaranteed against those names. Our event pages say so on every record rather than converting a name into a promise.

How the two connect

The grids are not sealed off from each other. H2 sold a R$ 250 satellite awarding ten seats into a R$ 5,000 BSOP event on 11 November, and the CPH 75K Second Chance on 16 November is priced at R$ 900 for players knocked out of the bigger festival. A player can reasonably plan a São Paulo trip around both.

The rest of the season

The 2027 season opens with BSOP Summer at Sauípe Resorts, Costa do Sauípe, 22 to 30 January 2027. As of 11 November 2026 the tour has published date windows for three headline events — the Start-Up Mystery Bounty, the Main Event and the BSOP Championship, which overlap and run in parallel — but no buy-in, guarantee or structure for any of them. Nobody can budget that festival yet beyond travel, and we do not store figures the tour has not published.

The 2026 stops already played — BSOP São Paulo in March, BSOP Rio Quente in April and May, BSOP Winter in July, BSOP Floripa at Costão do Santinho in September — are kept as archived records so the shape of the season stays visible.

Verification

Every date, buy-in and guarantee on these pages was read from the organiser's own schedule, and each record carries the date we read it and which fields came from which page. The whole BSOP Millions grid was re-read on 11 November 2026, two days before the festival opened, and every headline event's dates matched what had been published in October. Records pass back into a re-read queue when their review interval expires rather than being left to age.

This page is general information, not financial advice. Entry is for adults only.