A EUR 550 tournament on 60-minute levels: Casino Innsbruck publishes its CAPT Million and X-Mas Mania schedules
Casino Innsbruck has put two tournament schedules online, and between them they settle the two open questions about Tyrol's autumn. The CAPT Million plan for 12 to 14 November gives Day 1A a 17:00 start on 13 November with 60-minute levels for a EUR 500 plus EUR 50 entry, a structure normally reserved for buy-ins several times that size, with Day 2 the following afternoon and a satellite guaranteeing three seats on 12 November. The X-Mas Mania plan for 9 to 12 December finally itemises the festival's advertised EUR 37,000: EUR 6,000, EUR 6,000, EUR 10,000 and EUR 15,000 across four events, a sum that matches the headline exactly.
Casinos Austria advertises a guaranteed prize pool of one million euro for the CAPT Million and stages the main event at Casino Baden, but the qualifying days are spread across the chain, and Innsbruck's own tournament plan is the first to show what one of them actually looks like.
Day 1A runs on Friday 13 November 2026 from 17:00, for EUR 500 plus a EUR 50 fee, on 60-minute levels. An hour per level is a main-event structure; at this buy-in it is unusual, and it means the day is long rather than loose. Day 2 follows on Saturday 14 November, also from 17:00. The night before, on 12 November at 18:20, a No Limit Hold'em satellite guarantees three CAPT Million tickets, with registration closing at 21:40.
One figure we are deliberately not publishing is the satellite's buy-in. The schedule prints both EUR 550 and a separate 50 plus 10 in the same row, and nothing in the document resolves which is the entry price. Elsewhere in the chain Casinos Austria values a CAPT Million seat at EUR 550, which is also what a direct starting-day entry costs, but a reader should confirm the satellite price with the casino rather than take a guess from us.
The EUR 37,000 is real, and now itemised
Casino Innsbruck has advertised X-Mas Mania, 9 to 12 December 2026, with a guaranteed EUR 37,000 for some weeks without saying where that money sits. The schedule now shows it: EUR 6,000 on the Wednesday deepstack (EUR 100 plus EUR 20), EUR 6,000 on the Thursday deepstack (EUR 130 plus EUR 20), EUR 10,000 on the Friday Classic (EUR 200 plus EUR 30) and EUR 15,000 on the Saturday main event (EUR 300 plus EUR 30). The four guarantees add up to the headline figure precisely, which is worth noting because festival totals often do not.
The two deepstacks start at 18:00 on 15-minute levels and close registration at 21:20; the two Classic events start at 17:00 on 25-minute levels and close at 21:05. A cash-game promotion runs alongside every evening, climbing from EUR 400 on the Wednesday to EUR 900 on the Saturday.
Two conditions in the casino's own terms are worth reading before travelling. A guaranteed tournament is cancelled, and its guarantee does not apply, if fewer than ten guests have checked in at the start. And Casino Innsbruck suspends its weekly tournaments and daily cash-game promotions while a festival of this kind is running, so the Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday regulars are off during both windows.
A note on reading these schedules
The mode column in both plans prints values such as 100k and 25k next to a level length. We read those as starting stacks, and the figures in the column headed GARANTIE as guarantees, which is how the documents behave when cross-checked against the casino's prose. The chip-stack figure and the guarantee figure sit close together in Casinos Austria's layouts and are easy to confuse; where a number could be either, we have said so rather than picked one.
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Frequently asked questions
What is CAPT Million Day 1A at Innsbruck?
A starting day on 13 November 2026 from 17:00, EUR 500 plus a EUR 50 fee, played on 60-minute levels, with Day 2 on 14 November. It feeds the CAPT Million prize pool that Casinos Austria guarantees at one million euro, whose main event is at Casino Baden.
How is X-Mas Mania's EUR 37,000 split?
EUR 6,000 on 9 December, EUR 6,000 on 10 December, EUR 10,000 on 11 December and EUR 15,000 on the 12 December main event.
What does the CAPT Million satellite cost?
Casino Innsbruck's schedule prints two conflicting figures for it, so we are not publishing a price. Confirm it with the casino.