Florida's card rooms stack three October festivals on top of each other
Three Florida rooms are running headline festivals inside the same three weeks: Palm Beach Kennel Club's $100,000 multi-flight Monster from 8 to 11 October, a $350,000-guaranteed Fall Classic at The Casino @ Dania Beach from 12 October to 1 November, and a RunGood Poker Series stop at bestbet from 21 October to 1 November. Two of the three overlap almost entirely, and bestbet has not yet said which of its three rooms hosts its leg.
Read across the operators' own poker pages this week, the Florida autumn calendar is unusually congested. Palm Beach Kennel Club opens it with a multi-flight event advertised at $100,000 over 8 to 11 October. The Casino @ Dania Beach then runs its Fall Classic from 12 October to 1 November with a $350,000 guarantee, the largest figure any of the three publishes. bestbet's RunGood Poker Series stop, listed as its next festival, starts on 21 October and also finishes on 1 November — eleven days of direct overlap with Dania Beach, at the opposite end of the state.
The pattern says something about how Florida poker is organised. These are not one circuit's stops but three independent rooms, each with its own festival brand, competing for the same travelling field in the same month rather than coordinating a state calendar. Dania Beach and Palm Beach Kennel Club are an hour apart on the south-east coast; bestbet's rooms are in Jacksonville, Orange Park and St. Augustine in the north-east, which is far enough that the two festivals may simply be fishing in different ponds.
What none of the three publishes on the festival listing itself is the detail a player actually needs to plan. Dania Beach puts the per-event schedule in a separate monthly calendar; Palm Beach Kennel Club does the same; and bestbet names the series and the dates on its front page without saying which of its three rooms will host it or what the buy-ins are. bestbet's Jacksonville room is the group's tournament venue — its own site says Jacksonville seasonally hosts World Poker Tour and Card Player Poker Tour stops — which makes it the obvious candidate, but the operator has not confirmed it. Anyone booking travel on the strength of the dates alone should check the room's schedule page first.
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Frequently asked questions
Which Florida festival has the biggest published guarantee?
The Fall Classic at The Casino @ Dania Beach, at $350,000 over 12 October to 1 November 2026.
Where is the bestbet RunGood stop held?
bestbet has not published the host room. Jacksonville is its tournament venue and the likely answer, but the operator has not confirmed it.