Latin America's 2027 festival calendar takes shape, and Nuevo Vallarta doubles its guarantee

Nuevo Vallarta doubles up

The Nuevo Vallarta Tour is back at the Incanto Casino on the Riviera Nayarit from 14 to 25 January 2027, and the announced guarantee is MXN 15,000,000. The January 2026 edition ran one week and five events for a combined MXN 7,500,000, so the 2027 figure is twice as large across twelve days rather than seven. The festival is still listed as announced rather than scheduled: there is no per-event grid, no buy-in and no start times yet, so the dates are the only firm part.

Three Colombian stages, one of them a fortnight long

The Winner Poker Series has published its opening 2027 run. Casino Rio Medellin hosts the first stage from 14 to 24 January with an announced prize pool of roughly USD 250,000, Casino Hollywood Bogota takes the second from 23 February to 8 March at around USD 950,000, and Medellin returns for a third stage from 21 April to 3 May at about USD 570,000. Those dollar figures are the calendar's own conversions rather than peso amounts published by the organiser, and no main event buy-in appears for any of the three yet. For reference, the 2026 Medellin leg ran a COP 2,200,000 main event.

Brazil's regional circuits fill December

Brazil's December is unusually busy away from the headline tour. The Gauchao de Poker closes its season with The Last Peleia at the Gran Palazzo in Passo Fundo from 2 to 6 December; the Campeonato Paulista de Hold'em runs ten days at H2 Club SP from 6 to 15 December; Arena Live Poker takes its Summer Season to the Live Poker Club in Curitiba from 7 to 13 December; and 9 December starts two festivals at once, the Nordeste Poker Series at the Hotel Gran Mareiro in Fortaleza and the Campeonato Gaucho at the Hotel Plaza Sao Rafael in Porto Alegre. The 2027 season then opens on 6 January with the Santa Catarina Poker Tour's Summer stage in Sao Jose, ahead of BSOP Summer at Costa do Sauipe from 22 January.

Argentina's provincial November

Argentina's calendar is the densest of the month and almost entirely provincial. After the WSOP Circuit's Rosario stop closes, Casino Trilenium in Buenos Aires runs the Super Bounty Roll on 17 and 18 November; 19 November starts both the Liga Patagonica's fifth leg at Casino Club Santa Rosa and the Litoral Poker Series at Casinos del Litoral in Corrientes; Poker del Imperio follows at Casino Rio Cuarto from 20 to 23 November. Casino Melincue then runs a USD 500 High Roller from 30 November and a USD 300 Multiday from 1 December, the only two Argentine stops of the period priced in dollars rather than pesos.

Ecuador gets a dated festival

The Ecuadorian Poker Series 50K is scheduled at Asopoker in Guayaquil from 10 to 14 December, with a USD 230 main event and USD 50,000 guaranteed. It is the first forward-dated festival we hold on record for Ecuador.

Poker is entertainment and a game of skill played for its own sake. Prize pools are what the field puts in; none of this is a route to income, and anyone travelling for a festival should budget it as a trip rather than an investment.