Master Classics of Poker 2026 confirmed for 13–21 November — on a page the festival's own agenda listing does not link to
Holland Casino has published the full schedule for the 34th Master Classics of Poker: 13 to 21 November 2026 in Amsterdam, with a EUR 3,000 Main Event over two flights and a four-day finish, and high rollers at EUR 4,700 and EUR 5,700. The dates had been impossible to confirm for a month because the casino's own Master Classics agenda page still advertises the November 2025 edition — as it still did on 6 October 2026. The 2026 schedule sits on a different path on the same site.
The Master Classics of Poker, the Netherlands' oldest and biggest live festival, will run from Friday 13 to Saturday 21 November 2026 at Holland Casino Amsterdam. It is the 34th edition, and the schedule is now published in full — every buy-in, service fee and start time.
The Main Event costs EUR 2,750 plus a EUR 250 service fee. It has two Day 1 flights, both at 15:00, on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 November, then three further playing days: Day 2 on the Thursday, Day 3 on the Friday and Day 4, the final, on Saturday 21 November at 14:00. Four days after the flights is a long finish for a EUR 3,000 event, and a EUR 440 "Win Your Seat" satellite runs into it five times across the week, including at 12:30 on both flight days.
Two high rollers bookend the festival and both are listed with no service fee: a EUR 4,700 pot-limit Omaha six-max on the opening Friday evening, and a EUR 5,700 no-limit Hold'em eight-max on 20 November. Holland Casino waives the EUR 300 fee on both for seats reserved before 6 November. The rest of the week runs from a EUR 1,500 re-entry opener down through two-day NLH and PLO events, a EUR 1,000 mystery bounty, progressive bounties and EUR 300 hyper turbos most evenings, with a EUR 500 team event closing it out. Cash games run daily from 13:00 with stakes from 2-2.
Why this took a month to pin down
Until now there was no way to state the 2026 dates from a primary source. Holland Casino's agenda page for the festival — the one that comes up when you look for the Master Classics — still carries the 33rd edition of 14 to 22 November 2025, and still did when we checked it on 6 October 2026. Two earlier reads of that page, on 12 and 28 September, forced us to publish an estimated November window with a warning attached rather than a schedule.
The 2026 programme is on the casino's poker section instead, at a different address on the same site, and it is the agenda page's "complete programme" link that leads there. The estimate we had been carrying was out by a day at the back end: 13 to 21 November, not 13 to 22.
The practical point for anyone booking is that the festival's most visible page is the wrong one, and the service-fee waiver on the two high rollers expires on 6 November — a month before the first card is dealt.
Read the original at Holland Casino — Master Classics of Poker 2026 schedule →
Frequently asked questions
What are the confirmed Master Classics of Poker 2026 dates?
Friday 13 to Saturday 21 November 2026 at Holland Casino Amsterdam, per the casino's own published schedule read on 6 October 2026.
Why were the dates unclear?
Holland Casino's agenda page for the festival still advertises the November 2025 edition. The 2026 schedule is published on a different path in the site's poker section.
When does the high roller discount expire?
6 November 2026. Reserve a seat in either the EUR 4,700 PLO or the EUR 5,700 NLH high roller before then and Holland Casino waives the EUR 300 service fee.