The first tournament series of the New Year hosted by TVPokerRoom at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in northern California is Uncork ’26 – The Champagne Series, with 13 tournaments running Jan. 3-12 and package satellites from Dec. 31 – Jan. 2.
The Poker Live Updates team returns to TVPokerRoom for this series, beginning our 14th season of providing in-house tournament coverage for this and all poker tournament series events.
Champagne Main is the marquee event of the series – a $600 entry with $200,000 Guaranteed – offered Jan. 10-11. Starting flights take place Saturday the 10th at 11 am and 4 pm. The final day plays down to a winner starting at 11 am on Sunday. Starting stacks are 30,000, with 30-minute levels and one re-entry per flight, per player is available in this Best Stack Forward event.
There are $200 package satellites the three days before the series begins, offering a Champagne Main entry, plus either a $400 or $300 tournament entry to 1-in-6 satellite entries, with 10 packages awarded in each of the four scheduled satellites.
Two additional events on the tournament schedule boast guaranteed prize pools of $100,000. The first is the $200 buy-in Pop The Top tournament from Jan. 5-7, with five starting flights for players to jump into the action before Day 2 at 5 pm on the 7th. The $300 buy-in NorCal Jacked Stack tournament – Jan. 8-9 – has the second $100k guarantee. Three starting flights lead up to Day 2 at 5 pm on the 9th.
Other unique events on the schedule include:
- 30/30/30 (30,000 starting chips/30-minute levels/$30,000 guaranteed) on Jan. 4
- $200 Wire-to-Wire – with no scheduled tournament breaks – on Jan. 7
- Jan. 7 also has a $200 buy-in Omaha 8 tournament
- $300 knockout with $100 bounties tourneys run Jan. 7 and 11.
- Learn HEROS on Jan. 9 at a $200 price point.
- The Encore closes things out on Jan. 12 with a $200 buy-in and $10,000 guaranteed prize pool
Start the year off on the right foot by joining all the fun at Thunder Valley, and watch for their WSOP Circuit series starting two days after Uncork ’26 concludes.
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