WSOP Circuit action returned to Texas Card House in Austin on September 10, with the festival scheduled through September 21, 2026. WSOP’s official announcement lists 18 ring events and nearly US$4 million in guarantees.
Main Event starts September 17
The US$1,700 Main Event carries a US$2 million guarantee. Three starting flights are scheduled for September 17, 18 and 19, each at 11:00 a.m. in Austin. These are venue-local start times, not Manila times.
For readers following from the Philippines, the opening of the festival and the opening of its Main Event are separate dates. This report covers the launch and announced schedule, not a completed Main Event result.
Action clocks are part of the announcement
WSOP says action clocks will be used in marquee events, including the Main Event. That procedural change is a distinct news point alongside the guarantees. The announcement links separate clock rules; this report does not infer a universal decision time or time-bank allocation from the presence of clocks alone.
DIP’s view
Our interest is not a claim that readers should travel to Texas. This is a useful development to follow in the wider WSOP calendar: a returning stop is pairing a large headline event with a change to table procedure. Those are different stories, and neither tells us the eventual field size, prize pool or winner.
A guarantee is an advertised floor subject to event terms, not an already collected prize pool. We will treat later results as results only after they are reported, rather than presenting the launch announcement as evidence of success.
Verified September 11, 2026. Primary reference: WSOP’s September 10 announcement. The representative official source is provided below; the graphic is original DIP editorial artwork, not an official poster or a photograph of a tournament clock.
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