ACR Poker's flagship Online Super Series is back for its third run of 2026, and this time with a twist. From November 8 to 24 the series spreads $20 million in guarantees across 143 tournaments. For the first time, the schedule is split into two halves built around different time zones: a Day Series for Europe and an Evening Series for North America.
At a glance
- Dates: November 8–24, 2026
- Guarantees: $20,000,000 across 143 tournaments
- Day Series: 77 events starting in the European evening (marked red in the client)
- Evening Series: 66 events starting in the US Eastern evening (marked purple)
- Leaderboards: a separate one for each half
- Biggest events: two $1.5M GTD Main Events and the $1M GTD Moneymaker Mystery Bounty PKO
A Series Split in Two
Online series usually serve one region best. A schedule built for American evenings means late nights for European grinders, and the other way round. ACR's answer this autumn is to stop choosing between them. Of the 143 events, 77 form the Day Series, starting during European prime time, and the other 66 make up the Evening Series, starting in the evening US Eastern time.
Each half has its own leaderboard, so a European regular is not competing for points against players who can grind a completely different set of events. Finding the tournaments is easy: typing "OSS" in the client's search bar brings up the full schedule, with Day Series events shown in red and Evening Series events in purple.
The idea is player-friendly, but it is not a perfect split. The final days of the biggest tournaments are scheduled to start in European prime time, so North American players who go deep in a Main Event may still face an unusual start time on the decisive day.
The Main Events
| Event | Buy-in | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|
| OSS #2 Main Event | $2,650 | $1,500,000 |
| OSS #3 Main Event | $1,050 | $1,500,000 |
| Moneymaker Mystery Bounty PKO | $109 | $1,000,000 |
| OSS #4 Main Event | $215 | $750,000 |
| OSS #5 Main Event | $66 | $500,000 |
Together these five tournaments guarantee more than $5 million, about a quarter of the whole series. The four Main Events share a structure built for deep play:
- Multiple Day 1 flights, with starting stacks of 300,000–350,000 chips (roughly 188–219 big blinds).
- Blind levels of 12–15 minutes, slow by online standards.
- Unlimited re-entries during a late registration window that lasts the entire eight-hour day.
- Day 2 on November 22 and 23, with final tables the next day, streamed live.
The buy-in ladder, from $66 to $2,650, means every bankroll level gets a Main Event of its own, while the $2,650 event is the series' high point for regulars.
The Moneymaker Mystery Bounty
The most accessible headline event is the Moneymaker MB PKO, named after 2003 WSOP Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker. For a $109 buy-in it guarantees $1 million, and it runs over several dozen Day 1 flights before Day 2 on November 22 at 19:05 GMT.
The flights are fast: 5,000-chip starting stacks (50 big blinds), 10-minute levels, unlimited re-entries for eight levels, an 8-max format, and play ending after level 14. Players can enter as many flights as they like, and every stack that survives Day 1 moves on to the final stage. Satellites to the flights start at $11.
The bounty format is the main draw. Bounty payouts only start at the final table, and they are mystery bounties, meaning a knockout wins a randomly drawn prize. The top prize is $100,000. The format has become one of poker's biggest crowd-pullers in recent years, live and online, as seen when Mystery Bounty kicked off the Battle of Malta and when CoinPoker built mystery bounties into its platform update.
How It Compares With Earlier 2026 Editions
The November series is the third Online Super Series of the year, with fewer events than the spring edition but the same guarantee:
| Edition | Dates | Guarantee | Paid out |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSS XL | March 1–23 | $50M | $51.5M |
| Spring OSS (171 events) | May 11–25 | $20M | $22.69M |
| November OSS (143 events) | Nov 8–24 | $20M | Running |
Both earlier editions beat their guarantees, and the spring series did so by more than $2.6 million. With 28 fewer events than in May but the same $20 million on offer, the average guarantee per tournament has gone up. Whether the split schedule draws enough extra European traffic to cover that is the key question for the series.
Satellites and Overlay Potential
Every OSS event can be reached through ACR's standard step satellite system, where players climb from cheap tickets to higher steps until they reach a seat. The key events also get extra qualifiers with bigger ticket guarantees. This is how small-bankroll players can end up at a $2,650 Main Event table.
For value hunters, there is another angle. Many smaller OSS tournaments are unlikely to draw more than a few hundred players, and some may finish with an overlay, where the guarantee is bigger than the buy-ins collected and the site adds the difference. Overlays are most likely in high-buy-in or odd-hour events, and the new Day Series slots may be a good place to look for them.
What It Means for…
- European players: for the first time they get a full OSS schedule and leaderboard at comfortable hours, but they should check the Day 2 start times of the biggest events.
- North American players: the Evening Series keeps the classic OSS feel, but the main events' final days run on a European-friendly clock.
- Low-stakes grinders: the $66 Main Event, $11 Moneymaker satellites and step tickets make this one of the most accessible big guarantees of the autumn.
- The online market: splitting a series by time zone is a new approach in a crowded calendar that also includes big events such as GGPoker's GGMillion$. If it works, other sites may copy it.
The two halves of the series run in parallel until November 24, with the main events reaching their final tables over the last weekend. By then it will be clear whether two leaderboards bring in more players than one.
