Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

888poker and Unibet announce 2020 live stops

Now that you have your new calendar it's time to start marking out some dates to play live poker.





unibet

Last month PokerStars announced their first live events of the year and now two other major operators have done the same. 

The first Unibet Open event of 2020 will be in Dublin at the Bonnington Hotel between February 26 and March 1. It will have a €1,100 Main event and a €250,000 guarantee. 

The 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour has also been announced:

Unibet UK Tour
Date Location Buy-in Guarantee
March 5-8 Aspers Stratford, London £220 £50,000
May 28-31 Aspers Newcastle £220 £50,000
September 24-27 Aspers Stratford, London £220 £50,000
December 9-13 Aspers Stratford, London £550 £100,000

Qualifiers are already available for these events at Unibet. 

888poker announce LIVE stops

Likewise the 888poker LIVE series has unveiled their 2020 events, which includes their continued sponsorship of and offering satellites to the World Series of Poker. 

The first event will be 888poker LIVE Madrid between January 23 and February 3, with an €888 buy-in and a €800,000 guaranteed Main Event. Qualifiers are already running for this tournament at 888poker. 

Not all details have been confirmed about the other events yet but we have the dates and locations. 

888poker LIVE
Date Location Buy-in Guarantee
January 23 - February 3 Casino Gran Va, Madrid £888 £800,000
February 5-9 Aspers Stratford, London TBD TBD
March 23-29 Bucharest TBD TBD
May 14-25 Casino Barcelona, Barcelona TBD TBD
July 1-14 WSOP Main Event, Rio, Las Vegas $10,000 N/A
August 6-14 Casino Sochi, Sochi TBD TBD
September 1-7 Tallinn, Estonia TBD TBD
October 2020 Battle of Malta, Malta TBD TBD
November 16-29 Aspers Stratford, London TBD TBD

What live events are you planning to play in 2020? Let us know in the comments:


Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.