ACR Poker Reveals Complete $10M+ Venom Specials Schedule

From August 17-31, 91 Venom Specials add $10.16 million in guarantees across seven dates alongside ACR Poker’s $15 million Dual Mystery Bounty Venoms.

ACR Poker is putting the rest of August on notice. The complete Venom Specials schedule is here, bringing 91 tournaments and $10.16 million in combined guarantees to seven dates from August 17 through August 31.

The two Venoms remain the headliners, naturally. But with standard tournaments, PKOs, 6-Max events, Mystery Bounties and Omaha variants running around the busiest Venom sessions, they will not have the stage to themselves.

Seven dates, $10.16 million guaranteed

The Specials arrive in two waves. The first covers August 17, 20 and 23 with $3.575 million guaranteed. The second runs on August 24, 27, 30 and 31 with another $6.585 million guaranteed. Here is the complete date-by-date breakdown.

Seven dates, $10.16 million guaranteed
Date	Specials	Combined GTD
Monday, August 17	15	$915,000
Thursday, August 20	11	$820,000
Sunday, August 23	12	$1,840,000
Monday, August 24	11	$805,000
Thursday, August 27	11	$995,000
Sunday, August 30	13	$2,340,000
Monday, August 31	18	$2,445,000
TOTAL	91	$10,160,000

Plenty of action before the final weekend

The schedule does not wait until the finale to get moving. Monday, August 17 opens with 15 Specials and $915,000 guaranteed, followed by 11 events worth $820,000 on August 20. The first wave peaks on Sunday, August 23 with 12 Specials and $1.84 million guaranteed.

The next week keeps the pressure on with $805,000 across 11 events on August 24 and another $995,000 across 11 events on August 27. In other words, there is no need to wait for the closing weekend to find a serious guarantee.

Built for the busiest Venom sessions

This is not a random stack of side events dropped onto the calendar. The Venoms concentrate a large player pool online for major Day 1 flights and Day 2 action. The Specials are placed around those traffic peaks, giving players more ways to build a session whether they are chasing a Venom bag or simply logging in for the extra tournament volume.

That means a player can fire a Venom flight, move into a PKO, switch to Omaha, find a Mystery Bounty or take a 6-Max detour without treating the rest of the lobby as an afterthought. And if one river card ends the original plan, there are 90 other reasons not to close the client just yet.

A lineup that changes gears

Across the seven dates, individual Venom Specials carry guarantees ranging from $15,000 to $750,000. The mix includes regular no-limit hold’em tournaments, PKOs, Mystery Bounties, 6-Max events and Omaha variants, creating useful options across formats, stakes and session lengths.

The schedule also leaves room to plan instead of forcing every decision on the fly. Players can review the ACR Poker tournament schedule, identify the dates that fit their bankroll and preferred formats, and map out the events they want to prioritize before the lobby gets busy.

The finish gets loud

Sunday, August 30 brings 13 Specials and $2.34 million guaranteed, including events with $600,000, $500,000 and $250,000 guarantees. That would qualify as a fairly serious Sunday even without two Venoms looming over the lobby.

Then Monday, August 31 closes the window with the largest slate of the promotion: 18 Specials and $2.445 million guaranteed. The finale includes the schedule’s biggest single Special at $750,000 GTD, plus a $500,000 GTD tournament and a $200,000 GTD PKO. Clearing the calendar would not be an overreaction.

Come for the Venom. Stay for everything else.

The wider August window is anchored by the $12 million GTD NLH Mystery Bounty Venom and the $3 million GTD PLO Mystery Bounty Venom, both with $2,650 buy-ins and beginning Thursday, August 13 with Day 1A. Together, the Dual Venoms put $15 million in headline guarantees at the center of the month. The Venom Specials add another $10.16 million around them, expanding the action far beyond the two marquee events.

Whether the plan is to play a Venom flight, build a full day around the Specials or skip the headliners and attack the side schedule, the smart move is the same: review the lineup early, pick the right spots and be ready when the first Venom Specials wave begins on Monday, August 17.