News ACR Poker’s Dual Venom Day 1B Runs Today Ahead of Sunday’s Day 1C and Seven $30K WSOP Paradise Packages Owen Gaines Owen Gaines is a professional poker player and author who has played an estimated ten million hands and written four poker strategy books. October 8, 2026 Both $2,650 Venom PKOs start Day 1B at 1:05pm ET on Thursday. Sunday, October 11 adds Day 1C and the first $1,050 Paradise Mega. Your next Venom starting opportunity is today, Thursday, October 8. Both ACR Poker Dual Venom PKOs begin Day 1B at 1:05pm ET, with $6.5 million guaranteed across No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Then comes a Sunday with two different destinations. October 11 brings Day 1C at 1:05pm ET and the first WSOP Paradise Mega at 2:05pm ET, guaranteeing seven $30,000 packages. Venom Fever offers qualifying routes for players seeking a lower-cost way into the PKOs. Day 1B starts this afternoon The $5 million GTD NLH Venom PKO and $1.5 million GTD PLO Venom PKO each cost $2,650 to enter directly. Both have Day 1B at 1:05pm ET today. If you prefer to wait until Sunday, Day 1C starts at that same time on October 11. Further starting flights follow on October 15 and October 18, also at 1:05pm ET. Players who already qualified can play another starting flight with the same account to combine qualifying stacks for Day 2. The Venom rules require one WPN account for participation; qualifying does not permit a second account. The opening flights set the first targets Day 1A on October 4 produced 86 NLH qualifiers from 511 entries and 17 PLO qualifiers from 133 entries. These tournaments remain in progress, with titles still to be decided. Atheist30 bagged the biggest NLH stack, 5,186,479 chips. BooooomHeadsot led PLO with 6,706,559. Among qualifiers, lordgiven earned $8,125 in NLH bounties, while bethechange and sendmehome each earned $9,687.50 in PLO bounties. In a PKO, half an eliminated opponent’s bounty is paid to the player making the knockout, while the other half increases that player’s own bounty. The Day 1A earnings are separate from the bounty amounts carried on players’ heads. Sunday’s Mega guarantees seven trips At 2:05pm ET on October 11, the $1,050 WSOP Paradise Mega guarantees seven $30,000 packages—a combined $210,000 in package value. Each package includes a $26,000 Super Main Event entry and accommodation at SLS Baha Mar, with check-in December 5 and check-out December 18. The $50 million GTD Super Main Event runs December 10–17. The accommodation is room-only. Travel, meals and personal spending are the player’s responsibility. Winning a package gives you a live tournament entry and the listed stay; the $30,000 value is not a cash payout. Fifty players have already qualified for the Mega The October 4 $95 BEAST Paradise feeder attracted 584 entries and generated a $52,560 prize pool. Its top 50 players won entry to the October 11 Mega. Those players have qualified for the satellite that awards packages. They have not yet won a Bahamas package. Sunday’s Mega decides who earns the guaranteed trips. The next $95 BEAST feeder, on October 11 at 5:05pm ET, guarantees 50 seats to the October 18 Mega. That evening feeder leads to the following Sunday’s event, after the October 11 Mega has already started. Choose a qualifying route before your flight Venom Fever runs through October 18, offering Direct Satellites, Mega Satellites and freeroll feeder paths. Survivor Flips provide another route starting from $0.80. Its 587 guaranteed seats apply to the September 29–October 18 promotion as a whole. That figure is not the number of seats still available today. For a Venom entry, choose the NLH or PLO qualification route and check the lobby’s start time and destination. A Paradise feeder earns entry to a Paradise Mega; it does not provide a Venom ticket.