This winter, partypoker is once again offering a big tournament series of its own: The Grand Prix KO Series returns with a $500,000 Main Event. Buy-ins for this knockout series start at $3.30.

The Grand Prix KO Winter Edition begins on Saturday, December 25th and runs until Monday, January 17th 2022. Buy-ins range from $3.30 to $530, but any player can qualify for the biggest events from as little as a penny buy-in.

The highlight of the series is the $500K GTD Main Event. This has numerous starting flights from January 1st to 17th. You can buy in directly for $109 or qualify from $0.01 via satellite. Each tournament in the series is a two-day event with a slow structure. By splitting it into two days of play, partypoker ensures that the events don’t go on too long into the night.

The starting flights of the series are spread out so that players in almost all time zones can find suitable flights for themselves. As soon as you reach the second day in one of the events, you are always automatically in the money.

Other highlights of the series include the $200K-7 Max event with a $215 buy-in and the $530 High Roller, which guarantees a $500,000 prize pool.

These are all the tournaments in the series (only the dates of Day 2 are given here):

Qualify via SPINS

You can qualify for the Winter Series via special SPIN tournaments. These SPINS have a buy-in of 10 dollars and you have to beat two opponents to win a ticket. Which ticket is at stake is drawn beforehand.

These tickets can be drawn:

The expected value for a spin is $9.40. That means these tournaments are raked at 6%.

Full Schedule Partypoker Grand Prix KO Winter Edition

This is the complete schedule of the Grand Prix KO Winter Edition: