¥200 Million Guaranteed: WPT Asia Series Overdrive Returns with Massive Summer Schedule

Tournament volume, at lest on the online felt is about to hit a peak as WPT Global officially rolls out its most high-profile Eastern campaign of the season. Opening on July 19, 2026, the WPT Asia Series Overdrive is scheduled to run for 43 consecutive days, bringing massive prize pools, daily missions, and a highly anticipated ring bounty challenge to the online poker community.

Running until August 30, 2026, the series will distribute more than ¥200,000,000 in total guaranteed prize pools. The flagship focus of the festival rests on the 13 WPT Championship Rings up for grabs across the schedule. 

These trophies are divided into two distinct structural pathways:

• Sunday Ring Overdrive Finals: Seven major single-day tournaments running each Sunday, scaling up to a massive ¥2,500,000 guaranteed Main Event.

• Mystery Phase Championships: Six multi-flight tournaments designed to allow players to buy into initial Day 1 flights starting from ¥55 (~$8 USD).

The most lucrative promotional layer of the series is the Triple Ring Challenge. Under this indefinite promotion, WPT Global will award a spectacular ¥3,000,000 cash bonus (approximately $440,000 USD) to any player who successfully wins three WPT Championship Rings across the platform's Asia Series.

This challenge is ongoing, meaning there is no limit to the number of players who can claim the bonus. For competitors who won one of the nine rings during the WPT Asia Series in February 2026, those victories are fully credited and count toward the three-ring requirement

Consistent grinders will have the opportunity to chase a share of ¥2,000,000 in weekly leaderboard cash. The tracking metrics split the leaderboard into six distinct weekly periods, with points awarded according to a three-part structural formula:

• Placement Points: Points scaled based on the buy-in tier of the event and the player’s final finishing position.

• Early Registration Multipliers: Players who register before the tournament starts receive up to 30 extra points per day.

• Bubble Insurance: Consolation points awarded to any player who suffers a direct bubble elimination.

To ensure that low-stakes and recreational players can access promotional value, WPT Global is running ¥2,100,000 in Daily Mission campaigns. By completing easy daily tasks, such as hitting deposit thresholds, playing specific satellite events, or wagering in the casino, players receive entry tickets to hourly automated All-In Flip tournaments.

The survivors of these hourly flips advance directly to the Daily Finals, which run every night at 22:30 UTC+8 with a guaranteed prize pool of ¥50,000. Over the 43 days of the series, WPT Global will run 42 Daily Finals, awarding a total of ¥2,100,000 in promotional cash.