A R$100,000 guarantee paid out R$152,600 last year. Now that the WPF Ladies Weekend 2026 has locked in its dates — October 16-18, running in 14 countries at once, with the Brazilian stop back at the H2 Sports & Bar in São Paulo — that number is the one worth keeping handy.
The facts: R$200,000 in guarantees and a R$450 Main Event
Brazil's schedule carries R$200,000 in guarantees, with R$100,000 of it sitting on the Main Event alone, at a R$450 buy-in. There's also a R$1,200 Super High Roller and a Pot-Limit Omaha event.
The first edition, in 2025, pulled together ten countries across five continents: more than 1,500 women and over 2,200 entries. Brazil brought in more than 500 women from 15 states, its Main Event took 437 entries, and Thaís Salzer won it for R$30,000 after beating Larissa Bento heads-up.
Every country builds its own schedule. London's Hippodrome is putting on a livestreamed women's cash game, a bootcamp with Marle Spragg and Jennifer Shahade, and a tournament with £20,000 guaranteed; Belgium announced the Queens Millions with €10,000 guaranteed; and the United States has stops in several cities, with the Bellagio hosting the Las Vegas leg. Luana Borges is president of the WPF Women's Committee.
Why it matters: a guarantee is a floor, not a forecast
A R$450 tournament promising R$100,000 and finishing at R$152,600 isn't trivia — it's the gap between the advertised number and the actual turnout. All a guarantee tells you is what the house covers if barely anyone shows up. The figure that actually tells you something is last year's, and it's right there: 437 entries.
What those 437 entries mostly change is how the tournament plays. A field that size is a long MTT: hours of folding, a slow bubble, and a closing stretch where fatigue decides as much as the cards. Show up expecting a short session and you'll misplay the last three hours — the ones that pay. If you've never sat in a field that size, how an MTT is structured and how the bubble is played beat a range review the night before.
There's a second takeaway the schedule doesn't show: study formats cluster around these dates, and London's bootcamp with Spragg and Shahade is the clearest example. Access, structure and people to review hands with are what separate playing now and then from playing on a routine. In the club we work that way every week, without waiting for October.