Top 5 Best Live Poker Series In 2025: Part 2

Triton Poker Series

Triton Poker Series was launched in 2016 and almost immediately became the fan favorite in poker. It is expensive, full of top-notch poker players and has some Asian quirks — for example, avoiding 4 and 14 numbers because of their connection to death — but it drives people mad in the best way possible.

Everyone wants at least to watch it but even more — to become participants because of how good it is. Players praise Triton for having the highest level of organization, the best coverage on YouTube, its app and website.

The series also makes history from time to time, setting records, taking poker legends to new heights but also bringing new legends into the game such as Vladimir Korzinin.

Its broadcasts are full of fun and great personalities accompanied by very qualified and easy to consume commentary from the best commentators in the industry.

In 2025, the brand brought to the community another treasure — a cheaper version of the series, Triton One with online satellites in addition to package deals to the classic Triton on different online poker websites.

European Poker Tour 

EPT is capable of competing with WSOP when it сomes to popularity, fame and significance for both community and industry.

It is always well-organized and has the quickest response to cheaters in poker in the form of investigating and disqualifying them and even banning players who were exposed somewhere else from all PokerStars series.

The level of organization differs between venues where EPT is hosted but rarely receives complaints from participants. Moreover, the European Poker Tour does not have many issues.

Firstly, this series is, well, literally European — it is strictly tied to Europe, which may not be very convenient for the US players.

Secondly, EPT has a lot of online satellites but they are available exclusively on PokerStars — and the room doesn’t work in some jurisdictions.

Thirdly, the EPT field includes a lot of bulletproof European regulars who can’t be cracked as easily as Americans.

World Poker Tour

WPT has the biggest worldwide presence in comparison to EPT, WSOP, Triton and any other brands.

You can play its events literally everywhere — Cyprus, Taiwan, Australia, USA, UK, Canada and a lot of other countries, including Slovakia, Cambodia and even Japan.

It varies greatly in buy-ins and guarantees and has a few unique events such as Million Dollar Invitational Freeroll or the Big Deal for One Drop charity event.

WPT also has one of the greatest Executive Tour Directors of all time in the face of Matt Savage who is a very well-known tournament director working hard to make live poker better

A few issues of WPT are not offering  big buy-ins and guarantees and also the schedule oftenly overlapping other major events such as WSOP or PGT series

The Festival Live Series

The small but proud The Festival Series is quite young — it  was launched in 2021 — but already made an impression on the poker community with its high level of organization, cozy atmosphere of playing in a close friendly group and affordable buy-ins.

The Festival already visited Bratislava, Tallinn, Malta, Nottingham, Rozvadov, Sviten and even went online for greater coverage.

Through a few partnerships with different rooms the series became even more accessible to players of all budgets with online satellites.

However, The Festival isn’t only small and quite cheap — it also doesn’t have a good entertaining coverage to popularize the series. You can’t win a lot of money there but you definitely can have a good time.

Irish Poker Open

The oldest series of Ireland was founded in 1980 and since that has a lot to offer poker players with an atmosphere that is unbeatable. High-level of organisation, national colors and attributes decorating tournament area in a beautiful Royal Dublin Society and the unique accent of the locals make IPO the truly unique experience for everyone who can participate.

It also has a decent but limited coverage from PokerStars and a lot of brand ambassadors and local poker legends that make the series more attractive for recreational players.

In 2025, IPO even expanded its coverage by partnering with PokerListings which gave us a chance to tell and show much more highlights from all events than before.

The series offers a wide range of tournaments with buy-ins mostly between €250 and €3,000 with a few more expensive ones up to €10,000. And as a cherry on the top players can qualify there very cheaply online via a lot of poker websites.

One of the minor issues of the series is the location removed from the USA that has a specific legal registration process of enter. 

Although IPO is considered by a significant part of the poker community as one of the most popular local series, it doesn’t gain a lot of attention from players online. Its streams or shorts aren’t popular — only the IPO 2025 Main Event Day 2 and Day 4 collected more than 45k views on Twitch while others gathered between 5k and 16k views for 4 months. However, the series is awesome and visiting it can truly become a life-time experience.