PokerStars Launches Wildcard Wins Leaderboard for the 2026 World Cup

PokerStars Launches Wildcard Wins Leaderboard for the 2026 World Cup
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Iva Dozet News Editor
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  • Updated: June 18, 2026
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As far as World Cup promotions go, SpinGoal apparently wasn’t enough on the nose for PokerStars this summer. On Monday, the poker room announced yet another FIFA-inspired promotion, its Wildcard Wins leaderboard.

The month long leaderboard is pretty straightforward, so let’s take a look now.

How the Wildcard Wins Leaderboard Works

The weekly leaderboard will follow the World Cup runtime, kicking off this Monday, June 15 and continuing all the way until the final match on July 19. During this promotional period, anytime a player places a qualifying sports bet, they earn a randomized score that goes towards the leaderboard.

This is how you place a bet:

  1. Enter via the PokerStars Challenge window
  2. Place qualifying sports bets (minimum stake of 2.50)
  3. Receive a randomized score once the bet is settled
  4. Your highest score makes the weekly leaderboard

The second point to cover would be that randomized score, which can go from 1 to 1,000,000. As things stand, your score isn’t actually that random, after all. It’s based on the stake multiplier, currency multiplier, odds multiplier, and result multiplier.

At the end of every week, the players placed highest on the Wildcard Wins leaderboard will get the following prizes:

PlacePrize
1st$2,500 Silver Pass
2nd–10th$530 Bronze Pass
11th–285th$109 Sunday Million Anniversary 20 Ticket
286th–1,285th$11 Sunday Million Anniversary 20 Satellite Ticket
1,286th–2,500th$1.50 Sunday Million Anniversary 20 Satellite Ticket

If this isn’t enough football fever, then check out many more in one place — our designated FIFA World Cup 2026 promotions article.