Running from 2 December 2025 to 15 January 2026, the action centres around Elite Series XL: New Years’ Edition – a winter-themed MTT festival mixing daily NLH and PLO events with buy-ins roughly from 1 € up to 1.000 € and a cumulative 12.500.000 € guarantee on the schedule alone. On top of that, iPoker is layering five parallel promos: a full mission system, EXL leaderboards, special Elite Series Twisters, a daily Twister race and an Advent Calendar promo, all available to Champion Poker players because it shares the same network-wide tournaments and prize pools.
At the heart of the grind are the EXL missions. Revenue missions turn your tournament rake into tickets for key winter events like Santa Special, Arctic Kickoff or Northern Crown, while longer “Challenger” missions reward sustained volume with seats to higher buy-in headline tournaments. Tournament volume missions simply ask you to put in hands: play a set number of EXL events or Mystery Bounty events and you earn entry to a chunky 15.000 € EXL freeroll that runs once the series wraps. KO missions add another layer, paying out freeroll tickets when you stack enough opponents in PKO events, culminating in both a 15.000 € EXL freeroll and a 3.000 € KO Master freeroll – pure added value if you already love bounties.
To keep the leaderboard hunters happy, iPoker splits Elite Series XL into three daily ranking races: low stakes for buy-ins from roughly 1 € to 20 €, mid stakes from around 25 € to 75 €, and high stakes from 100 € to 1.000 €. Each EXL event you register, each PKO knockout and each deep run adds points, with extra weight for final tables and outright wins. Every day, each leaderboard pays out a spread of EXL tickets, meaning a consistent grind on your preferred limits can translate into a steady stream of extra bullets for key events without touching your bankroll.
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If you prefer faster formats, the winter package also includes dedicated Elite Series Twisters. Three special versions at roughly 2,50 €, 7,50 € and 30 € buy-ins spin for a mix of cash prizes and tournament tickets, including shots at Winter Challenger seats and even big jackpots that can climb as high as 30.000 €. On top of that, every Twister you play from 0,25 € to 200 € during the festival counts toward a separate Twister leaderboard with 1.050 € in daily Twister tickets spread across the top 150 finishers, rewarding both volume and hitting bigger multipliers.
Then there is the Advent Calendar 2025 promo, which runs for 25 days of December with daily missions across cash games, Twisters and MTTs. Complete a simple task on the given day – see enough flops, play a set number of Twisters, jump into a featured EXL flight – and you receive a scratch card worth between 0,10 € and 1 € in Free Blinds. It is the kind of low-friction, log-in-and-do-something promo that adds up over the month, especially if you are already registering Elite Series events on Champion Poker.
All of this stacks with the usual strengths of Champion Poker on iPoker: shared liquidity with bigger network skins, soft international fields and a rakeback-focused ecosystem that already makes volume grinding attractive. Because Champion runs on Playtech’s iPoker platform and connects directly to the same winter festival as rooms like RedStar, you are not getting a side promotion – you are in the main show, just with your own skin-specific bonuses and support layered on top.
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And because this all runs over six-plus weeks, you are not forced into an impossible daily schedule. You can choose your windows – maybe focus on EXL missions and low leaderboard brackets early in December, Twister grinding around holidays, then push for final-chance missions and freeroll qualifiers as the series heads into January – knowing that every session has some kind of side promo attached. If you are looking for one winter grind to commit to through one reliable iPoker skin, Champion Poker with this Elite Series XL package is about as efficient as it gets.
Winter really is coming to iPoker – and if you are on Champion Poker, it is bringing a blizzard of missions, freerolls, Twister jackpots and leaderboard tickets on top of 12.500.000 € GTD in Elite Series XL tournaments. If you want one network-wide promo to anchor your end-of-year grind, this is it: jump in here and turn the coldest months of the year into your hottest stretch of EV.
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