888poker’s Noche de Poker Returns for an 11th Season With Eight Televised Episodes

Noche de Poker is returning for its 11th season, giving players in the Spanish poker community another route from online qualifiers to a televised table. The new season features eight episodes followed by a Grand Final on December 5. Each weekly show brings together seven online qualifiers and one special guest, with cash prizes for every seat and a place in the Grand Final reserved for the episode winner.

Season 11 keeps the weekly televised sit-and-go format

Qualification is spread across 888poker.es and EducaPoker. Two Sunday satellites cover the main 888poker routes: a General qualifier and a lower-cost Rookies qualifier. A third seat is awarded through an EducaPoker satellite on Monday. The structure means a televised episode is not limited to players entering one specific satellite or paying one specific buy-in. There are several price points and several weekly paths into the same show.

Every player at the televised table wins cash

The eight-player episode payout is designed so that every participant leaves with a cash prize. First place is worth €1,500 and, more importantly for the season structure, automatically qualifies the winner for the December 5 Grand Final. Second place receives €1,000, third €800 and the amounts then step down through the table until eighth place receives €250.

That flat-to-deep payout model serves two purposes. It gives qualifiers a guaranteed return once they reach the televised game, and it keeps the episode winner’s reward connected to the wider season rather than only to the €1,500 top prize. The most valuable result is progression. Winning an episode means the player will return for the Grand Final, where the prize structure is much larger and the season title is decided.

The Grand Final raises the top prize to €8,000

The eight episode winners meet again on December 5 for the Season 11 Grand Final. Every finalist is guaranteed at least €750, while the champion can win €8,000 and entry to Noche de Poker El Festival. Second, third and fourth place also receive festival entry alongside their cash prizes. The source does not provide a separate cash value for that festival entry, so it should be treated as an additional prize rather than converted into an unstated euro amount.

The Grand Final prizes sit on top of the money earned in the weekly episode, so a player who reaches December has already won at least one televised event. The source also says the listed payouts are supplemented by three audience-voted prizes. It does not specify the amounts or criteria for those extra awards, so the safest description is simply that viewer voting adds another prize layer to the season.

The General qualifier awards four seats each Sunday

The main weekly satellite on 888poker.es is the General Noche de Poker qualifier. It begins at 10:00 p.m. GMT on Sundays and costs €10 to enter. Late registration remains open for 45 minutes, during which one re-entry is permitted. Blinds increase every six minutes, and the top four finishers win places in the corresponding televised episode.

That route supplies more than half of the seven online qualifiers for each show. Because four seats come from the General satellite, the tournament is the primary volume path into the programme. The relatively fast six-minute blind levels also mean qualification is designed to resolve in a compact online session rather than imitate the slower structure of the televised sit-and-go.

The Rookies satellite creates a lower-cost Sunday route

The second Sunday option is the Noche de Poker Rookies satellite. It starts at 9:30 p.m. GMT and costs €5.50. Like the General event, it allows one re-entry during a 45-minute late-registration period and uses six-minute blind levels. The key difference is the number of seats: the top two finishers qualify for the televised episode.

The Rookies event gives players a lower buy-in without changing the basic weekly rhythm. A participant can choose the €5.50 route at 9:30 or the €10 General qualifier at 10:00, subject to the rules and eligibility of the platform. The source does not explain whether players can enter both on the same evening or how the label ‘Rookies’ is defined for eligibility, so those details should be checked in the live client rather than assumed.

EducaPoker supplies the seventh online qualifier

A third route runs on Monday at 9:00 p.m. GMT through EducaPoker. The tournament also costs €5.50, but it is password-protected, with the password available from the EducaPoker website. One Noche de Poker seat is awarded. The event also includes EducaPoints for every participant: 10,000 for entering, 25,000 for players finishing second through sixth and 50,000 for the winner.

Those points give the EducaPoker satellite a reward structure beyond the single television seat. The champion gets both the seat and the highest points award, while several near-misses still receive a larger points allocation than the base participation amount. The source does not state what monetary value, if any, should be attached to EducaPoints, so they should remain described as programme points rather than converted into cash.

The weekly schedule runs from late September to late November

The first satellites arrive on September 27. Episodes then continue through the autumn, with one deliberate break after Episode 3. Noche de Poker travels to Murcia, so there are no qualifiers on October 18. The regular schedule resumes on October 25 for Episode 4 and continues weekly through the qualifiers for Episode 8 in late November.

The schedule is useful because it separates qualification from broadcast dates. Sunday provides the two 888poker.es satellite routes, Monday provides the EducaPoker route and the programme date follows later. Players therefore need to pay attention to the episode they are qualifying for rather than treating every weekly satellite as an interchangeable ticket.

The season uses a seven-plus-one table composition

Each televised episode consists of seven online qualifiers and one special guest. Four qualifiers come from the General satellite, two from the Rookies event and one from EducaPoker. The source does not identify the special guests in advance or describe how they are selected, but the table structure is consistent: the majority of seats are earned online, with one place reserved for a guest.

That format gives the programme a connection to the wider poker community while keeping the qualifying path central. The special guest can add a recognisable face or a different dynamic to the table, but seven of the eight seats remain accessible through the weekly online process. A viewer is therefore watching a programme where most participants reached the show through the same ecosystem available to ordinary 888poker.es users.

Freerolls during broadcasts add a no-cost qualification angle

888poker.es will also run special freerolls during Noche de Poker broadcasts. Those freerolls award 20 tickets worth €10 each to the General satellite, creating a route into the qualification system without requiring the player to buy a satellite entry directly. The tickets do not place a player immediately into the televised episode; they provide access to the General qualifier where four seats are available.

That distinction matters because the freeroll is one step earlier in the path. A player can win a €10 ticket, use it to enter the General satellite and then still needs to finish in the top four to reach the show. The promotion therefore expands the funnel rather than changing the competitive requirement of the main qualifier.

Season 11 links online qualification, television and a live-event prize

The season is built around several connected stages. Players begin online, move to an eight-handed televised sit-and-go, and episode winners progress to a Grand Final. The top four players in that final can also earn entry to Noche de Poker El Festival. Each step adds a different kind of reward: qualification, television exposure, cash and, for the strongest Grand Final finishes, a further event entry.

That layered structure is one reason Noche de Poker can return for an 11th season without relying only on the weekly cash prize. The episode itself matters, but it also functions as a qualifier for something larger. The Grand Final provides the season-level objective, while the festival entries extend the journey again for the top four finishers.

The qualification system is simple once the three routes are separated

For a player trying to understand the process, the weekly picture can be reduced to three routes. The €10 General satellite awards four seats on Sunday. The €5.50 Rookies satellite awards two seats on Sunday. The €5.50 password-protected EducaPoker event awards one seat on Monday. Those seven winners join the special guest in the televised episode, where everyone receives cash and first place advances to the December 5 Grand Final.

The dates shift only once because of the Murcia break after Episode 3. Otherwise, the programme follows a regular rhythm through late November. That predictability is useful for players because they can see several future chances to qualify rather than treating one failed satellite as the end of the season. Each new episode resets the route to television.

A familiar series returns with several entry points

Noche de Poker Season 11 therefore combines a recognisable televised format with a qualification system that reaches different types of players. The General satellite is the main route, the Rookies event lowers the entry cost, EducaPoker adds a partner-based path and broadcast freerolls can supply General tickets without a direct buy-in. Once a player reaches television, every seat is paid and the episode winner moves forward to the final.

The biggest target is the December 5 Grand Final, where €8,000 and a festival entry await the champion. Yet the series is designed so that value is spread across the entire journey. Weekly finalists win cash, EducaPoker players can collect points, freerolls distribute satellite tickets and every episode creates another Grand Final qualifier. For the Spanish poker community, the return of Noche de Poker is therefore not one tournament but a two-month sequence of online satellites, televised tables and a final that ties the season together.