Make the countdown to Christmas even more fun with our Festive Challenge Calendar. Win a prize every day, from December 1-23, and a ticket to a special €100K All-In Shootout tournament on Christmas Eve, if you can find all of Santa’s hidden socks.
Complete your daily task to win a Chest and open a calendar door. There's one available every single day. Behind each door will be a Christmas Chest containing prizes ranging from a special sock, plus ticket to a daily €1K All-In Shootout, all the way up to a Gold Pass worth €9,300.
Collect three socks and you'll unlock a special Chest. Inside you will find a ticket for our Christmas All-In Shootout happening on December 24 at 20:00 CET with a €100,000 prize pool.
What is being offered
Players who take part in the Festive Calendar Challenges offer and complete daily poker challenges can win random daily prizes, worth up to €9,300 every day.
When is the offer being conducted
This offer runs from 10:00 CET on December 1 until 23:59 CET on December 23, 2025. Each daily challenge will start at 00:00 CET and end at 23:59 CET, apart from the first daily challenge, which starts at 10:00 CET and ends at 23:59 CET.
Who is eligible to take part and how can you qualify
The offer is open to any player who holds an active and verified real-money account with PokerStars. Players who have had restrictions placed on their account during the offer period may not be eligible to participate
To participate in the offer and have their progress measured, players must first opt-in in the Challenges Window and then play poker games or make a deposit to complete a daily challenge. Only one initial opt-in is required for the duration of the offer. Any hands played prior to opting-in will not count towards the progress.
Full details about each daily challenge can be found in the Challenges Window.
Players can complete each challenge only once.
Wagering requirements and limitations by type of game
Full details about wagering requirements for each daily challenge, including qualifying game types, minimum buy-in, minimum stakes, minimum deposit amount, acceptable payment methods, etc., can be found in the Challenges Window.
For deposit challenge, any available payment method will qualify.
Claiming and redeeming the offer
For completing each daily challenge players will receive a random prize. A full breakdown of prizes and probabilities of winning can be found here in your Challenges Window.
When players collect three Socks they will win a ticket for the €100K Christmas All-in Shootout Freeroll, that will take place on December 24, 2025, at 20:00 CET.
All poker prizes awarded as part of this offer will be issued immediately after a daily challenge is completed and credited inside a Chest. Players will need to open their Chest to claim their prize. Unopened Chests expire on December 24, 2025, at 10:00 CET.
All-In Shootout tournaments will run every day between December 2 and December 24, 2025, at 19:00 CET. Entry to each All-in Shootout is limited to one per player. All daily All-In Shootout tickets will expire on December 24, 2025.
Players will need to use their All-In Shootout tickets to manually register for the relevant All-In Shootout tournaments.
In an All-in Shootout tournament registered players are automatically put all-in until there is a winner, no login or game play is required. Full breakdown of prizes on offer in each All-in Shootout tournament can be found in the relevant tournament lobby.
Power Path Step tickets can be used to register and play any tournament on the site with buy-ins corresponding to the value of the entry.
All tournament tickets awarded as part of this offer will expire 7 days after issue. They will hold no value once expired and will not be compensated. Tickets are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash, T-Money or other tickets.
Cash prizes don't carry any restrictions or wagering requirements and can be used in any games.
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What else do you need to know
Players can track their progress towards completion of daily challenges in their Challenges Window. Challenge extensions are not allowed.
Players can check which tournaments they are registered in via the My Tournaments tab.
Players can check any tournament tickets they have, alongside information on expiry dates and more by going to ‘My Rewards’ menu and selecting ‘Tournament Tickets’.
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