Barrière Poker Tour: the chips are back on the Croisette
Four days of competition at the Barrière Le Croisette casino: eleven tournaments, buy-ins from 100 to 1,000 euros, and a 600-euro Main Event that began this Friday.
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The third edition of the Cannes stage of the Barrière Poker Tour opened its tables on Thursday 8 October at 4pm at the Barrière Le Croisette casino. For four days, until Sunday 11 October, players are competing in a gaming room set up for the occasion, the culmination of an operation mobilising nearly 25 people.
The programme comprises eleven tournaments, with buy-ins from 100 to 1,000 euros. Competition opened on Thursday with a 200-euro Mega Satellite and a 300-euro Mystery Bounty Fivebet. The highlight, the 600-euro Main Event, began this Friday: two starting flights, at 2pm then at 8pm, before the survivors reunite on Saturday and the conclusion on Sunday from 2pm. A 1,000-euro Masters, a BPT Cup, a Little BPT and an Ultrastack 150 complete the lineup.
A stage taking root in Cannes
Cannes only joined the circuit's calendar in 2024, after a seventeen-year absence: the Barrière Poker Tour had always skipped the Croisette. The first Cannes edition recorded 530 entries, including 155 in the Main Event; the second, last year, 640 entries, including 184 in the Main Event. This year the organisers are deploying fifteen tables and adding an eleventh tournament to the programme.
"Cannes has become a much-anticipated stop on the Barrière Poker Tour," said Brian Benhamou, Barrière group's poker director, in Club Poker on 24 September 2026.
Head of the Barrière group's poker offering since summer 2024, after ten years as a professional player, Brian Benhamou says he wants to put his experience at the service of the tournaments and better understand what players are looking for. According to him, poker brings together very varied profiles and can create "astonishing social dynamics": he says that when he played, he met table neighbours he would never otherwise have crossed paths with.
The Cannes stage relies on a loyal audience, with nearly 70% of players coming from the region. The group is betting on the casino as a reference destination for players in the south-east, with gaming areas renovated in 2025, a dining offering and preferential rates for players at the Majestic and the Gray d'Albion. On Sunday 11 October, a space will be open to the public around the final table to follow the final duels of four of the day's tournaments.
The circuit then heads to Deauville, where the season's grand final will be played from 28 October to 1 November.
