Trident Heads Back to Sea: Poseidon’s Crown Anchors December’s Four-Flight Main Event

After a recorded January soft launch, Trident returns to World Legacy on 4–6 December with a four-flight S$50,000-gross-guaranteed Main Event and two distinct side events.

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A poker tournament normally asks players to make a journey to a venue. Trident Poker Series has made the journey part of the story. Its first official edition is scheduled for 4–6 December 2026 aboard World Legacy, the vessel operated by World Cruises, with a three-day programme that puts a four-flight Main Event at the centre of a weekend accessible from Singapore and Johor.

The headline event is Poseidon’s Crown, a S$700 buy-in tournament with a S$50,000 guaranteed gross prize pool. But the programme is not only a single trophy chase. A Saturday deepstack turbo and a Sunday mystery bounty create separate competitive tests, while the practical challenge of reaching a ship adds a layer that a conventional land-based festival does not face.

The first results, though, do not belong to this December edition. Trident has a January chapter behind it—and that is where its competitive record begins.

January gave the project a result, not a December champion

Trident's January 2026 soft launch took place aboard World Legacy. The independently maintained Hendon Mob database records a 3 January 2026 no-limit hold'em event with 87 entries and a S$100,000 total prize pool. Akihiro Konishi of Japan finished first for S$22,500; Min Soon Lim of Singapore placed second for S$15,800, with Chen Hon Kelvin Sim third for S$11,800.

Those are historical, verified results. They establish that Trident's earlier gathering produced a tournament and a recorded finishing order; they do not supply a field count, prize total or winner for December. The forthcoming festival is explicitly described by the organiser as Edition 001, its first official edition, whereas January was a soft launch.

There is another distinction worth preserving. January's S$100,000 was a recorded final prize pool. December's S$50,000 is an advertised gross guarantee before play. Placing those figures next to each other without context would tell readers little about the competitive outcome of the new edition.

Four starts, one Poseidon's Crown

The Main Event opens on Friday, 4 December, with Flight 1A at 1:00 PM and Flight 1B at 6:00 PM, all in Singapore time. The field has two further scheduled entry windows on Saturday, 5 December: Flight 1C at 12:30 PM and Flight 1D Turbo at 5:00 PM. Players who advance are scheduled to return for Day 2 and the final at noon on Sunday, 6 December.

That structure introduces a familiar tournament dynamic in an unfamiliar setting. A player arriving in the early flight must survive a different stretch of the programme from someone taking the last turbo route into Sunday. Each flight leads toward the same Main Event title, but the shot clock and pace are not identical.

Trident's published rules specify 30-second decisions for Flights 1A, 1B and 1C, 20 seconds for the Flight 1D turbo, and a return to a 30-second shot clock on Day 2. Faster decisions compress the time available to evaluate a hand. They do not, by themselves, make a flight easier or more likely to produce a champion. The sporting story will depend on the eventual fields, stacks and hands—not on the name printed beside a starting time.

As of this preview, no December starting-flight numbers or advancing players have been established. A packed room in January cannot be presented as a photograph or field-size forecast for these new flights.

What does the S$50,000 guarantee actually mean?

The terms of Poseidon's Crown are specific: S$50,000 is the minimum guaranteed gross prize pool, and 4% of the gross pool is allocated to tournament staffing costs before player payouts are calculated. At the announced guarantee floor, that means S$2,000 for staffing and S$48,000 remaining for player payouts, according to Trident's published calculation.

That is not the same as saying the eventual champion will receive S$50,000, or that all S$50,000 will be distributed to players. The official payout schedule is to be communicated before play. The final gross pool, the number of paid places and the first-place figure will need to be reported from the completed event.

The competition itself has a listed S$700 entry. Like any Main Event preview, the relevant questions are not yet answers: how many entrants will the flights attract, which format will produce the deepest runs, and who will earn the inaugural official-edition title?

Hermes' Rush and Pandora's Bounty offer different tests

The two side events deserve their own identities rather than being treated as extra Main Event flights.

Hermes' Rush, scheduled for Saturday, 5 December at 8:30 PM, carries a S$350 buy-in and uses a deepstack turbo format. The organiser lists a 20-second shot clock, with time-bank provisions. A turbo changes the rhythm of a competition; having chips is one advantage, but decisions arrive faster and the structure can accelerate the pressure on shorter stacks.

On Sunday, 6 December at 2:00 PM, the scheduled S$500 Pandora's Bounty offers a different type of uncertainty. Its published structure allocates S$200 to the regular prize pool, S$240 to the mystery bounty pool and S$60 to tournament fees. Bounty values are to be announced after late registration closes, and awards begin when the event reaches the money.

That makes it a distinct contest from Poseidon's Crown. Winning a bounty, advancing in a Main Event flight and taking a deepstack turbo title are three different achievements. If the December schedule produces compelling stories, they should emerge under their own event names and confirmed results.

Before the first hand, the travel clock matters

The setting is part of Trident's identity, but the ship imposes practical constraints that land-based events do not. World Legacy is operated by World Cruises; Trident is the tournament organiser, not the vessel operator.

The event website lists ferry access through HarbourFront in Singapore and Puteri Harbour in Johor, with return travel required to the same country from which a passenger departed. Cabins, ferry arrangements and tournament entries are separate matters and remain subject to their applicable confirmations.

One timing issue warrants particular attention. Friday's 1:00 PM Flight 1A is scheduled before the ordinary 3:00 PM cabin check-in time described on Trident's booking page. The organiser explicitly warns that early tournament access and boarding eligibility require separate confirmation with the operator. The published event start should not be interpreted as a guaranteed promise that every traveller can board the vessel in time for that flight.

For a competitive preview, this is not a footnote. A player's tournament begins with reaching the venue under the right arrangements; an attractive calendar alone cannot resolve boarding requirements.

A different scale, a genuine sporting test

December already contains enormous international poker headlines, from WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas to EPT Prague and the WPT at Wynn Las Vegas. Trident is not competing with those festivals on advertised prize-pool scale. Its interest is different: a smaller regional series testing a three-day, multi-format programme on a ship, with a recorded January result behind it and its first official edition ahead.

It would be premature to declare the format a success or to predict a crowded final table. What can be said is that the programme is now defined: four Poseidon's Crown flights, an announced gross guarantee with an explicit staffing allocation, a turbo side event, a mystery bounty and the travel arrangements that have to work around them.

The result that will matter on 6 December is not the promise on the homepage. It is the verified champion of Poseidon's Crown—and the separate results of the other events—once the tables have produced them.

Sources and disclosure

• Trident Poker Series — official December 2026 tournament schedule, structures and guarantee
• Trident Poker Series — January soft-launch archive and photographs
• The Hendon Mob — 3 January 2026 Trident Main Event result, 87 entries and payouts
• Trident Poker Series — cruise and boarding information
• Trident Poker Series — event and booking terms

Research checked 6 November 2026. No December player entries, results, prize payouts, boarding exemptions or independent organiser endorsement are claimed.