Predator Pro Billiard Series 2026 Schedule: All 8 Stops, $3.6M in Prize Money, and What Pool Fans Need to Know

The 2026 Predator Pro Billiard Series schedule is the most ambitious year the tour has ever run, and as the field gets ready for the UK Open at Brentwood, the numbers behind the Predator-backed circuit are starting to sink in. Eight stops. Five host countries. $3.6 million in prize money on the line across the calendar. For a sport that spent a decade asking whether nineball could ever scale into a true global tour, the 2026 PBS schedule is the clearest answer yet.

If you’re a fan trying to plan watch parties, a player trying to decide which events to chase, or a billiards retailer like us at Quarter King Billiards watching how the equipment market shifts when a sponsor pours this much money into a single series, the 2026 schedule is the most important calendar in pool. Here is what’s on it, what’s new, and what each stop matters for.

The Headline Number: $3.6 Million Across Eight Events

For context, the 2024 Predator Pro Billiard Series finished with a prize pool that hovered just above $2.5 million across a smaller calendar. The jump to $3.6 million in 2026 is a roughly 40% increase in payout, and it lines up with a much busier slate of events. Predator has restructured the tour so that each of the eight stops carries a payout that would have looked like a major just a few years ago.

That matters because it changes who shows up. When the worst-paying stop on the calendar still pays a six-figure first prize, every world-ranked player has a reason to travel. It also changes how the schedule pressures the rest of the calendar. Matchroom’s UK Open, the Eurotour, and the WPA’s regional opens all have to compete with PBS dates for the same players, which is why the tour has finally settled into a once-every-six-weeks rhythm instead of the bunched-up schedule it ran in earlier years.

The Full 2026 Pro Billiard Series Schedule

Here is every confirmed stop on the 2026 PBS calendar, with dates and prize money, in order of where we are right now in the season:

• Predator Las Vegas Open — Las Vegas, USA — February 18–27 — $540,000 prize fund (already in the books; co-hosted with the WPA World Teams Championship).
• Saint Louis Open — Saint Louis, USA — March 31–April 9 — $590,000 (largest U.S. stop on the calendar).
• Sankt Johann Open — Sankt Johann, Austria — June 16–23 — $315,000 (the tour’s lone Austrian stop and a long-running European fixture).
• Rome Open — Rome, Italy — August 3–10 — $350,000 (returning after a 2024 success).
• WPA World 10-Ball / Saigon Open — Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — September 16–23 — $490,000 (men’s worlds + women’s Saigon Open run side by side).
• Bali Open — Bali, Indonesia — September 28–October 5 — $525,000 (a major new addition to the calendar).
• San Antonio Open — San Antonio, USA — November 22–29 — $415,000 (Texas swing; Mosconi Cup week-after).
• Jacksonville Open — Jacksonville, USA — December 14–20 — $375,000 (season finale; also a Mosconi qualification-relevant event).

What’s New in 2026 — Bali, San Antonio, Jacksonville

Three of these stops are either new to the schedule or freshly rebranded. The Bali Open is the headline addition. Indonesia has produced steady professional talent for over a decade, but it has never hosted a top-tier nineball stop at this scale. Pairing the Bali Open with Vietnam’s World 10-Ball week creates a 10-day Asian swing for the world’s top players — something the PBS has wanted on the calendar for years.

The San Antonio Open slots into a key spot just before the Mosconi Cup in Orlando. With Mosconi qualification still wide open into the fall, players chasing a roster spot will be playing San Antonio with everything on the line. Expect attrition, drama, and possibly a Mosconi Cup roster being shaped here.

The Jacksonville Open closes the year as a December finale. Florida already hosts the Ultimate Pool USA Florida Open and a strong amateur scene, and Predator has clearly seen the state’s appetite for live pool. It also gives the season a real bookend — a U.S. event right before the calendar turns over.

Why This Schedule Matters for the Equipment Side

Tour money attracts players, and player choices drive the equipment market. When Carlo Biado, Joshua Filler, and Fedor Gorst all shoot with Predator carbon shafts on PBS stops, sales of the Predator cue lineup spike in the weeks after each major. That is the entire reason Predator funds the series at this level: a billiards tour is not a charity, it is a marketing budget.

For players watching the events, the equipment patterns are easy to spot. The Predator BLAK and 9K series dominate the pro hand at the top of the bracket. The Revo carbon fiber shaft is the most-spotted shaft on PBS broadcasts, and the new Predator Sport 2 has quietly become a popular alternate butt for traveling pros who want a lighter case.

If you have been holding off on stepping into a real performance cue and you’re watching this tour for the first time in 2026, the Predator family is where the sport’s center of gravity sits right now. Our in-stock Predator inventory is the same product that’s on the table in Vegas, Saint Louis, and Bali later this year.

How PBS Interacts With the Rest of the 2026 Calendar

The Predator Pro Billiard Series is not the only pool calendar in 2026 — Matchroom Pool, the WPA, the WPBA, and the Eurotour all have parallel schedules. That overlap is where things get interesting.

• UK Open Pool 2026 (May 26–31, Brentwood) — Matchroom’s flagship, slotting one week before the PBS Austrian leg. See our UK Open watch guide for streams and format.
• WPBA Soaring Eagle Masters — Runs in PBS off-weeks; covered in our WPBA summer preview.
• Mosconi Cup 2026 (November 27–30, Orlando) — Falls between San Antonio and Jacksonville. The qualification race uses results that include PBS stops.

If you are mapping out which weeks of 2026 to actually watch pool, the answer is most of them. The PBS dates plus the UK Open, the WPBA majors, and Mosconi Cup week give you roughly twenty weeks of live, ranked, top-level nineball and ten-ball.

The Storyline We’re Watching

The structural question for 2026 is whether the Filipino school’s resurgence — Jeffrey Ignacio’s 13–1 destruction at TAOM, Carlo Biado’s steady form, and the carbon-shaft forward-balance setup they’ve built around — can hold up across an eight-stop tour. Bali and Vietnam will be tells. So will Sankt Johann, traditionally a European-dominated event.

The other storyline is Predator itself. Three of the eight stops will award invitations or seeding into the next year’s events, which is how the tour quietly locks in talent and how the brand makes its sponsorship dollars work. Watching which players accept those invitations, and how they line up with Predator’s pro roster, is one of the most underrated reasons to follow this calendar.

Bottom Line

The 2026 Predator Pro Billiard Series schedule is the strongest professional pool calendar that has ever existed in the modern era. $3.6 million across eight international stops, world-class fields at every event, and a tour structure that finally lets players compete at a sustainable rhythm. Whether you’re chasing Mosconi Cup standings, building a watch-party schedule, or just shopping for the cue line your favorite player runs on — this is the calendar that will shape 2026 pool. Bookmark it.

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