The Las Vegas summer series, the late-summer Barcelona festival, the spring Monte Carlo stop, the December Prague stop, and the January Australian series. Day 2, bagging, the bubble, in the money, the Main, a level, the cage, the rail, a stop, re-entry, running deep, the schedule, the grind, a bracelet or a ring as objects of pilgrimage.

No month is empty, but February and September to October are thin between the major stops. Late May through July, dominated by the Las Vegas summer series, which is not a weekend but a seven-week residency and the single largest travel commitment in this row.

August is the second peak for the Mediterranean festival stop. Schedules are published three to six months ahead and players plan by stop.

Long-running strategy forums, Discord groups per circuit, poker media and results databases, and the tournament room itself, where the same faces reappear stop after stop.