The World Series of Poker has only just finished in Las Vegas, but after 99 events and the WSOP Player of the Year finishing, there are still another 30 bracelets to be won. We’re not talking about online bracelets, but two more WSOP live festivals still to come in 2024. The WSOP Europe festival takes place between September and October, with players heading to The Bahamas and the Atlantis Resort for December’s WSOP Paradise.
Paradise Brings Bumper WSOP Prizepool
On the back of the biggest WSOP Main Event in history (10,112 players and $94m in the prizepool) WSOP Paradise is pumping the pot even higher. When the World Series of Poker heads to Atlantis Paradise Island in The Bahamas, it will be bringing the biggest-ever guarantee in live poker tournament history to players.
That mega-event is the $25,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Championship, which has an incredible $50 million guarantee. Entitled the WSOP Super Main Event, online qualifiers are already running on GGPoker and the GGPoker Global Ambassador Daniel Negreanu can’t wait.
“This is one you can’t miss,” said Kid Poker himself, Daniel Negreanu. “There were a lot of learnings from year one and everything is going to be bigger and better. A $50 million guarantee in the Bahamas! Are these guys crazy?”
Triton Million Headlines Super High Roller Schedule
“We are thrilled to welcome back WSOP Paradise players, guests, and fans for the second year to Atlantis Paradise Island.”
With the complete 15-event series still to be confirmed, the biggest event is not a close race. With the Triton Poker team coming to Paradise too, there is a $1m entry ‘Triton Million’ event on the schedule which is sure to raise eyebrows and heartrates in tandem. The biggest ranking tournament entry of the year, the event is sure to attract only the very best and could see the lead at the top of the All-Time Money List on The Hendon Mob change hands depending on results.
At present, Bryn Kenney ($66.5m) is the most successful tournament poker player of all-time, but with Justin Bonomo ($64.1m) not so far behind, a big result for Bonomo coupled with a loss for Kenney would see the lead change hands. British poker legend Stephen Chidwick ($59.1m) and former GGPoker ambassador and ten-time Triton event winner Jason Koon ($58m) could both usurp all those above them to sit on poker’s equivalent of the Iron Throne.
The WSOP Paradise festival will take place between December 6 and 19 at Atlantis Resort & Casino in The Bahamas with events ranging from $2,500 to $1,000,000.
“The action we saw during the WSOP summer series is a testament to the health of poker, particularly for high-roller tournaments,” said the Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the WSOP, Ty Stewart. “Last year was no one-time gimmick. We’re thrilled GGPoker has reaffirmed their commitment to building WSOP Paradise through the biggest guarantee in poker history.”
The Chief Gaming and Customer Development Officer at Atlantis Paradise Island, Joe Brunini, said he couldn’t wait to bring players back to Paradise.
“We are thrilled to welcome back WSOP Paradise players, guests, and fans for the second year to Atlantis Paradise Island, the entertainment capital of the Caribbean,” he said. “This monumental tournament offers attendees the opportunity to experience Atlantis’ $150 million renovation, including the opulent Atlantis Casino, Bar Sol, The Royal Towers, and several new dining options. See you in Paradise!”
Before Paradise Comes Rozvadov
The World Series of Poker moves on to Europe before it does Paradise. The official 2024 WSOP Europe schedule has 15 gold bracelet events included on it just as you’ll find in The Bahamas, with action kicking off on September 18 and only concluding on October 9. The festival returns to the largest cardroom in Europe at King’s Resort Rozvadov, with over €15 million in guarantees on the line.
With a €350-entry event called The Opener kicking off the action from September 18 – 23, a €1,000,000 guarantee will bring thousands to the Czech-German border town of Rozvadov which is all about the poker. Top of the shop is a €50,000 buy-in Diamond High Roller event which also has a seven-figure guarantee.
After last year’s WSOPE Main Event was won by Max Neugebauer, of the 15 event, 11 of them come in No Limit Hold’em, with a solitary eight-game mix event and three Pot Limit Omaha tournaments, meaning mixed game players can expect four bracelet events to test their mettle. The €10,350 NLHE Main Event runs from October 4-9 with a huge €5 million guaranteed prize pool up for grabs. Last year 817 entries put over $7.5 million in the pot for Neugebauer to claim the top prize of $1.59m, as the 26-year-old Austrian former professional basketball star took his shot and hit the equivalent of a poker three-pointer.
Who’ll win the 30 remaining live WSOP bracelets on offer in 2024? Now that is the million-dollar plus question.
This article originally appeared on PokerStake.com
