The World Series of Poker is heading back to the Bahamas in December with a bigger WSOP Paradise schedule, a new home and $120 million in guaranteed prize pools.
WSOP Paradise 2026 will run from December 2-17 at Baha Mar Hotel & Resort, moving away from Atlantis Paradise Island after three editions.
A total of 20 WSOP bracelets will be awarded, up from 15 in 2025, with the $26,000 Super Main Event once again serving as the centerpiece of the festival.
Its guarantee, however, is heading in the opposite direction.
After guaranteeing $60 million in 2025, WSOP has reduced the Super Main Event guarantee to $50 million for 2026.
WSOP Paradise Moves to Baha Mar
The fourth edition of WSOP Paradise remains in the Bahamas but will have a new venue.
Baha Mar takes over hosting duties for a festival that has quickly established itself as the major closing event of the WSOP calendar.
The move comes with an expanded bracelet schedule.
There will be 20 bracelet tournaments in 2026 compared with 15 during each of the previous three editions, with buy-ins ranging from $2,500 into six figures.
Across those events, WSOP is guaranteeing a combined $120 million.
The festival will also decide the 2026 WSOP Player of the Year race, giving players chasing the season-long title one final opportunity to collect points.
$50 Million Guaranteed for the Super Main Event
The $26,000 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event returns with a $50 million guarantee.
That remains one of the largest guaranteed poker tournaments anywhere in the world, although it represents a reduction from the $60 million offered in 2025.
Last year’s tournament had no difficulty clearing that number.
A field of 2,891 entries created a prize pool exceeding $72 million, with Bernhard Binder eventually collecting $10 million for winning the tournament.
The 2026 guarantee therefore sits more than $22 million below the prize pool generated last year.
It also returns the tournament to the same $50 million guarantee used in 2024, when the event narrowly missed its target after attracting 1,978 entries.
GGMillion$ Championship Doubles Its Guarantee
The Super Main Event isn’t the only eight-figure tournament on the schedule.
The $10,000 GGMillion$ No-Limit Hold’em Championship will carry a $20 million guarantee, double the $10 million guaranteed for the corresponding event in 2025.
WSOP Paradise will begin with the $2,750 Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty, which comes with a $5 million guarantee.
At the other end of the buy-in scale, the schedule includes a $250,000 Invitational alongside a collection of high roller and championship events.
More Mixed Games Coming to Paradise
One of the most noticeable changes for 2026 is the expansion beyond No-Limit Hold’em.
Five Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments feature on the schedule, together with mixed PLO/NLH, Dealer’s Choice, 8-Game and 9-Game events.
A $2,500 Double Board Bomb Pot tournament also appears on the schedule.
The changes should make Paradise considerably more attractive to mixed-game specialists and bring the winter festival closer to the variety traditionally associated with the summer WSOP in Las Vegas.
There is another significant change at the top end of the schedule.
Triton Poker branding, which featured heavily across the 2025 Paradise high roller program, is absent from the newly announced 2026 schedule.
Solana Returns to WSOP Paradise
Cryptocurrency will again have a presence in the Bahamas.
Solana is continuing its relationship with WSOP Paradise, with players expected to have access to cryptocurrency options for tournament transactions at the festival.
The partnership follows significant Solana activity during this summer’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Poker Type previously reported that Solana payments hit $23 million at the 2026 WSOP, highlighting how quickly crypto payments have become part of the infrastructure surrounding major live poker festivals.
Paradise gives WSOP and Solana another opportunity to build on that adoption before the end of the year.
WSOP Player of the Year Will Be Decided in Paradise
The expanded schedule also carries major implications for the WSOP Player of the Year race.
Rather than concluding after the summer series, the championship will remain open until WSOP Paradise.
Twenty additional bracelet events means a substantial number of points remain available in December, particularly for players competing across the high roller and mixed-game schedule.
It creates the possibility of the Player of the Year title changing hands thousands of miles from Las Vegas in the final weeks of 2026.
The year’s biggest prize has already been decided, with 22-year-old Lucas Jumalon winning the 2026 WSOP Main Event and becoming the second-youngest champion in the tournament’s history.
Paradise will now provide the final opportunity for another player to finish 2026 with a major piece of WSOP history.
WSOP Paradise 2026 Starts December 2
The expansion to 20 bracelet events gives players more reasons to make the trip to the Bahamas, while the move to Baha Mar represents the biggest change to the festival since its launch.
There is also a curious contrast at the heart of the announcement.
WSOP is guaranteeing a record $120 million across the overall series while simultaneously reducing the guarantee on its flagship tournament.
Given that the 2025 Super Main Event generated more than $72 million, the $50 million target may ultimately prove conservative.
When cards get in the air on December 2, the question will be whether players can once again push the tournament far beyond its advertised guarantee.
